QR Codes Online to Print

I’ve been asked about QR code to print issues a number of times so good indication to just write a post. On a prior QR code post, I outlined a few things you can do with QR codes and Lance in another post talks about tracking with bitly and QR Codes. Now there are a few things you can do to optimize for print since the output is lower resolution out of bitly as example.... Read More

Video Pre-Roll

Design World offers several video display advertising options, one of which is pre-roll. This is simply a video that runs just before any video in our system, typically for 15-20 seconds and we can assign a URL so a user can click the video player itself to make the jump. We can adjust frequency, meaning the amount of times a pre-roll video is shown to a given user in a given amount... Read More

Design World iPad + App

A good day for b2b media apps as our v 1.0 iPad / iPhone is up in the Apple store today. No cheap digital flips. No PDF converted nonsense. No clunky readers. A pure native app featuring real-time news, editorial, updates, video, forum posts and more. Share across the media universe, email articles and save specific ones for a read later on. In portrait mode use the entire screen... Read More

We Care Even More

For those that have not received our special 2011 New Years CD, I’ve selected the top hit ‘Care Even More’ and posted here for your enjoyment. Already a range of positive feedback has trickled in, as from one unnamed source, “Do the words TRAIN WRECK mean anything to WTWH?” I’m taking this to be a positive comment. It is true that few of us are... Read More

Creative Packaging

Pliny the Elder is one of the best beers currently made and I seek incessantly to find it at a local Whole Foods Market since they are the only folks in town who get it from time to time. The shipment comes in every Wednesday, so I go and beg the beer guy to save me some next time, but there is too much competition (from friends of mine no less). Besides an occasional gift, my last... Read More

Changes to media an entrepreneur’s dream

Scott wrote the Endnote for BtoB Media Business, posted December 6, 2010, and summarizes the challenges and opportunities faced since starting WTWH Media and the DesignWorld Network. “We also understood what we think the traditional big media publisher has forgotten: the value of people, ideas and passion, which are the underlying foundation of all successful media companies.... Read More

There’s an app for that

Good news Wednesday when we got the word the Engineering Exchange App was approved to the Apple Store this morning. For members of the Engineering Exchange, the App allows for direct status updates, blog post additions and picture upload to the Engineering Exchange site. You can also watch engineering video, participate in forums, get relevant engineering news and renewable energy... Read More

How Companies Are Shortcoming Their Sales Teams

In the era of Facebook, Google , Twitter and Yelp (an extensive product review site), buyers have as much control over the flow of information they receive as salespeople have available to them.  The process of buying was once a one-way interaction between an informed seller and a curious buyer, but it has now become a conversation between equals, and the revolution in buying... Read More

Android Rising

I was reading over some metrics published by Millennial Media on handset market share and was amazed at their numbers on the growth of Android ‘requests’. MM is an mobile advertising platform and provides some impression data with Android at 65% month-over-month 2182% since January 2010 compared to Apple at 12% month-over-month up 32% since January. (Are Android apps... Read More

Welcome Paul Heney

Warm welcome to Paul Heney joining the WTWH Media team as Senior Editor. Paul will be covering fluid power among other things and will be key in building out some core online offerings both current and new. Paul’s expertise, experience and professionalism is well aligned with our culture here at WTWH and we’re fortunate to have him in the house. A bit about Paul… Paul... Read More