social media check-in

Social media adds value to our lives in many ways - with some of them seemingly more dumb that others to some people.  For me, it's all fun.  It adds a little color here and there to my day.  I get this stupid grin on my face and sometimes I may even add a silly squeal to that when I get a badge from one of my check-ins.  It's not real, no where near real, but who cares?  It's fun for me (and a zillion others).  Why you ask?  How is this fun?

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~Arry

the rules are changing for women (and men)

I'm a sucker for TED.  As I've gotten older, I also prefer the company of women for friends.  In my career, most of my colleagues have been men - recently as I have had the opportunity to venture out on my own (until this past week), I've had the opportunity to choose women to be my clients and colleagues.  Here's a summary of my thoughts from my past 5 years:

The rules for women (and men) are changing:
Liza touches some interesting points.  Back in the day, say children born in the 1960s and earlier, life was different.  Boys became men by having muscles, working on cars, and being protectors and providers...  Girls became women by wearing pink and dresses, taking home economics, and learning to bake and the art of being sweet and soft.  Now - it's different.  Click here to read the rest of the article.

~Arry

websites for small businesses should be cheap

Websites are expensive.  Like our All Things Wishful CTO says, "they're like sausage - tastes good at the end, but man, what a mess it is to make it."  And wow, seriously, it is quite a lot of work creating just the right site from scratch.  Having worked in consulting first with ginormous technology clients for many years, websites are also a majorly expensive venture.  Thousands and thousands of dollars, a zillion hours... pushing that damn pixel up and down, playing with fonts and copy.  Logos.  Design.  Usability and user experience.  Buttons.  Security.  Privacy.  Data...

But what about the small businesses that want a nice website for their bar or restaurant, yoga studio, photography business?  Why should they have to pay thousands and thousands of dollars to a firm or freelancer to build them a website - that might, just really suck and they wouldn't know it?  WHY!?  WHY!?  WHY!?  When a small business wants a nice website with a nice home page, a menu, a contact us page, a blog, some photos...  they should not be burning valuable resournces on hiring a developer (or few) to build a website.  HELLZ NO.  I've had the opportunity to work with a bunch of small women-owned businesses with their website needs recently, and here are some thoughts:  Click here to read the rest of the article.

~Arry