Here at Charles Buchwald & Friends we keep focused on one goal: your meaningful growth. We’ll help you and your business, organization or community achieve that through bigger margins, a better triple bottom line, or renewed clarity and focus… however you define meaning and success.

Sometimes it means going back to basics and working with success coaches and advisors to refine or redefine your goals. Often it means our coordinated efforts help integrate all your business materials across a range of media with focus and clarity, making for a message that is direct, consistent, and powerful.

Whether yours is a small solopreneurship, a charity, or an established Fortune 500™ firm, we have worked with clients like you, and we can help. Our experience and capabilities encompass mobile, social, web, print, photo/video, illustration, animation, software, and identity systems in traditional advertising, marketing and PR, and business systems.  Small or large, we treat you and yours with intention, care and respect.

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Grammy Emmy award winning producer, mixer and audio engineer Pablo Munguia’s web site has been converted and updated by Charles Buchwald & Friends. Fresh from work on Superbowl XLVI and the 2012 Grammy Awards, Pablo is now headed to the 84th Academy Awards at the end of the month.

This updated included converting a legacy Flash based site to a thoroughly modern Content Management System (CMS). WordPress was selected as the most flexible and reliable solution, and implemented while preserving the look and feel of the former programming. A new system was added for easily managing customer testimonials and news articles, while new audio, video and slideshow players present content in a searchable, scalable, easy-to-manage way. Read more

CB&F recently updated our web hosting account system. Thanks to all our hosting clients who have subscribed to the new system—we appreciate you taking the time and trouble now, to make it easier, faster and more efficient for all of us in the future.

And thanks for making it possible for CB&F to sponsor local, national and international charities including:

• Bach On the Rock, Saltspring Island’s Chamber Orchestra and Choir
• Bandemonium Music Society, Saltspring Island’s Concert Band, Swing Shift Jazz Band, and Annual Solo Competition
• The Crofton Airshed Citizens Group of British Columbia
• Saltspring Save Our Surgery
• Salt Spring Island Community Education
• Salt Spring Vipassana Community
• SSI Water Council Society
• Viva Voce! Community Choir
• WOLF Kids education programme
• Living Carbon carbon offset development company
• National CCSVI Society
• Avaaz, a global web movement to bring people-powered politics to decision-making everywhere

I encourage you to check out the organizations listed above, and your local, national, and international charities. I believe we that education, the arts, and advocacy groups can have a very positive impact on our daily lives and our world. Get involved, meet your neighbours, and help make the world a better place!

Just couldn’t resist this one…

For what it’s worth, I predict that within 10 years or less, the handheld computer will be the de facto standard. I’ve seen 1 TB USB drives coming out this year, and Moore’s Law says that smartphones will be 1000 times more powerful than they are now in 10 years. So I think that in 2022, when you get to your office, you’ll plug your phone into a monitor and a keyboard… or it will connect wirelessly. And when you’re done, you’ll just take it with you. That’s my two cents, or 2 pesos, as the case may be.

Image courtesy of Bizzaro.com

Charles Buchwald & Friends is offering a special on our web hosting.

The super low price of $60/year (or $9/month) comes with our outstanding personal support, as well as:

• cPanel, for easy control of all your features
• 6GB of storage
• unlimited bandwidth
• unlimited parked domains
• unlimited email addresses
• green power (wind power!)
• fast, redundant servers
• automatic weekly backup
• discount on web services

Are you an existing CB&F customer? Subscribe now and save on your current yearly hosting plan.

This special offer ends February 1, 2012.

The sale has ended! Thanks to all my hosting customers who took advantage of the sale!

Just in case you were wondering, Charles Buchwald & Friends is an officially Registered iOS Developer, a member of the Apple Developer Program, the iOS Developer Program, and a full member of Runtime Revolution’s LiveCode Developer Program.

CB&F is currently developing iOS apps for commercial distribution, and has just published Easy Rider, the first and only crowdsourced transit information app, currently for Vancouver’s Translink Skytrain system.

In the past, CB&F staff have been involved in several significant software development projects with clients including Fortune 500 companies as well as public and private companies in the USA and Canada.

Do you have an idea for an app? Contact CB&F today, and we’ll give you an honest appraisal of your idea’s chances for success in the Apple iTunes App Store, the Android Marketplace, and/or the Windows Mobile Marketplace.