A friend re-tweeted this posting:From: @datingdadSent: Mar 15, 2010 10:39aBURGER. RT @Smashburger: To celebrate our new CO inspired menu we're giving away a FREE Colorado burger to the first 50 RTsThis is a great example of a way to use Twitter as a means to reach out...

It was 25 years ago -- March 15, 1985 -- that the first dot-com domain name -- Symbolics.com -- appeared on the Internet, ushering in the commercial age of the World Wide Web.Read more >>

The lovely people at Google are looking for a high-tech community to install a network capable of reaching speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s. That's a hundred times faster than most connections available to the public!BoulderFiber.com is a site promoting our lovely city of...

Here's what a local design company has put together as a result of Google no longer supporting IE6 (Internet Explorer 6):http://ie6funeral.com/This site has even gained attention through multiple media sites including...

Web 3.0 Semantic Web: Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links...

Interesting take on the U.S. Postal crisis...in 2010 by Newsmax. Check it out!

For anyone following me on Twitter (www.twitter.com/BoulderJeff/), I had my credit card stolen at Carino's Restaurant in Grand Junction, Colorado on Saturday. Here's the expanded version of the story that I submitted to them:I was in Carino's in Grand Junction,...

I'm [Jeff Finkelstein] quoted in an article on Open Forum (American Express) about the Pros and Cons of Online Visitor Registration: http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/technology/article/pros-and-cons-of-online-visitor-registration-julie-rains

On what is always one of the coldest, snowy days of the year, our heat stopped working. Thanks to this site: http://www.arnoldservice.com/amana_parts.htm for showing me I needed to clean the flame sensor!

A great summary article about RDFa Microtagging, and how it can have big implications for SEO in 2010: http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/01/22/a-markup-that-could-have-big-implications-for-seoFor our services for RDFa, please visit HERE

Just had a customer fill out a survey with us, and gave us the following comments:LOVE customer paradigm and this project has been completed to perfection - it will help my business strive VERY well. John was excellent to work with and walked me through the template...

In the wake of unspeakable tragedy in Haiti, today's eCommerce tip focuses on secure online donations - and the pros and cons of the different mediums. I encourage you to give if you're able. Read more here >>   Customer Paradigm is an industry leader in...

January 2, 2009 (Boulder, Colorado): Two of the largest synagogues in Boulder, Colorado - Congregations Bonai Shalom and Har HaShem were defaced on Saturday, January 2, 2009, in an anti-Semitic attack by a hacker claiming to be Waja (Adi Noor). The Boulder Rabbinic...

I am teaching an 8-week course on Interactive Marketing starting in January 2009 (For 10% off for the class - use code 0102-1D) In this eight part course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of online marketing. You’ll learn how to engage with customers using design, direct...

Thanks to Google Alerts, an article that I was interviewed for a couple of months ago was just posted to the Shutterbug website, talking about digital photography and the Windows 7 operating system. My verdict: Windows 7 is soooooo much better, faster and more stable...

Bonaire caters to an easy-going lifestyle, while offering the best of ocean recreation and some of the best diving in the world. It's a magical place that will capture your heart and beg you to stay.Customer Paradigm has just completed a website design for Art and...

Sort of a misleading title by CNN: "Yahoo gets kicked to curb by Google, Bing":Once the world's online search leader, Yahoo's share has sharply declined, putting it in danger of losing its relevance in a market increasingly dominated by Google.Yahoo's search market...

According to CNN, the Twitter hackers appear to be Shiite group.Read more here >>

FYI, an image I took this morning is the image their using for the #1 top story on the 9news site! (I did submit it)     www.9news.com

Enjoy these photos of the Flatirons this frigid -3 below zero morning. I took these about 2 miles away from the office, just up the road near NCAR:       photos by Jeff Finkelstein

Over the weekend, I rebuilt this website for my wife's organization:http://www.AdventureRabbi.org/It's fairly graphically-heavy (but most of the target audience tends to be on a high speed connection).The goal: create an emotional connection with the images on the...

We're thrilled to report that after many, many moons, we've helped the San Francisco Soup Company launch a new Website:http://www.SFSoupCo.com/The site features a content management system that allows them to update each location's soups each day, including...

I was interviewed a while back for an article about small business owners collecting in a tight economy... and they just released the article on Dun & Bradstreet credibility...

I created a new page on our site about our RDFa tagging service, and launched it about a week ago. I just checked this morning, and the page is above the W3C.org's website -- that's the World Wide Consortium that puts standards like this into place. Fun, fun!

Always great to hear from a happy customer!Says Professional Organizer, Liz Canavan of AlchemyofOrder.com:"I can absolutely already tell a difference, I have NEVER had ONE inquiry from my website directly until your work. Cheers! Liz" We're happy we could help!

After a few hundred hours of work, we're happy to say that the www.TheGiftionary.com website is now live!The Giftionary is an A to Z directory and listing of gifts galore, products, gift related services and more! Designed to make gift giving a cinch, The Giftionary’s...

