Misc

I am back in the office this morning after completing (for the 8th time) a 291-mile bike ride from Pittsburgh to (almost) Gaithersburg in support of Operation Second Chance, a charity that supports wounded soldiers at Walter Reed. The ride was great! The weather held out, for the most part–it rained on us during our [...]

As I expected, I didn't have the internal "bandwidth" to be able to blog during the 2009 ASAE & The Centre (spelled that way in honour of Canada) Annual Meeting. It was the usual story–nonstop sessions, talking with people I rarely get to see, networking, learning, tweeting, karaoke (I didn't sing, I promise) and an [...]

Thanks to Ira Koretsky for pointing me to the rationale that the Sci-Fi Channel gave for changing its name to Syfy. By changing the name to Syfy, which remains phonetically identical, the new brand broadens perceptions and embraces a wider and more diverse range of imagination-based entertainment including fantasy, paranormal, reality, mystery, action and adventure, [...]

2008 has been a crazy year. Life was turned upside down a bit as I figured out how to be a single Dad and at the same time merged my consulting business with Management Solutions Plus. I became a CEO of an association for the first time, did enough travel to qualify for elite status [...]

I am on vacation at the beach in South Carolina. I haven’t even been able to look at my work email. It’s been great! So I don’t have much substance in me for this post, so instead I’ll just send you over to Lisa Junker’s quick clicks post. It should keep you busy with good [...]

It’s a little late to be reporting 2007 statistics (so sue me), but I finally looked at the numbers for views/downloads of the articles I have up (for free) on my website. In 2007 the articles were downloaded 14,501 times, up from about 8,500 the year before. Topping the list, as usual, is the article [...]

There is an ad on the back cover of HBR this month for a company called Realization Technologies, touting their "Execution Management Systems." I like the ad because it has a certain 37-signals-like "get real" attitude. The first paragraph of the text talks about how so many companies bow to "politically and corporately correct gods" [...]

Seth Godin linked to an incredible video that you should really go watch right now. You need the sound on, because the video is a bit of a test, but as Godin points out, it’s okay to watch this at work. I had seen a different version of this video a few years ago done [...]

The “Eight Things” meme is going around the blogosphere (more specifically the blogoclump), where bloggers shed a little light on their personalities or personal life. Ben Martin has tagged me in this go-round. I was tagged back in March on a “Five Things” meme. The first five: I love running and cycling, I was introduced [...]