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Re: Winterlight Choral Concert tonight at Pioneer Middle School

Ed Healy — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:50:16 -0000

My eldest minion will be singing. Can't wait.

Re: DuPont creates medical reserve program to mitigate loss of emergency transport services

Ed Healy — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:28:19 -0000

Chief Hull has been highlighting our transport exposure for some time. I wish this program well, especially since 80-85% of all calls to the DFD are medical in nature. I just makes sense to put more resources into BLS/transport.

Re: Proposed skate park donations are still being accepted

Ed Healy — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 16:40:04 -0000

The deadline is some time this Summer, correct?

Re: Proposed skate park donations are still being accepted

Ed Healy — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:39:30 -0000

It's too bad the $125,277 we've already spent on the skate park doesn't count toward getting any grant money.

Q: Didn't the grant amount get reduced to under $20k at some point, anyway?

Re: Duke Realty purchases 92 acres of land in DuPont

Ed Healy — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 02:38:41 -0000

An Amazon.com distribution facility in DuPont would be nice, says I.

Re: Washington creates recycling program for mercury lights

Ed Healy — Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:45:04 -0000

If you live in DuPont, these are the closest recycling locations:

* Thurston County HazoHouse, 2418 Hogum Bay Rd NE, Lacey, 360-867-2912

* Home Depot in 1450 Marvin Rd, Lacey

* PSE office at 2711 Pacific Ave, Lacey

* Home Depot 101 E 152nd St in Tacoma

Re: DuPont City Council debates proposed budget cuts

Ed Healy — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:45:47 -0000

That would not be a terrible thing.

Re: DuPont City Council debates proposed budget cuts

Ed Healy — Fri, 23 Nov 2012 17:09:29 -0000

Check out the cover for the 1st Reading of the 2013 Proposed Budget Ordinance: http://bit.ly/UPFrAq According to that document, DuPont is going to have revenues of $17 million in 2013, but only spend $10.7 million. I hopo staff fix that before Council votes on a budget that doesn't add up.

Re: Editorial: Who has DuPont’s best interest in mind?

Ed Healy — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:51:12 -0000

It is my hope that this is exactly what Council will be able to do, Matt.

Re: Editorial: Who has DuPont’s best interest in mind?

Ed Healy — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 16:21:46 -0000

I'm beginning to wonder if our City staff is up to the task for which they were hired. Our elected officials need real information on which to base their decisions - real numbers that can be understood and trusted. Sadly, we're not there yet.

City Council needs to encourage the Mayor to instruct his staff to give data that is both mathematically accurate and easy to understand. If they can't or won't, then we need to find new staff.

Re: DuPont Police are searching for 15 year old with a juvenile arrest warrant

Ed Healy — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 20:20:14 -0000

Thanks, Cara. Saw your original post on Facebook and gave me my first warning that Sonia may be home late from school.

Re: Travel will change you

Ed Healy — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:34:05 -0000

Now I have! Thanks.

Re: Local teen gets an early start on college

Ed Healy — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 02:38:49 -0000

Congrats, Connor!

Re: MSRP Optimization

Ed Healy — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:21:09 -0000

Good points, Max.

The only way to limit the other factors I listed above (product placement, relative customer base size, etc) would be to only use one store. But, that would drastically increase the amount of time needed to run a test - if you want a sizable data set.

How would you suggest getting pricing feedback with that in mind?

Also, I've found that any store that will sell a significant number of copies of any game (in my case, I deal mostly with game publishers and retailers) has an advocate for that game. It could be an employee or a regular customer, but stores that sell signification numbers of any product are often demonstrating it to potential customers already. Does that mitigate your concern about either point you bring up, above?

Re: Second Life Furnishings

Ed Healy — Thu, 17 May 2012 05:01:59 -0000

I never realized you dropped by Coffee with Crayon. When I was in Second Life, it was a regular ritual of mine. I wonder when / if we were there together...

Re: Travel will change you

Ed Healy — Wed, 09 May 2012 17:08:42 -0000

I loved CC's pictures as well. They made my new Droid-enabled Instagram a pleasure to play with.

Re: Constraints

Ed Healy — Sun, 06 May 2012 13:40:29 -0000

I am not a good video editor. This is 100% an experience constraint - I don't have much of it, in total or with the tools that enable one to do 'great things' with video. That said, I wanted to do a lot of video while on Tour this past Summer - so I structured my 'I am the Gamerati' videos to be short and easy to edit. My constraint on the technical experience side helped me innovate on the format side.

Re: Travel

Ed Healy — Sun, 06 May 2012 13:25:42 -0000

That's the job of the @chattydm

Re: Dorky’s Arcade: ‘THIS IS NOT CHUCKY CHEESE!!!’

Ed Healy — Sun, 25 Mar 2012 22:32:31 -0000

The Gamerati are going to go check this puppy out in a couple weeks. Hope to see you there: http://www.facebook.com/eve...

Re: What does an effective Kickstarter banner ad look like?

Ed Healy — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:16:33 -0000

I'd need to not only know who gets funded, but that advertising was a good bet. So far, it's too early to tell. Experience tells me it's partly in my control, but that most of the juice comes from the offer each project has (something I have no control over, sadly).

Re: What does an effective Kickstarter banner ad look like?

Ed Healy — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 18:01:44 -0000

I don't have enough data, yet, to answer that question properly. While I know that over a dozen projects have been able to reach out to new supporters via advertising with us, I have yet to get a proper analysis with a large enough data set to analyze what works best, etc. I'd love to do a case study.

I'd also like to know if mentioning Kickstarter in the ad has any effect, either on the click rate or the resulting conversion rate. Just need more data, I guess.

Re: What does an effective Kickstarter banner ad look like?

Ed Healy — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:58:07 -0000

I've seen a few people pivot their Kickstarter project after initial feedback. Was your logo change enough to win over some of the naysayers?

Re: 7 Magazine Advertising Tips

Ed Healy — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:53:37 -0000

A couple options:

(1) The free way: Use Twitter to see which calls to action get the most response.

(2) The less free way: Test your calls using banner ads ( http://gamerati.com/ads/ #hint )

Re: 7 Magazine Advertising Tips

Ed Healy — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:47:45 -0000

I'm also partial to custom URLs with forwarding, coupled with Google Analytics and Site Optimizer. So many awesome tools out there...

Re: 5 RPG Products You Can Fit Into A 63,206-Character Facebook Status

Ed Healy — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:23:13 -0000

That would fit. :)