Blog
 January 15th, 2009
Proud Mary, A Business With a Cause
 For those of you who have an interest in quality design, fashion, great colors, unique patterns, and a good cause, then Proud Mary has something for you. Harper Poe, co-owner of the company took a few minutes to let me in on the background of how the company began, what it is today and even a little bit about herself.
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December 17th, 2008
How To Sync With Generation Y
 As most traditional business owners have noticed, catering to the needs of Generation Y is a whole different ball game. This youthful workforce, born anywhere from 1980 to 2000, is expected to change jobs a minimum of seven times in their lifetime. This is in sharp contrast to their grandparents, who commonly devoted their entire career to one company. Managers are coming up with new, outside-of-the-box ways to attract young talent and to keep those sought after employees from jumping ship.
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November 17th, 2008
We’re Going To Party Like It’s 1999
When the team asked me to write a post for the Chalkboard blog this week, we kicked around some ideas regarding what I should write about. We threw out such riveting topics such as “If Captain Kirk was a Mac, and Captain Picard was a PC, who would really win in a laser-gun fight?” and “at what point do you go deaf when reading internet posts written in capital letter?” (Though, I think we’re going to save this gem for a later date.) When we started talking about web accessibility, my mind immediately went to the announcement that the W3C had recently published the first update to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) in almost 10 years, bringing it up to version 2.0.
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News
December 22, 2008
Barrette and Outdoor Living Sites Launch
 Last Monday, December 15th, {e} house launched the corporate English and French sites for Barrette, as well as their consumer website, Outdoor Living. Although originally a small company located in Northern Québec, Barrette has vastly grown over the past 50 years. They’ve since become one of North America’s largest wood and vinyl product manufacturers. They has gained a long-standing reputation for integrity and ingenuity both here in the United States and in Canada.
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