I’m setting up monthly ‘Office Hours’ to provide marketing strategy advice to local tech companies here in Utah at two locations. If you’re local and would like to schedule some of that time to discuss your company or project marketing efforts, you can sign up at http://bit.ly/Kiln-Mktg Here’s some background on...
Recognizing the need to get back into the habit of sharing details on some of the upcoming events at which I’ll be presenting, I thought I’d publish a quick post on my travel plans for the next month. If you are thinking about attending one or more of them, there...
Since moving to the Salt Lake Valley 18 months ago, I’ve not been able to plug myself into the local technology and entrepreneur community as much as I had hoped. Between a somewhat hectic travel schedule and a steady stream of client work, there are days when I don’t venture...
The Microsoft Ignite Community Reporter squad have been sharing details and recommendations on the technical gear we’ll be bringing to the event in just over a week, and I’d love to hear from readers any other recommendations. I just live streamed via Facebook as I walked through my gear, and...
I can't tell you how many times I've sung the praises of OneNote. Not that I am an expert in every nuance of the tool, but it has become my primary writing platform — and an excellent resource for information capture and discovery. I thought I'd share a few thoughts...
I’m usually not a fan of radio, but this morning while dropping my youngest off at school, I had a random station playing in the background and was pleased with the assortment of tunes from Alphaville (Big in Japan), Roxy Music (Don’t Stop the Dance), and Talking Heads (And She...
When I started blogging on a regular basis back in 1998, publishing content was a painful process. Back then, I used a free text editor and posted simple HTML to my startup’s website, uploading my images and content using a free FTP tool. In February 2004, I switched to Moveable...
Ah, I remember this thing they call summer. After spending the past decade in the Seattle area, with those one to two weeks of 90+ degree weather, the move to the Salt Lake Valley has been somewhat of an adjustment. Can people be allergic to heat? Thankfully my new home...
I’ve been working on this post for a few days now, with little time to complete it. As some of you are aware via social media, I’ve moved my family from the beautiful green, cool, sometimes-rainy-but-almost-always-pleasant Pacific Northwest to the dry, mountainous, high-desert beauty of the Salt Lake valley. Thankfully,...
For the fifth time I have been awarded by Microsoft with their MVP Award – a recognition they hand out to just a few thousand people worldwide, announced at the beginning of each quarter. After going through the interwebs and social sites congratulating new and renewed MVP friends, what usually...
