Where are the Spokane guys on Pinterest?

Men using Pinterest This post is all about the Dudes of Pinterest in our fair city of Spokane. Hey, I like following locals. So, where are they and are they pinning stuff I care about? Heck yea! And you should go now, get yourself a Pinterest (ding me on Twitter at @AllyShoshana or @DesignSpike if read more »

Website Launch: Northwest Neurological

Northwest Neurological New and Improved Website Northwest Neurological, a clinic dedicated to providing patients with integrated, compassionate and individualized quality care for the full spectrum of brain, spine and nerves conditions, recently engaged Design Spike®, Inc. for a redesign of their existing website including the addition of a customized content management system. Some of the read more »

Free the Twitter World from Obnoxious Spammers

  If you’ve ever used Twitter, you’ve encountered a Twitter spammer. And get this, it’s your job to help rid the world of these evil beasts. And I’m willing to be that even though these annoying spammers are all over the place, many people don’t know how to get rid of them. If you find read more »

Integrating a Contact Form With Trello

Do you like Trello? Do you like integrating things?

How to use RSS feeds & subscriptions on your blog

PSA: This post is part informative, part rant. Thought I’d warn you before we got started. What is an RSS feed? Let’s chat about RSS feeds, shall we? First of all, what is an RSS feed (those of you who get this should just skip this part and move on to the meatier portions of read more »

Websites With Personality #1

It’s all about website design inspiration You know good website designers do not just sit around playing with Photoshop all day. Nah. The good ones, they surf the web, talk to other designers, follow design inspiration Twitter lists and Pinterest boards, they surf the Louvre website, check out the Hirshorn Museum site, walk down to read more »

Bringing Pig Out Into the Social Media Era

In 2011, Spokane’s Pig Out In the Park revamped its marketing, using social media and a mobile-friendly website to provide an awesome experience for customers.

Website Launch: Write Interventions

  Website Launch: Write Interventions Design Spike®, Inc. recently designed and developed a website for Helen Painter to launch a new online occupational therapy website aimed at solving children’s handwriting problems and issues in a fast, effective and “no hurt” manner.  The new Write Interventions website is an all-in-one solution for parents and children providing online assessment, read more »

Roll Call for #NectarWine INWTweetups Blogs

  Roll Call for #NectarWine INWTweetups Blogs Yep, we are at it again. Tweeters tweeting up. Something like people meeting up.  INWTweetups gives many of us tweeters the opportunity to see the body that profile head shot is attached to. Normally, we meet were it not for these loosely planned events where we all stand around talking about pretty much sit read more »

Instead of being a Facebook Whiner, learn to use your words

Queen Narcissa speaks Several weeks (or possibly months) ago, Queen Narcissa ranted about Facebook whiners. Ok, truth be told it was more about using Facebook to make valid complaints and how not to be snarky. These posts generated some serious on and offline “controversy”. The biggest “complaint” against the Queen Narcissa point of view, was read more »

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