Friday, January 28, 2011

7 chics. That's all we're saying for now.

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

We are so excited to have signed Design By Todd. What an amazing creative and business match for both businesses.

Monday, January 24, 2011

Web developer/designer job opening

Job starts immediately. Please forward resume and portfolio to jeff@calzone.com

Responsible for the layout, visual appearance, and usability of the client’s website.

Responsibilities:
• Design and maintain websites and web portals and ensure that they are visually effective and easy to access.
• Write web pages using codes such as HTML, XHTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP, etc.
• Produce designs that will be attractive to the target users, has a logical navigation system, and has all the features required.
• Fix problems encountered in the functioning of websites.

Qualifications/Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, MIS, or related experience.
• Strong skills in MS SQL Server 2005.
• Experience with computer graphic packages such as Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, etc...
• Experience with Joomla and Drupal
• Knowledge of Flash, XML-based web applications, SEO and programming language and other web development languages and technologies.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Strong attention to detail.

Friday, January 21, 2011

Getting Social.

There are lots of tools you can use to manage social media and social media marketing.

When you want more followers try TweetBig. Building community helps you communicate with more people who might be interested in what your brand is and what it has to offer. Make sure you have something relevant to say. Otherwise, just tweet as yourself.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Sometimes you just learn the things you need to learn from college friends. I was an on-air personality at WRPI FM radio throughout my college days. That experience connected me with musicians, engineers and guys who are still my friends. We share what we learn as we learn it. I find they are so ahead of the curve and am grateful that I'm able to keep up.

A 2009 technology, Sound Cloud, is the latest to come across the WRPI discussion group. We're playing with it and it's becoming a part of our media and marketing efforts.

Sunday, January 16, 2011

How many times are we as business professionals so engaged the process of applying our skills to all of our clients, that we neglect to apply them to our own businesses?

You've probably already had the same reasons (excuses) we did - too busy, not enough hours, need those billable hours and more. We're discovering that our productivity is increasing as we apply the very processes that have made our clients successful to our own firm. Simply, we are making time for it. My mother used to say, "you make time for the things that are really important to you - no exceptions."

What's happening is that the clients are gaining a larger benefit from our collective thinking and processes. We've created so much success for them already, we can't even imagine (or we can) how much more success we are going to create for them.

We are here to serve our clients. The better we serve ourselves, the better we will serve them.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Work from Anywhere with the Abacus Data Cloud

Mobility is the key to running a successful business these days. Having remote access to all of your business files allows you to continue your job even when you can’t be in the office. The Abacus Data Cloud offers a remote virtual private network connection so that you can stay productive during an illness, a natural disaster or emergency, while traveling or just when you prefer to work from the comfort of your home.
A simple installation on your home computer, either PC or Mac, will give you direct access to all files currently backed up on the Abacus Data Cloud. Changes made in real time from your personal computer will be available to those accessing files from office computers and vice versa.
Aside from giving better mobility and remote access to your business, The Abacus Data Cloud increases network uptime, and improves disaster prevention with reliable backups and server duplication. Abacus Data Exchange has developed an off-site Active Directory Domain and storage solution to provide better security, reliability and affordability to businesses. Abacus provides a local network attached storage device for ease of backing up files and data from the local workstations. Along with storage services, the local device also provides a routing solution for users to ensure maximum network capabilities. The features included with this device are firewalled security, web-browsing caching and intrusion detection.
If you want to learn more about all of the features of the Abacus Data Cloud and how it can help your business' productivity, visit the website www.abacuscloudcomputing.com or call 337.889.0202 to speak with us.
About Abacus Data Exchange
Abacus Marketing Resources, LLC has been in business since 2005 serving broadband solutions to local businesses. Inspired by Lafayette's commitment to deploying a full fiber network and excited by the opportunity to help businesses take greater advantage of online opportunities, Abacus made the bold decision to leverage leading-edge elastic computing to open the Abacus Data Exchange. Abacus Data Exchange was created as an alternative ‘green’ data center using hosted virtualized infrastructure-as-a-service. In February of 2010 Abacus advanced their services to provide public virtualized infrastructure-as-a-service; often referred to as ‘cloud computing’.
Abacus Data Exchange
110 Travis St., Lafayette, LA 70503
337.889.0202
www.abacuscloudcomputing.com