About

We provide expert training, consultation, and development services for the social web. That includes helping you understand social networks (like Twitter and Facebook), blogging (it’s the software!), and how to use audio and video to create your own communication channels on the internet. We have been providing internet technical services since 1996 for business, nonprofits, and government agencies.

We make the hard things easy for you and specialize in training services and social media consulting. We are founding members of the Social Media Club, the Hawaii Chapter of the Social Media Club, and the Association for Downloadable Media, and are members of the Better Business Bureau of Hawaii. Jump down the page to see our press coverage.

About Our Work

We produce the chill-out internet TV show Beach Walks with Rox (with well over 2 million downloads), and have 12 years experience working in internet technology, streaming media, audio & video podcasting, new media creation and consulting, content management systems, event production, and public speaking.

We are based in Hawaii and work with clients across the U.S., including Lannan Foundation (page rank 6) and Hopscotch Press (Top 3 for “california weddings”). We are the founders and producers of Podcamp + Wordcamp Hawaii, a free unconference event that hosted over 400 “in person” attendees and thousands more who joined via live video stream and Twitter.

We are currently working on a new project, KnowHow Cafe, which offers live and online classes about the social web, blogging, Twitter, productivity, podcasting gear, etc. Please join our mailing list for updates and free offers.

We are also the creators of InHawaiiNow, a site that gathers Twitter messages from over 100 Twitter users in Hawaii and sorts them by topic. It’s just one of our many personal projects that we build online to contribute to the global community. And in this case, we also occasionally sell custom pages when there are time-specific events happening in the islands.

We offer internet literacy to business.

Our clients often come to us when they have graduated beyond the skills of their earlier web developers or when they want to push the internet in new directions for their business. We are early adopters of the latest tools of the internet and are well versed in being able to help you navigate the increasingly complex and technical maze found “on the internets.”

Internet literacy (to us) means knowing how to be part of meaningful conversations with your desired audience. It means understanding how technology can enhance or impede your relationships with customers and with employees. It means being able to use email, social networks, and computer software proficiently and creatively. Our successful customers are using the internet to diversify their businesses, to improve operations, and to get ahead of their competition, by using a combination of smart technology and smart psychology.

Meet the Partners of Bare Feet Studios
Roxanne loves to travel, speak in public, paddle the 6-person outrigger canoe, and is trying to give up working really long hours. She walks the line between technology and communication with a ballerina’s balance and has a way of inspiring even luddites to try new things online. Please let it be known though, perhaps as a graduate of UC Berkeley, she is not a bystander or interested in the status quo! Here’s a short list about Rox recently:
She was voted #24 of the 50 Most Powerful & Influential Women in Social Media
She is the host of Beach Walks with Rox internet tv show
She is the founder of Podcamp + Wordcamp Hawaii
She is the founder of the Hawaii chapter of Social Media Club
She and Shane are founding members of the Social Media Club parent organization.
Connect with Roxanne on LinkedIn.
Connect with Roxanne on Twitter.
Connect with Roxanne on her personal blog.

Shane is well known as Secret Cameraman on Beach Walks with Rox and is a great dog trainer whose bark is worse than his bite. At work, we think he is a brilliant trouble-shooter and information architect, and with an art degree from the University of Iowa, he adds finesse to all of our projects.
Connect with Shane on LinkedIn.
Connect with Shane on Twitter.

Recent Media Coverage and Interviews

Erika Engle covers Roxanne in The Buzz at the Star-Bulletin, Social Media Sessions Multiply for Good Reason
Hawaii Public Radio’s Wayne Yoshioka interviews Roxanne for The Transformative Effects of Social Media
Len Edgerly interviews Rox and Shane on Kailua Beach for his podcast, The Kindle Chronicles.
The Honolulu Advertiser covers the winner of the Social Media Club Hawaii Chapter’s Contest to provide 6 months free consulting for a local nonprofit.
Rox was quoted as a social media consultant in the Pacific Business News Article on Twitter.
Roxanne breaks the record for live viewers on The Andy Bumatai Show and talks social media for business.
Shane was interviewed on The Andy Bumatai Show talking about using social media and online video for your business.
Erika Engle covers the official launch of the Hawaii Chapter of the Social Media Club, founded by Roxanne Darling
Podcamp and Wordcamp Will Bring Eyeballs to Hawaii by Erika Engle, of the Star-Bulletin
On Dishy Mix with Susan Bratton
The Best of BlogTalkRadio’s Interviews at BlogWorld Expo – Robert Scoble and Roxanne Darling
Find Your Center on The Reef by Ning Staff
Interview with Amanda Coolong of TechZulu at New Media Expo 2008
Interview with Vanessa Zamora of Webmaster World at New Media Expo 2008
Interview with Sunny Gault on LA New Media
Interview on WebProWorld 2008
Interview on WebProWorld 2007 from the New Media Expo
Interview on Podcast 411 – Direct link to the MP3 File
Interview on Pulver TV’s Focus
Review from BBC Online
Review on The Clip Show with Jim Kirks
The New World According to Rox – Annenberg Foundation scholar Patricia Martin deconstructs some of the changes in play on BeachWalks.tv
What Would Rox Do?
BizBash features Roxanne’s Ad:Tech presentation re: building buzz with video
Marketing with Downloadable Media presentation was outstanding – Review of Rox’s presentation to the Silicon Valley – American Marketing Association meeting
Kailua Web company’s online TV show goes viral – in the Star-Bulletin
Beach Walks covered on The Viral Show at Veoh.com
Diva Marketing Talks Bout Vlogs with Roxanne Darling and Rick Short
Videoblogging and Internet TV: Are Your Ready?
Virtual Beach Walk Interview with Roxanne Darling on Jeff Pulver’s Pulver.tv
Podcasting talk at IABC Honolulu, May, 2005