Late last fall, we collaborated with strategic partner Jimmy Berthelet and STAND to create a phase 1 website for Unisson Structures, a company that designs, crafts and delivers world-class stage systems for the entertainment industry as well as architectural structures for high end building projects...

One of our 2010 goals is to become more agile in our approach to design and development. We've been applying agile principles for roughly 2 years now (with great results), but their application has generally been limited to internal, Dynamo-specific projects like our new online store.

The Agile Manifesto reads as follows:

• Individuals and interactions over processes and tools
• Working software over comprehensive documentation
• Customer collaboration over contract negotiation
• Responding to change over following a plan

These principles, when properly applied, have yielded powerful results for us. It's simply a more human way to work. What's allowed us to be agile with our internal projects? Read more to find out....

In a meeting this week to kick off a new web project, our clients asked us when and how they should be using Facebook and Twitter to complement the news feed on their site. Though they are presently using a Facebook and Twitter account to get some information "out there", they aren't sure how to take advantage of these spaces. Though we discussed some things briefly in the meeting, I thought I'd post a few more thoughts since I'm sure other marketers, clients and otherwise, are wondering the same thing...

The new year at Dynamo has already gotten off to a great start. We’ve got some great projects in the pipeline (you’ll be finding out about those soon), we’re making strides on our work-in-progress, and we’re busy planning our annual team retreat in February. With this planning comes a chance to reflect on what we have accomplished in 2009 as well as what opportunities lie ahead. Since we had a number of significant milestones in 2009, I thought I’d share a few of my favourite with you...

After a short and intense push just before the holidays, we flipped the switch to our online shop beta and are now happily processing orders for a variety of Dynamo-designed products. The shop has launched with 5 products to date, including our new self-published book on social media status messaging, Status, Vol. I hot off the press...