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I'm beyond thrilled to support a good friend and colleague of mind, David Cosgrove of David Cosgrove Los Angeles Web Design and his recent recognition in the 2012 "America's Best

I'm very happy to announce the official release of my new book "Better Business Blogging." The book is officially available for download through the Amazon Kindle Marketplace. Ultimately I chose to partner with Amazon on an exclusive basis for the launch of the book for a variety of factors but the key ones were trust in their marketplace and the ability to access a wide number of readers across a variety of platforms (here is a link to the free Kindle reading apps provided by Amazon for platforms like the iPhone, Droid and even Windows desktops!) I wrote the book, which has been heavily informed by my work with a wide variety of clients operating from a number of distinct business fields, to help provide business owners with a broader framework by which they can better understand, appreciate and ultimately act towards to help them with their business blogging efforts.

I recently wrote a guest post for VantageLocal, a company specializing in online display adverertising. The post, After The Click, explores some of the idea of the "click", the "get"

I are very proud to share with you that Gadarian Digital has recently been added to the MailChimp Experts Directory in the area of "consultation."

Although small businesses tend to run very lean operations, it doesn't mean that you can neglect investing in marketing your brand. There are several excellent resources you can utilize to

I was recently conducting research for an upcoming client and I stumbled across an interesting observation. For a while now I was simply assuming that a few things that Chrome does are actually beneficial to my web browsing experience - I was thinking about MY web browsing experience, but what about YOUR web browsing experience? Chrome currently takes what they deem to be a phone number and they turn it into a clickable link. That is great except that perhaps it might not be depending on how you actually designed your site. Here are a few examples of the same site - all from a portion of the header, all from different web browsers - the phone number for this business is listed on the top right corner (I've blurred the actual phone number): In Firefox:

There really is something magical about new shoes. When you put them on you somehow feel like you really get this "walking" think much better. New clothes have a similar effect for me, although admittedly it is not as strong. I know it's crazy, but somehow new shoes just make my entire walking experience feel a little more special, a little more meaningful. You are beginning to think you have better things to do with your time - this is after all supposed to be a site about digital this and online that! Bear with me on this one...

I am very pleased to share with you the latest site Gadarian Digital has overseen the launch of: Siren Marine

The Client

Siren Marine provides the hands down best remote tracking system available and I am thrilled to be working with their team. In putting together this project there were a number key considerations that the team felt we needed to focus on. A big one that I hope leaps out is the many ways that we tried to keep introduce boaters in new ways that would be particularly meaningful to other boaters. We really strove to make a site that a boater would feel at home on.

Happy to say I made it to the polls today! Check out my "digital sticker" courtesy of Foursquare