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Week 1 2010
Let me start by saying Happy New Year. Hope this 2010 brings continuous happiness, more episodes of the Jersey Shore, a Jets Super Bowl, even faster internet speeds, teleportation (maybe that’s asking for too much) and more cool, creative and awesome projects for LW. So with that said, this past week’s themes included “busy is an understatement”, “the science of Account Management”, and “10+ years of a united front”.
At the end of each year, our shop is launched into the thralls of projects, projects and yes more projects. Our customers have allotted their 4th quarter budgets for new websites, web apps, and/or have updates that they need to their current sites. Their timelines are always ASAP or yesterday. Last week was a beautifully executed balancing act performed by our project managers, designers and developers. While working on 4 major projects and preparing for a large pitch, busy was an understatement. It’s weeks like that which fuel my passion for this business and adds to the adventure that is Local Wisdom.
Busy weeks bring their own trials and tribulations and why would the first week of the “new decade” be any different. Our customers have needs and wants. They need to have their initiatives complete but want to have it delivered (at times) at the flip of a switch. Insert fantastic Account Management & Project Management here. The end of the year always seems to be a negotiation on timelines with our customers. With the 87.5 holidays and everyone taking vacation time, it makes for an interesting scheduling feat but we manage. Customers sometimes have issues. We listen and understand as the process is a give and take….and most importantly Local Wisdom always delivers.
We celebrated our 10th year in 2009 so this year would make it 10+ years of making Smart, Happy, and Healthy Websites. I have to say that our core team, which has not changed, is as united about the direction and future of LW as we were in the basement plotting and planning about this years back. Hiring talented, passionate, reliable, self motivated people can be a challenge for any company, but we have certainly succeeded in doing so. It’s great coming to work each day knowing that every employee shares a common goal in the success of our family…I mean company.
With that, till next time. Another busy week = more juicy themes. This weekly review was brought to you by Derrick Larane, Sales Director here at Local Wisdom.
I had to post this one as it took me more then 1/2 hour to find it :) It’s 3 years old, but it had my answer, so maybe it will have yours…
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/js_api_reference.pdf
This pretty much blew my mind. Its all done in CGI, its some of the best Ive watched in a long time. Probably the most impressive lighting work ive seen. Watch it
After you watch Alex was kind enough to show a bit of the process to make it. Watch the video revealing some compositing of The Third & The Seventh.
Motiongrapher also has a interview with him about some process. Check it out.
This book has been on my wishlist for a while now, but it wasn’t until our holiday gift exchange where I got my hands on it. First of all, thank you Maria! Secondly, if your looking for better ways to think about problems and sell ideas with pictures this is the book for you.
It’s an easy read with lots of examples and real life scenarios. It’s not a big book, I plowed through it in less than 3 hours. It gives you easy to remember frameworks that you can apply to just about any situation.
If you’ve read it let us know your thoughts.