Customer Paradigm's Blog

How to add a Facebook Like Button to your website (easily):

2010-04-22T09:05:00.001-06:00

How to add a Facebook Like Button to your website (easily):
http://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/like

Customer Paradigm's client, Rabbi Jamie Korngold's book, God in the Wilderness (Doubleday, 2008), is going to it's third printing!

2010-04-21T14:32:00.001-06:00

Rabbi Jamie Korngold, the Adventure Rabbi's first book, God in the Wilderness (Doubleday, 2008), is going to it's third printing!
http://www.GodIntheWilderness.com/

Just launched a new website for a client: Equal Pay Is The Law

2010-04-20T10:52:00.002-06:00

Just launched a new website for a client: Equal Pay Is The Law. If you're female in the workforce, chances are you have experienced first hand a wage disparity based on your gender. The wage gap persists in all levels of education and across all occupations.

Here's the link:
http://www.equalpayisthelaw.com/

More background:
Last year, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009, Pub. L. 111-2, Sec. 3(A), 123 Stat.
5-6 ("Fair Pay Act"), was passed, amending the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Lilly Ledbetter Act provides that the 180 day statute of limitations for filing an equal pay lawsuit regarding pay discrimination resets with each new discriminatory paycheck.

This was and now is an important step in closing pay disparity based on gender – an issue that Congress attempted to address with legislation in 1963. At the time the Equal Pay Act was passed, women were paid just 59 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts.

Despite the EPA, the wage gap persists. In the United States, women are now paid (on average) 77 cents for every dollar paid to men. In Colorado, that earning ratio is only slightly better – 80%. In some of our neighboring states, that rate is not even 70%. And the wage gap is more substantial when race and gender are considered together.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or "EEOC", is the federal agency responsible for the enforcement of anti-discrimination laws relating to employment. As briefly mentioned above, federal laws prohibit discrimination on the basis of equal pay.
To individually, or as a group of employees or class, prosecute or at least explore your options for a private action against your employer, please contact us.

Strict time limitations for filing with the EEOC and filing suit to recover lost income and other damages apply.

Link to the Equal Pay is The Law site >>

My latest article: How to use iPad in business meetings

2010-04-19T12:45:00.000-06:00

My latest article: How to use iPad in business meetings:
http://www.customerparadigm.com/index/526/iPad-review-how-to-use-iPad-in-Business-meeting.php

Customer Paradigm announces iPad Application Development in Boulder, Colorado

2010-04-13T09:59:00.003-06:00

Customer Paradigm announces that clients have requested proposals for iPad Application Development in Boulder, Colorado. Here's a link with more information about iPad Application development >>

iPad Review - why you should buy an iPad + lots of screenshots

2010-04-12T16:01:00.000-06:00

My latest review of the iPad... why you should buy one, including lots and lots of screenshots:
http://www.customerparadigm.com/index/523/iPad-review-why-you-should-buy-an-iPad.php

Secrets of the iPad biggest selling launch ever

2010-04-07T09:49:00.002-06:00

Seth Godin just wrote a great article about how Apple sold $150 million worth of iPads on the first day. How did they do it? Here's a link to the article:
http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2010/04/secrets-of-the-biggest-selling-launch-ever.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2Fsethsmainblog+%28Seth%27s+Blog%29

USA Today Article About Adventure Rabbi: God is found in the wilderness for Passover, Holy Week

2010-03-23T16:32:00.001-06:00

Our Client, Rabbi Jamie Korngold, will be featured in tomorrow's print version of the USA Today newspaper.

It was just published on their website, so here's a sneak peak:

USA Today Article About Adventure Rabbi: God is found in the wilderness for Passover, Holy Week

Social Media Marketing - Using Twitter to Create a Buz and Reach Lots of People

2010-03-15T15:26:00.002-06:00

A friend re-tweeted this posting:

From: @datingdad
Sent: Mar 15, 2010 10:39a

BURGER. RT @SmashburgerDEN: To celebrate our new CO inspired menu we're giving away a FREE Colorado burger to the first 50 RTs

This is a great example of a way to use Twitter as a means to reach out and spread the word.... by rewarding people with free food :) (Who doesn't love a free burger?) And they know that you're likely to go there with a friend, and probably buy fries and a drink, too...

