http://3wdesign.com/blog 3W is World Wide Web Tue, 18 Mar 2008 16:21:23 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We just sent an abbreviated version of this email out to our clients and we think it bears repeating. I was disappointed when we had to cut it back for space constraints so here it is in full...Gregg Dear Client Lately, we’ve noticed a surge of email offers from Web marketing ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/45 In case you aren't aware, 3W Design offers an excellent hosting service for new or existing websites. Gregg Luhring has thought of everything to make the somewhat obtuse world of hosting easy for our clients. In addition to 500 MB of storage, 10 custom email addresses, online retail packages and ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/44 Everyday I receive (via subscription) email article summaries concerning online marketing and statistics. Today from eMarketer Daily came the article Online Buying Grows, But How Much?. It features information from a Pew Internet & American Life Project's latest online shopping survey. The article is worth the read from several standpoints. ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/43 OK, I'm bragging. I have checked off one of my 2008 New Year's Resolutions...finish the event podcast for the Steel Bridge Songfest 3. 100 edited audio files and 17 completed podcasts later, it's done and I have to say it's the most comprehensive series of podcasts to date. It felt ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/42 3W recently completed an event podcast for The New North Summit 2007 (a regional business conference) in cooperation with Marketplace Magazine. The New North Summit was held at the Blue Harbor Resort in Sheboygan, Wisconsin on December 14, 2007. It consisted of a series of daylong events: a speech by ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/41 OK. Right here. Right now. 2008 New Year's resolutions 101. I am vowing to become a more regular writer. To that end I have enrolled in a class this weekend that will help me become more prolific. The class is with Über-cartoonist Lynda Barry and is titled "Writing the Unthinkable." ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/40 On Valentine's Day 2004, my valentine Gregg Luhring gave me a green iPod mini. I was excited, but also sure I would never become as enamored with it as Gregg had become with his second generation iPod. I was wrong. Last week when I sent it away to have the ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/35 We all get used to our habits, our routines. These routines include certain gadgets we use, certain clothes we wear, certain routes to work, and so on. Once in a while we change our routine. Maybe order a different drink at the coffee shop or wear a new pair of ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/34 I just returned from a family reunion - a gathering of my relatives, the Baryenbruch family - which was held in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. It was a small event as family reunions go, about twenty people age 5 to 79, from Indianapolis, Raleigh, Chicago, Boston, Green Bay, Sister Bay and New ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/33 Gregg Luhring has been involved in music and audio production for 31 years. That experience includes taking a digital music class in high school (that his mother Bev Luhring taught!); attending the University of Wisconsin as an applied music major; being in bands whose genres ranged from wedding to ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/32 I just opened an account at Twitter today and have officially entered the world of micro-blogging. Twitter is considered micro-blogging because it limits you to 140 characters or less per post. Of what use is this to the business world? Before I contemplate that question any further let me explain ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/31 Almost 50% of my daily human interaction takes place because of a machine that sits on my desk. This includes both business and personal interactions. That machine of course is my computer and it helps me build and maintain the relationships that keep my income and my social calendar hopping While ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/30 Photographers Julie Lindemann and Johnie Shimon have been making photographs together since the mid-1980's. During that time their work has been as much about the process as it is about the subject. The subject of their work are the lives of the people in the midwestern community where they live. Part ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/29 Forty-something tech geeks and 3W principals Gregg and Barbara Luhring launch 3W Design Group Media's debut podcast. This week's topic: Gregg's Favorites is a discussion of Gregg Luhring's favorite new web widgets, software and sites. Gregg's Favorites include: Quicksilver  - A desktop user interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/28 Canadian Indie band Arcade Fire was founded in 2003 by wife and husband team, Régine Chassagne and Win Butler. This seven member band combines an impressive number of instruments (guitar, drums, bass guitar, piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, xylophone, keyboard, French horn, accordion, hurdy gurdy AND harp) with chorus-like ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/27 In an October 2004 Wired magazine article, Chris Anderson described businesses like Amazon.com or Netflix as "long tail". He wrote a book about it in 2006 and I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to understand the effect the Internet on our morphing economy. Anderson points out that the ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/26 If your first life isn't quite what you hoped it would be and you don't want to wait to be reincarnated to have another crack at your true potential, I have a solution - Second Life. According to Wikipedia.org: "Second Life (abbreviated to SL) is an Internet-based virtual world which came ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/25 Have you ever been at an event and thought how great it would be to be able to share it with a friend or group of people who were not able to attend? I have. So in 2006 we created several event podcasts that we made available to the public ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/24 My friend and podcasting partner Susie Watson has been advising us of late on the dangers of using too much jargon on our clients. Susie is a marketing/branding professional who we use as a sounding board for our pitches concerning new technology services. It's not that Susie is a Luddite, ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/23 Charlene Ann Baumbich has been a client of 3W for several years. She is a writer and humourist whose fifth book in her Partonville series is the soon to be released Dearest Dorothy, Merry Everything! Charlene is a loyal listener of the 3W produced podcast Pop Goes the Culture and ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/22 Since 1994, bloggers have been sharing their knowledge, their passion, and in some cases the boring minutia of their lives with readers the world over. Twelve years later according on July 31, 2006, Technorati tracked its 50 millionth blog. In addition: • The blogosphere is doubling about once every 6 and ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/21 The October 8, 2006 edition of BusinessWeek online features a tale by Pallavi Gogoi illustrating a new media version of astroturfing or the faking of grassroots support. This particular example is the story of two people traveling cross-country in an RV staying overnight in Wal-Mart parking lots (the company ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/20 The issue of net neutrality is examined this Wednesday, October 18 as PBS airs an important episode of PBS’ Moyers on America. Reporter Rick Karr examines the future of the Internet in an episode called The Net at Risk. Here's a bit of the description: The future of the Internet is up ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/12 When I describe podcasting to people, they usually assume they will need an iPod to listen in to this new technology. I tell them there are many ways to listen, the iPod being only one of many. When this conversation happens, I begin to search my mental hard drive for ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/8 Since I'm involved in Internet technology so deeply. In my job. My hobby. My dreams. I caught on to RSS quickly. It comes naturally to me. The thing that doesn't come as naturally is explaining it to other people. Since 3W is becoming so involved in podcasting, blogging and RSS, ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/6 Marco R. della Cava of USA TODAY wrote a fascinating article On October 4, 2006 titled Working out of a 'third place'. Here is an exerpt: "An estimated 30 million Americans, or roughly one-fifth of the nation's workforce, are part of the so-called Kinko's generation, employees who spend significant hours ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/4 We have seen the future of the Web and it is us. Apologies for the alteration of Walt Kelly's famous line, but nothing describes Web 2.0 better. According to Wikipedia, "Web 2.0, is a phrase coined by O'Reilly Media in 2004, refers to a supposed second-generation of Internet-based services — such ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/2 Thanks for visiting 3W's new site. Please bear with us as we customize and modify. Don't worry it won't stay brown. (we're sick of green too) Our old site is still temporarily available here. You can subscribe to our RSS feed below and to the right to keep abreast of ... http://3wdesign.com/blog/archives/1