LSB creative director Ryan turned 25 yesterday, so we celebrated the only way we know how- cupcakes and shenanigans. Our office buddy Lisa Bun from Collision Labs baked up some very tasty, homemade cupcakes which were consumed faster than burritos at a burrito eating contest (which happened yesterday, as well). Afterwards, we headed to English [...]
Chris and Ryan are in the ‘Silicon Prairie’ this weekend for the annual Big Omaha conference. I’ve never been, so I’ll borrow from the Big Omaha site to help explain just what their conference is all about:
Big Omaha is a culmination of the amazing entrepreneurial energy taking place within the Midwest.
Lakeshore Branding is a steadily growing internet marketing and web design company here in Chicago. We are currently seeking summer interns to assist with various tasks. This is a part-time, unpaid internship of around 16 hours per week (or more if desired).
While Twitter, and more recently Foursquare, have been the darlings of the social media world in recent memory, an outstanding and arguably more practical service has been quietly kicking butt. That service is Posterous. What is Posterous? At its simplest, Posterous is another blogging platform. But unlike most blogging platforms, the primary method of posting [...]
Attention small business owners who think social networking is silly: knock it off. We know you’re just afraid, or confused, but you can’t hide behind those excuses any longer. With the recent announcements of Bing and Twitter integration, and Google’s Social Search, your business can’t hide any longer. Those angry tweets about your poor quality [...]
When I come across articles like the one posted on TheStreet.com last week, I can’t help but get excited. Titled “Business Owners Question Social Networking” the article quotes some research that finds that a majority of small business owners haven’t seen value from social media, and that most don’t even use it themselves. A key [...]
For as simple as twitter is, the complexity of using it is nothing short of astounding. Many people strictly update twitter via the web with nothing more than an account of their daily activities. Some “power users” have people that tweet for them, and some even have bots set up that removes the human aspect [...]
Monday kicked off with a bang as it was announced social network giant Facebook acquired social aggregating site FriendFeed. If you’re unfamiliar with FriendFeed, the free service allows users to add their activity from across the social web and aggregates the activity into one stream. You can follow other people’s streams, much like Twitter. You [...]
