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Around the Office: Accessible Talk on Accessibility, Weekly Knit Fonts, Mobile Design Beyond WebKit, More!
Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. As far as we’re concerned, inclusiveness should be one of the key features of the web – everyone should be able to experience webpages. This is why Kobayashi Online sponsored and […]
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Around the Office: Procurement with Diversity in Mind, Treating Customers Equitably, A Raspberry PI Update, More!
Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Brent thinks Toronto businesses can benefit from diversity. That’s why he’s encouraging business leaders to attend the “DiverseCity Counts Procurement” event on November 28. Event organizers, Maytree Canada, will also be releasing the next DiverseCity […]
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WordCamp Toronto Developers 2012 Inspires and Educates
Some incredible things can happen when you gather dozens of WordPress developers into the same room. Kobayashi Online was a silver sponsor of WordCamp Toronto Developers 2012, which brought together roughly 260 attendees to discuss everything to do with building websites with the WordPress Content Management System. Because we do most of our web development […]
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Around the Office: Patternizer Backgrounds, Shopp E-Commerce, Marketing as Storytelling, and More!
Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Building an e-commerce WordPress website? Savvy developer Scott recommends the Shopp plugin, which he decided to use partly because it works, and partly because of the depth of documentation for […]
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Around the Office: The Truth in Taglines, Finding Images with Photo Pin, the Cult of Disruption, and More!
Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Believing that marketing is a promise, Brent was pleased to read Andris Pone’s blog post on less-than-truthful company taglines. Does grocery shopping at Metro deliver on the promise of “Food […]
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Around the Office: Meme-Inspired Commercials, Google+ SEO, 19th Cen. Futuristic Predictions
Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Caroline was excited to see an advertiser use the popular “Charlie Bit My Finger” meme as the inspiration of a new commercial for Ragu pasta sauce. With its 489 million […]
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Around the Office: Opening the Curtain of Online Privacy, 3D Printing, and Vanishing Facebook Likes
Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. Brent and Daveed are excited for the possibilities of a 3D-printing revolution now that the price of this technology – which has been around for years – has fallen. This […]
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Teaching and Learning WordPress at the WordCamp Happiness Bar
Helping people people out at the WordCamp Toronto Happiness Bar turned out to be really fun. And we learned a bunch of new things too! One of the great things about the WordPress community is how we’re all able to learn and grow together. Some of the people I talked with included a high-school teacher […]
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Kobayashi Online’s WordCamp Ticket Giveaway Ends
We had a tremendous number of entries in our WordCamp Toronto ticket contest, and we’d like to thank everyone who took the time to enter. The contest closed on Monday, and the following winners were randomly drawn and notified by email: Neil G. Lynn J. Leonard S. Catherine G. Colleen C. Mara S. The contest […]
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Around the Office: Preparing for WordCamp Toronto, Text-Only Art Text Books, and QR Code Generators
Around the Office is a weekly group blog that shows what the Kobayashi Online team has found interesting, funny, poignant, or otherwise notable over the past week. David will be going to WordCamp Toronto with a fully charged phone and some favourite apps for events to help make the most of it. He also put together a […]
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Mobile Apps to Use at WordCamp Toronto
WordCamp Toronto, the “unconference” on everything WordPress, is coming up and we want to help prepare you to get the most out of it as possible. In this post, we’ll go through a few different iPhone and Android mobile apps that you can use to record observations, connect with other attendees, schedule your time and […]