7thgroove » business http://www.7thgroove.com/blog Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:01:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Solve it once http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2009/solve-it-once/ http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2009/solve-it-once/#comments Thu, 11 Jun 2009 23:23:08 +0000 kevin http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2009/solve-it-once/ Another great group problem solving model:

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]]> http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2009/disagree-and-commit/feed/ 0 Ten Ways to Use LinkedIn to Find a Job http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2009/ten-ways-to-use-linkedin-to-find-a-job/ http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2009/ten-ways-to-use-linkedin-to-find-a-job/#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:04:22 +0000 kevin http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2009/ten-ways-to-use-linkedin-to-find-a-job/ LinkedIn has over thirty-five million members in over 140 industries. Most of them are adults, employed, and not looking to post something on your Wall or date you.

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]]> http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2009/tweetbacks-plugin-for-wordpress/feed/ 0 Analytics & Twitter? with Joost de Valk http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2009/the-analytics-issue-with-twitter-joost-de-valk/ http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2009/the-analytics-issue-with-twitter-joost-de-valk/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:43:37 +0000 kevin http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2009/the-analytics-issue-with-twitter-joost-de-valk/ This is a very neat approach to a very new problem with web analytics. Specifically Twitter–which is all the rage. I’d like to explore this issue in a broader context with Hugh. But I’m not sure I can do that in 140 characters or less?

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]]> http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2009/the-analytics-issue-with-twitter-joost-de-valk/feed/ 0 Going Officeless http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2008/going-officeless/ http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2008/going-officeless/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:21:31 +0000 kevin http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2008/going-officeless/ I’m not the first to try it, but I’ve recently opted to ‘try’ to use Google Docs exclusively to manage… well an entire small business really. Not 7thgroove, but another. So far its excellent. The team is distributed across Canada and the US. We are finding the new Google Docs features, well, fantastic. Amazing collaboration, document control, off line synchronizing, and change notifications. I’ll update more details, but I can say I see a potential threat to MSOffice here.

]]> http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2008/going-officeless/feed/ 0 One day, one website http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2008/one-day-one-website/ http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2008/one-day-one-website/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:45:56 +0000 kevin http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2008/one-day-one-website/ We just launched a very simple site for a chiropractor in Collingwood. The trick with this is, we did it in one day—5 hrs to be exact. I remember several years ago reading an article by Jim Frau on Wired with a title like : One day, five bucks and a website. Well this was kind of like that. I find building websites now is a bit like lego, all the peices are built and out there, you just have to put them together in interesting ways. You can do fantastic stuff with little to zero actually coding. Check it out www.mountainchiropractic.ca.

This site also represented an experiment in new process. The client had very little say in terms of the design of the end result. Unlike the current process which has a lot of client engagement, design reviews, choices, trade offs, education, justification, explanation etc.. Not that that is bad. Just that if the scope of the project is quite small, like this one, a designer can ‘get-it’ quite quickly and easily, and maybe the client can save quite a bit of money by well you know ‘trusting the designer’.

It’s kind of like those new Home improvement shows. Where the designers meet the home owners, understand their needs, ask a bunch of probing questions… then ship the home owner off somewhere at some point so they don’t get in the way. Maybe they are involved a bit in the tear-down and part of the renovation. They’ll inevitably hate the paint color, because they can’t envision the end result. But when they come back at the end and see the final product 9 times out of 10 they love it.

Well this project was like that. We chatted, set some scope and goals. Really tried to focus on the goals. Next we had the customer write a document that had all the content the site needed to present. They gave us their logo. Showed us a few sites they liked in terms of design and tone. That was it. No concepts, no design reviews, nothing. We took complete creative control. One day, or five hours later , the next thing the heard from us was—your site is done. What was the result? Here’s a quote:

“I LOVE THE SITE!!!!! You are AMAZING!!!! THANK YOu Thank you THANK YOU!!!!!” Dr. Heather Munroe

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]]> http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2008/coe/feed/ 0 Dress for success http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2008/dress-for-success/ http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2008/dress-for-success/#comments Wed, 06 Feb 2008 03:08:30 +0000 kevin http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2008/dress-for-success/ Just because you put on nice clothes and sit in meetings doesn’t mean you’re important. I’ll judge you on the quality of the work you produce thank you very much… not how many – would be – important meetings you can attend in a day and how much your shoes cost.

