February 2012
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The Benefit of Web Experiences in the Cloud
The Problem
Traditional web marketing experiences take too long to implement, are expensive, and have questionable ROI. As a marketer, how long from when your creative team first showed your new web concept was it actually implemented? 3 months? 6 months? More…? What if customers don’t end up engaging your idea? Or they initially engage, but traffic drops after just a few days? How...
January 2012
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Origami Conspiracy Reunited to Save Music in 2012
<a href=”http://origamiconspiracy.bandcamp.com/album/the-more-i-run-single” _mce_href=”http://origamiconspiracy.bandcamp.com/album/the-more-i-run-single”>The More I Run (Single) by Origami Conspiracy</a>
December 2011
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Top Albums of 2011
1. Woods - Sun and Shade
2. Bright Eyes - The People’s Key
3. Other Lives - Tamer Animals
4. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
5. Youth Lagoon - The Year Of Hibernation
6. The Rural Alberta Advantage - Departing
7. The Decemberists - The King Is Dead
8. Dum Dum Girls - Only In Dreams
9. The Head and the Heart - The Head and the Heart
10. The Kills - Blood Pressures
September 2011
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August 2011
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Infographic: Mobile Payments Service Benefits
June 2011
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Red Winged Leadership Award Ceremony 2011 Recap
The Graduate Leadership Formation Certificate program cohort would like to thank everyone who came to this year’s Red Winged Leadership Award ceremony in May. If you couldn’t make it, or would like to watch portions of the event again, we are posting the videos from the ceremony below.
Award Finalist - Chris Fontana, Global Visionaries
Award Finalist - Shana Greene, Village...
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March 2011
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Red Winged Experiences: Stories of a Leadership...
Red Winged Leadership is a program conceived a year ago by the Graduate Leadership Formation Certificate cohort, a group of Seattle University MBA students specializing in leadership development. The Red Winged Leadership Award ceremony held in the spring intends to honor leaders committed to embracing the unique intersection where leadership, business acumen, and social impact overlap. In its...
January 2011
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Is a Quarterback Sneak in your PM Playbook?
Today marks a new year, a chance to watch bowl games, and an opportunity to evaluate your own playbook as a project manager. Specifically, is a quarterback sneak in your PM playbook?
Many project managers have the ability to manage scope, schedule, budget, risks, and resources via tracker spreadsheets. However, managing in this fashion creates gaps in your execution. These gaps can manifest...
December 2010
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10 for 10 - Best Albums of the Year
1. Arcade Fire - The Suburbs This is the album that is on all the lists this year. My clear favorite.
2. Sufjan Stevens - The Age of Adz Since you have already heard The Suburbs if there is one album you still need to listen to this year it is the new album from Sufjan Stevens.
3. Sufjan Stevens - All Delighted People EP Released prior to The Age of Adz, All Delighted People has a more...
November 2010
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IT Guy Rebooted
Remembering Your IT Guy
Every IT department I’ve ever walked into has a linchpin. This individual is a stakeholder on all major technology initiatives, understands the organization’s platform code base and configuration, and is on every support email thread from business users.
A lot of managers and consultants will flag this as a problem, and it is, but let’s analyze the...
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From Idea to Collistic
Ten years ago today I decided to quit my job. I remember November 5, 2000 as a day I saw Pearl Jam play Key Arena and decided to quit my job. Right out of college I was a sales rep for what would become Ameriprise Financial. I realized quickly financial sales was not my calling in life. The entrepreneurial structure of the business had drawn me in with the opportunity to build my own book of...
October 2010
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RT @BrookBuchanan Business Case for EQ
Great brief on the Business Case for Emotional Intelligence http://j.mp/adfltc #EQ #Leadership
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RT @BrookBuchanan: Mail Chimp Ad Campaign
Great copy around this @MailChimp campaign http://j.mp/cyulWG. Single page site layout definitely a growing trend esp for mobile.
May 2010
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Leadership, social impact, and coming changes
Last night I attended the inaugural Red Winged Leadership Award ceremony created by Seattle University MBA students in the Graduate Leadership Formation Certificate program. The Red Winged Leadership Award was created to recognize Seattle area business leaders for their social impact.
More for-profit companies should have a focus on social change. This is the premise of the statement I...
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SharePoint Tip: Disable Workspace Extensions...
SharePoint 2010 integrates with Microsoft SharePoint Workspace 2010 to provide offline access to SharePoint resources. This functionality however causes users to receive an ActiveX message when browsing through the site. For internet sites I’ve found it helpful to disable offline functionality so users don’t receive this prompt.
Offline client availability settings are configured...
January 2010
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Music Into 2010 and Beyond
A few nights ago I started thinking about some of my favorite concerts from earlier in the 2000s. I started searching for some of them and came up with this gem flier from an early 2000 concert. Hunting down band and concert info from 10 years ago made me realize how much the web has changed music since 2000. Ten years ago I would spend hours in front of my computer with a slow internet...
February 2009
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FASTforward '09 Wrap-up
Last week I attended Microsoft’s FASTforward ‘09 conference in Vegas. The event, which was by far the best MS conference I’ve been to, showcased vision and trends in search technology and set the stage for the next wave of FAST products.
Search Trends, SharePoint 14, and the Net Generation
The traditional model of information portals is fading in favor of search driven...
October 2008
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Start of the discussion...
An Introduction
Recently enough time has opened on my calendar to come up for air and start blogging. A little about me. I’ve been a program manager for a number of years, and most recently took a solutions architect role with the Microsoft solutions practice of EMC Consulting. This latest career move has been an effort to connect with customers and work to solve complex problems in the...