Next likemind Chicago on Friday May 20
By Mike Maddaloni on Monday, May 02, 2011 at 12:08 AM with 0 comments
The next likemind will be Friday, May 20, 2011 in dozens of cities around the world.
In Chicago, it will be at Argo Tea, 140 S Dearborn St. at the corner of Adams and Dearborn Streets in the Loop from 8:00 am to 10:00 am.
I call likemind a gathering of creative-minded people, from various disciplines including Internet, advertising, art, social media, et. al. For more on likemind, read this great article on likemind Chicago from the Newcity and likemind from the New York Times.
Follow @likemindchicago on Twitter. You are welcome to join the likemind Chicago Facebook group.
The first edition of our lame design, yet functional Web site is live at http://likemindchicago.com/.
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Next likemind Chicago on Friday April 15
By Mike Maddaloni on Monday, April 04, 2011 at 11:55 PM with 0 comments
The next likemind will be Friday, April 15, 2011 in dozens of cities around the world.
In Chicago, it will be at Argo Tea, 140 S Dearborn St. at the corner of Adams and Dearborn Streets in the Loop from 8:00 am to 10:00 am.
I call likemind a gathering of creative-minded people, from various disciplines including Internet, advertising, art, social media, et. al. For more on likemind, read this great article on likemind Chicago from the Newcity and likemind from the New York Times.
Follow @likemindchicago on Twitter. You are welcome to join the likemind Chicago Facebook group.
Watch for future date announcements at http://likemindchicago.com/ - and Web site coming soon at that address!
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Dunkirk Powers Valcour Strategic Group Web Site With MojoMotor
By Mike Maddaloni on Monday, March 14, 2011 at 06:00 AM with 2 comments
We at my Web consulting firm Dunkirk Systems, LLC are proud to announce the re-launch of a Web site that barely looks different than before, but has a completely new infrastructure behind the scenes.
Valcour Strategic Group, LLC is a long-time Dunkirk client and we have collaborated on mutual client projects in the past. Valcour is a Strategic Growth Focused Consulting Services Firm committed to developing and launching New Technology Products that benefit the Water, Food, and Beverage Processing Markets in North America. Their Web site at www.valcourstrategic.com has been live for several years, and has been a static Web site, meaning any changes to the content of the site were a technical task to change hard-coded Web pages. This posed issues with making even the smallest of changes as soon as they were needed. Valcour needed greater content management capabilities with their Web site, but their needs were straight-forward and didn’t need a robust CMS, at least not yet.
After making many changes to their Web site and understanding their needs, I felt a new CMS called MojoMotor would solve their needs, and it is now live powering their Web site. MojoMotor was released last fall by EllisLab, who also offer ExpressionEngine, Dunkirk’s preferred CMS upon which we have built many client Web sites, blogs and forums. MojoMotor positions itself as “the publishing engine that does less,” and the question was if less was more for Valcour. After reviewing the technology with Norman LaVigne, Valcour’s founder and president, he gave the ok for the project.
So how has MojoMotor worked for Valcour? In hs own words, Norman said, “I have made numerous text updates since going live with MojoMotor. I like the ease of doing this so I can tweak something on the site quickly and keep it aligned with my business without having to accumulate changes and do them all at once later.”
Dunkirk is now offering MojoMotor as part of our CMS offering. There are many times when a robust CMS is needed, and in some cases it is not. A great feature of MojoMotor is a built-in upgrade path to ExpressionEngine. Where a Web site may start out with basic needs, when those are exceeded, there is a path to expansion, and greatness!
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Next likemind Chicago on Friday March 18
By Mike Maddaloni on Friday, March 04, 2011 at 07:24 AM with 0 comments
The next likemind will be Friday, March 18, 2011 in dozens of cities around the world.
In Chicago, it will be at Argo Tea, 140 S Dearborn St. at the corner of Adams and Dearborn Streets in the Loop from 8:00 am to 10:00 am.
I call likemind a gathering of creative-minded people, from various disciplines including Internet, advertising, art, social media, et. al. For more on likemind, read this great article on likemind Chicago from the Newcity and likemind from the New York Times.
Follow @likemindchicago on Twitter. You are welcome to join the likemind Chicago Facebook group.
Watch for future date announcements at http://likemindchicago.com/ - and Web site coming soon at that address!
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Next likemind Chicago on Friday February 18
By Mike Maddaloni on Monday, February 07, 2011 at 07:28 AM with 0 comments
The next likemind will be Friday, February 18, 2011 in dozens of cities around the world.
In Chicago, it will be at Argo Tea, 140 S Dearborn St. at the corner of Adams and Dearborn Streets in the Loop from 8:00 am to 10:00 am.
I call likemind a gathering of creative-minded people, from various disciplines including Internet, advertising, art, social media, et. al. For more on likemind, read this great article on likemind Chicago from the Newcity and likemind from the New York Times.
Follow @likemindchicago on Twitter.
Watch for future date announcements at http://likemindchicago.com/ - and Web site coming soon at that address!
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