6/10/10

 

Web And Media In Richmond, Virginia News



I know you know we're busy, but I just realized this blog has not been updated since April!
On our Facebook Page we have been posting technology and advertising articles as we find 'em... but, as usual, we are too busy working on clients to make that page "purty" (see link below on how to do so). Won't you consider "liking" us on Facebook, if you want to access the latest news and issues we discover that might apply to your business without a lengthy essay?
: ) http://www.facebook.com/#!/richmondmedia

In the meantime, here are some articles and notes I found intriguing or helpful recently:
Our clients have been busy - Bob Fischer of The Naked Portfolio Manager is gaining national attention on his expertise on decision-making with his book on investing, and ebook, and blog, his Sweet Briar Experiment and radio interviews and... lots and lots of press.

The American Civil War Center has been busy with its sesquicentennial - 150 years since our nation reunited. See what great events, exhibits and educational programs they offer.

Client James River Air, a Virginia leader in HVAC systems for decades, benefits their clients and environment by offering a wide array of green building systems technology including solar, rainwater, and support furthering green technology, locally. Check out their solar system and Idea House, here!
(...If you check back next week, you can peruse their new web site!)

Kathy Corbet Interiors has spent the spring traveling the world and reporting back design trends she encounters.  If you love interior design like we do, you might enjoy her interior design blog!

Our nonprofit clients in museums, healthcare and child services have been really seeing impact on their outreach by utilizing social media - gaining exposure and a wider breadth of exposure affects their site traffic which affects their rankings, allowing them to be found easier by the people who need them the most.

We have been honored to have gotten quite a bit of national and regional press for our affordable prefab green house kits (Green Modern Kits, Green Cottage Kits, and Green Cabin Kits), on Jetson Green, Charlottesville's Abode, Tree Hugger, and The Virginia Center For Architecture's Inform; our casa ti green building architect David Day was covered this month in the Wall Street Journal, and our company is a finalist next week in The Virginia Museum of Fine Art's Muse Awards. And yes, I was kinda excited when my beloved Tree Hugger mentioned me in the same breath as Oprah...

Thanks for listening… apologies for the lack of updates here lately!

I'm Copeland Casati, of Copeland Casati Media,
the original C3 in Richmond creative arts and media since 1999.

You can reach me at copeland@copelandcasati.com, or on twitter, @copelandcasati.

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12/4/09

 

Bloody Week! Phishers and Search Engine Fights and Security! Richmond's C3 Takes It On, At Copeland Casati Media.


It's a pain to take the time to research, then track down Google's proper area in each specific instance to report bad sites to Google, but discovering a malware or phishing site and not doing so is worse.  So after (again) reporting a phishing site I discovered that mimics twitter making user's profiles show up in Google Web Alerts, so that you *think* you are clicking onto twitter to see that person's profile (at which point they ask you to "log in" therefore getting your password...), I chuckled when I got Google's "thank you for submitting" message:

Report Sent
Thanks for sending a report to Google. Now that you've done your good deed for the day, feel free to:
1. Take a second to rejoice merrily for doing your part in making the web a safer place.
2. Call/email/write to a neighbor/friend/relative and tell them what phishing is and how they can protect themselves.
3. Learn more about malware that can infect your computer on Stopbadware.org.
Ayyyyyyyyyymen, BigBruthuhFriend! High five and off I sauntered to continue work.

Some articles of note I considered this week:
Watching tech news emerge is sometimes like watching boxing.

On twitter I saw...
Yahoo! and Facebook Teaming Up http://bit.ly/4YzgZG
then, seconds later:
facebook+yahoo? ok says google, meet google+twitter http://bit.ly/50m05L
Pow! Zap! Bam! {Ouch!}
[Or, are we the only ones that think this is fascinating, fun, and thought-provoking? Oh wait, I guess that's why you hire people like us to know this.]

Curious about what to keep an eye on in 2010? CNN sums it up nicely here: 10 Web trends to watch in 2010

Oh, by the way:
Who here is surprised that we're going to be featured in a respected National Financial Magazine?
(Oh, c'mon. Raise yer hands. "Weeeeee are....") Keep yer eyes peeled in February, when the next issue of The Wall Street Journal's Smart Money hits the stands.

Thanks for listening…

I'm Copeland Casati, of Copeland Casati Media,
the original C3 in Richmond creative arts and media since 1999.

You can reach me at copeland@copelandcasati.com, or on twitter, @copelandcasati. If you are a Facebook enthusiast, we can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Copeland-Casati-Media-C3/52352550685 

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