It’s been a while since I’ve written on here but I’ve been quite busy. After graduation, I moved to Charlotte, NC and started a full time job at Luquire George Andrews, a leading advertising, marketing and PR agency in the south east, as a new media designer. It’s going great and I really enjoy working with some of the best in the industry.

The new media team has been working on some great sites and I’ve been learning a great deal from everyone.

Some of the things we’ve been working on recently are using WordPress as a CMS, learning PHP, and really hitting HTML & CSS hard. Some of it has been quite challenging but I’m glad I’ve been learning it.

I’m going to try and write about new products and experiments in new media, as I feel it’s my job to contribute to the Internet world.

There are a few cool new products out there that our Technology Director has shown me that are pretty cool and showing where the world is going. First, there is Jott. It’s a service that allows you to record a message and select who you’d like to receive the message. It then translates tour speech into text and emails the recipients.

The second is Evernote, a program that acts as a memory bank. You can store pictures, text, web page captures etc. You can then search the stuff and Evernote will show you all related items. For images, it detects writing and letters, both written and printed.

What is even more cool is these programs can work together. For example, I think of a list of ideas for work and want to share my ideas with my coworkers. I use jott to record my message, and have that message sent to 3 other people as well as Evernote. 3 people get my message and so does evernote so that I can recall it later.