Jun 14 2013

The Lighter Side of Coding: An Evening with Darius Kazemi

by Brendan

PixelMEDIA recently welcomed coders, creatives, and general technologists for an after-hours talk from Bocoup programmer and gaming industry vet Darius Kazemi. His provocative presentation encouraged the audience to think outside of their day-to-day work, and to look at coding as an outlet for creative expression. Besides being fun, Kazemi said, creative coding can also make people better at applying their skills to more traditional projects.
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May 22 2013

Content Strategy | Aligning Content and Analytics to Customer Intent

by Luke

I tend to take a “decision support” approach to content strategy for business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) websites. What businesses see as “conversions” customers see as “decisions.” At a high level, we often group customer purchasing behavior into three phases: research, compare, and decide. Providing the right information at each phase is critical to achieving positive outcomes.
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May 7 2013

PixelMEDIA to Host Darius Kazemi: Creative Coding on the Web

by Brendan

On Thursday, May 30th at 5:30pm, PixelMEDIA will be hosting Darius Kazemi of the open web technology company, Bocoup in Boston. Join us for the first major event in our newly expanded space, the PixelMEDIA Hive, for a compelling discussion about creative coding. Click here to register to attend
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Apr 23 2013

Quit Playing Chess With Your Dog: User Experience as a Lasting Competitive Advantage

by Terence

Does anybody remember WordStar? I learned ‘word-processing’ back when that was a rare and valuable skill, the kind of thing you put on your resume in bold letters, high up. WordStar required lots of instruction before you could do anything useful, and so I spent about a week staring at screens that looked like this: image source: wikipedia
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Apr 4 2013

How to Engage Your Audience with YouTube Annotations

by Dan Freund

We all have our own opinions about YouTube, but if you’re anything like me it’s a love/hate relationship. I hate the popularity of cat videos and the disproportionate number of views they receive, but an element I’m increasingly coming to love is the annotations feature.
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