Here's their profile:
http://twitter.com/SmashburgerDEN

Marketers make most of social media for NCAA promotions

2010-03-15T09:34:00.000-06:00

Marketers make most of social media for NCAA promotions:
http://m.usatoday.com/Tech/1565690/full/

Dot Com Domain is 25 years old!

2010-03-15T09:23:00.001-06:00

It was 25 years ago -- March 15, 1985 -- that the first dot-com domain name -- Symbolics.com -- appeared on the Internet, ushering in the commercial age of the World Wide Web.

Read more >>

Link to my latest article: Videos Are Worth More Than A Thousand Words

2010-03-05T16:44:00.000-07:00

Here's a link to my latest article: Videos Are Worth More Than A Thousand Words
http://www.customerparadigm.com/email-newsletter-archive.php?email_id=21829

Video Testimonials from Liz Canavan's Clients (Alchemy of Order)

2010-03-04T14:49:00.000-07:00

So... a really low-budget way to get some great video content onto a website are video testimonials. Liz Canavan of Alchemy of Order (a personal organizer) scheduled six of her clients to come into the conference room to do a quick 30-second video testimonial about why they love working for her.

We'll add them all to her site soon, but here's a link to view them (her videos are on the top of the page, the testimonials are below):

http://www.customerparadigm.com/index/516/video-proofs.php

Bring Google's Fiber Project to Boulder!

2010-03-04T10:25:00.002-07:00

The lovely people at Google are looking for a high-tech community to install a network capable of reaching speeds of up to 1 Gbit/s. That's a hundred times faster than most connections available to the public!

BoulderFiber.com is a site promoting our lovely city of Boulder, CO for this experiment. Please take the time to visit their site: http://boulderfiber.com/ and follow the link to nominate Boulder. Just imagine working on networks that could be faster than NOAA and NIST combined!

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Follow them on Twitter

Funeral for IE 6!

2010-03-04T09:01:00.004-07:00

Here's what a local design company has put together as a result of Google no longer supporting IE6 (Internet Explorer 6):
http://ie6funeral.com/

This site has even gained attention through multiple media sites including CNN.com.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/03/04/ie6.funeral/index.html?hpt=T2

Pretty cool way to garner attention for one of the most annoying (for lack of better terms) browsers out there!

P.S. The comments left on the ie6funeral.com site are pretty comical.

Web 3.0: Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online

2010-03-03T14:51:00.001-07:00

Web 3.0 Semantic Web: Gary Flake demos Pivot, a new way to browse and arrange massive amounts of images and data online. Built on breakthrough Seadragon technology, it enables spectacular zooms in and out of web databases, and the discovery of patterns and links invisible in standard web browsing:
http://www.ted.com/talks/gary_flake_is_pivot_a_turning_point_for_web_exploration.html

More info on how to get your website ready for Web 3.0:
http://www.customerparadigm.com/index/503/RDFa-Tagging-Services.php

(Updated... they called) Still nothing from Carino's :(

2010-03-03T14:50:00.002-07:00

It's Wednesday... never heard back from them on it. No calls, no emails... Not a great way to follow up with a customer, IMHO.

Update: about 3 minutes after I posted, they called :)

No More Saturday Deliveries for the Post Office??

2010-03-03T13:20:00.003-07:00

Interesting take on the U.S. Postal crisis...

Check it out!

Update on Carino's Credit Card Theft...

2010-03-02T16:28:00.003-07:00

An update from yesterday's post:
- No update. Nobody from their organization called or emailed. I feel so unloved :(

Credit Card Stolen at Carino's Restaurant in Grand Junction, Co

2010-03-01T12:08:00.002-07:00

For anyone following me on Twitter (www.twitter.com/BoulderJeff/), I had my credit card stolen at Carino's Restaurant in Grand Junction, Colorado on Saturday.