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]]> http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/to-wiki-or-not-to-wiki/feed/ 0 Viral Marketing for the Real World http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/viral-marketing-for-the-real-world/ http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/viral-marketing-for-the-real-world/#comments Sat, 19 May 2007 20:01:56 +0000 kevin http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/viral-marketing-for-the-real-world/ Interesting HBR Ideacast podcast. HBR’s Cathy Olofson sits down with Columbia University professor Duncan Watts to discuss Viral Marketing. Watt’s new article in the May 2007 issue of Harvard Business Review that while marketing messages may not exactly spread like disease, viral marketing, if used correctly, can be an extremely successful and cost-effective means for getting the word out. Source and podcast link

]]> http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/viral-marketing-for-the-real-world/feed/ 0 Flurious http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/flurious/ http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/flurious/#comments Wed, 11 Apr 2007 00:09:52 +0000 kevin http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/flurious/ I’ve had a busy last ten days… that’s involved a lot of snow—more than I’d expected. Here’s a pictorial

10 days ago – Playing in the Purcell Mountains, BC
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6 days ago – Working in Ottawa
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2 days ago – Bike team directing in Richmond Virginia
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Let me get this right, if I’d bought the original paper with all of its hundreds of articles I would have paid like .75 cents. Now, if I want to search your database and read it from the archives it will cost me $5, and whoa, what a deal $18 for four articles. They do make great websites, but newspapers just don’t seem to get the internet.

]]> http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/newspapers-grrr/feed/ 0 Slashing Project Time and Cost http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/slashing-project-time-and-cost/ http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/slashing-project-time-and-cost/#comments Tue, 20 Feb 2007 12:57:35 +0000 kevin http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/slashing-project-time-and-cost/ This podcast was, well, really really good. Barry Flicker helps people see how their behaviours are helping to transact breakdowns in projects and how they can identify and change that immediately. He then helps to show us how to develop the communication and workflow analysis skills to produce higher performance teamwork. listen to it here »

]]> http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/slashing-project-time-and-cost/feed/ 0 Never Memorize Passwords Again http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/never-memorize-passwords-again/ http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/never-memorize-passwords-again/#comments Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:29:59 +0000 kevin http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/never-memorize-passwords-again/ Actioneer has a neat little password-management system, which requires users to remember only one master password. It can be used on a desktop, laptop, or carried around on a USB thumb drive, and it’s free.

This may not be anything too new, Keyrings have been around for years, but this is a new take on a old thing. Originally from Inc.com » read more | digg story

]]> http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/never-memorize-passwords-again/feed/ 0 Are you tired of the hype Yet? http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/are-you-tired-of-the-hype-yet/ http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/are-you-tired-of-the-hype-yet/#comments Sun, 18 Feb 2007 15:55:32 +0000 kevin http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/are-you-tired-of-the-hype-yet/ Red Herring gets Mohr Davidow Ventures partner David Feinleib shares his thoughts on Web2.0. He’s not tired of it yet, and defends his sunny view of the W2.0 investment climate. Read full story »

]]> http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/are-you-tired-of-the-hype-yet/feed/ 0 YouTube to post classic TV shows http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/youtube-to-post-classic-tv-shows/ http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/youtube-to-post-classic-tv-shows/#comments Tue, 13 Feb 2007 02:42:00 +0000 kevin http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/youtube-to-post-classic-tv-shows/ All you need… so you can waste more time on the internet read more | digg story

]]> http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/youtube-to-post-classic-tv-shows/feed/ 0 Clark Exits Shutterfly http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/clark-exits-shutterfly/ http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/clark-exits-shutterfly/#comments Wed, 17 Jan 2007 22:42:54 +0000 kevin http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/clark-exits-shutterfly/ Legendary technology entrepreneur, Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics and Netscape Communications, has quit as chairman of the board of Shutterfly citing the demands of Sarbanes-Oxley as the key reason for his departure. Read full story »

]]> http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2007/clark-exits-shutterfly/feed/ 0 BBC moves to file-sharing http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2006/bbc-moves-to-file-sharing/ http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2006/bbc-moves-to-file-sharing/#comments Sun, 24 Dec 2006 06:03:54 +0000 kevin http://www.7thgroove.com/blog/2006/bbc-moves-to-file-sharing/ Hundreds of episodes of BBC programs will be made available for free on a file-sharing network. The move follows a deal between the commercial arm of the organisation, BBC Worldwide, and technology firm Azureus. read more | digg story

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