Product Review: Producteev

January 16, 2011

I’ve been evaluating a new task manager program called Producteev.  It is a fairly decent product and easy to use.   The product is purely web-based.  Tasks can be entered  either on the site, or via email.   The company has several different offerings, from Free to $330 yearly. The product is good for teams who want [...]

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PMP (Project Management Professional) Certification

July 27, 2010

I am currently working on my PMP Certification from PMI (Project Management Institute).  I wrapped up my first class two weeks and beginning the second class this week.   One thought I have is that not every organization has a PMO Office.   I can understand some small businesses not having a PMO Office,  however,  if [...]

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Chamberlain Performing Arts utilizes Greater Giving Software

May 11, 2010

Chamberlain Performing Arts, a local non-profit performing arts company,  recently had their 4th annual auction.  Last year we purchased a software package from Auction Pay now known as Greater Giving.   By utilizing their software, we could track auction items as they were donated, create bidder packets for the event, as well as bid sheets for [...]

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Book Review: Trust Agents

May 3, 2010

The big take away from this book, Chris and Julien spell it out loud and clear:
So if you were to retain one piece of information, one tip, about the social side of trust, it should be this: You need to be liked, and you start becoming likable by being worthy of being liked. Be kind. Be patient. Be humble, on time, and generous. Be that person you would like to be friends with. Likability and the related traits, intimacy, is one of the biggest factors in trust, and it’s also one of the easiest to develop with people online. So work on that first with people, before you try to create transactions or take things further. It makes a world of difference.

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Web Hosting

April 11, 2010

I am currently hosting my website at a company called HostGator (affiliate link).  I have been using them for a couple of years now and have extremely pleased.  As part of the budget process for Chamberlain Performing Arts, I was looking for ways to cut costs, so more funds could be spent elsewhere in the [...]

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Budgets, Budgets and more Budgets

March 23, 2010

I am currently working on budget both for Oracle Global IT and for Chamberlain Performing Arts.  Each budget is completely different and on a different scale,  although there are some similarities, for example looking at past expenses for patterns of spending, breaking different parts of the budget based on projects or performances.    As part [...]

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Favorite Applications

March 4, 2010

Everyone has their favorite applications they like to use.   What is your favorite program?  Is it your web browser, is it Outlook, or what is it?   One of my all time favorite applications is Evernote.   This application is truly amazing.     This program is your brain on steroids.  If implemented correctly you can use this [...]

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Message Board Conversion Results

February 15, 2010

The message board conversion was a success!  With the size of the database, approximately 1.2 GB (gigabytes) it took most of the weekend to convert and test.  The only issue I had was the hosting company (HostGator) I am using has limits on shared accounts of how long a script can run.  Due to this, the [...]

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Message Board Conversion

January 31, 2010

I am currently an administrator on a local message board and we are currently running on Iknonboard version  3.12.  This software has not been updated in years and the updates that are provided are no longer supported.  The decision was made to convert to phpBB version 3.  phpBB (http://www.phpbb.com/) is an open source message board [...]

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Welcome to my Blog

January 25, 2010

It has taken some time to get started on this blog. Trying to decide what topics to write about has been one of my greatest challenges to get this kicked off.  Finally, I have decided some various subjects to write about.  In the coming weeks, I will be writing about various projects that I am [...]

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