Last month, we re-launched a new and improved website for the www.DiscountDecorating.com organization. A new design, an easier-to-use navigation, and a one-page checkout process resulted in a four times sales increase (we can't give actual sales figures here).Here's...

I've been trying to use the Pixela software for digital video (ImageMixer 3 SE) on my Windows 7 desktop. After having it crash several times, I found the trick is to set the process priority to 'high' and make sure to enable Windows XP compatibility mode for the...

A great article, found by Rodney on our team: Web pioneer recalls 'birth of the Internet'http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/10/29/kleinrock.internet/index.html

RDFa / Microformatting:This is hands-down, one of the most important things you can do for your website. You'll be way ahead of the curve - and see much better local search results for your business and better indexing of eCommerce products.You've heard of Web 2.0?...

So, I went to the doctor today, who told me I had the H1N1... We had three other people call in sick today, too, so to stem the tide and keep well people well, most people will be working from home for the next couple of days.John and Scott will be in the office...

I think that this is one of the best ideas that has been put out in a little bit... a universal cell phone charger for all new cell phones going forward. No more need to have three different chargers and spend a ton of money.The goal:- Reduce Waste (each time you buy...

Yesterday, I heard a great series of radio ads here in the Denver / Boulder area about buckling up. Great concept, and great public service announcement.Background: Nearly one-third of children killed in crashes each year in Colorado are "tweens" between the ages of 8...

On behalf of everyone else here in Colorado (if I might be so bold to speak for everyone), I want to apologize for all of the craziness coming from this story about an hour or so north of us here in Boulder.But has anyone made the connection to H.A. Rey's book,...

Friend of Customer Paradigm, David Fellows, just launched a new website featuring Jewish News in Boulder.Here's an excerpt from the site:Finally, the Boulder-area Jewish community gets a newspaper! And in keeping with our 98% on-line access, the Boulder Jewish News is...

Problem: One of the biggest issues in the Boulder Jewish community has been the fact that there was no one single place to go to check a common calendar for all of the various organizations in town. Each Jewish congregation (reform temple, conservative synagogue,...

We're thrilled that we're working with Liz Canavan of Alchemy of Order to help her site perform better for search engine optimization. Liz's company does professional organizing - and can help transform your spaces – so often overstuffed with the heavy, useless...

Usually we charge $850 for this service, but we were able to figure out a way to list clients even faster, so for the month of October 2009, we're dropping the price of our Local Search Engine Directory Listing - listing a website with the top ten local search engines...

I'm part of a Social Networking Roundtable for Non-Profits tomorrow, and in preparing for it one of the big recent highlights was how we used Social Networking for the Adventure Rabbi organization to boost attendance by nearly 900%.Last year, we had about 25 people...

FYI, here's an example of a text-only email (no message open tracking, but we can track clickthroughs) that received a 120% clickthrough rate.Sometimes a plain-text email can drastically outperform an HTML one, especially if it's relevant and well targeted... Thanks,...

Using Social Networking as a Marketing Tool A Roundtable Discussion with Break-out Sessions. Featuring: Mitch Rosenbaum, Lisa Trank, Jeff Finkelstein Come find out what social networking can do for your business. What makes or breaks a social networking campaign? Are...

We've just launched a new website that provides a listing resource for web developers in Boulder, Colorado:http://www.boulderwebdevelopers.com/ The goal of the site is to create a network of talented website designers and web developers here in Boulder, Colorado, who...

We're thankful to Superb.net hosting for migrating over all of our many sites that were affected by a hardware outage yesterday. Here's what happened: - The primary hard drive on a server failed.- The server runs in a redundant mode, meaning that anytime something is...

In light of recent media events, I recommend this site to all parents to keep track of what's going on in their neighborhood:http://www.familywatchdog.usFor example, I found that there was a registered offender living (not near us) but near a synagogue here in town.

An article that I was interviewed for was just posted to the American Express Small Business Site, called open forum.It talks about the aggressive ways we've helped manage cash flow using credit card payments, including Amex.Here's a link to the...

For the latest in viral marketing campaigns, this is a great story of spreading the word in a non-threatening manner:http://www.9news.com/news/watercooler/article.aspx?storyid=121743&catid;=337

We just helped launch a new website that is designed to help the 62,000 suppliers for Wal-Mart navigate sustainability practices at Walmart.We're happy that we could be part of the greening of the supply chain!Here's a link to the site:http://www.cleargreenadvisors.com/

After much work and many moving pieces, we've launched the Garrison Dining Services' new website:http://www.garrisondiningservices.com/

I've recently had problems opening and editing documents in Word 2007. For some reason, I could only open documents by first opening Word, and then choosing the open document function from the drop-down. From there, I could only view the document and not edit it...

This is a long-needed patch for gmail.If you use gmail for email, and want to make it appear that the messages are going out through your corporate servers vs. the gmail system, this is how to make it...

