http://www.awecommwebstrategies.com/blog Tips, Tools, and Tricks about Web Marketing and Design Thu, 29 May 2008 14:42:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been said that an expert is someone who has made all of the mistakes that can be made in a vary narrow field. Last night I had the honor of being one of the chronic mistake-makers chosen to moderate a series of discussions on web strategy at the Troy Chamber ... http://www.awecommwebstrategies.com/blog/index.php/2008/05/23/the-5-minute-web-strategy/ It worked for Rhonda Kallman, CEO of New Century Brewing Company, the brewers of Edison, The Independent Light Beer, and Moonshot, the caffeinated beer. To be perfectly clear, Santa in this case is Entrepreneur Magazine which recently ran the Caffeine Marketing Jolt contest. The contest awarded the winner with over ... http://www.awecommwebstrategies.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/21/ask-santa-for-some-seo-this-holiday-season/ The message rang clear to anyone that attended the ConnecTech Detroit launch party on Wednesday night: "This is not just another boring technology networking group." People poured off the elevator into the Ignite nightclub well before the official start-time of 5:30pm. The huge, dimly lit club with thirty foot ... http://www.awecommwebstrategies.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/14/over-300-people-gather-at-mgm-grand-detroit-to-launch-connectech/ Okay SERIOUSLY, we're trying to make ConnecTech Detroit more progressive, more cutting edge, and more ... dare I say it ... Web 2.0 than any other technology group (the logo may not look the part, but I can assure you that our website will infinitely be in Beta). We're counting on ... http://www.awecommwebstrategies.com/blog/index.php/2007/12/06/join-the-connectech-detroit-linkedin-group/ There's been a lot going on with ConnecTech over the last few days. If you read GLITR, then you know what I'm talking about; if not ... well ... just read on. We're working like crazy to make sure that the new organization provides a ton of benefit to the ... http://www.awecommwebstrategies.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/29/connectech-update/ Be forewarned. You're only going to understand this post if you live every day neck-deep in technology and spend your nights dreaming about it. You know who you are. You're having a good day today because Feedburner just showed a spike in traffic to your blog (because of the ... http://www.awecommwebstrategies.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/26/where-do-you-go-in-detroit-to-talk-tech/ Yesterday at Michigan State University, a group of like-minded designers and developers gathered at World Usability Day 2007 to discuss how to make software and web applications better for users. Web usability as a serious issue that is ignored more often that not, and results in the web being plagued with ... http://www.awecommwebstrategies.com/blog/index.php/2007/11/09/world-usability-day-2007/ I spend a fair amount of time talking with small and medium sized business owners about their web marketing. Often times these individuals aren't ready to shoulder the costs associated with true goal-oriented web design, SEO, or PPC, so the conversation turns to, "what can I be doing in the ... http://www.awecommwebstrategies.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/31/6-free-press-release-distribution-services-and-a-few-paid-ones/ When you use a Flash movie as the primary element of a website (including the site's navigation, etc), your visitors expect it to behave like a website, not a Flash movie. I'm a Seinfeld nut, and I'm also a big fan of those "HP Hand Commercials" that show you what celebrities ... http://www.awecommwebstrategies.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/30/preserve-the-back-button-in-flash/ The Troy Chamber of Commerce held their annual eHelen Awards for Web Design last week, and Awecomm was fortunate enough to win the Business Services category with our MeetDeepDiscovery.com website. The panel of judges was made up of a number of highly respected individuals from the design, business, and technology fields, ... http://www.awecommwebstrategies.com/blog/index.php/2007/10/23/aws-wins-ehelen-award-for-web-design/