Smaller Indiana Celebrates it's 2,000th Member!

On May 13, 2008 at the Rathskellar, Smoosiers mingled and celebrated their membership of the wonderful online community Smaller Indiana! If you're not a member yet, are a Hoosier and have been dying to become a Smoosier, what are you waiting for? Check it out!

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Super Bowl is Coming to Indy-2012!

I just heard the awesome news sweeping the Indianapolis area! We are hosting the 2012 Super Bowl at the Lucas Oil Stadium!

Congratulations Indy! Congrats and thanks to the 8th graders that presented our bid to the NFL!

Stay current by regularly visiting Our2012sb.com!

WooHoo!

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AT&T Happy Hour at the Indianapolis Symphony

Here's my latest Smaller Indiana event involvement...

Thanks Pat Coyle for the free tickets! I enjoyed my evening!

Here's my recap;

Got downtown Indy at about 5:00, searched forever for a parking spot... Warm nights=No parking spots!

Arrived at the BEAUTIFUL Hilbert Circle Theater at 5:45. Got in line and got a complimentary Coke and Tommy Bahama Rum. Yum!

Watched the very entertaining show including music from Star Wars, Beethoven, and Bernstein. One of my favorite pieces was from Gould, Pavanne from Symphonette No. 2... the one that the Maestro, Thomas Wilkins, requested that upon the prompt of the raising of his left hand, that the crowd shout "Mambo"! How fun!

After the winner of the iPod Shuffle was announced, the show was over... We were all invited to join the Maestro at Nicky Blaine's(first time there as well..) for the "after party". My partner, George, and I met up with Pat Coyle, Zack Legend, Paul Thomas, and Henry Kurkowski from Smaller Indiana for a bit, had a beer, and had the opportunity to shake hands with Maestro Wilkins!

I was happy to experience my first night at the Symphony--Smaller Indiana style... I recommend that if you have time on June 19, you should check out the AT&T Happy Hour at the Symphony!

See ya there!

p.s. I have posted a couple of videos(awaiting approval as I am typing this) so that those that missed the event could see that beauty of the music that was played. Enjoy!

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The BlogMob Hit the Streets...

So, we got some light Fox 59 coverage, which was super cool.. Blogged, networked, passed out cards to passers-by to inform them of the April 26 event at the IUPUI School of Informatics, mingled, froze our butts off, and had a lot of fun! I got to meet even more Smoosiers and visit with my old friends, and even made the evening news!

Here's a video recap from Zack Legend (not sure, but I think he called me Sara? ):

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Bloggers, Come Out and Show Your Support!!

Monday, April 14, 2008 for 1 hour, 12 Noon to 1pm, Monument Circle, Downtown Indianapolis:

Come dressed in blue or yellow.
Bring your:
Laptop
Lunch
Excitement
Umbrella-Rain or Shine, baby
**FREE WIFI ON THE CIRCLE**

Work on your tan, show your Smaller Indiana pride, and hang with us for your lunch hour. You can blog, network, mingle, or just be a great supporter. The more people that show up, the more press and participation we will get.

Be there, or be squa......... oh wait, it's the circle.. :)

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Motivational Speakers

I recently met with Tony Scelzo, Jim Brown, and Josh Mitchell. Tony suggested that I listen to Tony Robbins, Lessons in Mastery. So I went on YouTube because I've listened to Tony R on the site before, and wanted to see if Lessons in Mastery was what I had listened to... After finding Tony's videos, I then did a search for "Motivational Speakers". Thought I'd share the motivational speaker that you should probably avoid.....

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Website Update

Until now, the Squish Designs website has been pretty close to horrific. It's funny, we preach to our clients that your website is the face of your business-yet ours sucked... Knowing that it was as bad as it was, I volunteered our site for an "Extreme Makeover" on Smaller Indiana.

I was chosen, amongst 3 others, for a makeover. Each person was assigned a professional copywriter to meet with and go over how they could help make our sites better. We were assigned a lovely young woman by the name of Theresia Whitfield. She is the owner of Fletcher Communications. We met for about an hour and a half, and received some pretty helpful information. One thing that we already knew was that our site definitely did not represent our company properly-or at all, for that matter.

Since Squish began as a web design company, and we have not updated our site for quite some time, no one was able to see that we are not strictly a design firm. What Squish focuses on is custom web application development. What is that you ask? Well, Theresia asked the very same question. Funny thing-when she asked me what that is, I was left speechless! I just assumed that everyone today knew what that meant! So, that brought me to the conclusion that I, as well as George and Dru, need to go back to the beginning of when we all started to do this. How can we sell what it is that we do if we can't even explain it! (For others with the same question of what web development is-it is the programming of what you see online. It's not just the creation of the website itself, but how to make it move-it's the creation of the back-end function of the sites you see on the internet.)

Since our meeting, we have been putting together what it is that we want visitors to our site to know. We have also put up our new design, which is still in progress.. but is 100 times better than the old crappy site that we had up. Theresia has also volunteered to write the content for our homepage so that it will be more interesting and attention grabbing than what we can come up with. Thanks Theresia!

To give feedback on how the site makeovers went, the group that participated in this experiment is meeting on February 22nd... I'll keep you updated!!!

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