“What you do for a living is not be creative, what you do is ship” -Seth Godin… And I say, A-MEN!
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Not all Practice is “Good Practice”…
I’m currently listening to the audio book “Influencer” by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, and David Maxfield. I’m about half-way through, but thought I’d share a couple of tidbits because the book is truly thought-provoking if you are the kind of person who is interested in effecting positive change in your organization, personal life, community or the [...]
The power of Social Neworking…
I was away at Web 2.0 Expo in New York this past week – a conference for those interested embracing and extending the opportunities created by Web 2.0 technologies. Ironically, it was the use of one of those technologies, social networking on facebook in this case, that got a huge amount of local press for our [...]
How Enterprise Lost my business and Budget Won
So, I’m in NYC for the Web 2.0 Expo, and decided that I wanted to rent a car for one of the days I am here. I was on wireless on my BlackBerry 8900 curve, because data roaming is killer on these things. Unfortunately, the G band wireless at the conference leaves a lot to [...]
How to keep web developers happy and productive
Web developers are a special breed. I find that they are often far more creative than other types of application developers I have come across – with many having artistic or creative side interests. Because so much of what we do on the web ultimately winds up as a user interface, or affecting the user, [...]
How did I get here?
You know, looking back over my career, I realized, I have actually migrated servers across datacenters (whether they be self-owned, co-located or fully managed services), six times now. SIX times. 3 of those have been largish migrations, one included 4 nearly full racks of servers.
If you’ve never migrated from one datacenter to another, I can say without [...]
Job Hunter’s ultimate handbook… “Guerrilla Marketing for Job Hunters (2.0)”
If you are looking for a job in High Tech, I highly recommend this book. David Perry is an excellent writer, and he knows his stuff. Guerrilla Marketing for Job hunters is very accessible, and what I like most about it is that he gives concrete examples of things to say, do, and write in the [...]
The Customer’s the thing…
I want to recount an example of a recent experience with excellent Customer Service from an online store. When I said that phrase to a friend of mine, he said, “What? Say that again?”, implying that “excellent customer service” and “online store” in the same sentence is some kind of oxymoron. Sadly, this is often [...]
How to get your foot in the door…
My company recently had an opening for a Junior IT Admin. I posted to Craigslist, and newsgroups and on our local site as well as some local free boards. I had a few resumes come in, and ultimately interviewed 5 people. I feel compelled, after this experience, to put out some advice to those IT [...]