A little networking

Here at MBM, we like to do networking throughout the area. It helps with general MBM awareness and business development, but it also helps us keep a pulse on what's going on in Richmond.

It's been a networking kind of day for me. Today for lunch, I went to my weekly Connect for Lunch, which is a great sort of professional blind date organized by the Chamber.

Tonight Mary Blanche and I are also headed to HYPE(Helping Young Professional Engage), which is a networking group also through the Chamber.

We also like industry-related organizations like the Richmond Ad Club and Richmond chapter of AMA (American Marketing Association).

And we're always looking for new groups to check out, so feel to shoot any recommendations our way!

Web Work!

I sure have been busy with websites lately. We recently launched a campaign-specific site in conjunction with National Capital Bank's Move to NCB campaign, and we're currently working on a homepage and full website refresh for them as well. We're also in the midst of creating a site for a cleanroom construction firm, an Intranet for a community bank in Louisa, a new site for a local printing/mailing house, and we're working with the Chamber to create a site for The Capital Region Collaborative, a cooperative effort to enhance the Richmond Region.

With this work, we've noticed a trend that more and more clients have the desire to control and update their websites as needed in-house. So we've been learning a lot about content management systems and how our clients can use them, and have been integrating them into many of the sites we're working on. We've learned that WordPress, Drupal, Expression Engine and Joomla are the favorites among programmers. We welcome the opportunity to learn more about how content management systems can be used to make our clients' lives easier, so if you like programming with these systems, let's talk!