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2010-09-012014-11-02

Happy 13th birthday, Schipul!!

Today marks the 13th anniversary of our fearless leader Ed Schipul taking the dive into entrepreneurial world with Schipul – The Web Marketing Company.

It’s been an adventure – from Web design to search engine marketing to software products to Social Media… ups and downs, laughter and tears, Flash and HTML5, conferences and webinars. We wouldn’t have it any other way.

But by far our biggest gift has been the Schipul tribe that we have been surrounded by over the years.

Our clients mean everything to us, they challenge us to grow and push us to innovate and stay smart. We love interacting, visiting and partnering with them. Such a blessing, every one.

Our friends and community keep us quirky and creative – hosting great events, sharing and training with us and being there for us through thick and thin.

And finally, our employees bring everything together for us on a daily basis. Their hard work, constant personal development and passion for serving our tribe is the difference between trudging into the office for another blah work day and truly loving the work that we are privileged to do.

Happy birthday Schipul — and congratulations to all! We wouldn’t be here without you.

Photo thanks to Flickr user brunkforbraun

2010-04-16

End of an era for a Schipulite!

So today is my last day at Schipul. After almost 6 years, leaving is NOT easy. Some of you will be asking why? I don’t have a good answer but mostly to have a little time with my baby girl and to see what’s next. I am not on a quest to find happiness. Happiness is having a my health, being married to a rock solid MAN, seeing a smile on my girl’s face, and spending the last 69 months of my life with a group of amazing people that have lifted me through a few dark times and escalated the happiest times.

Dear Schipulites’ I am so grateful for all the knowledge you talented, moving people have sent my way. You had made my 20’s unforgettable. For so long, this has been my safe haven where I was not afraid to leap because I know you always had my back. I have worked some of the best clients any company could ever have. Each and every person has touched my life in unimaginable ways.

I will never forget many deep conversations with @longstation, sharing an office with @deneyterrio (WOW, lol), and my Friday afternoon heart to heart chats with a STRONG and FEARLESS CEO. Ed’ your efforts are amazing and I am honored to call Schipul my second family.

Enough already! You all know how amazing Schipulites are. I am excited about the future for you guys! I won’t be far.

Thank you 157,456,000 times for everything you have taught me.

Much love!

–@inkoluv

These have been the best days!

2010-03-122014-11-02

SXSWi 2010 – Schipulites released on the Austin geeks!

The SXSW festival (or ‘South by Southwest – think Hitchcock, but geekier and in color) is an annual event that interactive, film and music enthusiasts all the world over look forward to with great excitement!

This year, as in years past, the Schipulites will have a small contingent joining thousands of other marketing and technology nerds in Austin for the Interactive portion of the SXSW festival. And… to say that we are excited would be the greatest understatement of the year 🙂

Here are the Schipulites that are attending SXSWi this year and some of the panels we are most looking forward to! Keep up with ALL of our SXSWi-related content on our shiny new Storme site at: www.storme.com/sxsw

Katie Laird – Communications Manager + Cupcake Lover
Twitter: www.twitter.com/happykatie + www.twitter.com/schipul
Blog: https://blog.tendenci.com + www.happykatie.com
Storme: www.storme.com/happykatie

Katie’s top 5 panels:

Big Brother in Your Brain: Neuroscience + Marketing
Content Strategy FTW
From Trolls to Stars: The Commenter Ecosystem
Open Leadership: The Upside of Giving Up Control
Okay, I know it’s cheesy because it’s my panel but… Kicking Recession Ass with a Killer Company Culture (SO EXCITED!)

