A thrilling ride.
And a state of mind.

Coordinating the annual Finger Lakes Wine and Craft Beer Festival is more than renting tents and lining up wineries and breweries to dish out samples. Much more. And the Type-A members of the events team at Dixon Schwabl make it happen with spreadsheets, caffeine and fountains of support from the agency and the Canandaigua community.

Even perennial party boy and country music superstar Kenny Chesney notes on his song “Noise” the constant strain of ordinary sounds interrupting everyday life, lamenting that “we can’t turn it off” and it is “drowning out all the dreams of this Tennessee boy.”

If you had $26.2 billion lying around this weekend, you could’ve purchased LinkedIn. Too late. The deal is done and Microsoft made its largest acquisition in company history. Now, we’ve got a few ideas for how Microsoft can take it to the next level.

He was The Greatest, The People’s Champion and so much more. I never saw Muhammad Ali in his prime, only the man silenced by a ruthless disease called Parkinson’s. Since his passing, I’ve taken a deep dive into the life of Muhammad Ali to find the traits that made him the man he was. After all, he was The Greatest, and I think that’s something we should all strive to be.

So you have this project that has potential for being something really great. The only problem is [fill in the blank]. A miniscule budget? Impossibly rigid guidelines? Little or no resources? How about all of the above (and more), you say? Perfect.

Sheri Mitchell, a media traffic manager here at DS, was awarded the Lifestyle Change Award at this year’s Rochester Heart Walk & Run. Each year, the award recognizes one male and one female who have made positive changes impacting their quality of life and improving their health.

There’s no way to know if my first idea is my best idea until I march it onstage with 20 other ideas to see which one gets the part. Sometimes it’s 10 other ideas, sometimes 50, but an idea never jumps from that mental stage to the finished page without first facing a lot of competition.

Hate him or love him, Trump’s brand is real. Forty years of telling people he’s successful, showing people he’s successful and living his success has sunk in.

The Best of the Web Awards were held this morning in Rochester. And while there were several deserving winners, we thought there should be one more. So, we gave away an Apple Watch. Click to find out who won!