Archive for the ‘Random’ Category

Join the Conversation (Book Review)

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

It took me a while to finally get around to it, but on my vacation this summer I had the opportunity to read Joseph Jaffe's Join the Conversation. For those of us already embedded into social media at our various organizations, much of the content of the book will be a ...

I lost a little respect

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Have you ever had one opinion of someone and then you met them in person, or in this case, saw a video of them and had your opinion changed?  Just the first 15 seconds did it for me. Link

The joys of disaster recovery

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

After moving from the CU to the CUSO, I've had the opportunity to interact with many more CU people across the nation.  One thing I've noticed is the massive amount of resources (time and money) spent on disaster recovery and business continuity.  Obviously, getting a credit union back up and ...

If only email was more like…

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

Take a short trip back in time with me... I think that email should only be controlled by a selected group of companies around the United States.  Heaven forbid that anyone could send an email! Then each of those companies could charge money for every email sent across Al Gore's internet.  Nothing ...

Which BarCampBank?

Monday, January 7th, 2008

If I can only go to one BarCampBank, which one should it be? Vote in the comments! San Francisco New England

Twitter here I come

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Shevlin finally pushed me over the edge. http://twitter.com/robwright

Names and Age

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

When I'm bored, I randomly snoop through 5300 data to find interesting things.  If you go through the list, you'd be really surprised what you can find.  Namely, no pun intended, the names of the CEO's.  They all seem like "old" names.  Yes, that's a gross generalization, but Kenneth, Millard, Wendell, ...

In transit to Forum’s Partnership Symposium

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

Airports with free wifi are cool.  Portland has it and apparently Vegas has it.  I've been gone all this past weekend and now I'm getting to catch on the blogosphere. Flying Southwest today for the first time and it is pretty interesting the different demographic that flies on Southwest.  They seem ...