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On June 4, 2019 in Seattle at the Search Engine Land Awards, I was honored by my colleagues and peers to have been awarded the Outstanding Community Service award.  This was a special and really meaningful award to have been given, since the SEM/SEO community is a very important part of my...

Two months ago, on October 18, 2018 in Las Vegas, I was honored to have been named the US Search Personality of the year by the US Search Awards.  I have to say, it was a very humbling night and I am still a bit in awe of the whole event...

This Tuesday Night, 15 Cheshvan - October 23rd, 2018 we at RustyBrick are starting a new initiative within the Jewish community - an annual worldwide bedtime shema reading.  We would like to have this special effort promote awareness of the nightly Jewish ritual of reciting bedtime shema...

Like virtually every Sukkot holiday, we at RustyBrick put up our Sukkah named the RustySukkah.

I put it up yesterday, it fits maybe two or so people, and is open for anyone who wants to use it during the Jewish holiday of Sukkots...

For the third year in a row, we had our annual RustyBrick company event at Rockland Boulders stadium.  It turned out to be a double header game, so two games for the price of one.  Our first game was cancelled, which caused a huge amount of scheduling complications within the company...

Today, July 25, 2018 marks the 10 year anniversary of when we at RustyBrick first submitted the revolutionary Siddur app to the iPhone (iOS) app store...

The annual ShulCloud conference, an event for our synagogue customers, took place yesterday and it was by far our biggest and most successful event...

People that know me, know that I am a horrible salesman, so this is a disclaimer to this blog post before you listen to any sales advice from me.

In the past couple months or so, I had two sales people cold call me and told me that I am on a recorded line...

On Friday at about 1:15pm EST a Google Street Car was in our parking lot.  It drove in and out all within 30 seconds...

Over the weekend I received an email from Facebook letting me know that my profile with them "has been verified."  Facebook said "now people will see a blue badge next to your profile's name...

For years and years people have been calling us at RustyBrick asking if we are Google and if we can provide Google support.  I just had no idea why so many people every week would call us asking for Google support...

Every week or so Ronnie posts in our #costco Slack channel that he is going to Costco to refill the office kitchen and asks the team here if anyone needs anything.

So we joke about buying a hot tub from Costco, among other things...

When speaking with prospects about our company, they always want to know why RustyBrick is better than the next web and mobile design shop around the corner...

One of the more popular features of the iOS version of our mobile smart siddur are smart notifications.  These smart notifications let you set reminders around Jewish events and times throughout the day. Such as remind me to pray mincha (afternoon) services X minutes before sunset...

Google has been sending out videos to some of businesses that have Google My Business listings (Google Maps or local listings).  These videos are marketing materials that Google automatically generated based on your Google review history on your local listings in Google Maps...

There is something about offices and A/C units that just don't get along.  I am not talking about no one in the office agreeing about the temperature the thermostats are set to. I am talking about the A/C units simply not working...

Like most people, I order a lot of stuff on Amazon - I am one of the 100,000 million customers that have Amazon Prime.  But I rarely order books.  Don't get me wrong, I read all day long and I also write all day long - but in terms of books, normally I do not order books on Amazon...

For the past decade, I've been using the same Apple Cinema Display for my office set up.  Before that, I used an older Apple Display but then on July 20, 2011 they stopped producing new models and in 2014 they stopped selling them on their web site...

It has been 9-months since we upgraded our office Internet and network to support gigabit speeds...

Unless you are living under a rock, you probably have heard all the news around Facebook and Cambridge Analytica. Specifically how your data may have been shared with them and maybe Russia.  Supposedly 87 million users may have been impacted by this...