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May 15, 2012 | Alyssa Dahl: The People in your Social Media Community

After watching the video below, I got excited about tying this theme to business and social communities today.

May 13, 2012 | Rob Burke: Behind The Scenes – Timelapse Product Shoot

As part of the Doosan shoot in Tucson (yeah, it’s fun to say) we shot two product timelapse’s of Doosan’s excavator and dump truck. With perfect weather and perfect stars, the desert was a perfect place to pull it off

May 11, 2012 | Lon Keller: I Want ALL of my HDTV

When creating commercials or other content for broadcast television, production companies need to adhere to certain standards. These standards have been driven from two primary sources: the Federal Communications Commission and the owners of the broadcast outlets.

For many years, the technical process of creating commercials or other content for broadcast television was fairly straightforward. There were no widescreen plasma or LCD screens. All television sets contained a cathode ray tube, which beamed an image onto a phosphorescent screen.  The size of the image, measured in scan lines, was 720 x 486, a 4:3 aspect ratio. All television cameras and video tape recorders captured 4:3 images. Producers, photographers and editors practiced their craft inside the confines of that 4:3 image and all networks and local stations broadcast an analog standard definition signal.

April 13, 2012 | Alyssa Dahl: Finding the Happy Medium

In order to grow your social media networks, there has to be an effort from the company creating conversations and the users willing to join your communities. Within each network, there is a happy medium about how often a company should post.

April 04, 2012 | Rob Burke: Creative interface and user interaction is expected

Have you ever been to a website and your first thought is “this site is shady?” Have you ever downloaded an app only to open it once and never again? This is what I like to call Back Alley Design Syndrome (or BADS for short).

March 23, 2012 | Alyssa Dahl: Top Social Media Videos for a Business

Over the past year I have compiled a list of Social Media videos that tie directly to the business. Some videos are new and some are old but I think watching them can help one understand how social media really ties into business. Below is a list of my favorites; some are more advanced than others. Take a look and hopefully these videos can be a resource to you and educating your team on the power of social media.

March 13, 2012 | Rob Burke: HD Video - The Rise or Demise of Quality over Quantity?

In the last seven years we’ve seen the birth of a new generation of content and consumption.
HD video has fast become integrated into consumer equipment from cameras to phones. So how does this translate into the rise or demise of professionally created content?

January 03, 2012 | Paul Bourdeaux: Dominos Pizza Launches Augmented Reality Mobile Campaign

Domino’s Pizza is using Augmented Reality to promote its 555 deals in Britain, with over 6000 AR enabled posters going up across the UK.

December 28, 2011 | Craig Isakson: How Incredible Is Your Incredible: Part Three of the SS Sundog Journey

Now that I had a fully functioning, and maybe the first of its kind, weather balloon tracking/photo-taking app, I was ready to send it off. I figured I better clear it with my boss to make sure it was all right to send my phone off into space. I am not sure if he quite believed what I was going to do but he was on board saying something along the lines of “You break it, you bought it.” With that green light, I ordered a 300-gram weather balloon off eBay and a 24” nylon parachute from Amazon.com. I used a piece of left over 1-1/2” Styrofoam insulation, some Plexiglas and zip-ties to build a box to house the phone. I sandwiched the phone in between two pieces of the insulation and cut out a hole for the camera to be able to take pictures.

December 22, 2011 | Craig Isakson: How Incredible Is Your Incredible: Part One of the SS Sundog Journey

As technology continues to expand, we are rewarded with affordable and sophisticated pieces of hardware that would have made any tech geek beyond excited just a few short years ago. This series of blog posts will chronicle my experience with some standard pieces of technology (by today’s standards) and how I used my imagination to push the limits of these devices to achieve a goal I dreamed about as a kid.

October 17, 2011 | Alyssa Dahl: Facebook Launches iPad App

For the past two years, I’ve waited for Facebook to launch an iPad app. I was beginning to wonder if they were ever going to create one! Sure enough, last week, Facebook finally released a fully-developed iPad app. I initially felt the delay was attributed to a lack of innovation, but the execution of their app has left me with nothing but positive reviews. In hindsight, I would rather have a product take longer in development in order to a full launch, rather than be rushed into creation with multiple upgrades in the future.

October 06, 2011 | Paul Bourdeaux: R.I.P. Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Inc, passed away on October 5th, 2011, at the age of 56. Jobs leaves behind a legacy in the technology industry that will be matched by few, if any.