Valitics. Web Strategies, Net Results

One thing I love about newer cars is the information rich displays. I have been travelling a lot and nothing has changed my driving habits as significantly as the information on the dashboard. 

Small business owners get to wear a bunch of hats, one of which is the website administrator.  Although I highly recommend letting the web development company who you work with keep tabs on the technical aspects of the site, here are 3 websites that will increase your web I.Q., 1 site that will save you money and 1 site that is just fun.   

Yesterday I talked to a dental professional who spent a great deal of time and money investing in a talking avatar and videos of their office. He told me that the salesman did a great job selling him on how cool everything was (I am paraphrasing and condensing things a bit). I asked him what the response was from patients. Since the site additions had only been up for a couple weeks, I was the first to see them. 

At the Ignite Boise event last week there was a great presentation called “FOOD, what is” by Amy Vecchione. She recapped the great local shops and eateries that sell "real" food in Boise (i.e. stuff that comes from the earth, not a machine or process).  

I had a really strange experience this morning. I dropped my wife's parents off at the Boise airport and drove straight to work in my mother-in-law's car. I ended up listening to the local guys on 580 KIDO -- a talk radio station. They were discussing new media sites, like Facebook and MySpace. Both were disgusted that anyone could spend "so much" time participating in silly activities on the Internet (paraphrased quote:  "some people post their current activities 3 or 4 times a day on Facebook").