I spent some time last week revamping my resume out of the traditional narrative to a more graphical, user-friendly, and somewhat more descriptive format. The use of color, graphics, and images is there to captivate the reader and push them to read more. My resume now tells a different story of my career path and my skill set – beyond the traditional, “I supervised 9 people will working on this project…blah, blah, blah.” It has a focus on short blurbs and really a skill-centric approach. Yes, my traditional narrative resume still exists; to be honest, I’ll probably still send the traditional out if I apply for jobs. However, I’m planning to say something to the effect of: “To learn more about me, check out my …

A few weeks ago I relaunched this website and have been shaping the focus the content will have for the upcoming year. This new design gives me a bit more flexibility in updating some of the elements of the site – and gets me out of the 3+ year-old theme I was using. The things I’m going to focus on will primarly be:

• The intersection of technology and government
• Research and developments in the social media space
• General topics of interest in the area of technology and the web

There might be a random post announcing new sites I launch, but for the most part, that’s the focus.

With that, I’m pleased to announce the launch of a new website: The Facebook Study. This …

Welcome to the new site. Yah…looks like the old one. We’ll work on that.

In the meantime, all the old posts are here and the stuff people have enjoyed (tutorials, etc.).

More to come in the future – as well as updates on the redesign of matthewvb.com and the launch of a site in stealth right now (shhhh, it’s a secret!).…

It’s been over six months since I last posted and I wanted to do a brief update about what I’ve been up to.

• Work: I’ve been cranking away hard at MPRI (L-3) as a Technical Lead / Project Manager on a really cool CMS we’ve built. There’s nothing like it on the market and we’re wrapping up our beta preparing for a  launch any day now. Our client is loving it and I’m happy to be launching probably the most powerful CMS I’ve ever run across.
• MBA: I’m cranking away with just over a year left to go to complete my MBA program at Mason. I’ve decided to forgo the official specialization for a hybrid of entrepreneurship and information systems. I plan

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I had some problems upgrading my WP the past few days, so I got tech support on it and they helped me out.

So, welcome back and sorry for the outage last night. I’m not at WP 2.3 and enjoying it!…