addi+ions blog: Insights from the Internet Obsessed

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.

Champion Sound launched into Private Beta about two months ago and we’ve been hammering this puppy hard, plugging holes, adding a few features, squashing a few bugs, etc., etc. Well, we just launched a few awesome features that will make email blast creation super simple. Continue reading

We’ve been hard at work developing a platform to serve the San Diego web community. We realized that there are many great startups and web professionals local to San Diego as well as great events. However, they were all fragmented and not following the 2.0 philosophies of shared communication and collaboration. So we decided to take on the challenge of bringing everyone together by promoting local educational and social events, connecting members of the community and creating some buzz for our startups. Who knows, maybe we will even throw a few events of our own in the future

It started with a Facebook group to promote local events like Refresh, Lunch 2.0 and many meetup groups. As the community grew, we felt it was time to take the next step and develop a website dedicated to the web startup community in San Diego. So StartupSD.net was conceived as a way to “Start Up” the web scene in San Diego. It could be considered a metroblog with a strong twist of web. This is an early version of the site, so put down the hater’ade if there are bugs.

In order to pull this project off, we teamed up with our community of bloggers and technophiles to help lead the effort. If you are interested in participating or would like submit news or events, please write us at contact at startupsd.net.

We still have a lot of plans for the site, including:

• Startup Company Directory with logo description and link
• Automated Events - Ability to submit your events directly to the site
• Local Blogger Mashup - A direct feed of all San Diego bloggers posts
• RSS Feed Newsletter powered by Nouri.sh

You can get instant updates of news and events in San Diego by signing up for the RSS Feed or Twitter.

I love web conferences - especially the ones in a good location, with lots of great food, and most important awesome attendees. I attended the Web App Summit last week located in my good ole home of San Diego. The three day conference spanned over topics such as Mental Models, Web Form Best Practices, UX Design, and Web App Makeovers. The conference had a great, intimate set up which allowed for us all to network pretty extensively but also become familiar with and recognize our colleagues. We became a little WAS Family! *precious*

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