Flickr Face Lift Reminiscent of Facebook Layout, Takes a Run at Google

Did anyone else notice that Flickr’s redesign propelled it in the direction of looking exactly like Facebook would look if images were the only content type? I am not denying that Marissa Mayer has brought an incredible amount of fresh ideas and new strategies to reinvigorate Yahoo and at the very least to keep it in …

Got History? There’s a Plugin for that

Admit it—every now and then you have one of those days when Barbara Streisand’s The Way We Were is playing on repeat in your head. You grow nostalgic, and your mind flips through past moments like a timeline of events, and really, what better song is there to accompany you then a ballad by Babs?

One beauty of the internet is that we no longer need to rely on our memory to …

Life Skills Center Art Show Builds Community Support and Launches Their New Branding

OmniStudio was honored to host the Life Skills Center’s Paint + Paper Art Show and Sale this week. The Life Skills Center, Omni’s 2013 ReachOut Partner, offers an amazing and unique service to an underserved community, providing a …

Marketing, Fundraising, Online Engagement: Tying it all Together

I was struck this weekend by a beautiful metro car ad featuring the Partners in Preservation campaign to support 24 historical places in the DC metro area. My interest was naturally piqued by the combination of historic sites (I love history, worked for a museum) and social media engagement (I …

Step Away from the Button

As consumers, we are always being told to upgrade our software, be it on our phones, on our computers, on our GPS devices. It has become second nature to click that upgrade button whenever prompted.  It’s no wonder then, that we apply this behavior to our websites.  More often than not though, the upgrade is not what you expected, so instead of getting a fully functional website, you are left …