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Don’t Just Ask Questions, Ask the Right Ones
In 1967, Jack Kent Cooke opened the Fabulous Forum where his expansion hockey team, The Kings, would play. The Forum opened to rave reviews, with Cooke calling it the “most beautiful arena in the world.” Unfortunately, the Kings were a flop on the ice and, more importantly to Cooke, at the box office. Years later, …

Making a Difference, One Meal at a Time
The word is spreading about the Ventura County Credit Union’s joint campaign with MOGL and FOOD Share: check out this article in the Ventura Breeze here! Help feed the hungry of Ventura County by eating out at your favorite MOGL-participating restaurants. Find out more information at vccu.mogl.com!

Equis in the News
Carrie Nebens, the president of Equis, was recently featured in an online Diversity Journal article. The interview piece focuses on the positive effects of the company being run by a woman. Girl power! Read the article here.

Say It Right
I had a less specific, more general work life blog planned, but I came across one of my biggest punctuation pet peeves today on a company’s website (not ours, obviously): a period outside the quotation mark. Punctuation and quotation marks are a lot like English grammar: the rules are inconsistent. But they also aren’t that …

Easy = Complex (At Least for Websites)
Websites, by default, are not user friendly, easy to update or simple to navigate. Their back-ends are not intuitive, functional or pretty. At their most basic, they’re empty spaces ready to be filled with other files and content. It is only the efforts of designers and programmers that they become content depositories. This is the …