The new SharePoint 3.0 has a ton of great new tools on board, among which is the ability to create a blog. We use this internally as a knowledge management resource to store articles or websites of reference, mainly so that when one team member has found a solution to a challenge, or an innovative new technique, it is preserved for the rest of the team to be able to access quickly.

Anyway, if you are using this new technique, here’s a handy three-step cheat sheet on how to post to your SharePoint 3.0 blog:

One - Copy the Text

1. 1. From the article you want to save, copy the full text of the article, including the title.
2. 2. Open your Internet Explorer and go to Knowledge Management (on the SharePoint site).

Two - Create the post

1. 1. On the top right of the homepage is a set of Admin Links for the blog. Click “Create a post.”
2. 2. In the form, paste the article in the Body field.
3. 3. Add your own title in the Title field, or just copy the title from the article.

Three - Publish the post

1. 1. Select the category you want for your post.
2. 2. Click “Publish.”
3. 3. Your post should now appear on the homepage.

To edit a post

1. 1. Click on the title of the post.
2. 2. Click Edit.
3. 3. After finishing your changes, click “Publish.”

New statistics from The Pew Internet & American Life Project, as reported by ClickZ Stats, indictate that Internet users who connect wirelessly are prone to “exhibit deeper engagement online” and are often more willing to blur the lines between their work and personal lives.

Now, while I’m rarely an advocate for the 24-hour work day, as organizations integrate technology to become more lean yet capable, looking at WiFi strategically is important. Whether it is installed at the office, the coffee shop downstairs, or the rooftop deck, access to wireless Internet (as well as the laptops/ PDAs to access it) can bring profound culture change to an organization, making the staff more creative and energetic about their work.

To take it one step further, new wireless WAN offerings from Verizon and other carriers gives your team the freedom to work not just at their desk or at a small WiFi hotspot but also wherever they can get a cell signal.

 Freedom from the office, or just chained to it? That’s a decision for you to make. We’d err on the side of providing access, then empowering our employees to shut it off when they need to draw that line.

We have always looked for ways to build interactive projects that are more in tune with business goals. But at some point, business goals need to look for ways to better integrate online activities. Toward that end, we developed the concept of The Interactive Firm. It’s nothing fancy, just a look at how, in an ideal world, a professional firm can embrace technology in a way that is both technologically advanced and strategically deployed.

So without further ado, here are the five core traits that are the foundation of The Interactive Firm:

• 1. Places value on developing relationships via online media beyond an online brochure.
• 2. Embraces cutting edge one-to-one communication opportunities.
• 3. Understands its target audience.
• 4. Pours its culture into marketing communications.
• 5. Leverages technology to meet client needs and provide better, more efficient service.

Comments? Suggestions? Heated debate? We’re up for it!

Flat Creek has refocused the firm’s services to concentrate on the strategic application of technology to meet clients’ marketing needs.

Read the full press release here.

We really just threw this together over the weekend, but as with any site, the devil is in the details. But now the pages are up and running smoothly (if you see differently, please comment below).

I’m up late tonight working on the site in order to get handheld formatting up and running. As I mentioned a couple of days ago, liquid design allows websites to be formatted for the small screen without requiring special databases and web applications to format those pages. In our case, check out www.fcreek.com on your wireless phone. It’s crazy how well this works!

More details on the site soon, but in the meantime enjoy! (Oh, and if you’re in a beta testing kinda mood, feel free to poke around and let us know what you find…

As you can tell from the extreme makeover: blog edition, we’re getting ready to roll out a new look and feel. Thanks for being patient with us through this process!

If you have an comments on the new look, please let us know…

Just had a great conversation with a reporter who asked if we work on WAP websites. Well, as I told her, we don’t anymore. WAP sites have become absorbed in the greater web accessibility movement. Whether you call it 508 compliant, liquid design, or device independent, today’s websites should be able to show up on a PC, Mac, Nokia, BlackBerry, or kiosk equally well.

The source of this ability is liquid design, which uses XHTML and CSS, two complementary technologies that make web pages both easier to download and update. Liquid design separates the content of a page from it’s design, or layout. So instead of being stuck in a table, the site is fluid, able to rearrange itself and mold to the screen.

Take for example the recent website we launched for former Congressman Bob Beauprez: www.alineofsight.com. A Line of Sight was created to provide policymakers with resources that may be helpful in a pinch, such as just before a vote or on the way to an event. With limited time, these policymakers get their information one way: via BlackBerry. So not only does the site need to look good on a desktop, it needs to be user-friendly on the small screen.

So we used liquid design, which helps the site mold to BlackBerry and Windows Mobile devices with ease. The simple text of the page is in one file, and the design/placement of that content is in another file. The text file references the design file to figure out how to display correctly, no matter what size screen it’s headed for.

So that begs the question: is your site mobile ready? Bank of America just announced that they are adding a feature to allow customers to access account information via cell phones. Yahoo! continues to update its mobile device offerings, called Yahoo! Go 2.0. Google’s homepage has long been accessible via cell phone and PDA, and the search leader is now offering lots of stuff for cell and PDA, such as e-mail and maps. Europeans have used cell phones for web surfing for years, and now Americans are quickly catching up.

So is your site mobile ready? I sure hope so…