Anyone catch Ben Worthen’s article on the Wall Street Journal’s Business Technology Blog? The article, titled “Shocking New Survey: Employees Willfully Violate Security“, got me thinking about Information Technology & Security. Now…I’m not a security person. I understand the technologies and the reasons for enacting security measures but I have no experience running IT security [...]
Product Management – Advice needed
October 30, 2007 By 4 Comments
Thunderbird & Lightning
October 26, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I’ve been using Thunderbird for about 3 months since moving from Gmail to Fusemail and have been fairly happy with it. There are a few quirks that I could do without and/or would like to see changed but I’m working with/around them. The one thing that Thunderbird is missing ‘out of the box’ is a [...]
Photography is tough
October 25, 2007 By 3 Comments
I thought I was fairly intelligent when it comes to technology, software and gadgets….until I met the world of photography. Wow. I feel like such a non-geek in this realm. As you might have read, my wife started a photography business (Jordan Brown Photography) and while helping her learn more about the business and the [...]
How to drive customers away
October 24, 2007 By 2 Comments
There are tons of websites, articles and blogs about how to build a relationship with your clients. Much has been written about fostering long term relationships and build client loyalty. Bank of America – You need to go read those websites. I’ve been a fairly loyal Bank of America customer for about 5 years now. [...]
Update on my move to Fusemail
October 21, 2007 By 6 Comments
This update is an easy one: I love Fusemail. As I noted in my post titled “Moving from Gmail to Fusemail“, Gmail wasn’t quite cutting it for me and I decided to move to Fusemail for ~$7 a month. I’m perfectly happy with Fusemail. The feature set is awesome….a few highlights are below. IMAP access [...]
What I’ve learned as a consultant
October 18, 2007 By 2 Comments
So here I am….a consultant. I’ve been operating independently for a while now and have come to the following conclusions: The ‘problem’ is very rarely the problem. Consulting is an art, not a science. Of course, this applies to most careers, but I think some people lose sight of this. There are many people say [...]
My first piece of hate mail
October 15, 2007 By 5 Comments
Received my first piece of hate mail this evening. Maybe hate is too strong of a word…maybe I should use ‘critical feedback’ mail. In the email, the author called me ‘very pompose and very proud of what little you have accomplished’ (I assume they meant ‘pompous’ instead of ‘pompose’). I’d like to think that I’m [...]
Musings on Passion, Life & Organizations
October 15, 2007 By 4 Comments
Its amazing to see what passion can do to a person….and an organization. My wife Tracie and a business partner (Marcy) officially launched their photography business recently (and I couldn’t be prouder of them). The business, named Jordan Brown Photography (you can view their website @ http://jordanbrownphotography.com), and the pictures that they’ve taken have already [...]
Email problems
October 13, 2007 By Leave a Comment
I’ve just realized that my migration to the http://ericbrown.com domain from http://ericbrownpm.com didn’t go as smoothly as I’d hoped. Apparently, email to me using the ericbrownpm.com domain has been getting rejected from the mail server for some reason (during the migration I moved servers too). I think I’ve resolved the issues so any email to [...]
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