Wednesday, January 27, 2010

BlogAsheville: Getting Ready for Some Changes

We here at BlogAsheville are getting ready for some changes... Web guy Eric Sopp of InsideDesign is snooping around our shabby canned code, getting ready to make this blog look and work better (our 2009 Most in Need of a Redeisgn award is, sadly, well deserved).

We're also gearing up to restart blogger meetups. Tentatively, we're meeting in mid-March at Posana Cafe, with some social time over a Pisgah Ale followed by a constructive chat with everyone's favorite city councilblogger Gordon Smith (tied, perhaps, with Cecil Bothwell) about how bloggers and other citizen media users can use our powers for citywide good.


Gordon's already using his blog as a platform for using digital media to keep people informed and updated, and we'll talk with him about how we can help. It'll be even more fun after a few beers!


But before all the changes, its time for an overdue THANK YOU to the sponsors who made last year's Spookypalooza benefit possible. This is just the first round. We've got more to thank.


If you're a BlogAsheville fan, a great way to show support is to support any local business, especially one of our sponors.

From all of us at BlogAsheville: THANK YOU.

Applied Solutions Group: Solutions and Information Technology for your business.

Applied Solutions Group provides a wide range of networking and custom website development and design services to Asheville, Western North Carolina and the surrounding region. Our expertise includes Windows networks and extends to our higher end solutions, including Cisco and Open Source Solutions using Linux.

Efficiency is the most important part of your business's ability to grow. We keep it simple. Your infrastructure should be optimized and designed to grow with your company. We provide a wide range of Managed IT services, from custom application development, to unique website design, from Voice Over IP telephony powered by Asterisk PBX to remote Network Access with a secure VPN.
Let us help you build and manage your IT Infrastructure.

Sparkdog

Sparkdog Better Findability is a local web marketing agency that helps small and medium sized businesses dominate their markets by getting more out of their web sites. Owner Clark Mackey coined the term "findability" to describe what they do.

Findability means helping people find your web site, helping them get what they want on your site, and helping them return again and again. Sparkdog’s services amount to a long range marketing plan for the web and they include things like search engine optimization, link building, web statistics analysis, conversion rate optimization and careful attention to return on investment.

“Really, we solve problems with the same tools bloggers use - an active mind, good words, and the Internet. In that way I consider bloggers to be kindred spirits, communicators who place a little piece of themselves out there in an effort to make the world just a little bit better, one post at a time.”

Dog Tag Art

hihowareyou [at] dogtagart.com


Colorful. Distinct. Cool. Dog Tag Art has taken the lead on stylish, personalized, virtually indestructible Pet ID Tags. Dog Tag Art allows you to create a unique reflection of your pet's personality through hundreds of crowdsourced designs from talented artists. If you like sniffing out good design and cool pet accessories, give us a try.

2 comments:

h o z a e said...

We appreciate the the Thank You note :)

Jose
Applied Solutions Group

Jennifer Saylor said...

Better late than never, my friend.