2 Dog Digital

Y'all ever notice how some people collect stories the way other people collect coffee mugs?

That's Ami DePierro.

Now, if you look through her photos, you'll find mountains, travel adventures, skydiving, bungee jumping, and all sorts of things that make perfectly sensible people say, "Absolutely not."

The funny part?

She's extremely afraid of heights.

That's Ami in a nutshell.

Not fearless.

Just willing to do the thing anyway.

I've watched her tackle challenges the same way she tackles everything else.

One step at a time.
A lot of determination.
And occasionally a level of stubbornness that ought to be studied by professionals.

That attitude shows up at 2 Dog Digital every day.

She's the person behind the scenes keeping projects moving, solving problems, building processes, helping clients, managing marketing, supporting our team, and making sure important things don't fall through the cracks.

She's the one asking questions nobody else thought to ask.

The one connecting people who need to know each other.

The one who sees a problem and starts figuring out how to fix it.

And when she's not doing all that, she's usually volunteering somewhere, helping a business owner, supporting veterans, organizing an event, or planning the next adventure that scares her just enough to make it interesting.

That's probably what I admire most.

Not that she isn't afraid.

It's that she rarely lets fear make the final decision.

So today we're celebrating our co-founder, Director of Operations, professional problem-solver, community builder, and collector of stories.

Happy Birthday, Ami.

We'd tell you to take the day off, but let's not get carried away.
Somebody around here still has to remember where everything is.

Love ya,
𝓓𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓮 🐾💙

You see a sign. I see volunteers duct-taping a miracle together.

Ami DePierro is headed to a Raleigh Crime Stoppers board meeting 𝐭𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲 to start planning the next golf tournament, and it reminded me of this photo.

Now, isn't that a pretty sign?

That's the part everybody sees.

What they 𝘥𝘰𝘯'𝘵 s the volunteer work behind it...
the emails, the phone calls, the sponsor wrangling, the prize sorting, the “what if it rains?” planning…

…all the little details that multiply faster than kittens in a barn.

Bless them.

Community work has a funny way of looking simple from the outside.

You see a successful event.

You don't see the meetings that got it there.

For the past 𝐭𝐰𝐨 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬, 2 Dog Digital has been proud to be a 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐒𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐨𝐫 for Raleigh CrimeStoppers. But the real champions are the folks who keep showing up long after the photo is taken.

The volunteers.
The board members.
The sponsors who come back year after year.
The people who care enough to keep pulling on the same rope.

That's what this picture reminds me of.

Not the sign.
The people standing behind it.

Now if you'll excuse me, Ami's fixing to spend the next few months helping plan a golf tournament, which means somewhere a spreadsheet is about to grow three sizes.

🐾💙 𝓓𝓸𝓽𝓽𝓲𝓮

If OneDrive is your only backup, go on and clutch your pearls.

Here’s how this goes down in real life.

Somebody is trying to be productive. They’re cleaning up the desktop. They see a folder called “Old Stuff” and they go, “We don’t need that.”

Trash. Gone. Feels good.

Then five minutes later somebody else hollers from the other side of the office, “Hey… where’d the folder go?”

Because OneDrive syncs. Sync means match.
It kept the cloud matched right up with that delete. Like matching Tupperware lids. Only this time the lid and the bowl both vanished.

Save it on your PC in OneDrive, it shows up online.
Change it, it changes online.
Delete it, it can delete online too.

That’s why you still need a separate backup if you want “we can get it back.”

SCAM ALERT, y’all.

If you get this Microsoft 365 “Account Security Center” email with the 24-hour deadline and the “Re-authenticate Now” link, leave it alone.

It looks official on purpose. It uses your actual email address on purpose. It tries to rush you on purpose.

Also, “localhost authentication flow” is the scammer telling on themselves. Nobody at Microsoft is emailing your momma about “localhost.”

Do this:

Do not click the link
Go to Microsoft 365 the normal way

Share this with the person who clicks fast when they are busy. We all know one.