That last part is crucial. I gave up trying to micromanage projects and I gave up trying to portray some sort of corporate atmosphere on my website and embraced the new AGILE and family oriented business model. AGILE is more than a word. It’s more than a project management methodology. It’s how we do business. I think I’ve gushed enough about this recently so I’ll leave it at that.

Since I am a football fan though and now is the time of year that coaches are either fired or rained with praise, I have been hearing a lot of quotes about programs being run like a family. When a player is recruited to Ohio State, he is part of the OSU family and that family actually extends beyond the football field. I work for OSU and I feel part of it. At Home Base I’m trying to instill the same values. So our newest installment of awesomeness is what we call the Sunday Code Marathons. Brittany and I try to cook a great meal every Sunday for clients and employees alike and we all sit around and code and work on projects for a few hours… or all night… or for 10 minutes before we start playing some board games or watching football. It’s great. We can all sort of feel the excitement and energy of the company being on the move. We have some great clients right now and some great projects and every week we are introduced with new, fun challenges that we are ready to tackle together.

2010 was a great year that ended on an especially high note. I am very optimistic that 2011 will be even better. We are all looking forward to churning out really cool projects like a well oiled machine. Happy New Year!

Best Financial Advisory Firm:
Independent advisory firm Koos Wealth Management, Inc. of Dublin topped global giant Morgan Stanley Smith Barney for his year’s Best of Business ranking.

Fork Dorks

The site has also played a neat role as a test location for some new techniques. We used Word Press with a super basic template and rolled the site out over a weekend. Since then, we implemented some basic integration points with Flickr and Facebook. Anyway, I hope everyone enjoys the fruits of our labor.

This post used to link to an article in the Lantern, but they took the article down for some reason. Bummer, folks.

Another Update: Apparently the I in ACUHO-I stands for International.  I am not sure if that means “Canana can come and play too,” but I guess I am technically presenting at an international conference.

The current system requires CIO’s or command staff to be the primary and virtually only media contact. There are circumstances, however, when beat officers need to talk to reporters.

The article suggests that officers might benefit from following the social buzz surrounding an event before talking to reporters. Social media provides unfiltered sources of information surrounding such an event. Participating in social media can also “help non-media-trained officers learn how to channel a quality that’s lacking in most “canned” media interviews: authenticity.”

Read the entire article here.

CUPERTINO, California—August 3, 2009—Apple® today announced that Dr. Eric Schmidt, chief executive officer of Google, is resigning from Apple’s Board of Directors, a position he has held since August 2006.

“Eric has been an excellent Board member for Apple, investing his valuable time, talent, passion and wisdom to help make Apple successful,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “Unfortunately, as Google enters more of Apple’s core businesses, with Android and now Chrome OS, Eric’s effectiveness as an Apple Board member will be significantly diminished, since he will have to recuse himself from even larger portions of our meetings due to potential conflicts of interest. Therefore, we have mutually decided that now is the right time for Eric to resign his position on Apple’s Board.”

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone.

With Google announcing that Chrome OS, a completely web based operating system, will be on the shelves in the fall of 2010, this is an interesting counter by Microsoft. Google has been somewhat of a pioneer in the Web 2.0 shift from static web content to fully functional web based software applications. It has been fun watching the sort of Old School vs New School battle of behemoths jocky for position.

Now that we are done with the Flash era (thank God) and newer technologies allow for lighter weight online apps, it’s going to be interesting watching the industry move from desktops to the web. Pretty soon everything is going to be hosted online and you will start to see the lines blurred between your laptop and your cell phone. If you think about BlackBerries and iPhones, the movement has already started. With VPN technology, you can literally work securely as if you were in your office from just about anywhere in the world… just ask this guy: