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When Faith Gets Social, and More!



With all the excitement and drama of the past few weeks, the team really hasn’t been able to come together for a proper Resource Friday until today. So, with a steaming kettle of chicken potpie on hand, we each shared with the group what’s been enriching our minds lately.

Resource Friday – Nov 19, 2010



The Show Must Go On The past few weeks have been a bit of an emotional roller-coaster for the YDOP family. Lori Wolgemuth, Steve’s wife and our regular fount of sunshine around the office, was recently diagnosed with a severe case of breast cancer. (For those who wish to know more, you can follow Lori’s [...]

Resource “Friday” – Sept 30, 2010



Google Instant, Mobile Browsing, and LinkedIn Takes on Facebook In our ever-expanding quest to redefine exactly what “Friday” means — well, that and the fact that part of our team isn’t going to be around tomorrow — we decided to hold our Resource Friday on Thursday this week. Outside, it was raining hard enough that [...]

Resource Friday – August 13, 2010



Designing, Keeping Tabs on the Conversation, Motivating, and More! The weather may be gray and dreary outside, but the pizza was hot and the topics were bright inside the offices of YDOP! Actually, we have no idea how a topic can be “bright”, but it sure sounded like a good segue, didn’t it?

Resource Friday – July 30, 2010



Branding, Facebook, Social CRM, XKCD, and more This week saw the triumphant return of Steve from his tour of the Great American West. From the grandeur of the Grand Canyon to the old Hollywood history of Palm Springs to the spectacle of Sight and Sound Theater in Branson, MO — and all the massively boring [...]

Resource Friday – July 9, 2010



Frenemies, Drupal, Facebook, and more The whole team (except for Mike) had Facebook on the brain today, as we all (except for Mike) talked about various aspects of the social networking behemoth. So, without further ado, let’s take a look at all the interesting things (except for Mike) that we had to say!

Resource Friday – June 11, 2010



Facebook, Website Design, Texting the Almighty, and more After this week’s flurry of activity serving our clients, we all relished the chance to sit down together to enjoy some stromboli, and some time to teach each other more about our respective fields of expertise.

17 Unusual Ways of Marketing with Social Media



Here’s a screencast of the presentation I gave at the November 2009 meeting of the Lancaster SEO Meetup Group. I share a list of 17 ways to use standard sites and services like Delicious, Yahoo Answers, blogs, and Twitter in nonstandard and unusual ways. If you want to do more than broadcast and blend in, [...]