Communication over the next few days will be intermittent for Work Industries as we travel to Winnipeg to celebrate the 80th birthday of Joan Sherrett. Tomorrow, November 10th, over the weekend and Monday, November 13th, we may be patchy on prompt replies. Regular...
Just a quick note to thank the folks at Social Tech Brewing for last night’s gathering where I presented our experience developing and launching Think Salmon. To the organizers, thanks for letting me present and running a fun event. To the attendees, thanks for...
Tuesday night I presented at the first ever CaseCamp Vancouver. So what is CaseCamp? Think of Bar Camp and shorten it and make it about marketing that uses technology, not just about technology. That’s Case Camp. Presentations are 10-minute, rapid-fire case...
To manage all the different Work Industries projects I use a web-based project management tool called Basecamp from design firm 37 Signals. 37 Signals are widely known as proponents of simple, clean software. In fact, they say as much on their front page: We believe...
A stellar Work Industries client, the Pacific Salmon Foundation, is looking for a full-time program coordinator to join their team. The job will entail lots of document and proposal review, salmon program administration and coordination and basic desk work at a...
What follows are my notes from a presentation to WESTAF I did this morning. They are point form for referral and may only be really understood by me and the handful of folks in the room on the 31st floor this morning. But here they are nonetheless for your perusal....
Please note that as of tomorrow, August 15th, Work Industries World Headquarters will be located at the following address: Work Industries World Headquarters Suite 302 - 70 E. 2nd Avenue Vancouver, BC, Canada - V5T 1B1 Anyone looking to reach us by post, with a cheque...
I’ll be travelling for the next few weeks and, as a consequence, communication to and fro may be intermittent. If you need to reach me, the best way is by phone at 604-788-1502. I’m uncertain if I’ll have an Internet connection at our place on Lake...
More from the TED blog, a video of NYTimes tech columnist David Pogue on the inanity of software complexity that does a good job of ridiculing some of the accepted practices of software. Highlights include an impression of Steve Jobs singing ‘Don’t Cry for...
Rob Cottingham writes to remind me of a great event coming up next week here in Vancouver: Social Tech Brewing. I attended the last Social Tech Brewing at The Whip back in May and met some great folks. I also ran into some folks I hadn’t seen for awhile and...