Not only do we enjoy guiding our clients in expanding and developing their web strategy and presence, we also like to recognize the work that they do as well.

The Foundation for Educational Choice is a not-for-profit founded on the ideals of famed economist Milton Freidman that promotes educational choice to any and all who seek it. By acting as a sort of repository for nationwide news relative to the subject, Ed. Choice has the ability to keep students, parents, teachers, legislatures, and everyone in between informed of new scholarship opportunities, legislation passed, or bills created that help students seek the schooling they desire.

While they are not solely web-based, a lot of their information is passed along via the web, and their current website was hindering them from effectively managing all the information that they had. In order to help them better educate the masses on educational choice, we here at BitWise Solutions developed a means to easily deliver research, news, legislation, and other documents that directly affect each state. Their content management system wasn’t ideal and made it difficult for the Foundation to easily edit content on their site, as well as provide organized content for their audiences. With a brand new content management system and research and legislation modules, they will now have complete control over what content is displayed on their site, and that will allow them to keep it up to date in the manner they need.

Now that the new site has launched, the efficiency and ease with which they can reach their audience will increase greatly, allowing them to more effectively serve the students and parents that subscribe to educational choice.  

 

The term Project Management has come a long way since the days of Henry Gantt, who is considered the forefather of modern project management. In his time it was fair to say that all projects had an end, one was geared with a task and upon its completion the contract was fulfilled. Now it is fair to say that over the hundred plus years the concept of what business is has changed quite drastically. With modern technology leading the way, business has become more of an evolving relationship instead of the original one-and-done contractual-type work.

The business that we, BitWise Solutions, Inc. are in is one that cannot be clearly defined by having a means to an end. Since Web Development, Analytics, and SEO is a constantly evolving group of technologies, is it fair to say that a project really can ever just end? We are in the business of continuous innovation which stretches much further and broader than the word “project” can project. We’re not looking for an exit strategy; we are looking for engagements that give us the opportunity to continually improve the ROI on whatever services a client needs.

If you, the potential customer, were looking to do business with us, would it make sense to have us build out a website, application, or develop a web strategy, and not have us continue to work with it as technology advances or becomes more efficient? The whole purpose of what we do here is to help make your business better, and that simple concept never stops. We aim to grow our business relationships to be as beneficial for everyone as possible and putting a set end time to that hinders the ability to succeed to the highest level. So please, next time you stop in for an appointment, please leave that outdated word at the door; we’re in the business of Continuous Innovation.

For anyone who is familiar with Indianapolis, you know about Bub's Burgers in downtown Carmel, Indiana.  Home of the Big Ugly burger that weighs 1 lb after it's been cooked is a challenge that many Hoosiers have attempted.  It comes on a huge bun with all the trimmings and if you eat all of it, and I mean every last crumb, you get to have your picture on the wall.  We wanted to give the Dutch intern at our office the full Indianapolis experience, so he's gotten to do things like attend the Indy 500, salsa dancing, all-you-can-eat buffets, driving a 24ft. moving truck, among others over the past month, and of course, we thought it was fitting to take him to Bub's to meet the Big Ugly face-to-face.

I did the Big Ugly once in college and then proceeded to eat a pint of Ben & Jerry's ice cream and I remember how I felt after that so I decided to bow out of the challenge this time, but my Less Ugly burger tasted extraordinarily good and Michael Ratliff, another BitWise employee decided to take on Harry in the Big Ugly Challenge!  Even though the video has been sped up significantly, Harry ate the Big Ugly in about 8 minutes and Michael did it in about 10 real time - these guys can seriously eat some food!! 

If you've never been to Bubs, you gotta go try the Big Ugly challenge, and join the thousands of other people on the wall-of-fame! May the following video give you the courage to attempt the feat!