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Sorry for the lack of updates this year. As a midway point for Team San Jose, I’ve been putting to rest many of the finished projects, creating and distributing a new web survey and planning the next major updates for SanJose.org. In addition, I’ve also officially began working with iPhone hospitality application developer NugoUgo crafting some new UI designs and icon packs. You can see a sample of the demo ...

As 2011 approaches I’m looking back on my accomplishments this past year… In 2010 I began helping my local Coldwell Banker’s office break into Social Media, at the same time as I took on Project Managing the developing SanJose.org website. Along with this began my consistent writing efforts on Yelp as well as my personal blogs. Writing was a key focus this year, as the majority of my tasks centered on this ...

Last month I was a speaker in a webinar on Cloud Computing, from Concept to Reality. For those that are not familiar, this opportunity presented itself when I took over web operations last year for Team San Jose where we moved the web hosting to an Amazon EC2 setup from a shared hosting platform. The webinar was hosted by DMAI, Destination Marketing Association International, which is an organization where I sit ...

After my recent acquisition of R2D2, I started noticing the actual Droid commercials on TV, primarily the one with the alarm sounding for when the phone is stolen, or just missing. Of course I began with Google and a few clicks away I found the Prey Project. My initial thought was that for a free service Prey sounded freaking amazing. Alarm sounding, lock out of phone and/or laptop, cross platform capability, ...

I attended the NAMP (National Arts Marketing Project) conference this weekend as both an attendee and as a worker. I started Saturday off with attending “Beyond Cocktails and Facebook: Strategies to attract young adult audiences” which was a packed room with people having to stand. Unfortunately, the session left many of us wishing there had been more sharing of strategies and less Q&A of the audience as several of us felt ...

Are IT workers becoming dependent on Google because technology is too convoluted or is it because we just don't want to memorize shit? I shouldn’t be surprised really, but I’m finding that I’m not the only one who has become almost dependent on Google Search in the work place. With reductions in staff and growing job responsibilities, many people are being tasked with functions that are not necessarily their area of ...

I recently upgraded to the Motorola R2D2 limited edition Droid from Verizon. My previous phone, a Blackberry Curve, had been a good phone and email device for some time, but the big seller for me getting a new phone was really the mobile hot spot. At first glance the R2D2 Droid is fun, its backing is designed to look like the useful and lovable droid from Star Wars and some Star ...

Earlier this week I signed up for Nissan’s Road Tour, where I would get to drive a Nissan Leaf. If you don’t know what the Nissan Leaf is, it’s the fully electric car that gets, on average, one hundred miles to the charge. The standard charge features allow for the industry standard plug you can find at many electric charging places, as well as a wall outlet charger. It takes ...

I was recently on a brief vacation where the subject of local content distribution came up, though primarily, how one can start putting together an online portfolio of sorts around content creation. Now the following is simply my own advice and what I deem are worthwhile activities for those looking to go into this type of career. While it goes without saying that you have your own site, even if it’s simply ...