Chipotle had a little snafu with their Twitter feed recently. Seems their marketing automation tool developed a life of it's own...

Whoa! Hundreds of new top level domains (think .com, .net, etc.) are on the horizon. ICAAN (the governing body of the Internet) has moved forward with allowing the creation of lots of new domains including... .web, .accountant, .attorney, .auto, .bank, .bar and more. For the complete click through to the full blog post.

This article is by Steve Krupnik a friend, client and marketer that I have the highest respect for. This article is reprinted with his permission. Steve is a consultant to Pawn Brokers across the country and his weekly E-news had this interesting spin on Internet marketing versus the Yellow Pages.

His "Marketing Systems" section of his program states: "If you do not have a strong local presence on the Internet for your pawnshop, to more than half of the prospective customers in your area you simply do not exist."

Recently we appeared in the Tribune Business Weekly in South Bend.

Choosing a unique password is as important as keeping tabs on the keys to your house.

USPS is warning customers of bogus email package delivery notifications.

Remember the days when communication was solely based on picking up the phone or

HP, the world's largest PC company is abandoning their consumer hardware division

Phishing is a way of attempting to acquire sensitive information by masquerading as a trustworthy source.

What Support System?

ICANN (the governing body of domain names) has approved an unprecedented change to open up the top level domains (currently 22 top level domains exist including the typical .com, .net, and .org) to include the creation of new domains in any language or script. ICANN will soon be launching a global campaign to raise awareness and is currently looking for applications from companies that want wanting to manage these new domains. What does this mean to you?

If you’ve recently updated to Internet Explorer 9 and you experiencing issues

Our Spring Client Appreciation lunch in downtown South Bend at Trio's Restaurant and Jazz Club was a success!

In an unprecedented aligning of the stars, each of the major Web browsers released a new version in the past month. The Good News is, the browsers are all faster and are displaying Web pages quicker than previous versions. On the Bad news side...

BANG! now has a facebook page.

In an interesting, conspiracy generating event, Blogetery.com a blogging platform shut down on July 9th. A week before Ipbfree.com went down as well. When reached for comment both companies said they can't say why they are closed, but they aren't coming back. This leaves many companies without their blog or message board and without notice or time to extract any of their content from the sites before they were closed...

Good article by TrendMicro about computer security and social networking. Since we are encouraging our clients to be more active with social networking, we want to also educate them about the dangers involved...

Tuesday December 15th On-line sales set a new daily record of $913 million dollars!

Branding, Positioning & Value... What do they mean to your company? Are you a Timex or Rolex? Is your goal to sell a lot? Or very little to a select few? Read on to see where BKR Studio comes down on these issues.

My but that Ponderosa Pine is looking mighty attractive... I'm afraid I'm turning into a tree hugger!

Read on to see what the warning signs are...