This year's winter batch includes an Imperial Pale Ale and our own custom version of a Brown Ale.

Tis the season, and at Mightybytes that means it’s also beer season! This year we’ve made some changes in our annual brewing adventures, moving on from pre-packaged beer kits used in past years, to recipes from Extreme Brewing by Sam Calagione. Add in our some of our own creative improvisation and holiday Mightybrew 2010 bubbles to life.

So many webfonts! Where to start?

With the introduction of web type services like Typekit, Fonts.com Web Fonts, Web FontFonts, and Typotheque, web designers now have a plethora of options when it comes to fonts for their designs. But not all web fonts are created equal.

Clean Food, Extreme Beer, Awesome Holiday.

As book lovers and storytellers as well as foodies and beer geeks, what better opportunity to put our favorite pastimes to the test than Thanksgiving?

Tim’s been in the north country this week working on Mightybytes site content and cooking up dishes like Wild Rice with Lemon, Fennel and Dried Plums and Red Lentil Soup with Turnip and Parsley from Terry Walters’ new cookbook Clean Start while James and Steve were busy bottling the second of three holiday batches of Mightybrew sourced from Dogfish Head brewmaster Sam Calagione’s book Extreme Brewing.

Social sites offer great tools for cultivating donor relationships, but you may need to tweak your approach a bit.

I recently embarked on a 320 mile bike ride through the California wilderness to raise money and awareness for the climate crisis. The Climate Ride experience was exhilarating, educational, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in challenging themselves and doing good work for a great cause. It was the fourth ride of this kind—long distance road touring in the name of a good cause—that I have done, but the first in which I used social media almost exclusively for my fundraising efforts. I found social fundraising to be a quick and effective way to meet, and eventually exceed my goals, but discovered that it requires a somewhat different approach than your standard plea for donations.

Chicago's Barrel of Monkeys is a winning nonprofit in the Chase Community Giving competition, receiving 1,615 votes. This will go a long way to help a group which we personally know is a great cause. Congrats!

Our resident interface and user experience whiz Tai Palmgren is a member of Barrel of Monkeys, a local nonprofit that offers an alternative environment for children and creativity. Barrel of Monkeys teaches creative writing workshops in Chicago Public Schools. These actor-educators adapt the stories and poems written by the students into sketches and songs, and perform them in a show for the school. We profiled Tai about working with BOM and the ‘Art of Theater for Education’ in last year’s Chicago Artists Month series, talking specifically about creative process.