Category Archives: Writing

The Demystification Series: Experts, not Witchdoctors

This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog. I like that our agency has a variety of clients. Some are big, some small. They come from different industries. Each client contact has a different job description. That variety helps keep our work fresh. But it also allows us to see how smart [...]
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Controling Brand: Short URLs

This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog. Curtis asked me to write about the “big crunch/big bang” of digital content distribution.  I think this is a wonderful topic, but not something I can address at the moment. I would like to do a fair bit of research and reflection [...]
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A Boy and His Inbaskets

This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog. As it should be obvious by now, I am Manning’s productivity nerd. I am a lay member of the cult of Getting Things Done. I wanted to offer up a brief observation from my day-to-day work. Like the GTD project planning model, the GTD system consists [...]
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The iPad: What Will It Mean to Us?

This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog. A couple exciting things happened yesterday. Nearly all my attention was focused on the launch of the new First Vehicle Services website. Meanwhile the rest of the world was focused on this. Steve Jobs said that it is “our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary [...]
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Research: NASA’s Twitter Strategy

This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog. Last week we had a conference call with a client, one of the largest professional associations in the world. Twitter came up a few times and I couldn’t help be think of one of my favorite Twitter publishers, NASA. This led me to do [...]
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DIY Website

This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog I am currently reading Ashley Friedlein’s book, Web Project Management .  While not exactly up to the project management standards of the PMBOK, the book presents a complete web project management method. I will post a review once I finish reading and have [...]
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How I Make Coffee: Why I Do What I Do

This post originally appeared on the Manning Productions blog. I was a non-coffee drinker not too long ago. Then one day, in the middle of an intense project, we landed another intense job with a very short turn around. Conference calls with Europe before sunrise, some late nights, and a lot of stress led to my [...]
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Review: Rachel Getting Married

This film had a lot of buzz, and I have come to respect Ann Hathaway for her acting. That being said, I never would have seen this movie if my wife hadn’t added it to our Netflix queue. I thought the film was fantastic, but very expository, which I have come to resent in movies. To [...]
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Review: Steven Pressfield’s “The War of Art”

I have had this book on my ‘to read’ list for a couple of years now. Thankfully I finally have a library that has nearly any book I could ever want. But this is a book I might just purchase. I have never really considered myself a creative person, so it is strange that I have [...]
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Next Project (and Old Ones Too)

I am starting my next project, a movie script of some indeterminate length. This is the type of project when I envisioned this site. I am hoping to use this site as a place to store and link the process of creation. Hopefully it will give me reason to start developing (the site) again.
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