March 2008 - Posts
I've been using Twitter a lot lately. For the un-initiated, Twitter is basically micro-blogging. Wikipedia has more details. Or check out a Newbie's guide to Twitter . You can follow me on Twitter . There's many opinions on Twitter, including: "I
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This is brilliant. Just watch: http://garyvaynerchuk.com/2008/03/20/the-8020-business-ruleheck-life/ In a similar vein, a snippet from Hugh at SXSW: We can only execute on 10 percent of our ideas. We might as well give the other 90 percent away.
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Whenever I have to do something more than a few times, I like to make a shortcut or a utility for it. I have all of these in my c:\bin directory, and I have my system path set to include c:\bin. These utilities mean that I don't have to think about
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I've run into two scenarios this week where co-workers asked me how they should handle certain requests. How these questions get answered shows how much you're in a customer-centric mindset. Customer requests a new version of a product Within our SelfService
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We recently moved into new offices here at Dovetail, and with our new offices came a new phone system. One of the features of the phone system is that we can get an email whenever we get a voicemail. The email contains a WAV file of the actual voicemail
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I was working an urgent support issue with a customer today who had a problem in their production system after upgrading the database client software. He said that there were no issues when he made this change in the test environment. I was surprised
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