May 29, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | Blogging Tips
As you know from my last blog post, I think it’s incredibly important for everyone in your organization to blog. But it’s not always easy. There are some formulas to help you out, but they often make blogs generic and unreadable. If you’re feeling...
May 19, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | Blogging Tips
Here are three reasons why everyone in your organization should be blogging. Many Voices Make a Rainbow No one says that, right? “Many voices make a rainbow.” I like to mix metaphors. That’s part of my voice. When one person or one team blogs, their...
May 15, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | Community
A couple weeks ago Commerce Kitchen took a philanthropy field trip to a horse rescue ranch, where we shoveled horse shit, stuffed bags with hay, tried to fix a baler, took rides on a tractor, and groomed horses. It was freaking awesome. Jamie, one of the CK owners,...
May 7, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | General Webbiness
You may recall that I have a mild obsession with stockphotos. They pepper my blog posts ironically, like a hipster wearing a wolf t-shirt. I think they’re hilarious and strange, mostly because they are almost always look so staged, so canned, and just so darn...
Apr 21, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | Featured, Technology
Two years after the original Star Wars was released, I was born into a home full of scifi addicts (let’s not debate whether Star Wars is scifi or fantasy; for the sake of this blog post I’m going to lump it into scifi: it uses advanced technology, not yet...
Apr 15, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | Staff Experience
Ah, open offices. They’re the preferred layout for startups and hip companies showing off their space to potential hires. They foster creativity. They create a culture of openness and collaboration. And they make a lot of us miserable. We’ve written quite...
Apr 7, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | Internet Marketing
Remember when ranking well in search was 1. easy 2. effective for your business and 3. super cheap? And then came Google’s algorithm updates that destroyed cheap SEO because marketers had to start acting like people again instead of algorithm-dodging robots....
Mar 24, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | Internet Marketing, Social Media News
To follow up on Jen’s recent post about Twitter’s eight-year anniversary, I thought I’d compile a short list of mistakes that businesses regularly make on Twitter. Twitter is one of those platforms that everyone thinks they should be on, but that few...
Mar 17, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | Community, Technology
This year marked my second South By Southwest Interactive experience, and now that a few days have passed since the conference ended I think I can begin to express some of the information that I learned. My brain is recovering from an information hangover. As always,...
Mar 3, 2014
by Natalie Winslow | Technology
Whether or not you believe there’s a developer shortage (many people do and many people don’t), one thing is clear: tech jobs will only continue to grow as other industries shrink. I’ve got a four-year-old daughter, and I want to help give her the...
