http://www.northboroughgroup.com Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:19:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This article from LifeHacker, while slanted more toward urgency as handed down from atop the corporate ladder, speaks to why I have not written in this blog all these months. My clients enjoy an urgency when they call on me to assist them. I believe it is why they are ... http://www.northboroughgroup.com/uncategorized/urgency-as-a-competitive-edge/ I want to express some gratitude for some of the people and events that made this past year special. My beautiful little girls are of course my greatest blessing. Mia turned seven this year and Sophia turned two. (My wife and I, well, yes, we had birthdays too.) They truly fill ... http://www.northboroughgroup.com/personal/happy-new-year/ I wrote recently how I was using a wiki to manage my time, projects, and deliverables. But some fundamental truths about this practice become apparent to me after a couple of months. Here are a few things I've found. Don't become enamored of your own writings. It's real easy to fill ... http://www.northboroughgroup.com/tools/notes-on-wiki-time-management/ Of necessity, I was recently forced to migrate to a new computer. My laptop has become flaky, shutting itself down without notice at random intervals throughout the day. I have my jacked-up alienware box that I use for my home studio and decided to dual purpose that for music and ... http://www.northboroughgroup.com/tools/open-source-replacement-applications/ This should be a ongoing series. There are so many companies who still do not get basic customer service. Today's example is brought to you by VistaPrint. I've used VistaPrint only a few times: to order business cards for both my wife and I, to have some cheap brochures printed up, ... http://www.northboroughgroup.com/strategy/simple-ways-to-lose-customers/ At any given time I have a dozen or more customers and prospects to manage deliverables for. Add to this that I have struggled for years to find a good way to keep things like this organized. About a month ago I installed MediaWiki on my site to help manage ... http://www.northboroughgroup.com/tools/using-social-media-in-the-workplace/ I've been spending time lately culling through a variety of plugins for WordPress to offer clients who want to beef up their CMS capabilities. I came across three recently that I find particularly useful. The first is Flickr Photo Gallery. The toolbar integrates nicely with the image upload component in the ... http://www.northboroughgroup.com/tools/required-wordpress-plugins/ Many months ago (perhaps even two years ago) I installed the WordPress multi-user package on my development host. Within minutes, I abandoned it. I can't recall now what the issue was, but I do remember thinking to myself that if it is this broken just trying to get the thing ... http://www.northboroughgroup.com/cms/wordpress-mu/ I think always of economy in my work. Not what I get paid or how many hours I work. But rather, what needs to be done to solve a problem or create a better solution, and how that solution can be reused and modified to solve other problems. Simplicity in ... http://www.northboroughgroup.com/strategy/economys-of-scale/ The title of this post comes directly from an ad on Craigslist today. I kid you not, here is the text of the ad: We are seeking a creative person to update our 8 page website. Hoping to work with a student or amateur – No Pros Please. Website originally created ... http://www.northboroughgroup.com/tools/website-design-update-needed/