Marketing Leadership

Wobbly: iOS Style Wobbling Element Deletion for jQuery

Jack S. — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:28:41 +0000

When the iPhone first got the app store back in 2008, one of the most polished features was how the user would interact with the icons for apps that they downloaded. Pressing and holding on an icon would make it “wobble”, indicating that you could either move it or delete it. For applications written in [...]

Twitter Enhanced Brand Pages Update

Dan K — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 20:55:22 +0000

Last month Twitter announced the release of a simpler and faster version of its social network. As part of this release, they created a better destination for brands through enhanced profile pages, which they launched with a small number of advertisers, charities and individuals. Enhanced profile pages will be rolled out more broadly to all [...]

2012 Social Marketing & New Media Predictions

Dan K — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:03:50 +0000

Awareness Networks released insights and prognosis from 34 business and marketing leaders as part of its 2012 Social Marketing and New Media Predictions report. Here are some of our favorites… Mobile as a game-changer: “The continued growth of mobile (smart phones as the primary device to access the web and use social) will totally change the [...]

Search Engine Strategies-Chicago: key takeaways

Paul W — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 18:47:14 +0000

We were fortunate enough to attend Search Engine Strategies-Chicago (#SESCHI) last month and want to share some key takeaways from the event. SES has been around since 1999 and is one of the leading global event series targeting webmasters, digital agencies, and marketers, with a special focus on tactics and best practices. SES-Chicago is an [...]

jScroll: An iScroll plugin for jQuery

Jack S. — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:47:41 +0000

It’s often the case when making web apps that the tools for the job exist, they’re just hard to use. Never has this been more apparent for us as a group than it has been with iScroll. iScroll is standalone javascript library for enabling hardware accelerated scrolling on Webkit devices. It mainly targets iOS (iPhone, [...]

ddm on Google+

Dan K — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:03:46 +0000

ddm has joined Google+! Check us out at gplus.to/teamddm or visit our page by clicking the g+ icon at the bottom of this post. More on Google+ There’s been a lot of buzz about Google+ with the recent release of Brand Pages. Google launched the first iteration of its new Google+ Business Pages on November 7. The new [...]

ddm: A Google Adwords Certified Partner

christas — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 20:36:40 +0000

Look out Grand Rapids, you just got your first Google AdWords Partner! After logging lots of hours fighting, we mean working, with Google, ddm search specialist Meghan Pratt passed the Google AdWords Exam, making our agency an official Google AdWords Certified Partner. You might be wondering what qualifies ddm as a Google AdWords Certified [...]

Getting your Website to “go mobile” (part 1 of 2)

Dan K — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 19:30:02 +0000

Today’s users are no longer bound to their desktop or laptop computers when looking for websites. The proliferation of smartphones is fuelling an ever-increasing base of users that are learning about you on a pocket-sized screen. Your website has three ways to deal with this: 1. Ignore them After all, modern phone browsers do a [...]

“Get Fit, Get Paid” – ddm’s fitness program winners take home the prize

christas — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:57:09 +0000

ddm’s inaugural fitness incentive program, the “Get Fit, Get Paid” Challenge, was a resounding success. Spurred on by the creation of a ddm running club, the program was initiated to encourage team members to get healthy and stay in shape. Twenty-eight team members of the 40-person firm took part in this unique program over the [...]

The Panda is back

Paul W — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:57:10 +0000

It appears Google Panda is back. As Danny Sullivan noted in a post over the weekend, Google has confirmed that the latest iteration of its Panda algorithm update is live. Sullivan notes that based on their tracking, this is Panda Update 2.5. The changes were first noticed by Dani Horowitz last Friday when the analytics [...]