Last night, our team attended the monthly DC Drupal meetup at Stetson’s hosted by Phase 2 Technology. As always we were accompanied by awesome presentations and quality attendees.  Following the folks at Development Seed, who presented their latest product TileMill, our very own Mike Endale presented our latest Drupal project data.ed.gov.

After the presentation, while talking to attendees, some of the discussions revolved around how TileMill can be used in Drupal, the use of the table wizard module and possible content distribution systems.

In other Drupal news, Phase 2 Technology also announced that their currently working on putting together DC’s first Drupal camp, which will to be held this summer! To learn more about this check out: CapitalCamp

drupalers at Stetson's

Mike presenting data.ed.gov

dev seed presenting tilemill

I’m always looking for new and inexpensive ways to advertise some of the web projects that I am working one.

I have been using Stumble upon for about 4 years. I find great content easily and get lost on the web throughout the day.

When I found out about StumbleUpon’s advertising program. If you’re not familiar with StumbleUpon, basically it’s just a random site re-director. StumbleUpon users are served up random pages based on their preferences and demographics. If they like a page, they can give it thumbs up. If they don’t like a page, they can give it thumbs down.

The more people like your site the more people visit. Read the rest of this entry »

So not long ago I blogged about social media, and digital marketing campaigns. I told you guys, I’d be blogging about the challenges and the advantages of what this new (not so new) web 2.0 world had to offer. So with out further a due let me dive right in. As you might have read in the previous blog currently @blencorp we are working on our digital marketing campaign, one of our efforts include our Google Adwords campaign. As most of you know Adwords is an online ad management system run by Google, it allows you to create an ad, assign a dollar value to your ads and Google will post your ads on the Google Search Engine. The one thing we failed to create parallel to our Adword campaign was a custom landing page for each ad. Read the rest of this entry »

It’s not a day that goes by that you and I aren’t either on a social networking site, discovering a new social media tool or reading up on the latest SoMe trends. I wonder what we used to do before the Social Media revolution? Things seem like they’re not fast enough, efficient enough and there’s ALWAYS room for improvement.

In a day in age where we can’t afford to be disconnected, how do we prioritize what’s vital in our marketing campaigns? Well first of all, we @BLENCorp are dealing with this same challenge right now as we speak. We have set out to make 2010 the “digital age” for our marketing efforts. But make no mistake, we are not out to SPAM you or bombard you and only become apart of the noise. Read the rest of this entry »