Who knew it would feel this good to have it over? Okay, well probably both Maylene and I knew it would be fantastic and it's nice to see that it is. All school deliverables for the end-of-quarter have been completed and wrapped up tight in a pretty bow! We came in 3rd place out of 13 teams during the competition and are happy with the results, albeit a bit conflicted over how they were determined. It was really nice to pitch the idea to so many people and receive favorable response and … [Read more...]
No, Really– I’m Thinking Book Not Diary
So I read a quick snippet from Guy Kawasaki today called "The 120 Day Wonder: How to Evangelize a Blog", and I was immediately struck by his first point: "Think 'book' not 'diary'". Instantly, I understood why I'm such a huge fan of his. He blogs as if he's writing one of his books, not talking about how his life is going. Oh, I know I've read some of those kinds of entries from him, but he seems to stick to this mantra more often than not. I feel like I get so much value from his blog, I … [Read more...]
Bleary-eyed
Another weekend draws to a close and I sit bleary-eyed from staring at the computer all weekend. Yes, another week brought another long list of To Dos and a wide variety of strengths to play upon. This weekend I got to use my graphic skills to make the marketing collaterol pieces for printing at Costco and Kinkos. Then I did a 360 and began to create the balance sheets and profit and loss statements for tweaking the financials. Of course, they are linked to the already-monsterous worksheet … [Read more...]
Plugging Right Along
Today's soundtrack: The Lover's Rock (Reggae) radio station on Napster. Last weekend, we created an Excel spreadsheet to track all of our tasks including a rework of the presentation for the fish bowl on Tuesday (think: poorman's MS Project). At the time, we were overwhelmed by the seventy-something tasks awaiting us. Ahhhh... naivete! :-) We completed some of the tasks this week and ported the XLS file to Google Spreadsheets today to ease collaboration. And of course, we have added even … [Read more...]