Potluck Approach A Recipe for Success
On Friday we held our annual Digital Echidna's Christmas potluck – a day where the team gets together, brings an assortment of food, and somehow comes…
Email Clients and Best Practices – Canada’s Anti-Spam Laws Simplified and Demystified
The Canadian anti-Spam law has been in full effect for just over three weeks now. The sky hasn't fallen, no corporate communicators have been…
My Internship Experience at Northern
Before I started my internship at Northern, I thought interning meant doing coffee runs, filing paperwork, and supporting full-time employees as they…
Digital Echidna’s President Nominated for IABC Outstanding Communicator Award
First off, I want to say how honoured and humbled I am to be nominated for the 2017 Outstanding Communicator Award, to be handed out tonight by the…
What's the Deal with Mega Navs?
When you want to pack a lot of content in a prominent place on your site, Mega Navs often seem like the ideal solution. But before you make that…
Canadian Agency Northern Commerce Brings Home Google's Highest Award
For Immediate Release: LONDON, ON – October 7, 2019 — Northern Commerce is the winner of the 2019 Google Premier Partner Award for Growing Businesses…
Facebook No Teenland? So? Go Where Your Customers Are
A few days ago, a colleague of mine – our project-manager extraordinaire – Erin Brinen shared a link to an infographic that asked, “ Are Teenagers…
Drupal: Everything is Awesome
When you have kids, your movie-going habits change. The days of going to see a movie because you want to see it fades away, replaced by rounding up…
Guidelines on Guidelines - Official Does Not Have to Be Ostentatious
Does a document have to be weighty to carry weight? Does the more syllables used in a word add more gravitas to the statement? Or is an abundance of…
First-Time Presenting at Drupal’s “Show,” but Prepared to Swing for the Fences
To paraphrase John Fogerty, “Put me in coach, I’m ready to play [clap, clap-clap] today. Put me in coach, I’m ready to play today. Look at me, I can…