Archive for the ‘General’ Category

New Circle President will Speak at Wordcamp NYC 2009

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Together with Perry Hewitt, New Circle president Lin Chen will speak at Wordcamp NYC 2009. Here is the program summary: Case Study: Harvard Gazette. Within a three-month period, the Digital Communications team and its partners planned, implemented, and launched a new online version of the nearly 100-year old Harvard Gazette. The business goal was to […]

Gazette 2.0 Named MITX Awards Finalist

Thursday, October 15th, 2009

Harvard Gazette 2.0, a project in which New Circle Consulting managed and delivered all the back-end programming, was recently named finalist in the News category of the 2009 MITX awards.

Switch to gmail from POP3 (Outlook)

Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009

A few months after I switched from POP3 mail to gmail, I wrote an article “Gmail – what, why and how“. Two years has passed since then, I’d like to share more thoughts of this switch. Is gmail good at organizing email? My answer to this question is “yes”. Similar to many other business owners, I […]

Track PDF file downloads

Saturday, January 24th, 2009

A common way of tracking how website pages being used is through Google Analytics. You just need to bury a piece of javascript code towards the end of your web pages. What if you have PDF files or other MP3, or video files for people to download and you like to know how many downloads […]

Launch a “custom-built” website within 15 hours

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

We had a business idea of aggregating all musumes free days information and displayed in a calendar, can be filtered or searched on by city. Input information – free date, time, name and location of museum display information – filter by city, in an calendar, easy navigation Grabbing the domain name is the easy part […]

Website Grader

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Inspired by the Internet Marketing Kit by Hubspot, I spent last two days tuning newcircleconsulting.com, and moved up it’s grade at www.websitegrader.com from 81 to 90 within 48 hours. Woo hoo! (www.newcircleconsulting.com gets 88 only, 2 points lower than newcircleconsulting.com, not sure why these two are different.) Here is what I did: Reduced title tag to […]