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Week 45
This past weeks themes included, late night focus, sharing is caring, and another LWer gets married.
Let me start this review by saying last week was the rat race for our team. Our focus was parsed between brainstorming, designing, and preparing a very large presentation, sprinkled with other customer work and the normal internal-day-to-day business tasks…”I exhale.” One late night, in particular, had some us at the office past midnight. No worries though, burning the midnight oil only happens once in a-blue-moon and we always get permission from our wives or else. It’s weeks like that reassures the whole business ownership thing as everyday is a new adventure which consistently breeds new challenges.
Pinaki, Mike, and myself were invited to speak about entrepreneurship to the Society of Woman Engineers at Rutgers. It was awesome and strange for us to go back to Busch campus and walk through the student center again after almost 10 years of not being a student. Granted I do go to campus for Rutgers Football games but its to the stadium and home. It felt good telling the Local Wisdom story and answering all the questions from the students. Thanks to Christine Sommoro, President of SWE and Evelyn Laffey, Assistant Dean and Director of Woman in Engineering Programs for having us.
Friday was Eric Williamson’s wedding, one of our website curators. What a great time had by all. Eric and Jessica had a beautiful affair in Jackson, NJ with the reception in Toms River. We danced, laughed, and drank…we certainly let loose after a most stressful week. Check out the pictures.
It’s 4th-quarter here, busy will be the most often used word around this office, along with websites, design and curation in an almost tie for second.
With that said, so long and till next week.
This weekly review has been brought to you by Derrick Larane, Director of Sales here at Local Wisdom.
Breaking news…. but not broken by me :)
Ran into this over at Mashable. Have to admit, competition is awesome for the public in general. If it wasn’t for Apple kicking azz and taking names in the last decade with the Ipod and Iphone, we’d all still have “Smart” phones like the blackberry… man I can’t stand that device… (10, 9, 8, calm down now)….
Now it seems like any product coming out has to have an amazing look and touch functionality to even compete. Now it seems Microsoft is throwing their hat in the mix with the Courier Tablet. It looks amazing, and it’s even been rumored that an LW employee who is a hardcore Mac user (who will not be named) is looking forward to the device. Hopefully RJay will let me play with it once he gets his hands on one… ooooops
Here’s some of the post:
“As we were clued into by earlier leaks, the Infinite Journal is the key metaphor for Courier. It’s like an enormous notebook for collecting pretty much any kind of content: clippings from the web, your own notes, diagrams and drawings, photos from the on-board camera, etc. Each item gets a timestamp and geotag, and you can add more tags for better searchability as well.
Several key “views” into your Journal are detailed in the leaked document, including a Smart Agenda that acts as a sort of a Cliff Notes representation of your entire journal, making important items visible at a glance. The Journal Overview is another style of at-a-glance window into the journal contents, with an integrated search interface. The Library is the main file browser metaphor that organizes everything by type. The left screen acts as a “favorites” tray where you can sticky your most important apps and projects in one place.
Also detailed is the Browser (pictured below), allowing you to easily clip content from the web into your journal. You can also flip through your history with a vertical Cover Flow-like index card system. Another handy organization metaphor is the ability to “tuck” items into the device’s spine to temporarily store something and move it from one section of your journal to another.”
Just saw this on digg.com, google dashboard allows you to see everything google that is associated with your google login. It gives you quick access for all your data that is hosted in one fashion or another in the google ecosystem. According to the post:
“We think of this as a great step towards giving people transparency and control over their data, and we hope this helps shape the way the industry thinks about these issues,” said Alma Whitten, Software Engineer on Privacy and Safety.
I’d have to admit, it’s a good first step in the right direction of transparency. I know the thought that google will turn evil and hold back all our data back from us one day or use it against us has crossed everyone’s mind. I know if it was Verizon or any cable company, we’d be paying to get access to our data by now….
Now I need them to squash my fears of how insecure and susceptible to hackers their servers may be…. Stay in the light google, don’t go to the dark-side…..even though the dark-side is strong :)
At final count on my dashboard, there were 20 links which include these:
Account
Blogger
Calendar
Contacts
Docs
Gmail
IGoogle
Orkut
Picasa Web Albums
Reader
Talk
Voice
YouTube
Analytics
Checkout
Video
Feedburner
Google Sites
Webmaster Tools
Google Subscribed Links
Week 44
This past week’s themes included all hands on deck, the art of proposal writing, and a Local Wisdom Halloween.
First, I wanted to start by congratulating members of the LW team, David Spira (Information Architect), Christine Robinson (Project Management), Pinaki Kathiari (Director of User Experience), and RJay Haluko (Sr. Web Designer), for the execution of a very large proposal. It was certainly a team effort and we got it done. Speaking of getting proposals done, there is definitely an art to writing proposals. No two proposals are the same. Our proposal process is as follows:
The finesse is always in the documentation. The final proposal should always speak to a customer’s unique business needs, the overall execution strategy, as well as the personality of the project.
Last week rounded off with one of our intranet Design Discovery meetings run by RJay. We believe having e v e r y o n e on a project team to discuss creative, helps drive our work as well as achieve consensus on the overall design direction. Engaging workshops with interactive creative Q&A makes for truly productive sessions.
Halloween was celebrated on Friday at our office, with some interesting, fun, and original costumes. Look out for pictures very soon!!!
Week 45 looks to be busy one. So expect some good commentary.
With that said, so long and till next week.
This weekly review has been brought to you by Derrick Larane, Director of Sales here at Local Wisdom.