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Thoughts on… Hot Pocket Sleeves

Alaina — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:00:11 +0000

I am not a consistent consumer of Hot Pockets, but it so happened that I brought one for lunch last week and was reminded of the greatness of their sleeve design.

Now, it has not always been thus. In the early days of Hot Pockets one had to carefully slide it [...]

Likes Awry: A Content Case Study

Alaina — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 19:18:05 +0000

Today we were sitting around the table chatting following our lunchtime Dominion game and my co-worker Lisa started telling my boss about an experience that she had on Facebook earlier this week around content and context. As my boss pointed out, it’s a case study for the transient content – one of [...]

5 Things I Love: June 12

Alaina — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 13:00:03 +0000

1. A Game of Clones

I haven’t watched Game of Thrones, but as a Star Wars fan these mashup wallpapers are awesome even without a full understanding of what’s being mashed. I do have an idea. I don’t live in a bubble. I just haven’t watched it. The book is sitting [...]

In Review: Content Everywhere

Alaina — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 17:34:40 +0000

When I saw Sara Wachter-Boettcher’s Content Everywhere would be coming to me as a part of my future-pack I was excited to read it, but really wasn’t sure how it might apply to my actual work.

Sure, I touch content in my work. Sometimes I do information architecture. I write snippets [...]

An Open Letter to Pinterest

Alaina — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 21:29:08 +0000

Dear Pinterest,

I don’t know that this post will come to your attention, but I wanted to take a moment to say thank you.

Why?

I’m sure that a number of people out there didn’t notice the recent change where magically the sharing boxes for Twitter and Facebook were auto-checked during pinning. [...]

5 Things I Love – June 5

Alaina — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 13:00:47 +0000

1. We Have Always Fought

I posted this to my Facebook a few weeks back and liked it so much that I decided to share it here too. Not only is it a great read of an article, but the artwork is wonderful as well.

2. A Love Story in 22 [...]

The lia beat: June 2013

Alaina — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 12:00:37 +0000

This month’s lia sophia news…

Spring Special Edition

This special 22 piece collection will be available for purchase until the end of June.

Check it out here.

New Advisor Special

Earn a case of 80 Fall/Winter 2013 Style Guides (a $60 value) when you submit a $700 Starter Show.

To see what [...]

One More Reason to Work Out

Alaina — Fri, 31 May 2013 13:32:36 +0000

I am not a die hard Quora user, but from time to time there will be something that comes through my email digest from them that catches my attention. Several weeks back that was a post from James Clear on exercise and depression.

It caught my attention for a few reasons. [...]

5 Things I Love – May 29

Alaina — Thu, 30 May 2013 03:55:08 +0000

I realized this weekend that last week I intentionally chose not to post my usual 5 Things I Love, but I never came on here and said why it wasn’t here. For two days I had been reading about the destruction in Moore, Oklahoma, and it just didn’t feel right at [...]

Memorial Day 2013

Alaina — Tue, 28 May 2013 03:55:13 +0000

A message from Stephen’s loyal pooch upon his return.

I know that I am late posting today. That doesn’t mean that I haven’t been thinking about Memorial Day all weekend. A friend posted a picture early on of a woman lying in military cemetery with a reminder that today is not [...]