Dec 15, 2016
by Natalie Winslow | Featured, Internet Marketing
1/3/18: SEE UPDATE BELOW! 4/21/17: SEE UPDATE BELOW! Ok, 2016 has been terrible. Really, really terrible. Both personally and publicly, some amazing people and animals died. We’ve had an election to end all elections. Everyone hates 2016, right? Remember...
Nov 12, 2015
by Natalie Winslow | Featured, General Webbiness
I was in Kindergarten and first grade in 1984 – 1986. We learned that the piano has 88 keys, just like the speed that the Delorean has to reach to travel through time. We learned how to cover our heads during a tornado drill (this was Kansas after all), and we...
Nov 20, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | About New Why, Featured
Great question. New Why’s founders, Michelle and I, have a thing for canoes. This past summer a canoe became a vital member of the New Why staff, and we took it out to Red Feather Lakes, Lake Isabel, and Sloan’s Lake. It was incredibly peaceful and calming...
Oct 27, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | Community, Nonprofits, Social Media News
Last week Michelle and I presented at the Food Bank of the Rockies’ second annual Programs Conference, where we were fortunate enough to talk about social media with representatives from the Food Bank’s partner agencies. The partner agencies include...
Oct 14, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | About New Why, Featured
At the end of 2009, I was invited to join a little web and marketing shop called Commerce Kitchen. We were a scattering of six people working remotely on smaller-scale websites, SEO, and social media, with a handful of bigger dev projects every now and then. Then we...
Aug 26, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | Customer Service, Staff Experience
In the past five years that I’ve been working at Commerce Kitchen, the company has grown and changed in some really interesting, fantastic, and difficult ways, as all businesses do. With that growth my role has shifted according to company need and business...
Jul 29, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | Community, Featured, Nonprofits
I’ve been going to the gym a lot lately, and here’s one thing I’ve noticed, since I can’t avoid the TV hanging above me as I workout: CNN does not make me a better person. In fact, I’m pretty sure that the constant barrage of terrifying...
Jul 23, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | Community, Nonprofits
Last week a canvasser from the Blue Bench (formerly the Rape Assistance and Awareness Program) came to my door, and while I often politely and nervously tell canvassers to leave, I decided to listen to her spiel and donate some money to the cause. This inspired me to...
Jul 16, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | SEO Advice
Our beloved/despised search engine, Google, is always changing. We typically give the same advice to people who live in a state of constant anxiety about Google’s algorithm updates: create a site that looks good and that’s well-optimized for search, then...
Jun 16, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | SEO Advice
When we’re doing a website audit, we spend some time investigating errors like 404s, broken links, and missing metadata. These are everyday, run-of-the-mill SEO issues that aren’t too difficult to fix if you have the time and knowledge to fix them. Broken...