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Simple, to-the-point Project Management resources that can be found on-line. woork also provides Excel templates for download.
When Your Idea Crashes and Burns
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Being fashionably late to the party is often a good thing. Your Joe’s Jeans are on, your car is gleaming and you’re set to make your grand entrance. Only to find out the party is over when you get there.
During the past year, myself along with two other local guys have been hard at work on an idea we knew would be a hit. We didn’t need market research or focus groups. We had “that feeling” that I’m sure the experts will frown down upon us for trusting in the first place.
We acquired the name, pushed the paper towards an LLC, developed the wireframes and started probing the market for content. This morning, I stumbled upon a brand new site – by new I mean not even two days old – that has the look, feel and smell (not really) of our idea. Ughh. Even worse, a few people we exposed our idea to are now working with the “new site”.
So, what’s a guy to do? Get defensive? Nope. Get even? Not a chance. There are two options as I see it: 1) Push forward and take a now unoriginal idea and make it remarkable or 2) hibernate the idea for a while.
For now, I’m going to sleep on it. What would you do?
“69% of U.S. government managers say 1 in 5 projects finish on time and within the budget.”
— PM Network Magazine, Volume 22, No. 3
1 in 5 Projects Finish On Time
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“If I build a nonprofit foundation to solve a social problem, I depend on being able to raise money through donations. But if I build a social enterprise instead, and figure out how to make my own money, at least enough to power the enterprise, then I'm in charge. I focus on the business model and the social benefit and the underlying purpose, instead of the fundraising.”
Being For-Profit Can Change Your Non-Profit
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Update: Shoestring Branding has a good post on tumblelogs and personal blogging.
On February 2nd I reclaimed my name by launching what you see before you as CaseyPeters.com. As I mention in my bio, this site is constructed very similar to a tumblelog. The only difference is that it’s powered by WordPress.
A long time favorite designer of mine, Jeff Croft, recently launched the redesign of his personal site. And it’s perfect!
At first glance the brown theme overwhelmed me. Certain shades of the color are sometimes hard to pull off but after several seconds my eyes quickly adjusted to what I think is the best example of a personal website on the web.
Tumbleloging captures the life of the author(s) in an organized way so that it’s masterfully displayed for visitors. With his redesign, Jeff has taken blogging to whole new level by tumbling posts, tweets, links, events and photos.
Instead of hogging up database space with photo uploads, Jeff has tapped directly into the flickr API. He even brings over users and their comments. A very nice touch in my opinion. But the best photo layout feature of all is his Google-mapped location indicator.
His blog entry layouts are far from those found here. As you can see, I haven’t enabled comments but that’s not entirely my fault. Jeff did and his comment form is top-shelf caliber.
Another component usually not found on tumblelog’s are sidebars. Again, Jeff conquered the right side of his new site with an Authentic Jobs feed, his tour dates and my favorite, his long list of RSS feeds.
If you can’t tell by now, I absolutely love the new JeffCroft.com. The design is superb and the layout is revolutionary. Keep up the great work Mr. Croft.
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I'm a healthcare administrator living and working in Knoxville, TN. I co-founded Young Professionals of Knoxville, co-founded and publish Knoxify.com, created Knoxd.com and I'm a certified Project Management Professional. This is my tumblog.