Archive for the ‘education’ category

Today is a new day for the color black. Today it drapes itself across some of the most visited websites across internet to oppose something called SOPA. According to EFF.org, it states “The Internet blacklist legislation—known as PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) in the House—invites [...]

Everyone is using social media to get their message across; people use it, businesses use it, celebrities use it, and now even universities are using it. The use of social media by higher education institutions is an obvious choice – the main users of social media are young adults, specifically college aged students. These institutions [...]

Our good friends at Magento asked us if we were interested in hosting one of their Ecommerce Forum events in San Diego this year. Why wouldn’t we? So next week on May 19, 2011 from 8am to 10am, we’re hosting the first ever Magento ecommerce forum at the Hard Rock Hotel San Diego complete with [...]

Writing up 10 “did ya know thats” about Magento eCommerce takes 1.65 hours according to my Harvest timesheet. As the consumer of this content, I hope you find my use of agency time useful; Perhaps you will use these nuggets to help you choose Magento, perhaps you will use them to get more use out [...]

DO Team Goals Q1 2011

January 28th, 2011

Hello 2011. This year is already shaping up to be a great year. There are some very exciting things in the works- new clients, new products, new team members. As part of the growth of the team and the company, everyone here at DO will be focusing on a specific goal each quarter, contributing to [...]

INCUBAGENCY IS LIVE!
As with most Summers, there is an influx of new grads and Seniors looking to carve out their next move in their career path. Like many businesses, we see a need to have young folks getting our coffee, cleaning the fishtank, washing dishes, squeeging the windows, parking our cars, etc.
Really? Not so much.
By [...]

The Co-Founder of Kayak.com, Paul English, announced his amazingly ambitious plans to blanket the entire continent of Africa with free wireless Internet. Working with for profit and non-profit organizations Paul is looking ahead over the next decade of his life to make this vision a reality.
Fast Company Article

Imagine the possibilities of connecting one of [...]

So with about 3 days notice I had the opportunity to submit a piece to the 4th Annual Customer Engagement Report for 2010. What most folks won’t see in my submission is the balancing act of working on my laptop and interacting with my daughter every 30 minutes in between. I’d say most parents reading [...]

Good bye November, hello Movember. Next month the team here at Digital Operative will be traveling back in time to the 1980’s and growing moustaches to help support prostate and testicular cancer as part of the Movember campaign. You can help support our efforts or join our team (DOstache) here.
Chris Waldron from Take Lessons had [...]

How can you start a morning off better than with with pastries, coffee and a great conversation about social media? Since Digital Operative has taken over Social Media Breakfast San Diego, once a month we do just that.  It’s been a really neat experience so far with lots of great feedback, insight and general comments [...]