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del.icio.us cookies
So I’m sure everyone knows about this cool social bookmarking tool. Even though most of the people I know don’t actually use it socially. What I mean by that is that we use it to keep track of our own...
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2007: A Year in Review
As we all come sailing in to the New Year, there is little pause except to consider what has transpired over the last 12 months and recognize that the world of the web waits for no one. There has been...
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Non-Profit Makes Use of New Media Tools and More
Information is only as powerful as it is accessible. We just recently launched two different websites focused around a life-threatening disease called, hydrocephalus. Why you may ask? One really...
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Props to the President
Somehow I did not see this blog post in my Google Alerts when it got posted last week, but I thought I would share because it gives some pretty cool props to our president, Steve Spencer who runs our...
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Directions 2008: an up-beat look @ Greater Reno-Tahoe
Yesterday the One-Two Crew went to Directions 2008 hosted by the Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada–of which our CEO, David LaPlante, was recently elected to the Board of Directors– and...
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New media, new world?
Though the table in the Twelve Horses conference room is more of a Flying-V shape, Jackie Shelton and Joe Hansen, publishers of Rlife Magazine came by and used it for a round-table discussion on the...
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Helpful Blogging Tool for Posting Rich Content
Quite a number of our clients use blogs for business to establish an online presence and publish informative and searchable content to the web. Of those blogs/websites, we always use WordPress because...
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A Visit with Louis Navellier
It was a dark and stormy night in downtown Reno… Wait, actually it was a serene and peaceful night on the Truckee River, snow was listlessly falling when we rolled down to the Sienna Hotel, Spa &...
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Customer Service 2.0
Ok I’ll try to keep this succinct. A lot of us are always moving around and need a good document creation, transport, and sharing solution that emailing Word docs can’t really sustain. Track changes is...
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Ski Resort Marketing
In order to truly understand a brand it helps to experience it firsthand. When we at Twelve Horses are not busy geeking out on the web, many of us here are charging hard somewhere in the outdoors....
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Episode 42 of Horse Power Video: Kit Hinrichs
A few weeks back Leilani and I spoke with Kit Hinrichs of Pentagram Design, San Francisco. Below is a short excerpt of the conversation in which, Kit talks about the narrative power of design and the...
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Posting Flickr photos on Twitter automagically
A few weeks ago I spotted this blog post on the Mozmonkey Blog about a mashup that could scan your Flickr feed for tags and post a link on your Twitter stream. I also noticed Twitpic a new Tumblr like...
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Diigo, Hulu, Blinkx and more!
Well, the interwebs were good to us last week! Here are four cool new (or newish) tools for interacting, finding and presenting images and videos on the web Diigo made some updates to their Firefox...
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Gizmodo Meet-up @ Alpine Meadows
There’s nothing we @ Twelve Horses love more than sun, snow and gadgets! So this was the perfect event for us. Earl and I got out and shot some video, played around with the Nokia n95, Zune, JBL...
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Update on Quick Post WordPress Plugin
For all those waiting for a new version of the Quick Post Plugin, it’s coming. My plugin makes extensive use of the jQuery JavaScript library. With the release 2.5, WordPress uses jQuery extensively....
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Dino Power # 43: Mary Schweitzer
“It’s Triassic Dino Poop!” In this episode of Horse Power Video we cater to the kids! In an age when kids (and everyone else for that matter) get more information and entertainment from the web, ipods,...
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Save Our Wild Horses
In case you have not heard, there is a very heated issue erupting here in Nevada around the protection of wild horses. The Department of Agriculture has plans to round up hundreds of wild horses for...
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Horsepower #44 Diigo.com: social bookmarking meets Facebook meets Cliff’s Notes…
“Making social bookmarking truly social”Faced with the daunting task of researching and annotating huge documents on the web, A few years ago Dr. Wade Ren and Maggie Tsai out-surfed the capabilities of...
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American Marketing Association ACE Awards
The Reno Tahoe Chapter of the AMA hosted their annual ACE Awards event last Thursday at a black tie soirée at Harrah’s. We had a fine time with all the fine dining, festivities, and the cheep beer we...
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Home Means Nevada For Wild Horses
“Nevada has gold, silver, and wild horses.”Ray Field, Executive Director Wild Horse Foundation From our offices here in South Reno we can look out the windows up to the scraggy peaks of the Virginia...
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Episode 45: Utah Innovation Awards
As reported on our Utah Tech Spotlight Blog, Wednesday May, 21 was the sixth Annual Innovation Awards in Salt Lake City, Utah and Twelve Horses was there to see and record the innovations that made it...
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What’s Next for Autos and Online Marketing?
When I recently came across these old gas price signs I had to take this picture. The days of a gallon of gas costing less than a bottle of water are long gone. But as the cost of crude oil climbs,...
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My Nevada Dream Job
Reno can never compete with the San Francisco job market. There are a lot of things they have, that we don’t have. But over the years we’ve had the chance to come to terms with our woefully inadequate...
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Downtown San Francisco doesn’t have a kayak park
Some people have to find out the hard way that the downtown white water kayak park is in Reno. But when a group of kayakers went looking for a white water park in downtown San Francisco they met some...
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Recession-Proof Marketing
We live in uncertain times. Volatility in the market place caused by inflation, the mortgage crisis, and rising fuel prices have placed considerable downward pressure upon the average consumer. These...
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A Twelve Horses Tag Cloud
Came across this little gem on TED’s blog. It is courtesy of Wordle.
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Epispode 46: Jason Alba, Jibber Jobber
In this episode of Horse Power, Twelve Horses President Steve Spencer chats with Utah social marketing and networking expert Jason Alba, creator of the career networking site, jibberjobber.com. Alba is...
