The People Have Spoken!

One of the great things about having a blog is the ability to quickly respond to feedback and observations. Case and point - we see that subscribing to our newsletter is deterring many from downloading our technology brief.
I understand your concerns - your inbox is already full enough! While I would hope people would [...]

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The Big Moo and Capitol Hill Blogging 101

Through a special promotion, I received a box of Seth Godin’s The Big Moo - Stop Trying to Be Perfect and Start Being Remarkable. The book is not available for purchase until mid-October and the copies I have are softcover advance uncorrected proofs. The idea behind The Big Moo is captured in its subtitle, to [...]

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Servers Were Down!

Our apologies to those who attempted to visit our site yesterday, especially to our visitors from Roll Call. While we are a Washington D.C. based firm, our web servers are actually located in Los Angeles. Unfortunately, they were knocked off-line most of the day by the blackout.
We are thankful that our hosting provider worked [...]

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Capitol Hill Blogging 101 - Answering the “why” behind blogging

I am happy to announce the release of our first “Tackling Technology” technology brief entitled Capitol Hill Blogging 101 - Answering the “why” behind blogging.
The brief is three pages in length and begins with a basic introduction to blogs, followed by two answers to the “why” behind blogging. The intended audience is Capitol Hill and [...]

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A Real World Example of RSS

One accepted definition of RSS is “Really Simple Syndication”. While not necessarily used in everyday language, the last word of RSS - “syndication” - should not be a foreign concept to people.
Radio talk show hosts are often syndicated. Their shows are picked up by local radio stations, so that a host based in Los [...]

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Interview with Peter Cooper

If you do not know who Peter Cooper is yet, chances are you will soon. Peter is the creator of FeedDigest, a tool that very neatly creates a way to include customized “digests” of live feeds in the content of your site (see the “New Internet Press” section on the TECHNOSIGHT homepage for an [...]

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WordPress.com Invitation is Up for Grabs!

In order to spur the debate of my previous post entitled The Best Blog Search Engine, I thought I might sweeten the deal.
Soon after I responded to a comment on my WP.com blog about how invites for WP.com were not working like gmail, low and behold, I found where the ONE precious invitation [...]

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