Michael’s Twitter Username Changed

I changed my twitter username from MichaelAtCommTD to mikeridley to save space.  When I signed up for twitter I hadn’t used twitter before.  Shocking and logically consistent, I know!  So I hadn’t thought about how having a long username would steal space from reply messages.  But now that I’ve been using twitter, I do think [...]

Just a quick status update

We haven’t been particularly good about updating our blog lately, but in case anyone thinks we have dropped off the map - we haven’t!  So what have we been up to?  Well, we have been busy with some web design work but not as much as I would have hoped to have.  Perhaps a reflection [...]

More Social Web Technology on Our Blog

We have added the wonderful Twitter Tools and Disqus plugins for WordPress.  Twitter Tools is a plugin which allows automatic Twitter tweets when blog posts are published, as well as automatic posting of Twitter content on a WordPress blog.  For now, we only have it configured to go from WordPress to Twitter, which makes sense [...]

Toggl for Time Tracking

We have started using the web-based Toggl application for time tracking at Communications Tool & Die.  Initially we were tracking our time using a module in our SugarCRM system, but that just seemed to clunky for our relatively simple needs.  We don’t bill by the hour, so we don’t need incredibly precise time accounting but [...]

Welcome to Communications Tool & Die!

Welcome to the first post from the Communications Tool & Die blog! This company is the byproduct of several years of idle conversations between myself and several of my friends. We are all experienced professionals with years and years of experience. We all talk about the projects we’re working on but want [...]