Schipul Blog

Our team is growing with a great new hire!  We are incredibly pleased to welcome JJ Lassberg to our Production Team.  JJ is a seasoned Web geek and designer with 10 years of experience in Web site development.  She’ll be working closely with clients using Tendenci as a project manager, software support guru and all-around [...]

Social Media for the Advertising set
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Ed went to speak to the New Orleans Ad Club today on advertisers engaging in Social Media.  While annual ad budgets in 2008 only included 6.8% for Internet advertising, the online medium remains one of the fastest growing segments (says Marketing [...]

Happy Thanksgiving from the Schipul crew!!  We have so many blessings to count this year and wish you a beautiful holiday with your family!  Here are a few things we are thankful for this year:

The Interwebs
Our ridiculously cool clients
Family, Friends and co-workers 
Twitter (check us out @schipul and @tendenci)
Flickr
Reliable awesome online news sources
Numbered lists
Our daily noms
Servers that [...]

Houston (Schipul’s hometown) is bursting with talented artists, marketers and technologists, we love it here… what can we say.
And just to prove what a great city we live in, the ladies from OpMom (Houston-based) and Kirtsy (semi-Houston-based) are hosting the first ever Mom 2.0 Summit February 19-21, 2009.  The conference is dedicated to helping marketers [...]

Playing the recession - tips for advertisers and the Millennials that work there
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Ed recently spoke to the American Advertising Federation of Houston (HAF) and the Houston Interactive Marketing Association on a panel discussing Digital/Interactive Marketing - What you need to know now!
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You’ve probably seen at least one, an email telling you that a $XX,XXX payment is about to go in to your bank or Paypal account — but ONLY!! if you confirm your address.  And your name.  And your dog’s name.  And your Social Security number.  And your dog’s Social Security  number.
Sure, they might look fairly [...]

The Schipul gang is fortunate enough to work with all shapes and sizes of awesome clients.  Today we are very sad to hear about the loss of one of our favorite clients - Mac the baby elephant at the Houston Zoo.
From an exciting record-breaking birth weight (384 pounds!) to fun 1st and 2nd birthday parties, [...]

A great TED Talk video by Kevin Kelly looking at the next 5000 days of the Web.

Curious about what folks are thinking and talking about as they go to the polls today?  Check out this handy Twitter / Google Maps mashup and see up-to-the-minute thoughts, rants, ideas and stories.
You can also keep an eye on:  http://election.twitter.com/ to see all 2008 election-related chatter and links, as well as http://blog.twittervotereport.com for poll reports [...]

Design Patterns in Social Media: The Hero’s Journey will be Twitter-ed
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Ed had a great time presenting a brand new Story meets Social Media mash up presentation at the Sarasota Design Summit last week at Ringling College of Art and Design.
Take a flip through Ed’s slides to see how [...]