Anna King, Love Her

by jvelthoen on February 1, 2010

Today I go to say goodbye to a dear friend. Today I have to concede that I won’t be getting any random phonecalls. We’ll no longer meet for drinks back home, no more smoke breaks. Today the loss of a friend will be bringing all of us back together again.

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Skydiving Otay Lakes

by jvelthoen on April 27, 2009

As a birthday present to each other Chelsea and I bought each other’s tickets and for a graduation present I bought her pictures and video. To keep the price down, and the excitement up, I organized a large group of us. Since I had one friend that had gotten his certification at Otay Lakes, we all listed him as our referral and he jumped all day for free! I have never seen anyone so happy! He was bouncing up and down all day, on the ground and in the air.

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LAW531 – Business Law

April 9, 2009

Even in not learning, there is something to be learned. The professor answered almost every question evasively so as not to appear to be giving legal counsel. for a moment I started to think all professors were incontinent, always answering “it depends.” Deeper down I started to realize that every question was full of contingencies and started researching my questions for myself.

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The Whuffie Factor (Web 2.0 Expo Notes)

April 2, 2009

5 Components of Whuffie
1. Turn the bullhorn around!
2. Become part of the community you serve
3. Create AMAZING customer experiences
4. Embrace the chaos
5. Find a higher purpose

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The Social Media Trilogy (Web 2.0 Expo Notes)

April 2, 2009

Three vital components to building a successful online strategy by Gerardo A. Dada
1. Build a Social Media Strategy
2. Build a Community
3. Roadmap for Success
2007 it was “why?”, 2008 was “try”, 2009 is embrace.

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Darwinism On The Web (Web 2.0 Expo Notes)

April 1, 2009

Sören Stamer of CoreMedia led one of the most inspiring talks about the need to evolve business paradigms to fit the changing world. Marketing has shifted, the way people want to be engaged has shifted, and only the companies that realize this have a hope to remain competitive in the coming years.

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Use it or Lose it: Business Values of RIAs (Web 2.0 Expo Notes)

April 1, 2009

Step 1 – Understand the End User
Step 2 – Do Not Hope for Silver Bullet Design
Step 3 – Do Not Hope Developers Will Make Good Design
Step 4 – Do Not Build For Everyone
Step 5 – Plan for Imperfection
Step 6 – Value Product Over Process

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Transforming IT With Cloud Computing (Web 2.0 Expo Notes)

April 1, 2009

Without knowing it, I had already found a love of Cloud Computing. I found that bouncing my email from ISP to ISP was inefficient and difficult to manage my archived items years ago and had moved to Yahoo for my personal email and Gmail for my professional contacts. Not only was I no longer tied to my home computer but by moving to the cloud I was able to access the data even faster! SalesForce seems to have taken all of the regular office utilities and moved them to be easily shared and gave access to an entire workforce! Pretty clever.

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