In a social experiment by Washington Post a couple years ago, a talented violinist performed in one of Washington D.C.'s busiest metro stations where more than 1,100 people travel every day. In the 45 minutes the musician played, only 6 people stopped and stayed for a...
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2013: New Year. New Resolutions
Check out this YouTube video Google posted showing what the world searched for in 2012. It is amazing to see all the huge events and trending topics in 2012 through the "eyes" of Google, and it gets me thinking...2012 was a big year for Matcha Design....
How Instagram’s New Terms of Service Impacts Your Privacy
Instagram users were already nervous earlier this year when social media giant, Facebook, bought Instagram for a whopping $1 billion. Now, it appears Facebook may be trying to cash in their investment. Instagram released new terms of service on Monday that is leaving...
Client Relations Does Not Need to be a 4-Letter Word
If you have worked in the professional world for any length of time you will encounter client/vendor relations at some level. Working with clients or vendors is usually enjoyable, but when an order does not go smoothly it can be uncomfortable. It is inevitable you...
Battling Holiday Stress In Your Small Business
The holidays are in full swing and with the frenzy of Black Friday shopping over, Christmas is moving toward us at a rapid speed. Small business owners and employees can feel the season escalating as client's last minute requests pour in and projects schedule to...
Beware of the Cookie Store Syndrome
Today I was in a local food court and innocently wandered into a cookie store after enjoying a very healthy lunch. I was overwhelmed by the number of choices: chocolate chip, M&M, sugar, iced, glazed, snickerdoodle, cookie pies, cookie cakes and the list goes on....
Nonprofits: Finding a Design Agency
Having relevant design communications is pivotal in any industry; however, in light of budgetary and manpower obstacles many times nonprofit organizations lack the creative luster for-profit agencies can obtain. To overcome these obstacles, nonprofit agencies resort...
The Competition is Heating Up Between Google and Microsoft
We did a review on Windows Live Skydrive in October. One of the main features Microsoft offers is the ability to create, edit and store Office docs for free online via the browser. It also allows you to view the documents on your web-enabled mobile phone. As some of...
Windows Live SkyDrive Review
Microsoft recently released SkyDrive, a web-based storage and sharing utility. In addition to being a handy way to access up to 25GB of your files from pretty much anywhere, as well as optionally share those files with others, SkyDrive features Office Web Apps -...