Jonti Bolles – All Star SEM Manager + Fitness Geek
Twitter: www.twitter.com/jonti + www.twitter.com/semblog
Blog: www.thesemblog.com + www.inmybesthealth.com

Jonti’s top 5 panels:

Beyond Algorithms: Search and the Semantic Web
Search Patterns: Tangible Futures for Discovery
Life After Wii Fit: Geeks on Fitness
Social Search: A Little Help From My Friends
Monkeys with Internet Access: Sharing, Human Nature, and Digital Data

David Stagg – Creative Guru + David Beckham lookalike
Twitter: www.twitter.com/dstagg
Blog: www.dstagg.com
Storme: www.storme.com/dstagg

David’s top 3 panels (designers are minimalists, yo):

JJ Lassberg – Brilliant Brilliant Project Manager + Earth Mama
Twitter: www.twitter.com/jjlassberg
Blog: www.jjlassberg.com

JJ’s top 5 panels:

Why Keep Blogging
Citizen Journalism Brigade
Kick-Ass cast can’t see through wall but they can kick your ass
How to spark a movement in the 21^st century
The Yelp Effect: When Everyone’s A Restaurant Critic

Courtney Pemberton – Sales Gal Extraordinaire + All Around Peppy Gal
Twitter: www.twitter.com/cpembyrun
Storme page: www.storme.com/cpembyrun

Courtney’s top 5 panels:

Caitlin Kaluza – Social Media Project All Star + Cat Lover With a Wii Problem
Twitter: www.twitter.com/qcait
Blog: www.qcait.com

Caitlin’s top 5 panels:

What panels and events are you most excited about? Hope to see you there!! Be sure to say howdy if you walk on by – even if we’re busy Tweeting / blogging / video-ing 🙂

2010-03-11

Welcome our new Schipulite interns!

Welcome New Guys! from Schipul – The Web Marketing Co. on Vimeo.

The Schipul family has grown this week with the addition of three new interns: James Nguyen, Chris Minor and Mark Francis will be helping out the next couple of months so let’s all give them a warm welcome and watch their intro video above!

2009-06-30

Congrats to our Fan Mania winners – and thanks to our Fans!

Woo hoo! It’s been an exciting day around Schipul Land today, as we got to (finally) pick our 3 Schipul Fan Mania winners from our Facebook fanpage.

Our winning numbers (randomly generated on www.random.org) were:

We’ll be shipping out a beautiful new Dell Inspiron Mini 10 Laptop and 2 $100 gift cards to our winners. Congrats!

Keep an eye out on our Schipul Facebook Fanpage for more chances to win, special promotions and other giveaways.

Thanks for being a part of our tribe all the year round, we love having you in our lives!

2009-06-26

Friday Fun: Check out our SchipulCon Badges (and our giveaway too!!)

We’ve got SchipulCon badges!! And now you can too.

Simply head over to our Conference Site, grab some code, and post one of our super neat SchipulCon Badges on your site, blog or twitter background to show your love.

That is not all though!! We want to give some of you a free pass to the conference.

Send us the URL (communications@schipul dot com) to your site showing some SchipulCon love and you could win a free pass to the conference! We’ll be giving away random free passes from now until day one of SchipulCom and it’s so easy to win one! Show some love + Win a free pass! That’s it.

2009-06-162014-11-02

Save the Date! SchipulCon2009 is taking over the Houston Zoo!!

We’ve been busy as bees here in the Schipul office planning something super special for you guys and it’s time to let the cat out of the bag!

We’ll be taking over the Houston Zoo on October 15 & 16, 2009 for our first ever Schipul Web Marketing Conference! Or as we like to call it…. SchipulCon09!

So save the date!!

We’ve got a passionate team full of subject matter experts on everything from Tendenci to Twitter and we want to share all of this knowledge with you!

Over the next couple of months we will be filling you in on all of the details including a super speaker lineup and all kinds of other awesomeness you’ve come to expect from the Schipul Crew.

We’ll be covering everything from the Web Marketing Fundamentals to how to execute a successful marketing campaign using your Tendenci Software. We’ll dish on social media and we’ll get wild about WordPress. If it has to do with teaching you how to tell your organizations story, we’ll be covering it!

We’ll be mad as wet hens if we leave something out SO WE NEED YOU! What do you want to learn at SchipulCon that we haven’t thought of yet? Visit our Tendenci Forums and drop us a line or a question. We couldn’t do what we do without YOU!

Keep your eye on the Blog Ladies and Gentleman, because pre-registration will be opening soon and we’ll announce it here first!

