Mitchel has been in digital marketing and communications for a very long time with titles like SYSOP, Webmaster, Digital Media Producer, Product Manager, and Director of Communications for companies such as One to One and Eastern Acoustic Works and clients like Aegon, UPS and Royal Carribbean. He writes for industry publications like iMedia Connection and speaks at various events, most recently leading a panel at DMA2010. When he's not at his day job Mitchel is a regular DJ at WCUW 91.3 FM, a multimedia performance artist, instrument inventor, and typographic fiber artist printmaker. He has a degree in Philosophy from Clark University.
Check out the newly re-launched Cantina.co website. We’ve rebuilt the whole thing from the ground up to be dense with relevant information, to be easy to use and run responsively on multiple platforms. The site is also significantly easier to maintain, and takes full advantage of the new [...]
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The Philips Product Carousel is a customized branded video player developed with Flash and Flex on the Brightcove video platform. Designed to globally increase awareness of the full suite of Philips products the carousel is a single web app that displays in multiple languages. Challenge: Promote Products from [...]
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Principal Consultant and Technical Architect George White will be participating in a panel discussion on responsive design at this year’s Brightcove PLAY 2012 event. Brightcove PLAY is a global gathering of Brightcove customers, partners and industry leaders at the forefront of the digital media revolution. Last year’s event [...]
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Challenge: Provide Convenient, Up-to-Date Fund Information to Mobile Sales Force Putnam Investments wanted to optimize the limited time their wholesalers have with a client by providing them with as much valuable information as possible to make informed investment decisions. Prior to FundVisualizer, a Putnam wholesaler entered a client’s [...]
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(Editor: Every so often our consultants have an in-depth email conversation between themselves on topics of emerging technology. These conversations are often informative and entertaining, so I’ve been tidying them up and posting them to our blog. This session focuses on the impact the Apple iPad retina display [...]
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So what is GitHub exactly? Cantina’s coders use it extensively for code version control, but there is a distinctly social component to using GitHub as well. Cantina’s Director of Communicating Mitchel Ahern interviews Cantina Principle Consultant George White on whether or not GitHub is a useful tool, or [...]
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(Editor: Every so often our consultants have an in-depth email conversation between themselves on topics of emerging technology. These conversations are often informative and entertaining, so I’ve been tidying them up and posting them to our blog. This session focuses on the problems (or are they?) with Android [...]
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(Editor: We often have interesting chained email conversations about emerging technologies here at Cantina, which I plead with the participants to turn into blog posts. This rarely happens, at least in part because, as Alec pointed out: “the value in these threads is the back and forth of [...]
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At Cantina our clients are usually large organizations who need to get something technical done. These projects often have to do with mobility, apps and adapting to fast moving technological change. A general problem these organizations have is that their in-house teams are already so busy that getting [...]
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I recently attended Planning for the Future of Work Begins Now session at the Forrester Content and Collaboration Forum where a vision of our working future was presented that didn’t seem quite right to me; I submitted a question at the time but it was passed over, so [...]
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