August 2008

FD Career – More Fun Than What You’re Doing Right Now

August 26, 2008 Events

Special thanks to Jun Loayza, author of Living the Startup Life, for his guest post on the launch of FD Career. As an undergrad, I played video games during the day, partied hard all night, and just barely had enough time for my classes. My future career was the last thing on my mind. I [...]

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Marketing via New Media Meets Brickfish®

August 24, 2008 Uncategorized

Earlier this month, our company was invited to be guest speakers at Becky Carroll’s Marketing via New Media class at UCSD Extension. Carroll’s class focuses on how social media can leverage customer loyalty and engagement. In fact, the book that she uses in her course is Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff—a definite must [...]

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Jumpstart Status Meetings with ididwork

August 17, 2008 Online Collaboration

Every morning our team meets to discuss items we’ve been focusing on, what’s been completed, and projects we need extra time on. This week I wanted to try something different so I rallied a couple of my co-workers to try out ididwork.com. It’s a simple and easy-to-use web app that lets you keep a log [...]

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Brickfish has been SuperTagged

August 14, 2008 Organization

Special thanks to our friends at BatchBlue for creating BatchBook, an easy-to-use CRM software, that has literally saved us hours organizing our contacts and managing our communications with partners. Not only do they have a remarkable product, excellent customer service, but they have cool t-shirts too! Your happy customers, Ashley, Stephanie, and Rachel (aka R3K2)

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12 Seconds: the Twitter for video

August 8, 2008 Guest Blogger

Special thanks to Jun Loayza, Chief Marketing Officer at Future Delivery, for this post on 12seconds. Don’t forget to check out his blog on Living the Startup Life. 12 seconds is not a lot of time for a lot. You can’t really watch a Youtube video, read a blog post, or even microwave a hot [...]

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Even Preschoolers Are Blogging These Days

August 6, 2008 Blogging

Today’s Guest Blogger is Erin from The State That I Am In. Erin currently teaches preschool special education and shares her thoughts on how she’s managed to incorporate social media with her students and their parents. I became a blogger shortly after I got married, when I was finishing up graduate school. I’m not really [...]

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Discover DC Universe Online

August 1, 2008 Highlights

One of the most memorable booths at Comic-Con was the Sony Online Entertainment booth where they unveiled DC Universe Online. There were multiple demo stations available and it created a huge buzz among the crowd of hardcore comic fans. Fortunately, my husband and I were able to get a first look of the game and [...]

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