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When your savings account is a bank’s “liability” and your…

When your savings account is a bank’s “liability” and your mortgage is a bank’s “asset,” you know the love of money is the root of all evil

CSSsprite: Photoshop script combines two images for CSS hover

The need Professional web developers have been aware of CSS sprites since 2004. They are the background graphics that change position based on mouse hover thus eliminating the need for JavaScript image swaps and image caching since the “mouse on” and “mouse off” are one image. I have been using sprites for years. It is [...]

And we wonder why we have a debt problem

I found this comment on a credit card / finance blog the other day: I’ve been playing the 0% BT for 15 years now–it’s paid all my education, down payment on my house, down payment on a beach house, my cars, the list goes on and on. I have opened just about every card that offered [...]

Moscow riots, Congo rebels, election photos: Looking at AP…

Moscow riots, Congo rebels, election photos: Looking at AP photo screensaver via FlickrFan. 100 new photos every day! http://is.gd/71HH

Photos and thoughts from Perfected Communion: my wife’s art…

Photos and thoughts from Perfected Communion: my wife’s art show last Friday if you weren’t able to make it http://is.gd/6Wpc

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How did you hear about Smaller Indiana?: Friend

What is your greatest strength?: Flash timeline and Actionscript animation
Semantic, standards based and W3C-compliant markup
Information design for search engine optimization (SEO)
Best practices for usability, accessibility, and information architecture
Best practices for corporate blogging
Video editing and compression for the web
Dynamic content and databases interaction for Flash and XHTML
Graphic and user interface design

What are you working on?: I work for an advertising agency, MB2 Advertising (formerly Miles Brinson Brown) as an interactive designer. Recent projects include Flash/.net enterprise sites, artist portfolio/blogs, and Flash video promotional sites.

How big is your business?: small company

What is your Job Title: Other

What is your Company Website?: http://www.mb2advertising.com

What is your Personal Website?: http://www.smjdesign.com

What is your alma mater?: Other / out of state

Why join Smaller Indiana? What are you hoping to experience here ?: Finding others with similar interests.

Stephen James's Blog

‘Perfected Communion’ is a perfect night

If you made it to Smaller Indiana's Elegant Funk back in August, you might have seen two of Rachel's bone paintings, in the middle of that "hot room." Well,… Continue

Posted on November 10, 2008 at 3:00pm — 1 Comment

List of active online networkers: Share your online presence

If you have your own website, you should list your most active social networks (and of course a link to SmallerIndiana) on your site. It's no different on your profile page here on SmIN--a.k.a. "My page."

Share your online social presence with other SmIN members

You… Continue

Posted on July 22, 2008 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

If this is not a demographically skewed primary, I don't know what is

I woke up this morning to this map at CNN's website:

Lake, St. Joseph, Elkart, Allen, Tippecanoe, Hamilton, Boone, Hamilton, Marion, and Monroe counties were won by Obama and the rest were won by Clinton. Not much of a surprise. Also, does anyone have any "Operation… Continue

Posted on May 7, 2008 at 3:30pm — 2 Comments

BlogIN conference planning underway

Members of SmIN met in person and by phone on this Saturday morning to establish the foundation for a conference this coming spring. We discussed the focus and outlined a structure for this event. In order to meet the wide diversity of interest and familiarity with blogging (and online social communities), it will be a hybrid conference--with both structure and unstructured platforms. We laugh, we cried, we proposed public relations and marketing starting points. Those that gathered this mornin… Continue

Posted on February 16, 2008 at 1:12pm — 2 Comments

Practical and entertaining speakers feed off the audience on Pecha Kucha night

This past Friday night, greater than 65 people crammed in for standing room only presentations in the newly created Pecha Kucha format. Succinctly, it's PowerPoint with rules on the number of slides and their speed of progression. The theme for the night was loosely centered on architecture. From the introduction, one could tell that the organizers wanted to be on the avant garde map of global cities that have hosted Pecha Kucha nights.

After the organizers thanked all those involved a… Continue

Posted on February 5, 2008 at 10:50am — 1 Comment

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At 4:19pm on November 18, 2008, Gabe Reed said…: good point...i should probably explain that's my name, that's why the link looks like that. Were you hesitant because it says "greed" in it?

At 4:09pm on October 24, 2008, Justin Harter said…: Hi Stephen,

I see you’re an avid web designer. I’d like to invite you to check out a group I’m starting for Indy-area web designers and developers: The Indianapolis Web Design Guild. You can learn more here: http://justinharter.com/IWDG/

At 4:12pm on September 25, 2008, Stephen Coley said…: Yeah, I do spell my name the right way. Sometimes people have trouble pronouncing it the right way though. =/

You're right. I haven't heard of MB2, but that's a pretty cool Flash site they've got going on there. I recently saw a couple of websites with the same effects, but using Javascript only. Pretty nifty.

Rarebird, Inc is up on the northside in Nora. Pretty small company, but we take on quite a lot.

At 4:25pm on August 20, 2008, Noah Coffey said…: Saw your comment about the Blog Indiana tracks not really fitting. I would be interested in listening to you describe what you meant and how you think it could be improved. I'd like to improve on this year as much as possible!

At 9:51am on July 29, 2008, Kimberly Finnegan said…: Steve, I just wanted to comment that your one person group really gave me a good LOL.

At 12:36am on July 28, 2008, Mike Seidle said…: Glad you are...

At 3:02pm on July 22, 2008, Jeremy Williams said…: Steven, how is the house? I remember a few weeks back you were asking questions about becoming a homeowner. Have you moved in yet? Are you getting accustomed to being a homeowner? I hope all is well with you.

- jeremy

At 5:31pm on May 30, 2008, Brooke Francesi said…: Thanks for your suggestions. My site still has a few bugs that I'm working on, so I'll add that to my list. I don't know if you ever experience this, but sometimes you just can't wait to get your stuff up online!

At 12:03pm on April 21, 2008, Nicki Laycoax said…: Thanks for your offer of assistance! Just added you to Gtalk!

At 9:37pm on April 20, 2008, Malina Simone said…: Stephen, I've got a really cool idea for a front page of my website that is basically all flash. Can I tell you about it to see if it's even possible to do and how much it'd cost me to get something like that designed?

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Ok, does anyone know how to put an html code on facebook? I have a program that writes slide shows for blogs in an html format and I can put them on my blog, but I can't figure out how to put them ...

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Anyone interested in speaking about Social Media Marketing at Web Content Conference? 1 Reply

If so, check out http://www.webcontentconferences.com/tampabay/. I be selecting presenters for the February 2009 event in Clearwater, FL this week and next. If you're interested, use the links bel...

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Social Media in the Non-Profit World

I have seen the huge impact of social media on corporate image, but I have not seen it utilized in the non-profit area. I am just getting started, but I can see the potential. The main benefit AND ...

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Goals of Social Media

In general, what's the end goal of your social media campaigns? Is it to have something cool make it to the front page of digg? Or is it to build brand awareness, build backlinks or basically jus...

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Social Media Marketing Best Practices for Companies 5 Replies

I love this article, it's succinct and to the point. One of the best summaries of corporate social media marketing that I've ever read. Please give it read and let me know if you agree or disagree ...

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Social media marketing 1 Reply

It has been my experience that social media marketing is most effective when it is comming from people that make up the the social online communties. Guys like myself ignore banner ads and flashing...