Spoken Whirred

Spoke featured on All About Business St. Louis

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:13:17 +0000

Spoke was thrilled to be featured on the latest episode of All About Business, featuring marketing companies in the St. Louis area. Check out the video on allaboutbusinesstv.com.

Who is using Google+

Brian Schwartz — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:36:17 +0000

I posted this on Google+ asking:

Who is using Google+ regularly? What do you enjoy about it?

I have yet to receive any feedback. Now that could be because of the date (I posted it on 12/30, a couple days before a holiday), or because of my lack of using it regularly, but I’m unconvinced that the majority of early-adopters are still there or that anyone is using Google+ regularly. I see some of my fellow web developers on there, but not a lot of non-tech folks.

So please prove me wrong and tell me what I’m missing by not devoting any “social networking time” to Google Plus.

P.S. Look for our new site soon. We’re putting the finishing touches on it now.

Excessive Spoke Friday

Jay — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:35:17 +0000

Are you tired of going to boring “holiday” parties with bad food and cheap booze? If you are then come join us for our Winter Spoke Friday and be excessive with us.

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Spoke Saturday + Midtown Alley Street Fest

Jay — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 16:24:53 +0000

This isn’t our usual Spoke Friday, mostly because it’s a Saturday. Why a Saturday you ask? We are taking part in the Midtown Alley Street Fest! The Street Fest is located in The Heart of Midtown Alley on Locust Street from Garrison to Hotel Ignacio and is taking place on Saturday, October 1, we will be around from 3pm till we decide the party is over. Come and enjoy live music, a microbrew garden, food from area restaurants and much more.

More information at www.midtownalley.com

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Consider your mobile customers

Brian Schwartz — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:50:10 +0000

There is a billboard along the highway on my morning commute to the office with a URL promoting a new web business. A couple days ago, I was stopped in traffic and tried the URL on my iPhone and got a blank screen with a “install a flash player” message.

I’ve seen this same billboard in two spots near my house. I’m not up on my current billboard ad rates in St. Charles and St. Louis County, but advertising a URL on a billboard and that not showing the website to the user is a HUGE WASTE OF MONEY. As of this month, Apple has sold 222 million iOS devices¹ and none of them run flash. This site won’t work on the largest mobile browser by marketshare (37%+ of the mobile browser market²⁾.

I know the likely readers of this post will already know this, but if you are an advertising or marketing decision maker and are promoting your site on outdoor advertising make sure you have a mobile version of your site ready to go. Otherwise you are wasting your money.

1. http://allthingsd.com/20110720/apples-sold-222-million-ios-devices-so-far/
2. http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2011/06/mobile_browser_9.html