addi+ions blog: Insights from the Internet Obsessed

Hey, everyone. I don’t believe we’ve formally met: I’m Lauren, dt’s new Event Planning intern. I’m loving my time here– everybody at dt is absolutely rockin’ (but I’m sure you already knew that!). I just wanted to let y’all know about an awesome event that’s coming up. The event is titled Net.Working, and it’s presented by StartUpSD and sponsored by MindTouch. It will be taking place on Monday, June 23, and is an opportunity for recent college grads to network with employers in web-related fields, including entrepreneurs, developers, designers and startup businesses looking to hire. The Art Institute and Platt College are already promoting the event to their students, with more schools to follow. So come on out and get to know San Diego’s top businessowners, web-sters, and grads—and me! See our events page for more info, and I hope to see you there!

Additional info about the event:

When: Monday, June 23, 2008 @ 6-8pm
Where: J6Bar, 616 J St. San Diego, CA 92101, (619) 531-8744
Cost: Free!

RSVP here!

This evening I will be presenting to the iMarketers Association along with Larry Marine of Intuitive Design. We’re going to be tackling the widgetsphere, from the origins to today’s big players. Who’s doing it right and what are the correct widget strategies to use when creating your own pieces of the web served a la carte. There will be free drinks and lots of time for networking and questions. Hope to see you there!

Here’s a description from our events page:

We’re all familiar with widgets – we’ve used them in MySpace, Facebook, iGoogle, Yahoo, and the list goes on. But what does it all mean to your business and what are the strategies you can take for the most profitable & effective implementation? Before you jump into building, designing or implementing widgets you need to decide how they will meet your marketing and business objectives. At this event we’ll discuss the critical marketing components to consider before, during and after creating widgets.

Join the discussion on Wednesday, May 28 at 6:00 – 8:30pm

Event: Topic: Widgets: Strategies and Effectiveness

When: Wednesday, May 28th, 6:00 - 8:30 PM

Where: University of San Diego — Degheri Alumni Center 120

Who: - Alex Funk, digital-telepathy - Larry Marine, Intuitive Design

Cost: $30 online.

Register Now!!

I was lucky enough to be interviewed by Andrew Warner of Mixergy.com last week.  Andrew is responsible for many local web mixer events such as Lunch 2.0 and Happy Hour 2.0 in both San Diego and LA.  He’s been a great support to our community and someone that I highly respect.

Here’s the write up and phone interview.

I’m sure most of you knew yesterday was Earth Day (wait, it was?!) and here at dt we consider Earth Day an official holiday. So yesterday we took the day off and headed out to do a little dirty work at the beach (Mike Rowe would be proud). We met at Crystal Pier in Pacific Beach and headed North & South of the pier to do some cleanup.

The response from the community was awesome and we had about 35 volunteers meet up at the pier to help with some serious Earth Day lovin’! Some of the volunteers came from places like Mission Playground, StayClassy.org, West of the Five, Sycuan Learning Center, and more. One guy, Dillan Flinn drove all the way down from Newport to help out! Phh way to go buddy! Also, thanks to Surfrider Foundation for donating bags, gloves and hand sanitizer.

If you missed out on this Earth Day (we’re sorry to hear that) you can always contact your local Surfrider Foundation and see when the next beach cleanup is… or just get out there today and clean up yourself.

Thanks again to all of our volunteers who came out with smiles and a willingness to help! You guys totally ROCK!!

To see how much fun you missed out on visit our Flickr Stream.

In the past year, we have been honored with many awards, including Top 10 out of the Fastest 100 Growing Companies and Best Place to Work by the San Diego Business Journal. We are fortunate to be bestowed with another acknowledgment as a Finalist in the Fast Growth 20 by bizSanDiego Magazine.

bizSanDiego looks at revenue growth averages from the last three years, local employee growth over the past year and even takes into account market growth, including acquisitions, award recognitions, clients served and traction into other markets.

As I always say, “smoke ‘em while you got ‘em!” Although we plan to win many awards in the future, we are taking a break from the revenue-based accomplishments. We do not expect our consulting revenues to increase by 3x a year as they have in the past. 2008 is a year of heavy construction for digital-telepathy. We have diversified our focus and invested across many platforms of business and communication. We have focused our design services into a distinct process of user experience and web strategy development. We hope to create a new and fresh approach to conferences with Freedom in Action (FinA). We have 3 new startups that we are developing with our sister company RE3EL. We even built the new San Diego web news and events site, StartupSD.net.

So forgive us if we don’t measure our success by revenue and post a press release every time we score a new brand as a client. We’re working on something bigger. Our family of employees wants more than standard projects. We are putting our mission into action to make a positive impact within the world.