On this week’s new gadgets (Wednesday, May 30th, 2007)

Published by Aaron Sumner in Palm, Work at 8:49 pm with no comments.

Whew, I’ve been knee-deep in a week-long workshop on Teaching Content to All–although I’ve been getting regular exposure to the concepts being introduced for a good ten years, it was nigh time to get some formal instruction. It’s been eye-opening–even though I don’t really do face-to-face instruction, my shop is doing more and more online, […]

The flyers archives are (slowly) moving (Tuesday, May 15th, 2007)

Published by Aaron Sumner in Blog Project Notes at 5:02 pm with no comments.

With a small stack of recent flyers, and a brand new scanner on my desk, I decided to revisit my little pet project–a few acid-free portfolios’ worth of flyers promoting upcoming concerts, ripped from bulletin boards and telephone posts throughout Lawrence, Kansas City, and Seattle over the past 15-plus years. OK, so I lost a […]

The great project mgmt. experiment, cont’d. (Tuesday, May 1st, 2007)

Published by Aaron Sumner in Work at 2:53 pm with no comments.

I’ve come to realize that Project Management (capitalized) as it’s typically known is mostly a tool to keep managers looking busy to their superiors. I’m not interested in Gantt charts; I’m interested in communication and seeing what’s gotten accomplished–not what someone promised would be done by now and is now hopelessly off-schedule.
So we’ve begun (actively) […]