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Art Portfolio

Ministries of Mercy

March 11, 2010

I just started reading a book by Timothy J. Keller called Ministries of Mercy: The call of the Jericho Road as a part of a new strategy group at my church, formed to explore the biblical principles and practice of the call to show mercy to others, especially exhibited in the life and teachings of Jesus.
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ROI on Social Media?

March 8, 2010

This video was posted a few months ago on YouTube in the Socialnomics channel. Although it is not based on an authoritative study, it does gather together a lot of facts that help to put social media in context, revealing the power and potential of investing time, money and energy in it as compared to [...]

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WebSmart TV in the News

February 17, 2010

Headstand Media received a nice boost today on Ruth Ratney’s REEL CHICAGO website (Thank You!). The article entitled “Videos give “average Joes” basic web knowledge - Headstand Media boutique produces terminology Vblogs“ was written by Chris Shogren-Thompson based upon interviews with Benjamin Nelson, Headstand’s Creative Director, and background research. The article focuses on Headstand Media’s recent [...]

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WebSmart TV

January 27, 2010

Are you a regular person who is trying to make sense of all the new terms you hear being tossed around in conversations and in written messages such as: tweets, RSS, web 2.0, friend (used as a noun), blog, and many others? Does it make your brain hurt to think of figuring it all out? [...]

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A Boy Kicking Cheese

October 17, 2009

This is a line illustration I did to illustrate one of my son’s limericks he wrote when he was younger and being home-schooled. It was quite funny and I decided to illustrate the theme of it just for kicks. This is what came out.

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Are Websites Becoming Less Important?

October 14, 2009

A friend named Jake Bland mentioned this blog site and post in a report he recently wrote, that I had an opportunity to scan. The post is called “Nobody Cares About Your Website” and was written by Eric Murrell. Media Salt’s tagline is: God isn’t bland. The Church shouldn’t be, either. Looks like a really [...]

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Sunshine Gospel’s Virtual Fund Rasier Event

September 14, 2009

Sunshine Gospel Ministries serves the inner city Woodlawn neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois. Like many Christian non-profit ministries, they rely heavily on funds donated by supporters. Usually, this means putting on a big fund-raising event like a banquet in the fall of the year, in order to raise the funds they need for the coming year.
This [...]

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Honorable Mention

August 29, 2009

Well, Dotster didn’t give us the big award, but we did get an honorable mention in their “Next Big Small Business Contest.” I still think Headstand Media did pretty good, and I personally like our submission best. I just think we didn’t gush all about “Dotster” like the others…. so we didn’t win.
Special thanks to [...]

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The Next Big Small Business Contest Video

August 6, 2009

Recently my company (Headstand Media) was selected as a finalist in Dotster’s Next Big Small Business contest. As a final step in that process, contestants were asked to create and post a video about themselves online at Vimeo. The creative minds on my team put together a video spoof based upon a typical “National Geographic” [...]

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About McDonald’s

March 23, 2009

After over a year of planning, discussion, negotiating, creating and producing, a new web 2.0 website for McDonald’s Corporation was launched LIVE today at http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com. Check it out!
This project was a very “web 2.0-like” collaborative effort involving many wonderful and talented people. It was a joy to work with each one of them.
I want to [...]

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