19 Jul 2010
There are three “collection success factors”: 1. Every open loop must be in your collection system and out of your head. 2. You must have as few collection buckets as you can get by with. 3. You must empty them regularly.
An old one... but rereading parts of this book always seems to initiate some new-found motivation to organize my cognitive space.
16 Jul 2010
The Oregon Humane Society released a new promotional video that looks familiar.
16 Jul 2010
In the final installment of our 5 part series, we feature Planet Argon, by Gary Blessington.
15 Jul 2010
Volvo is releasing an application that will put useful emissions data in front of potential automobile customers.
15 Jul 2010
Back in March I signed up for an account on Venmo because people said it was going to be a game changer. I thought I’d give it a go and planned to take a second look when time permitted. I haven’t found the time, but since signing up my only other experience with them has been a weekly email to remind me that:
I don’t mind that status emails like this get sent out, but in this scenario.. it’s just not valuable. Is it necessary to communicate that nothing has happened?1 To be fair, Venmo is in beta and is working out the kinks. They are far from the only service that does this, they just happen to be the one that triggered this post (which I will be pointing them to). :-)
There’s a ton of information being sent to people’s inboxes every day. When we decide to communicate with our users, we should be mindful of the value of the information as well as how and when we ask for their attention. Is the email useful? Is it actionable? Or is it just undesired noise?
1 Context is fundamental here. If you’re a sales manager and your sales team has had zero sales… this might be valuable information.
15 Jul 2010
In part 4 of our 5 part series, we feature Planet Argon, by Robby Russell.
14 Jul 2010
One google lab feature that I wish existed..
13 Jul 2010
13 Jul 2010
12 Jul 2010
We recently got together as a team to work on an art project. The goal for this project was for each of us to paint our own Planet Argon logo. Allison started us off by tracing our logo on five blank canvases with pencil. She then tossed acrylic paint supplies on the floor and said have fun.
Over each of the next five days, we’ll share each of ours.
Today, we feature Planet Argon, by Ryan Gensel
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