Most businesses are aware that social media and marketing are now working together as one. And just as business needs developers who create React Native apps, in the same way, they also need a strong social media presence to get their business a vast reach. One of the many social media outlets we recommend to our client is Instagram. Instagram, for those of you who donʻt know, is a mobile application that allows you to take pictures, edit them, and post them online for others to see. We thought it would be good to share a few of the tips we share with our clients about having a successful and professional Instagram profile!
New Social Network to Use ONLY Emojis
What does it all mean???
According to Hawaii News Now, there is a new social network and mobile instant messaging app (iOs) for the emoji-savvy called of all things, emojli.
The creators of emojli, Matt Gray and Tom Scott, felt that there was a need for a spam free social network that can potentially cross the language barrier because there is, in fact, no language besides the emojis and they are the only allowable characters.
For those of you not familiar with what an emoji is, check out this article called “5 Things You Need to Know About Emojiʻs.” In the article you can see just how far up the emoji goes, including a petition from the White House for a hotdog emoji!
Would you use an app that used only emojis?
We <3 BaseCamp: 5 Reasons Why!
BasceCamp is a web-based project management software that we use every day to help us stay organized!
We use it for our projects, both old and new! The functionality allows us to not only track what we are doing, but bring in the client to see where progress is being made! We equate using the software to an email chain, with days and possibly months of back and forth, all spread out and organized for everyone without the hassle of remembering who was supposed to do what and when!
WordPress Mobile
When developing new websites for our clients, we use WordPress. What we like about WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS) is that it puts the power in your hands! F0r the past 4+ years, weʻve suggested to clients that WordPress is the best CMS and we continue to do so because of its ease of use, simple user interface (UI), its ability to help support successful eMarketing, an easy infrastructure, built in search engine optimization (SEO), and much much more!
2013 Year in Review
Sometimes we can get caught up the craziness of the day to day grind, but we do not ever forget how fortunate we are to be able to work with so many great clients, and also to be a part of some fun projects.
Facebook’s Face Book
Self-proclaimed “creative technologist” Natalia Rojas put together a cool website application called “The Faces of Facebook” that maps out every single person who joined Facebook, by when they joined. At 1,278,842,363 (and counting) people so far, you can see where you joined and compare it to your friends by connecting to your Facebook account.
Happy Hour Pal Now on the Big Island!
A.S. Designs has recently teamed up with Happy Hour Pal, a happy hour guide website that helps users find happy hour information, including menus, daily specials, basic business information, maps, GPS-based directions, check-in rewards, and more! This locally owned and operated start-up is based on Oahu and also has a free app that takes the guess work out of going to happy hours with updated food and drink menus and detailed day of the week specials at your finger tips.
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