Lots of things going on here at the orwell office – wow!  First, I’ve done some updates to the blogs to align them with some of our core online marketing focuses.  Did you know that our blogs have been quoted in the Lincoln Journal-Star twice in the past month, once on the homepage?  This is a great time to submit an article to Angela, and get yourself out there!

If you’ve noticed on the HOME and Woods Blogs (click the names, they’ll take you there ) we now have the author’s picture, name, and if you click the name it takes you to their website.  GREAT exposure for you on the blogs, and it helps your search engine rankings.  Here’s what it looks like on the HOME blog:

Next up, our Twitter feeds are now all syndicated on to the blog homepage.  Here’s how it looks on Woods’ Blog:

Got a tidbit you’d like us to tweet?  Shoot it to Angela or I via email, and we’ll send it out!  We know the mobile device is the future, just ask the 20-ish million plus (some estimates put this number closer to 50 million currently) iPhone owners.  To help this trend out, I added mobile support to all of our blogs (Home, Woods, HSNE Techblog) so that the site will automatically give a mobile device user a experience optimized for their device – just like our public websites do.  The user doesn’t have to do anything special, they just visit our blogs like they normally would.  Here’s how it looks on an iPhone:

Finally, did you notice the techblog got a design makeover?  I like it a lot, and think a similar design may make it’s way to the HOME and Woods blogs soon – I just like to test the “bleeding edge” stuff here first.  Lots more to come on a variety of topics!

Quick Tip of the Day: Looking for a new laptop or smartphone?  I’d wait until November 18th when we have our Tech Explosion from 1pm to 3pm at the Country Club of Lincoln.  Vendors will be on-hand with a vast variety of devices that you can see, touch, and fiddle with – some will even have specials that they will give you that day.  If you can’t make it (you should!) I’d wait for the day after Thanksgiving.  There are rumblings that the tech deals will be outstanding this year, and yes I’ll be posting a guide no later than the day before on what deals you should check out!  But.. don’t miss the tech explosion, we have a lot of vendors lined up and ready to show off their newest stuff!