Utilizing Social Media
Kudos to Nook Industries. I mention them based on a an Engineering Exchange post regarding their Infinity 1 Roller Screw Actuator. Often members and suppliers toss out product info on the Exchange which is great, but I often yearn out of curiosity for more detail, tools, video, case studies or other information […]
What’s your number?
I stumbled upon Klout a while back – found it somewhat intriguing. Their tech aims to rank folks according to their actions on Twitter and also Facebook. So through an algorithm of post content, re-tweets, followers and syntax you get to some number out of 100 ranking your influence and reach. I ranked a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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% […]
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 […]
QR Codes
Grab your smart phone with camera, QR reader app and read this: I’m actually amazed how fast it reads and brings up the Design World mobile site. I’m starting to see a lot more of this in various formats across print mags. A special code will port users direct to […]
Back to the Future
It feels like 1995. Last night as insomnia kept me hard at work, I got an iteration of the ‘Engineering Exchange’ App submitted to Apple for approval – build #18772- to be sure at 4am. So as I uploaded the binary I thought of the days of charging folks $85 / hour for basic html […]
Iron Man Brought Our Servers Down
Apologies today for any website inconveniences, but our load balancing was not quite balancing the way we anticipated. Most sites within the network were affected for a few hours this morning, which meant some sites were down, slow or barfed on some video playback. The good news is issue was […]
New Digs
Next time your in Cleveland, its worth stopping into the brand spankin new WTWH headquarters. Check in using foursquare and we’ll hook you up with a special – Dave has you covered. 2019 Center Street, will get you here – Corner of Center and Washington. So we’ve come a long […]
2011 Media Guides Posted
You can now find 2011 media guides on the WTWH marketing site. The guides consist of both print and online information, editorial calendars and print specification sheets. There is one comprehensive WTWH Media Guide covering the Design World Network, Windpower Engineering, Solar Power Engineering and the Renewable Energy Network. • Complete Media […]
Cloud Computing… pt 1… software as a service and storage.
The idea behind Cloud Computing is fairly simple; rather than making a large investment in hardware, software and the time involved in setting everything up… let someone else do it… virtually, on shared resources similar to an electricity provider. Take for example, ACT…a few years back it was the application […]
Posting Frequency
I suck. I admit it. The last time I wrote was August, and before that once in June. How could these months have passed by so fast? I could blame Twitter and the plethora of tools to broadcast snippets of wisdom or mundane garbage, but I won’t. I’ve been trying out different […]
More on Mobile Navigation
Running behind the curve on posting due to all the development here at Design World- par for course. So this interview turned out to be a pretty good summary on our current mobile outlook. B to B doesn’t like to use paragraph breaks on some of their stuff, so here is […]
M for Mobile
Design World content is now available in a new mobile format >> of course the site is best viewed with any number of mobile or smart phone formats. Still maintaining a first generation iPhone, I think the browser and regular versions of sites look pretty good – but then also […]
Flash, Mobile and Advertising
I’ve been tracking a package via FedEx today – my long awaited iPad 3G shipped and should be here tomorrow and it got me thinking about several things. First, I’m excited about the possibilities in magazine content coupled with a fantastic online experience. The joining of clean layouts and dynamic […]
Engineering Exchange Site Reaches 6K Members
Hanging out and monitoring the site today, we just hit member number 6,000 active on the Engineering Exchange. Typically we might celebrate at a number like 1oK, but I thought it was worth a post – here’s why. Taken with our Linkedin Groups, Facebook fans, and Twitter Followers our direct […]
Inc. Interview: Engineering Site Gets Video Results
With Engineering Watch™ HD, our engineering video site, we recently starting pushing videos direct to Google via XML sitemaps using MRSS and the result was impressive. We’ve always done a ton of on-page SEO, but the added push of a specialized sitemap submission produced excellent results. So for a bit […]
Mobile Engineering Exchange…
The Engineering Exchange features a mobile version function of the site making it easy to stay connected to topics and groups of interest anywhere you go. Post, update and even load images from your mobile device directly to the Exchange. The mobile site will display automatically when viewed from a […]