Small Towns and Chambers of Commerce: The Hardest, Most Rewarding Service for Cultivating Community, Visitors Bureaus, and Economic Development

Small Towns and Chambers of Commerce: The Hardest, Most Rewarding Service for Cultivating Community, Visitors Bureaus, and Economic Development

Here’s what people from cities, even cities of 50,000 residents, don’t understand about small towns–actual small towns. Public transportation, what’s that?  Most small towns are rural. They don’t have public transportation. The closest thing they have to public transportation is what’s now known as Uber but without the app. A person calls someone who lives…

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Shannon Communications website design

Beaver Builder, Meet Shannon

I’ve been working on a new site design and build for Shannon Communications, a branding and communications consultancy here in San Antonio. This site is an expression of the brand she’s built, but it’s also an expression of everything I love to, for whom, and learning and applying what I’ve learned. I’ve had an ongoing…

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Ivan the Gorilla dot com website mockup on an iPad

Case Study: The Ivan Foundation

By Robert Nissenbaum, TSO Media My First Interaction With Ivan At the entrance of the Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma, Washington is a sculpture of a Gorilla. I remember wondering why it was there. It seemed odd, out of place. Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium does not exhibit gorillas – and they have…

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photo of Orphans of War Website on a desktop, laptop, and tablet display

Case Study: Orphans of War Website Redesign

TSO Media was already working on plans for a website redesign for Orphans of War when their website was hacked. Plus, they didn’t have backup systems in place. It was all lost. The good news is that because they were already working on new content with TSO Media, they took advantage of the otherwise bad…

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wordcam seattle 2019

WordCamp Seattle

In 2019’s event, I volunteered with the team to do the website design while other volunteers worked on the development. i also designed the badges, signage, and handouts to coordinate with the site design. Each year a new group of volunteers work throughout the year to prepare for the next annual WordCamp. It’s more restrictive…

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