If you’ve ever applied for a college scholarship, you know how painful those essays can be. But now there’s a new way to help students land that coveted college scholarship! With Tube Scholars, a brand new website just released by Mindflint, high school students can tap their creativity to create their own movie, submit it through the Tube Scholars website, get all their friends to vote, and be eligible for a $1,000 scholarship!

With more than 800 trained volunteers working in over 200 detention facilities across 25 states, Daughters of Destiny is making a tremendous impact on incarcerated women in prisons around the nation. When Mel and Annie Goebel, the founder and president of Daughters of Destiny, first approached the team at Mindflint about taking on the redevelopment of their website, we knew it was a great fit from day one.

With a desire to rethink how to best reach their core audience, the Greater Europe Mission team came to us for help with a full-scale online re-branding effort. Since young people are a key pillar in making GEM successful, they needed to make a dramatic change in their overall approach, and we accomplished this by revamping the design, integrating social media, and creating a vehicle to spark a dynamic, real-time conversation through continual blog-style updates.

We recently had the privilege of partnering with the incredible team at North Bay Wireless, and we’re excited to announce the recent launch of their new website at www.northbaywireless.com. NorthBay Wireless is a locally owned Internet Service Provider and IT Solutions company serving San Francisco Bay Area businesses and individuals, and they set themselves apart by offering custom and creative internet solutions to suit each individual client’s need.

This week, the good folks at WordPress.org released the 13th iteration of their amazing open-source content management software entitled version 3.0: Thelonious. Named after jazz legend Thelonious Monk, this version of WordPress comes with a number of neat new features beneficial to both overall organization and to customizable development. Check out this post to see a brief list of features I’m really excited about.

First of all, this video is hilarious. But more than that, it’s deep….really deep. Give it a watch, then post your thoughts on what it says about leadership and influence, and what it speaks to you about starting your own movement. Do you have what it takes? Do I?

Recently my wife ordered a new pair of shoes from See Kai Run for our youngest daughter’s birthday. Unfortunately, when we received the shoes they were the incorrect ones. My wife was a bit perturbed, so I jumped on Facebook to see what kind of presence they had within one stream of social media. I found an active facebook page and immediately left a comment describing our predicament and disappointment.

Both as a person and as a businessman, I feel like I’ve been stuck in “good” for a while now. Good company. Good family. Good mood. Good guy. Just maintaining, you know? Trying my darndest to keep the wheels on. Moments of “great” seem to peek through here and there, but when I try to grab those moments, they pop back down and out of reach like a whack a mole. I hate that freakin’ game.