Monday, March 29, 2010

what is social media?

What is social media? Tim O'reilly has some interesting thoughts on it, and other aspects on the latest and greatest technology; as does TechCrunch. That said, it's sometimes easy to lose the forest for the trees. Perhaps social media, at it's core does something simpler.

I was reviewing the google analytics of one of my clients and noticed inbound traffic from this band's blog. They had spoken to my client, in person and carried the conversation online, linking not just to pages in the website, but embedding a video jacobG.net had produced and posted. This is  all very standard fair, something that you've seen and perhaps even done. It all led me to the thought, perhaps what's makes social media special is, it makes it easy for other people to tell your stories.

Tuesday, March 16, 2010

the future of publishing ?

An interesting take on the future of publishing by a UK publisher.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

eblast for ALI

Sent out an eblast for ALI to promote their upcoming courses and events.

splash page for WoodTheHood.com

Launched a redesign of a splash page for a friend's website. As much as I enjoy the challenge of large scale projects,  spending six months on projects such as AtoZtheUSA; for example. It's a refreshing change of pace to start and complete a simple project in a few short hours.

Friday, March 12, 2010

website redesign for bewater marketing concepts

Last year jacobG.net designed a logo and full idenity set for bewater. Today we are excited to have launched a newly redesigned website for them.

Monday, March 1, 2010

Website for AtoZtheUSA.com

AtoZtheUSA.com is a premium database with thousands of pages of interesting and in-depth data on all fifty states and territories. JacobG.net provided code, graphics, photo editing, assembled hundred of pages and under took the creation of thousands of individual graphics over a period of six months. It is sold primarily, but not exclusively to academic markets, such as libraries.