Fuchsia McInerney, Pearse Street Consulting CEO, web designer & MySpace marketing guru, was featured on Indie Business Radio today to discuss all of the above!

“Fuchsia was a guest on Indie Business Radio on December 10, 2007. She provided valuable insight into the world of online network marketing, in particular how Myspace can help Indie Business owners increase expsoure and expand their networks. You can enjoy my interview with Fuchsia here: http://www.indiebusinessradio.com/#mcinerney”

Listen to the full interview at: http://www.indiebusinessradio.com/#mcinerney

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MYSPACERS REMEMBER THE FALLEN

Boston, August 3, 2007- In the six years since US troops first set foot in Afghanistan, more than 4000 soldiers have lost their lives there and in Iraq. As fighting continues, friends and relatives of the dead seek to memorialize the lives of those lost, but mounting tolls and geographic disparity has made the collaborative effort difficult. Now, with the help of design firm Pearse Street Consulting (www.pearsestreet.com) and the use of popular social networking platform MySpace, Remember the Fallen (www.myspace.com/rememberfallensoldiers) is reaching out to a widespread audience to catalog and memorialize soldiers from all past and present theaters of combat.

When Chris Veit begun the project two years ago in Florida as a simple website, it was able to accrue wide ranging support from present and former servicemen and women, their families, and various businesses and corporations, but acting on the maxim “A Soldier only dies if they are forgotten” he sought a broader audience. Now, with Remember the Fallen on MySpace, he has attracted younger spectrum of visitors, who are finding the site through its growing network of online friends. Greeted by blog entries, photo and video postings, and a stream of patriotic encouragements and remembrances, viewers are able to pay tribute to the lost, and perhaps best of all, link to the MySpace pages soldiers maintained before their death. Since its launch, it has proven extraordinarily popular, with nearly 2000 hits and 500 friends since its creation. As a result, Veit has been able to chat with, and eventually, meet some of the families who have posted on the site. Encouragingly, the site has even seen traffic from visitors unaffiliated with the military, and grows with each friend request.

The site was created with a donation from DesignOg, a division of Pearse Street Consulting (www.designog.com), a 3 year old professional web design company that specializes in design for MySpace.

Remember the Fallen can be viewed online at www.myspace.com/rememberfallensoldiers . For more information, contact Chris Veit, Chris@rememberthefallen.com or Fuchsia McInerney, fuchsia@pearsestreet.com

By Nat Taylor, Intern

My first week at Pearse Street went well. I’ve already learned a great deal about web design, most of which has surprised me. Running a successful web design business is no cake walk. The team has to constantly push to get projects out the door yet stick to our strict quality standards. After many combined hours of hard work the result is an elegant and effective web presence for our clients.

On the coding side I’ve already remembered and learned more about how important it is to be creative in the design process. Even for things that seem cut and dry there is always room for innovative solutions. I spent several hours last week tweaking a CSS stylesheet just to rid a layout of a few black pixels that weren’t getting hidden properly. It was tedious but necessary for the quality of the site.

I also remembered how important it is to use all of your resources. Photoshop brushes can help you speed up creating impressive work. Web design would be impossible with out the using the support of the design community.

Its unfortunate I only have two weeks left of my internship, but it has already been quite rewarding.