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That Rock Star mentality is embarrassing

March 14, 2012 – 4:37 pm
Rock-Star-Social-Media-Influencer

Yes, this is another one of those Queen Narcissa, QN for short, rants (I can never get enough, can I?), so buckle in kids and let’s get this party started.  The Rock Star Cometh I recently attended a local (this means Spokane, folks) educational organization function  with several guest speakers. Being the QN that I am, I sat read more »

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Cancer Patient Care is about caring

November 17, 2011 – 9:33 pm

  Cancer Patient Care is about caring Rarely does this blog cover anything other than web and social media related topics. Today, we step off the beaten path. Please excuse us for our detour. Now, let’s get trekking. Cancer patients need care. Some of that care is as simple as nutritional supplementation. Not a big read more »

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Design Spike®, Inc. Loves Itself Some Project Beauty Share

October 20, 2011 – 5:39 pm
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Design Spike®, Inc. Loves Itself Some Project Beauty Share It is true. Design Spike®, Inc. really does love itself some Project Beauty Share. Project Beauty Share is all about supporting women in our community who may not have the means to support themselves. Project Beauty Share’s goal is to collect cosmetics, beauty products and personal read more »

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Major navigation “sins” – not even the Vatican can avoid this one!

June 15, 2011 – 5:18 pm
Sistine Chapel

Guest Post by Perri Greeley – One might assume that when you land on the Vatican website, you will find a well developed, well designed, website filled with wonder, information, and art. After all, the Vatican does hold an entire treasure trove of art and is a thing of beauty itself. Try again. Sadly, the read more »

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Hate the yellow pages? How to opt out in four clicks (or so)

June 7, 2011 – 5:46 pm
Email to opt out of yellow pages directories

8:15 a.m. All alone in the office. The door alarm dings and I hear two distinct thumps. I look down the stairs just in time to see the Yellow Pages Bandit running away. In his wake lies six (6), count ‘em, SIX nasty little yellow page directories. You know the kind–The kind they say, “Oh just take read more »

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Don’t use auto play music on your website. Just don’t.

June 6, 2011 – 8:29 pm
Dancing Leprechauns are Annoying

Innocently enough (or not as the case may be), I posted the following question on the Design Spike Facebook page: Website pet peeve time: What drives you crazy about a website? (Navigation, flashing bits, colors, etc).   Overwhelmingly, everyone seems to dislike auto play music on websites. And I mean HATE kind of dislike. Dancing read more »

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Social media can be bad for you (alt social media can make you fat)

May 17, 2011 – 4:22 pm
social media can make you fat

Social media is making me fat. Social media is making the muscles in my neck and back scrunch up. Social media is reducing my short term memory to that of a stoner. Social media is killing my body, slowly, one cell at a time. My daily routine looks something like this: Coffee while turning the read more »

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The cost of social media. Time is money.

May 16, 2011 – 4:54 pm
Your time is money

I’m beating a horse I thought was dead, to death here once again. And pardon me for having to do it: Hey, you, out there, on Twitter, FB, Digg-ing about, doing a quorum on Quora, guess what? YOUR TIME IS MONEY! Once again, the evil, “Social Media is cheap (inexpensive, free, costs next to nothing, read more »

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Which social media platform is right for your business? – Dog parks part deux

May 13, 2011 – 4:25 pm

How do you traverse the multitude of social media platforms to pick the ones that are right for you and your business? A quick review of some of the platforms using the dog park model: Big dogs belong in the big dog park and little dogs in the little dog park, revisited. Let’s do this thing! read more »

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What my visit to Spokanimal’s Dog Park taught me about social media

May 10, 2011 – 4:11 pm
Spokanimal Dog Park at HighBridge Park

Social media at play in the fields of dogs. Dog and owner interaction translates to social media interaction: If you can’t run with the big dogs….get outta that park. Well, sort of. That’s a bit too strong. This is really about being in the right place with the right training and skills. What my visit read more »

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