“Sent from my iPhone” is a line of text that I am seeing on an increasing number of emails in my inbox. The line is also on a large number of emails that I send out. What does this short piece of text mean?

In a busy small business, it’s difficult to find time to spend on your own stuff. At Lift, we really enjoy working on internal creative projects, but it’s not always easy to find the time.Read the rest of the story and take the poll.

So you’ve probably heard of Facebook and Twitter—they’re pretty big these days. You’ve probably also seen the Facebook Like button and the new tweet button from Twitter, they look something like this:

These integration features make it really really easy to spread your website’s content over the internet in a rapid fashion. They allow your visitors to share your content without even leaving the page ...

We are on the look-out for a highly creative, self-motivated, results-oriented, web-savvy individual to join our growing team for a 12-month temporary position (with the possibility of extension).

Rounding out a month full of IABC (International Association of Business Communicators) activity, I was privileged to speak to Edmonton’s local IABC chapter today as part of their final professional development session of the year.

We spent a few days in Toronto last week at the IABC World Conference talking with communications professionals from around the world about their websites. Over the course of the few days we were in Toronto, we had many interesting conversations about all the challenges that communicators face in their organizations.

The previous version of our website got a lot of really great response from around the web. Over the past two years it has been featured on a multitude of web design galleries and even listed on a few “best of” lists. It’s been great, but things on the web change really quickly and we want to follow our own advice by freshening things up before they get too dated.

Chance is not the absence of causality but rather the achievement of one end while seeking another. ~Aristotle

Or rather…

[excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard]

(Rosencrantz has been flipping a coin and it has come up heads every time.)

Rosencrantz: Eighty-nine.

Guildenstern: It must be indicative of something, besides the redistribution of wealth. (He muses.) List of possible explanations. One: I’m willing it. Inside ...

Taken from Strunk and White’s book, the Elements of Style. The book delivers a clear outline to make your communication clear, concise, and direct and here are a few things to consider when creating your message:

• Use active tense. An active tense creates a message that is compelling. The person receiving your message feels it is relevant to them at that moment.
• Be direct. Get to the point. Often ...

Great websites link out and don’t try to hide the fact that the web is a serious of connected entities. Making sure that we open external links in the same window instead of opening new windows and tabs actually encourages users to return to our site because they can click the back button and return more quickly.