Author: Joanna Pineda

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Teri Carden, Founder of ReviewMyAMS, has a unique take on conference sessions. She crowdsources several of the sessions at AMS Fest. AMS Fest is an event that brings together AMS […]

The Life Changing Benefits of Google’s Primary Inbox
Posted on November 28, 2016
GoogleInboxsmI blogged recently that Matrix Group switched over to Google Apps. I have had a personal Gmail account for many years now and my family can't function without our shared family Google calendar. So now I have Gmail at work and I'm loving it. I especially love Gmail's inbox configurations. Here's how it [...]
Pokémon Go
Posted on September 14, 2016
Can you tell we’re a bit Poké obsessed ourselves? We love the Pokémon Go site for it’s big, bold design and the simple yet effective copy about how the game works.
Histography
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I could get lost in this interactive timeline for hours! Histography pulls historical events from Wikipedia spanning 14 billion years of time. You can filter by time period and category, too! (Note: this is only supported by Chrome at this time.)
I’ve Seen the Future and It Doesn’t Include Web Browsers
Posted on August 24, 2016
M_and_tap_200For my birthday this year, my husband bought me an Amazon Tap. The Amazon Tap is a Bluetooth and Wi-Fi-enabled speaker that lets you use voice commands to play music, check the weather, order stuff on Amazon, look up things on Wikipedia, and on and on. Who knew that this little speaker [...]
Maybe We Should Stop Trying to Generate More Traffic to Government Affairs Web Pages
Posted on August 10, 2016
STOP_sign_smI attend a lot of redesign kickoff meetings. Clients almost always list as one of their top goals,
"Increase traffic to the website." Sounds reasonable, right? Organizations are competing for eyeballs, so traffic means organizations are getting attention and their content is being read and hopefully appreciated. Indeed, nearly every client I work [...]
Why This Mom Loves Pokémon Go
Posted on July 12, 2016
[caption id="attachment_5310" align="alignright" width="198"]Pokemon Go | www.TheMatriXFiles.com Here I am, catching a Bellsprout Pokemon in my neighborhood.[/caption] Unless you're living under a rock, you've heard about Pokémon Go. Pokémon Go is an app that lets you use your phone's GPS and clock to detect where you are in the game and make Pokémon "appear" in [...]
Getting Started with Facebook Live
Posted on June 29, 2016
A couple of Saturdays ago, my friend, co-worker and Director of Biz Dev, Bryan Clark, was taking his first-degree TaeKwonDo black belt test. I was attending as a black belt to help with the sit ups and push ups, to cheer Bryan on since he's my sparring and workout buddy, and to post updates to the studio's social media pages. In [...]
The Great Banana Bread Experiment: Are People Really Reading Your Emails?
Posted on June 2, 2016
bread_500pxA couple of weeks ago, I sent out an important message to my entire staff about IT support. We had recently put in some technologies to make it easier for staff to request IT support during business and non-business hours, and some of our procedures had changed. The subject line began with [...]