Website: Is It Time to Redesign?

August 27, 2008 by Rebekah King · Leave a Comment 

I’ve been working with a few companies in the last year as they ask themselves a complicated question: is it time to redesign our website? For some this is an easier answer – their content hasn’t changed in the 2 years since their last redesign, so why bother. Ignorance is bliss, no?

For those of us that know being in business is by no means stationary, the idea of not updating a website for 2, 4, or (gasp) 6 years is appalling. Apalling and Dismaying.
Before you go running away convinced that I’m one of the greedy monsters that want you to pay me $50k for imaginary work (how does something invisible cost SO MUCH??), take a deep breath and read on… Streamline before you Redesign

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Ping.fm: Twitter-ish tool of wonders

June 1, 2008 by Rebekah King · Leave a Comment 

I succumbed to the twitter peer pressure about 3 months ago, not quite knowing why. After a couple of weeks of getting notifications of twits from my twit-witted friends while i was trying to sleep (like a normal person), I was about ready to give up on the whole thing.

So like a good nerd, I started researching other ways to use this new technology. I tried twitterific and twhirl and twillions of other twools that just made me feel lispy.

Meanwhile, I notice that all my other “social networking” tools are trying to get in on the action, with a series of “what are you doing” post options. These just added to the twitteration and twistication of my poor head. Being visible and “plugged in” is one thing…. but all of this stuff is just NOT WORK.

And then I found PING.fm
and my life was forever changed. Read more