Here's the expanded version of the story that I submitted to them:

I was in Carino's in Grand Junction, Colorado on Saturday with my two daughters. The food was really good, and the waitress was prompt and attentive.

However, I thought I should share with you what happened during the end of the meal.

Toward the middle of the meal, my two year old daughter needed to go to the bathroom. With a two year old, it's important to respond quickly to her needs to prevent accidents.

The waitress had already dropped off the check and I had given her my USAA credit card to run.

As we were leaving to run to the bathroom, I told the waitress that we were not yet finished, and to please not clear off the table.

Four minutes later, we returned, and the remainder of my daughter's lunch had been cleared away. The check was left on the table, but the card was missing.

There was a party of four people sitting across from our table; they said that the only person who came by the table was the busboy.

While it's possible that someone else saw the empty table and the card and took it, it was still frustrating.

The waitress asked if she could cook another pizza for the girls, and I declined. The girls were no longer hungry.

The most worrisome part, though, was that my card was stolen from the table.

The manager took my phone # and offered to call if it was found.

I have since canceled the credit card with my card company. However, many of my bills are on auto-pay with that card, so now I need to spend several hours going through and updating everything else with each company.

I would have thought that the manager would have at least comp'd the meal (it was only $18 total), but didn't offer.
Thanks, Jeff

I'm quoted in an article about the Pros and Cons of Online Visitor Registration

2010-02-22T12:17:00.003-07:00

I'm quoted in an article on Open Forum (American Express) about the Pros and Cons of Online Visitor Registration:
http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/technology/article/pros-and-cons-of-online-visitor-registration-julie-rains

Home Depot Overtime Lawsuit - Resource

2010-02-05T15:41:00.002-07:00

If you haven't heard, there is a lawsuit by assistant managers of Home Depot that weren't paid overtime.

According to this new website, www.HomeDepotOvertime.com, if you are a current or former Home Depot Assistant Manager you may be entitled to back wages and additional compensation.

The site continues: "Home Depot Assistant Managers are required to work at least 55 hours a week without overtime pay. Home Depot Assistant Managers are not given the discretion to make executive decisions by Home Depot while being forced to perform non-management duties."

More info: www.HomeDepotOvertime.com

Many thanks to this website for helping me fix the heater!

2010-01-28T19:49:00.001-07:00

On what is always one of the coldest, snowy days of the year, our heat stopped working.

Thanks to this site: http://www.arnoldservice.com/amana_parts.htm for showing me I needed to clean the flame sensor!

Assurant Health Care Dropping Health Care Coverage

2010-01-26T15:11:00.000-07:00

Articles Discussing Assurant Allegedly Health Care Dropping Health Care Coverage:

Health insurer drops Colo. woman, leaving her with $1 million in bill
DENVER - She was victim of a horrific car accident four years ago in Longmont when a man fleeing police ran a stop sign and collided with her and her husband's car. (more)

Terminations of Individual Health Policies by Insurance Companies
The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing entitled "Terminations of Individual Health Policies by Insurance Companies" on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 in room 2123 Rayburn House Office Building. (more)

Terminations of Health Policies by Insurance Companies: State Perspectives and Legislative Solutions
The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a field hearing entitled "Terminations of Health Policies by Insurance Companies: State Perspectives and Legislative Solutions" on Monday, July 27, 2009 in New Albany, Indiana. (more)

Here's a site for more information as well -- click here >>

RDFa - A Markup That Could Have Big Implications for SEO

2010-01-24T16:34:00.003-07:00

A great summary article about RDFa Microtagging, and how it can have big implications for SEO:
http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2010/01/22/a-markup-that-could-have-big-implications-for-seo

For our services for RDFa, please visit here:

http://www.customerparadigm.com/index/503/RDFa-Tagging-Services.php