In the past few weeks, I’ve neglected to blog about anything. For those of you subscribed to my feed, you’ll notice the del.icio.us daily updates, but no one has seen anything remotely resembling a true post. The reason I’ve been lax is because my current contracts are really taking up the majority of my time. [...]
A few weeks ago, I decided to make a career change. This change calls for me to give up the wonderful use of a corporate IT budget to pay for Exchange, SharePoint, and a “free” laptop. In the space of a few days, I turned in a Windows Mobile cell phone and Tablet PC, too. [...]
With most of the work we build these days concentrating on software development and IT strategy, it never hurts to read about the power of relationships and personal interaction. How to Choose a Designer lists the basics of picking anyone to work with: Enthusiasm Experience Flexibility Speed Trust IMHO, trust is the most important. Without [...]
I have. I failed at it every time when I hired a person specifically for sales. However, when I hired someone for another position and migrated that person into a sales position, we found mutual success. Jim Berkowitz’s CRM blog cites an article from Selling Power. His post is a good intro to the lengthier [...]
I’ve been using Carbonite for a few weeks now and it’s been backing up ~25 gigs of my data. It’s been really great not having to worry about the archiving and security of the files. Between the time I started using it and now, a friend had his laptop stolen. He lost pictures and videos [...]