About 50% of our office bikes into work each day, and on my route into the office, I use a cross walk signal to get across a busy intersection.I noticed a couple of days ago that the button for the signal wasn't working... And then yesterday, I found the right office...

We just implemented a new spam filter for a client. Before, he was getting 300+ emails per day. Here's what he just wrote:Jeff--The spam filter is magical. I'm getting very few spam messages coming through, and my internal spam filter is getting most of those. The...

We're thrilled to have done a bit of Search Engine Optimization work to this new local site here in Boulder, Apple Tree Directory:http://www.appletreedirectory.com/More About Apple Tree DirectoryApple Tree Directory started as a wish for families to have a...

Apple Claims New iPhone Only Visible To Most Loyal Of Customers Read the whole story here >>

I'm interviewing people for a data entry position, and this person was doing okay in the interview. She had her cell phone on, and it rang a few times, and she got a text message or two. Not ideal, and not so professional, but I can forgive that, though. (My...

Some of the biggest web hoaxes out there!  (The top 15 in fact) Sometimes it’s hard to tell what to believe when you read it on the web. Josh Catone has put together a great list of the top 15 Web Hoaxes.  Some you may know of already, others you might be surprised to...

Great blog posting about this subject:Per Facebook’s own Social Ad Platform, they now have 71.9 million US users as of 7/4/09. That is a 70.8% increase since 1/4/09. The most significant increases come from from the 55+ crowd. Losers are at the younger end with 16.5%...

Why are there fake grapes in the meat department at the Deli?My two daughters and I were at the grocery store the other day, and my about-to-turn-five-year old asked a great question: "Why are there grapes with the meat [at the deli]?"It's a great question, and one...

You'd think this would be easy to do, but it's not... If you want to take a graph from an Excel spreadsheet, and then save it as an image, here's a few easy steps to make it work on most PCs:Microsoft doesn't make it very easy to take a graph from Excel and then save...

I received an invitation to sign up for Google Voice. Great concept - one phone number that can ring all of your numbers, have integrated voicemail that will transcribe it into text.The big problem? The phone number I selected doesn't work. Each time I try to call it,...

We're thrilled to have launched a new website for One Earth Future, and be part of the solution for world peace...One Here's more information on them: The One Earth Future (OEF) foundation’s vision is to achieve a world beyond war within one hundred years, by creating...

Boulder Jews - Common Calendar For Jewish People in Boulder, COHere's a new site that we created to synchronize Jewish event calendars in Boulder, CO. Still in the early stages, but is a lot of fun!

We recently took the calendars from five different Jewish organizations here in Boulder, Colorado, and created a combined calendar, so Jewish people in Boulder, CO can view all of the events from the different congregations. Not everyone is on it yet, but it's a fun...

I saw this posting and thought I'd pass this along:http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/comscore_bing_is_still_going_strong.phpWritten by Frederic Lardinois / June 17, 2009 10:27 AM   Right after Microsoft launched Bing, we already saw some indications that users...

I was at a seminar yesterday for the Boulder Marketing Group, and the speaker (from Brand Ascension - www.brandascension.com/) showed a very poignant video of a young man who redefined customer service for a grocery store.I did a quick search, and here's a link to the...

FYI, this is a great article for anyone who is trying to figure out if they should supplement their ecommerce sales on eBay or Amazon (or both). Great comparison:http://www.skipmcgrath.com/articles/amazon-vs-ebay.shtml

BOULDER MARKETING GROUP EMAIL MESSAGEMay 7, 2009BMG SEO WorkshopWednesday, May 27, 200912:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Boulder Country ClubSearch engine optimization ("SEO") is critical to any web marketing strategy. Effective SEO strategy and execution does not happen by...

FYI, our client and friend, Robyn O'brien's new book, The Unhealthy Truth: How Our Food Is Making Us Sick and What We Can Do About It, was released today! Check it out at http://www.robynobrien.com/Congratulations, Robyn!

Here's what came in via email to the AdventureRabbi.org site:Dear Friend , My Name is Alan Hagen. l wish to donate the sum of $1million into your account for last passover feast.lt is a Vow that l pledge to do in the past. My Father was a Rabbi in the 70's and he...

I love this list! It's been circulated around for quite some time. But it's good to keep in mind when you're registering domain names :)1. 'Who Represents' is where you can find the name of the agent that represents any celebrity. Their Web site is:...

We've started to advertise in one of my favorite (fake) newspapers... The Onion.And we got our first lead by phone yesterday from it, too.Here's a look at the ad (it seems to resonate for some people:

We just put in a new spam filter for a client, and here's the stats of how much traffic it blocked in the first few days:Friday - Saturday: 19,000 spam emailsSaturday - Sunday: 10,000 spam emailsSunday - Monday: 9,000 spam emailsThis has not only cut down on having to...

FYI, here's a link to the photos that I took in Moab:After sifting through 2,200 images, I've posted the top 137 images from Passover...Flash...

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