The Hello Bar is a simple web toolbar that engages users and communicates a call to action.

June 2009

Pizza is for closers

June 27, 2009

Love it when a big company gets it right. @Conrey tweeted about stopping at Pizza Hut for lunch. They were monitoring and responded. Incredibly simple, took just a few minutes and yet incredibly powerful. Doesn’t that make you want to stop at Pizza Hut? Makes me want to. Oh, and Pizza Hut, if you’re changing [...]

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Love the #140conf, but really?

June 27, 2009

Standards promote usability. Standards allow us to easily share ideas, work on projects together and access information anywhere. So why did 140conf creators choose RAYViewer for their rebroadcast of the 140conf? I have no flippin’ idea. We can’t download it to watch it during a commute or easily show it off to our friends. (edit: [...]

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This just hurts me

June 26, 2009

Can someone translate this and this for me (text below)  #Brightkite – WOW @tdhurst your kinda bitch!!! We have thanked Georgie & @chadarizona & & @pfn TONS!!… hop… – http://bkite.com/08WW8 #Brightkite – @tdhurst … Thanks but …. Naw…. & have you tried myspace? Think your… – Ooo pics  tap  http://bkite.com/08WXO I have [...]

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Brightkite scares me

June 26, 2009

Whoa, Brightkiters. Is this supposed to attract or repel people to the kiteup? And if you’re not very active on Twitter, why use @usernames on there? And if you didn’t do all of the legwork, why aren’t @georgie_phx and @chadarizona on there? Either this party is going to rock, or, well, yeah. Good luck @jomichele, [...]

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Downtown Phoenix “Ambassadors”

June 26, 2009

Good god this is terrible. Not only do they use a fakey, we’re-already-friends type of tone, no one there seems to get the concept of html emails. How the hell do I read a calendar in that format? Copper Square…what the hell are you doing? Hello Everyone, Well, I know that we are disappointed that [...]

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How NOT to participate in trending convos

June 25, 2009

We all like to get noticed. We all want attention. That’s totally okay. But it’s how we get it that’s important. Social media has allowed us to reach many people at once with very little effort. When a big story breaks, it’s even easier to keep track of the convo with keywords on said trending [...]

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Girls in lingerie on a roller coaster

June 24, 2009

Okay, this is easy. Hot girl-clothes=web hits. What other kind of themes are this easy to sell? Are we missing them? Sure, objectifying is bad. Seeing women as only sexual beings is bad, too. So why is it so damn popular? Is it possible to both objectify (gasp) AND respect the fairer sex?

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Thank you for being a friend…

June 22, 2009

Join Don and friends for a goodbye at Sidebar tonight (Monday, June 22nd) at 8:30pm. I’ll be there in spirit. He’s worked at the Apple store. He’s worked for a music mag. He started a modern design mag. He started an entertainment mag. He’s a photographer, dog owner and member of the YMCA. He supported [...]

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PodCampAZ09

June 22, 2009

Last year’s PodCampAZ changed my life. It introduced me to the largest group of geeks I have ever seen. It allowed me to meet people from businesses I’d never interact with (real estate? really?). It opened my eyes to the fantastic things being done right here in the Phoenix Valley that far too many people [...]

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You gotta have goals

June 21, 2009

I ran a half marathon in January. And I haven’t done a damn thing since. I didn’t set any goals. I had nothing to work for, nothing to judge myself against and nothing to improve on. So I sat. I sat and did other aimless things. Sure, I accomplished tasks, but I didn’t improve. Anywhere. [...]

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