At the Content Marketing Retreat

Tim — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:27:33 +0000

I’m in Seattle getting ready to speak about some fun Google Analytics topics at the 2nd annual Content Marketing Retreat.

The Content Marketing Retreat is being held at the Langley Center for New Media. I’m looking forward to the conference, meeting other content marketers and checking out the impressive speaker lineup. Check out Langley’s measurement blog post to find out more about the topic I’m covering.

For those attending, I look forward to meeting you there.

Swapley is in Beta!

Tim — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 05:20:59 +0000

Mightybytes’ first product just went into beta. We’re very excited to introduce Swapley, an integration tool for syncing Emma and 37 Signals’ Highrise. I was in Portland earlier this week and discussed Swapley with our friends at Emma. It’s great to work with the Emma team. True professionals. And they know some awesome Portland restaurants too!

If you use Emma and Highrise, we would love to know what you think. Please considers signing up on the Swapley site to be one of our beta testers.

Thanks!

Sync Emma and Highrise with Swapley

Tim — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 09:06:54 +0000

Mightybytes has been hard at work getting our first product ready for beta. It’s called Swapley and you can use it to sync contacts and groups between MyEmma and 37 Signals’ flagship CRM product, Highrise.

Want to find out more about syncing Emma and Highrise? Sign up to find out more info on the Swapley beta.

Spin Sucks Post on Cross-Domain Tracking in Google Analytics

Tim — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 18:57:33 +0000

The fine folks at Spin Sucks have just published a guest post by yours truly on tracking data across multiple domains using Google Analytics. This can be helpful if your website uses a hosted third party system for tickets, donations, and so on. Check it out!

Read Cross Domain Tracking in Google Analytics on Spin Sucks now.

A Long Overdue Overhaul

Tim — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 15:28:08 +0000

An update to this site has been a long time coming and I’m glad it’s finally here. I look forward to sharing more relevant content more often on topics such as digital marketing, strategy, technology, design, media, and all the other fun web stuff that has made my career path the wild ride that it is. There will no doubt be personal ruminations on sustainability, beer brewing, cycling, and the endless struggle with work/life balance as well.

While the original site—launched in just a few hours as a response to missing materials in my first book—served as a blog in the more traditional sense of the word, this new site is also meant to showcase my work as a writer, educator, and consultant. These projects are often independent of my company Mightybytes, but not always.

With that in mind, I have added many links to and samples from past workshops, presentations, articles I’ve written, and so on. I’ve been working on a sample demo reel from past speaking engagements and will continue to post slide decks from conferences I speak at and workshops I give.

I worked with Jehan Abon to bring the new site to life. She is a talented designer and so easy to work with. If you’re looking for a WordPress site, Jehan is a great resource.

New Site is Almost Done!

Tim — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 14:39:28 +0000

I’ve been working with the wonderful and talented Jehan Abon to bring a new version of this site to life. It’s long overdue. The original version (the one you’re looking at now) was built in four hours (give or take) with Whit Nelson and a theme we did a bit of customization on.

All I’ve got left to do is good time content fun. Tweaks, edits, proofreading, etc. Then we flip the switch.

Here’s a sneak peak:

Worms in the Kitchen!

Tim — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 16:55:45 +0000

urban_worm_girl_13 a photo by TimFrick on Flickr.

Urban Worm Girl came to the office this week and set us up with a thousand new colleagues. And I thought the office was crowded before.

We blogged about it on the Mightybytes site and embedded a sweet slideshow of the Flickr pics:

http://bit.ly/urban_worm_girl

These new roommates will eat up to a half pound of organic waste per day and offer a fantastic fertilizer in return. Why not consider adding some worms to your own kitchen?

Headed to Drupalcon

Tim — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 12:26:45 +0000

Am heading off to Drupalcon this morning for the first of three days chock full of all things Drupal. Interesting tracks in the conference this year: Coder, Implementation and Config, Drupal Community, Business and Strategy, Theming, and Design and UX. Today starts off with a keynote by Drupal founder Dries Buytaert followed by sessions on accessibility, wireframing, UX strategy, and designing for mobile. And that’s just the first day! Other sessions include jQuery Mobile, Avoiding a Frankenstein Website: How to Collaborate with Clients, Interface Patterns, Internet Marketing, Semantic Web, and a whole lot more.

Most of the Mightybytes crew are going. Anyone else headed there?

New Portfolio on the Mightybytes Site

Tim — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:10:41 +0000

I’ve been putting a lot of time in lately, along with Steve, our new content developer, updating the Mightybytes site portfolio. For years, most of our projects featured only a paragraph or two of descriptive text at best. The original thought was to let the work samples speak for themselves, but we have found our new take on describing projects not only offers potential clients the context they need for how we approach both large and small projects, but also offers us plenty more opportunities to use SEO-friendly keywords as well. Because keywords are fun.

Here’s what we are now trying to include on all projects:

Our Approach, in which we outline details for doing the project.
Implementation, wherein we discuss how we actually did a project.
The Return, in which we cover tangible benefits clients derived from our work.

Not every project warrants this level of detail, but we have already overhauled our fair share of them. In addition to new project copy, the portfolio also includes the following features:

Larger work samples.
More testimonials from happy clients.
Captions describing image content.
Links to awards, press releases, and other relevant project info.
One sentence pull-quotes to briefly sum up each project.

We are also in the process of including a list of services provided on each project as well. View the portfolio and let me know what you think!

Mightybytes Site Gets a 95 on Hubspot’s Website Grader

Tim — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:37:30 +0000

Mightybytes just scored a 95 on Hubspot’s Website Grader:

Guess our hard work is paying off.