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Horsepower 47: Deanne Stillman, Mustang: the saga of the wild horse in the...
Wild horse issues in Nevada continue to hit the national news stream, months after a media blow up which caught the attention of Willie Nelson and Snoop Dog. In this Episode of Horse Power we talk...
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Episode 48: Darik Volpa, Understand.com
“Think about WedMD, but better.” In this episode Dave visits with Darik Volpa, founder and CEO of understand.com, a business that helps doctors and surgeons explain and illuminate the nature and...
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Chatting with Viddler @ the New Media Expo
David and I are at the New Media Expo in Las Vegas this week. I got a chance to talk with Rob Sandie of the popular video sharing site, Viddler. We like viddler for some of the public and private video...
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Alpine Meadows and Homewood Mountain Resort Website Launches
Two more out the door! Drawing on our collective experience with destination and ski resort marketing, we are pleased to bring you the recently redesigned web sites of Alpine Meadows and Homewood...
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Horse Power #51: Online Branding discussion with Stanley Hainsworth, Gene...
In this episode of Horse Power, Rob Bynder, Stanley Hainsworth, and Gene Keenan discuss the role of design in branding and how that relates to global business with Twelve Horses CEO, David LaPlante. It...
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Horsepower Special Report: Great Reno Balloon Race 2008
I used to live up above the Rancho San Rafel park on Gypsum Dr. years ago. It wasn’t the best of neighborhoods, but we made the most of it by watching the frequent fireworks from our porch, chatting...
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Enterprise-level Applications: Interview with TJ Crawford, Director of...
TJ Crawford has been with Twelve Horses for almost eight years now, and in that time he has implemented many complex business automation and multi-channel marketing strategies for a variety of our...
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Horse Power #52: Dr. Chris Johnson, University of Utah SCI
In this episode of horsepower Steve Spencer, President of Twelve Horses and host of the Utah Tech Spotlight, chats with Dr. Chris Johnson, Director of the Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute at...
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Episode 53: Mignon Fogarty aka “Grammar Girl”
In this episode of Horsepower we talk with podcaster and New York Times Best Selling Author, Mignon Fogarty. Mignon created the Quick and Dirty Tips Podcast network with her Grammar Girl Podcast and...
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The Word on WordCamp
WordCamp is going down this weekend in Salt Lake City, and a few of the 12H crew will be in attendance. In fact, we are pleased to be a sponsor. If you plan on attending reach out and say, what’s up!...
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Horse Power 55: Matt Mullenweg, Wordcamp Utah 2008
In this episode of Horsepower I get to talk to a software developer who helped to change the way communication, interaction and sharing is accomplished over the web. Some might argue that blogging...
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Twelve Horses Employee Recognized for Community Work
We are extremely pleased and stoked for our very own, Leilani Schweitzer to be the proud recipient of this year’s “Twenty Under 40 Award.” She is highly deserving for her work with Gabriel’s Life and...
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Babies Need eCommerce Solutions Too
When people discuss the benefits of technology they often cite how extensible and scalable it is. But another equally positive attribute of technology is its inherent flexibility, especially when it...
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Horse Power 56 Ryan Berman, Fishtank Brand Advertising
In this episode of Horse Power I spend some time with Ryan Berman of Fishtank Brand Advertising out of San Diego, CA. Fishtank is doing some really cool work with Pony Shoes to bring them back from a...
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BrandEvolution WrapUp
On November 13th, Twelve Horses joined Stanley Hainsworth of Tether and Mike Bonifer of Game Changers at The Depot in Salt Lake City for BrandEvolution. Produced by QuarterHorse, this quarter day...
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WordPress 2.7 is Now Available
That’s right folks! Last week the Twelve Horses crew received this following internal email from IT: Automatic will be releasing WordPress 2.7 in the next few days. This will be a very significant...
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CEO of Twelve Horses Speaks at DMAI’s Destination Showcase
Tomorrow Jennifer Buch and I will be meeting up with our CEO, David LaPlante in Washington DC for DMAI’s Destination Showcase. David will be giving a presentation on the effective use of web...
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Channel 2 Is All A Twitter at Twelve Horses
Looks like there is still some awareness to be built around the social application, Twitter. In this video, David LaPlante, CEO of Twelve Horses breaks it down for Channel 2 viewers. What’s cool is...
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Horse Power 58 Beryl Love, Reno Gazette-Journal
In this episode of Horse Power I chat with Reno Gazette-Journal Executive Editor Beryl Love about news, interactive media and the continually expanding, and graying, area where they collide. Download...
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Extreme Social Media
Mobile Social from the Arctic Circle A few weeks ago we launched a new blog for a local Tahoe adventure guide, Doug Stoup, and his guide service, Ice Axe Expeditions. This week Doug and Michael Mitten...
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Software Flavored Websites
The development of the Web today includes powerful applications that mimic desktop software. Google Docs has tried to provide the functionality of Microsoft Office. Picnik is attempting to target...
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Bolstering Social Media Marketing with Video Production
Our very own, Mike Henderson aka Mehwolfy, I Am Indisposed, Tallcan.tv, and Team Bacon Strip – to name a few – is giving a presentation tomorrow on “Making Video Social” to the Social Media Club in...
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Fundraiser for Cycling & Arts Community June 23rd
TUESDAY, JUNE 23RD, DOORS AT 7PM, SCREENING AT 8PM Downtown Reno: Nevadan Hotel, 3rd Floor Club Cal Neva (West side of Virginia Street) Proceeds benefit Reno Bike Project and The Holland Project...
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