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MedExpress Ducky Derby: fun fundraising for a great cause

by Cynthia Closkey on July 29, 2010 · 0 comments



R U a winner?, originally uploaded by tamadhanaval.

Big Big Design is co-sponsoring a fundraising event next Thursday: the MedExpress Ducky Derby.

On August 5, we’re racing hundreds of rubber ducks by floating them down Sullivan Run in Butler. The backer of the winning duck will win $1000.

Tickets to rent a duck for the race are $5. Interested in backing a duck or 5? Contact us and we’ll help you get your tickets.

Proceeds will benefit the Moraine Trails Scoutreach Program, which helps find creative leadership for boys who might otherwise not be able to access scouting programs.

In addition to the title sponsor, MedExpress, this event has been put together with the support of several organizations:
United Way of Butler County
Butler County Young Professionals’ officers
Butler Downtown
Butler County Chamber of Commerce
Big Big Design

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Privacy, social networks, and our online selves

July 25, 2010

Two interesting discussions of personal privacy and online social networks.
First, this article about the permanence of online information and its implications for an individual’s reputation: “The Web Means the End of Forgetting,” by Jeffrey Rosen, New York Times Magazine.
We’ve known for years that the Web allows for unprecedented voyeurism, exhibitionism and inadvertent indiscretion, but [...]

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Recommended: Pittsburgh SEO Workshop

June 21, 2010

Our friends at Lunametrics are offering a one-day SEO workshop this week, and there’s still time to sign up.
Want your site to show up at the top of Google but don’t want to spend a fortune to get it done? Here’s something most SEO consultation companies won’t tell you: You can do it [...]

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Our new officemate, Sydney

May 17, 2010

Our new officemate, Sydney, originally uploaded by cynthiacloskey.

Anthony has adopted a dog, Sydney. She’s pit bull mix, about two years old, and absolutely the sweetest thing. She’s a little shy around tall men and a lot anxious when Anthony isn’t nearby, but she’s starting to get used to her new surroundings and relax.

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Six degrees of separation and your privacy settings

May 14, 2010

Related to my post yesterday about Facebook’s privacy settings: danah boyd posted in more detail about the implications of Facebooks privacy (“Facebook and ‘radical transparency’“). These two paragraphs convey the problem I often see in which people haven’t thought through the implications of the “network” part of social networks:

A while back, I was talking with [...]

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How to simplify your privacy on Facebook (and everywhere else on the web)

May 13, 2010

Yesterday the New York Times made a noble attempt to map Facebook’s new, super-complicated privacy settings, via a few well-designed graphics and an accompanying article (“The Price of Facebook Privacy? Start Clicking,” by Nick Bilton, 5/12/2010).
The new opt-out settings certainly are complex. Facebook users who hope to make their personal information private should be prepared [...]

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Getting passionate about passion

April 18, 2010

British comedian/writer/actor/generally-brilliant-person David Mitchell gets passionate about passion in advertising

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Cover It Live: great tool for liveblogging an event

April 2, 2010

Last night I attended an interesting discussion at Pitt, “The Future of the Book.” I knew ahead of time that I’d want to share my notes, and I was curious how others might react to the ideas.
So I set up an event on Cover It Live. It’s a simple-to-use gadget for documenting anything as it [...]

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Results versus hype: can small businesses realize value from social media?

March 22, 2010

An article in the Wall Street Journal last week (“Entrepreneurs Question Value of Social Media,” Sarah E. Needleman, WSJ 3/15/2010) said that a recent study showed that small firms were having mixed results in their use of social media.
In and among the survey results, the article gives several examples of companies seeing a positive [...]

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“Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity” by danah boyd

March 18, 2010

For an excellent overview of the concepts and issues surrounding online privacy and publicity, check out danah boyd’s keynote speech from SXSWi for 2010.

Just because a large percentage of people engage in public does not mean that they don’t care about privacy. Pew found that 85% of adults want to control [...]

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