The other week at the Adobe Max conference, I listened as CTO Kevin Lynch discussed the new Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. I was pumped. As he sold it (and I believed), this would be a new opportunity for people wanting to jump into the digital publishing space, reducing barriers, and all that good happy stuff. Here’s what I learned that caused my happiness to drain, my wallet to theoretically shrink, and my business hopes and dreams (not that I planned on starting my own digital magazine – just sounded cool), to crumble. (FCC: I’m not paid, endorsed, compensated, or sponsored by Adobe…yet. Adobe: I’ll take a free copy and update this review if you are interested <wink> <wink>)
Adobe is selling 3 versions of the product: …
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Many managers/executives promote their open door policies. Some of them truly mean it — you can really walk in at any time; however, there are always those who don’t truly mean that their door is always open.
Merlin Man had a great post on a conversation he had with Sally.
To pull from the article:
Today I learned about a guy who’s one of the most respected and admired people in his company; and everybody in the company knows that his door is closed (really closed — no interruptions, no exceptions) all morning every morning. That? That is when he works. Then after lunch, through the end of the day, his door never closes — yes, come in and “interrupt” all you want. That’s
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I recently have been thinking a lot about the business I’m forming and doing the market research for. We (my business partner and I) have had many discussions on our business philosophy — and most importantly are employee relations. We think one of the key factors to a successful business is building a core foundation of positive relations with employees at all levels. One of the ways we want to help illustrate that all employees should be treated equally is through parking privileges.
This morning on the metro I really got to think, “What does it say about a CEO when it comes to having a reserved parking space?” I think instantly of hierarchy — that this person must boost some real importance if they …
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I know i’m a bit behind on blogging, but I’ve been catching up on some reading and ran across: Integrating Social Media into a Web Content Strategy at Digital Web Magazine, and there was a great quote by Britt Parrott that is often forgotten in any organization:
Trust is a major factor in social media. If no one in the organization is currently trusted to speak freely on the phone, at meetings, or at conferences, then they won’t be trusted to use social media.
And that extends well beyond social media to the entire flow of the organization — if there’s no trust, nothing will be shared.…
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Back in the day, the Hipster PDA was introduced. I liked the idea, but found it too high tech. I didn’t need all the features of bunching all my thoughts together at the time, I really wanted a way to easily track tasks, know when to do them, easily reorder them, and have a sense of accomplishment when they’re done. Well, I’m here to introduce my way of doing it, with…index cards.
I use a trickler file to keep me on track of what I need to do each day. I can easily move things to the future and at the beginning of the day I can see what’s ahead. After reading Getting Things Done, it hit me. I wanted to take the ease …
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I just read a great article “Building a .com in 24 hours.” There’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to create a simple .com and launch it in such a short period of time. The author (Dominiek?) takes us through his steps and thought process as he created Wigitize from conception to launch.
This begs the question – why is development taking so long? Sure, it’s time and politics. Maybe waiting for the client to decide on the actual requirements or for everything to be hashed out and done being changed. Maybe the developers are getting distracted. The team over at OMA launched a new app from conception to, well, launch in one month (pulse). Let’s face it, if everyone is …
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“A failure to plan on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.”
This quote comes from one of my former former supervisors and these past few weeks it couldn’t be more true for how I feel. This supervisor held strong that if someone (an employee, supervisor, friend, family member, whomever) did something that required your action in an immediate sense because of their lack of planning — the action isn’t going to be immediate. Just because someone you know drops the ball doesn’t mean that you should have to make up for their lack of planning.
I could share dozens of stories of times when I’ve had a supervisor, friend, or just someone I know come up to me who has failed to …
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