Our junior developer Jordan Barhorst, is currently a senior at BGSU studying Visual Communications Technology. When he isn't stealing all the "stress ball squishys" from our office, Jordan can be found designing and updating websites. In his spare time, Jordan writes for Blog Red Machine and keeps himself up to date on everything Google. Jordan loves the Cincinnati Reds and Android devices. Jordan's enthusiasm for design and interest in music and the community make him a perfect fit for our team.

This guy can design just about anything - and we mean anything. Our web developer, Andy, is a Waterville native and graduated from BGSU in 2011. A lot has changed for this snappy developer in the past year - newly hired to Thrive in May and got married in July! He has a habit of using everyone else's garbage can but his own and often spills water on his shirt due to a "hole" in his chin. Andy also loves The Office, Ohio State and his new wife. Andy joins the Thrive team with multiple assets, including website design and development, social media, and illustration. 

This designer can always be found with a smile and a mug full of green tea in hand. With a knack for taking an idea from inception to launch - Gwen has some serious skill. With a desk full of trinkets, a love for Starbucks coffee and a furry feline named Pixel, our design girl is pretty cool. You know you've done well when Gwen Approves!

Here at Thrive, we recently added a new member to the team and we want you all to meet him! Dan Mattina is our newest member to the support team. With mad design skills and a speedy response to customer concerns - Dan is the man for all your support questions. 

Facebook pages have a few unknown features that you might want to look into in order to maximize your page. Since the forced change of Timeline for all pages and accounts, some of the major features have been changed. Many of these changes have happened without user knowledge so here are a few tips. 

Twitter, to some brands, might seem completely unnecessary. But is it? In actuality Twitter is a great way to hit tons of people at one time with a quick, short and sweet message. Twitter is now allowing brands to promote their account as well as specific tweets. This can help with the number of impressions as well as gaining more followers. 

It is difficult to wrestle the writing animal we all love and hate, when trying to write an intriguing piece of work. How do you keep your readers engaged in your material? Do they even care about what you had on your mind that day? Well - make them. When writing your blog posts, articles or even whitepaper materials, lead your sentences with curiosity peaking words and phrases. 

Several members of our team here at Thrive attended Hubspot's Inbound 2012 conference in Boston at the end of August. After attending one session in particular, it occured to us - we have great content but if it doesn't work in one format then we need to change it. Maggie Georgieva held a session all about whitepapers, ebooks and how to repurpose "old" content to make it fresh and new. She said content that has already been published can be used again when you redesign the way in which it is delivered. For instance, if you have written a whitepaper and created a landing page form but saw little interaction - you can tweek the content to hit a new audience.