Advokate has two summer interns. Brian is with us courtesy of NABA (Northeastern Association for the Blind at Albany), and we asked him to write about how the internship is going so far. Brian is into cartooning, helpful in critique, and has worked up a...
The following is a guest post by Advokate's SEO Guru, Erika Austin. SEO: always be better If you're in the digital marketing world, maybe you've heard at one point or another that SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is dead. SEO, to me, isn't about algorithms. This is important: It's...
Today I shared this presentation with the Adirondack Regional Chamber of Commerce's Leadership Adirondack Class. I did this same presentation last year, but this slideshow has been updated with trends predicted for 2017 (chatbots, live streaming, etc.) as well as current MAU rates for Facebook and...
We're excited to announce the return of The Advokate Boutique! The Advokate Boutique is a pop-up shop featuring locally-crafted gifts and accessories. It will be opening for the months of November and December as a temporary store, upstairs at 16c Exchange Street in Downtown Glens Falls. The Boutique is located upstairs in...
I'm honored that Diane Swanson asked me to be a panelist at this year's American Women Artists Symposium on Women in the Arts. The event is free and open to the public, with an all-star list of speakers, including Erin Coe, Executive Director of The Hyde...
When Advokate began, we established ourselves as the website designer in town that was a good bargain. We knew we could deliver attractive websites that were well-organized and user friendly, for an affordable price. With time comes experience. The web evolved, and our skills sharpened as we...
It's worth acknowledging that next week, the Arts in Glens Falls won't be the same. This is the last week for both Erin Coon, Executive Director of The Charles R. Wood Theater, and Ellen Bütz, Executive Director of LARAC. I'm proud to call them both friends,...
Join us tomorrow, Tuesday, May 3, at 4 p.m. for a ribbon cutting at our NEW downtown office, located upstairs from Milk & Honey at 16c Exchange Street in Glens Falls, New York, right across the way from Rock Hill Bakehouse Café. The Adirondack Regional Chamber...
For more than a year, I've been hunting for a little spot in Downtown Glens Falls to call my very own. I conducted an extensive search, striking conversations with building owners all around the city, even dreaming of buying my own building. It's gotten to be so...
It feels like I'm inside a game of Boggle this month, with a weirdly high number of my friends and colleagues shifting from one position to the next, as if someone turned Glens Falls upside-down and shook us. I find myself thinking hard about who might...
