Articles for category: Initiative

April 7, 2016

Greg Thomas

Content Roadblocks

I’ve been trying to get a little more active in the LinkedIn community lately getting back to groups to broaden my horizons et al.  I’ve been surprised by the amount of content that is still being posted behind a form to collect information on you the person.  The teaser brings you in – “Hey check out this new article I just wrote (like right now)” – only to get there and realize that it’s behind a form to fill out to later receive a link to at some point download and access. And perhaps it comes faster and with fewer steps

April 6, 2016

Greg Thomas

The Critical Assessment

Imagine all the work you put in over the course of a year to accomplish a project and ship a release, the hours upon hours of coding and testing to make something happen.  Think of all the beta releases and customer trials that you went through to make sure things worked. Now go back even further and envision this as the version 1.0 release where you are coming into an already populated field and there are so many features that simply need to be there, for the past few months you’ve heard the following phrases over and over again… “These

April 5, 2016

Greg Thomas

When Starting Something , Ask yourself…

Whether it is your own idea or someone else’s – ask yourself these questions; What kind of thing (group, company, initiative) do you want this to be?  Will you lead it?  What will it take? What will be be your competitive advantage?  Love this article by Seth Godin. What do you want this idea to be known for?  Great quality, low cost, fast turnaround, etc. What do you care about most in furthering this idea?  What is driving you to make this happen. How will you get people to buy-in and support you?  Don’t say you don’t need anyone or anything,

April 4, 2016

Greg Thomas

I Spent the Day Creating

Last week I spent a full day from 8am – 8pm coding – debugging, building, breaking, creating. And it was fantastic – I took a small break for lunch, had no meetings and the rest of the time I spent it reading blogs, writing code, debugging, working through problems, trying to find solutions. Was I in the “zone”? I wasn’t killing it, but I was hustling and driven to create something. Did I learn a lot? You bet, there is nothing as invigorating as learning something new and stumbling through it.  No matter what you end up with at the end of

April 1, 2016

Greg Thomas

Free Dreams – Today Only

There will be many great, memorable April Fools jokes today. But what if instead of doing it as a joke you did it as an offering. Free consultations on software problems. Free product demos. Free questions without a quote required today. Free technical support on nagging issues. Free developer support day. Maybe April Fools doesn’t have to be about the joke, but instead about doing something that you normally wouldn’t do.  What if you made it into something about your organization that your customers looked forward to each and every year?  What if you turned the table on the concept