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Ask Focus on Energy

By Clay Parker Jones | May 26, 2009

I wanted to take a moment this morning to go back through the last project I worked on at my last place, which happened to go live on my last day in Chicago. Not only did it go up on time (Jim Vogel is the world’s best project guy), but it’s probably the piece of […]

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Mmm. Lemon pie.

By Clay Parker Jones | February 10, 2009
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Hoffman York Holiday Card

By Clay Parker Jones | December 15, 2008

Hoffman York wants you to have a happy holiday. So we made you a card. Not a real card, but one made from pixels and a whole lot of late-night love.
That doesn’t sound quite right.

Anyhow, it’s a little Flash app that allows you to create a snowman and then grab the image. What you do with it […]

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The Interwebs Presentation

By Clay Parker Jones | December 9, 2008

The Interwebs
View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: internet marketing)

I’m giving this presentation today at a lunch-and-learn at Hoffman York’s Chicago office. I do a lot of talking about the internet, usually in a really unstructured way (which suits me), and I’m looking forward to seeing how I do with some guidelines. Also, my […]

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Vimeo Plus

By Clay Parker Jones | October 17, 2008

Introducing Vimeo Plus! from Vimeo Staff on Vimeo.
I post a lot of videos on this blog, and when I do, I prefer to use Vimeo. It’s fast, it has a community that is usually pretty supportive (unlike YouTube, which we all know gets pretty vicious), and it does HD. On top of that, the player is […]

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Wahl Great Haircuts

By Clay Parker Jones | September 12, 2008

Wahl Great Haircuts from Clay Parker Jones on Vimeo.
We’ve just finished up the Wahl Great Haircuts site. Our assignment was to take all the old content and navigation structure, make it prettier and more user-friendly. We aimed for a design feel that aligned with both in-market print campaigns, and wouldn’t feel out of place next to […]

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Enough Brand-Jabber Already

By Clay Parker Jones | August 26, 2008

Note: Boring does not apply to my meeting yesterday. Read more to see what I’m talking about.
Yesterday I was in a new-business meeting. We were at the offices of a local company looking to make a push in the 4th quarter; their brand has been around for a long time, but recently had some tough times…they’re […]

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DISC Communication Styles

By Clay Parker Jones | August 19, 2008

Yesterday, Deb St. John of PeopleWorks came in to talk to us about client service and personality types. Deb’s a former employee of HY, and now runs PeopleWorks with her husband in Iowa. A couple weeks back, the client service department took a test of communication styles — “choose a word from the list of 8 below […]

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SEO versus Coolness Factor

By Clay Parker Jones | July 3, 2008

So, we all want our sites to be engaging and search-engine friendly, right? Well, maybe not all of us but I bet we can agree those things are all good in the minds of clients. One of the surefire ways of making stuff look cooler on the web is to make it move. People seem […]

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