Just like all of our in-house trainings and webinars, SchipulCon is open to everyone, not just clients! There will be multiple tracks to choose from and there is plenty of brain candy to go around.

2009-06-15

Culintro hits 1,500th member milestone

A big “wow” and “congratulations” go out to the folks at Culintro, one of our newer customers who use Tendenci to manage their Web site and membership. In just a few short months they have registered 1,500 members after starting from scratch earlier in the year. Clearly, that rapid growth suggests they are satisfying a need for executives in the restaurant industry. Check out the news release for more details.

The Culintro Web site was designed by Schipul and is powered by Tendenci.

2009-06-042014-11-02

Because your brain is hungry – June Events at Schipul!

Can you believe it’s already June? It seems like that New Year’s party was just days ago… There are lots of exciting things going on at Schipul this summer! To see all events in calendar view, visit the Schipul.com calendar!

Schipulite Aaron Long Speaking!

Aaron Long will be speaking as a part of the Association for Professional Researchers for Advancement – Greater Houston summer workshop series June 12 at 11:30 AM.

Aaron will share case studies of organizations and individuals that have made a splash in the online fundraising world with strong online strategy and a basic knowledge of powerful tools like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, and Digg.

More on Aaron | Aaron’s CV | Aaron on Twitter

Tendenci classes!

For Tendenci users – we have 5 classes this June, from Intro to Tendenci to advanced classes like Multimedia and specialized training for Administrators and Event Planners.

Oh yeah… and these classes are free!

Intro to Tendenci Software Training for Administrators and Event Planners In house June 4^th
Online Webinar – Intro to Tendenci Software Training for Administrators and Event Planners Online June 9^th
Webinar – Intro to Memberships Module Online June 11^th
Webinar – Content Management Using Tendenci Online June 17^th
Online Webinar – Using Multimedia with Tendenci Online June 22^nd

Social Media Training!

If you’re looking for information on Social Media, we have three webinars coming up! These classes are free for Schipul clients!

Webinar – Introduction to Social Media Online June 11^th
Blogging Etiquette – Online Webinar Online June 16^th
Online Webinar: Introduction to Social Media Online June 30^th

Follow Schipul on Twitter for the latest updates on any of these classes! Hope to see you soon!

2009-05-292014-11-02

Increase Your Fundraising Potential Now! The Power is Yours…

Do you work or volunteer for a non-profit organization? Are you still using Morse code to collect donations? Have you resorted to eating the Cheeto you found in the seat cushion because you were too busy organizing your volunteer list? Me too! But the only reason I ate the Cheeto was because it was on a Saturday afternoon and the walking distance to the kitchen seemed unattainableâ€¦five second rule still applies.

Here at Schipul, one of our key areas of focus is marketing for non-profits and if anyone understands the whole ‘Cheeto debacle,â€ it’s us! We are now offering Non-Profit Online Optimization (NPO2) that will allow your organization to effectively take action and maximize your potential in the non-profit arena.

With our guidance using various different tools and resources, your organization will be able to:

Effectively manage data, events, donations, etc. while expanding your reach within the community using Salesforce Foundation.
Have access to $10,000 in Google Grants as well as assistance in setting up a Non-Profit YouTube Channel.
Grow your network through social media outlets such as the Facebook Causes app.
Have newsletters designed specifically for your organization.
Set up a free shopping cart using Volusion for Non-Profits.
Lie on the beach, drink a Mai Tai and accept donations via text message. Simply livin’ the dream.

All this and more is possible with NPO2s! And the best part of allâ€¦no more eating cushion crumbs!

Saving the world is a tough job and we want to assist you. In other words, consider us your Planateers. With our powers combinedâ€¦you’re Caaaaptaaaain Planet! Might I remind you that Captain Planet was one of the greatest heroes of our timeâ€¦flying through the air in his teal skin tights. It could bring a grown man to tears.

So how about a little help from your friends?!

‘The power is yours!â€ ‘Captain Planet

Thank you for the awesome photo jaymiek!