If you’re a small- to medium-sized business and you’re looking for an easy, creative way to create email marketing campaigns with the bells and whistles you need, seriously check out MailChimp. I get nothing from them for saying this, other than their love and admiration (I am not a spokesperson)…I just think their product is spectacular.
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For the New Year … Let me always keep trying.
@neilhimself at his best, yet again. To the new year, and new mistakes.
(via roysfunstuff)
Gandhi (via artemisdreaming)
Be Self-Reliant
“Never be slow in replenishing your supplies. You’ll always be on better terms with your allies if you can secure your own provisions…Give them all they need and your troops will follow you to the end of the earth.”
Be Generous
“Success always calls for greater generosity–though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed. Collecting boot [is] not an end itself, but only a means for building [an] empire. Riches would be of little use to us now–except as a means of winning new friends.”
Be Brief
“Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the point–and couch your desires in such natural logic that no one can raise objections. Then move on.”
Be a Force for Good
“Whenever you can, act as a liberator. Freedom, dignity, wealth–these three together constitute the greatest happiness of humanity. If you bequeath all three to your people, their love for you will never die.”
Be in Control
[After punishing some renegade commanders] “Here again, I would demonstrate the truth that, in my army, discipline always brings rewards.”
Be Fun
“When I became rich, I realized that no kindness between man and man comes more naturally than sharing food and drink, especially food and drink of the ambrosial excellence that I could now provide. Accordingly, I arranged that my table be spread everyday for many invitees, all of whom would dine on the same excellent food as myself. After my guests and I were finished, I would send out any extra food to my absent friends, in token of my esteem.”
Be Loyal
[When asked how he planned to dress for a celebration] “If I can only do well by my friends, I’ll look glorious enough in whatever clothes I wear.”
Be an Example
“In my experience, men who respond to good fortune with modesty and kindness are harder to find than those who face adversity with courage.”
Be Courteous and Kind
“There is a deep–and usually frustrated–desire in the heart of everyone to act with benevolence rather than selfishness, and one fine instance of generosity can inspire dozens more. Thus I established a stately court where all my friends showed respect to each other and cultivated courtesy until it bloomed into perfect harmony.”
Building a new product from scratch is no small task. In fact, sometimes the most challenging part is getting started! Having some product/project management experience has definitely helped me take on some of these challenges, but story mapping and user stories are still relatively new…
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How many people do you think were involved in the glaring error in this photograph? Store GM, installers, the person who took the order for the sign, the person creating the sign, a product manager or account manager of some sort, even the person hanging it up in the store.
Every single one of them had an opportunity to raise their hand and be the one to say that “incontinents” is not the correct word for this aisle. (In fact, according to several dictionary sources, incontinents is not a word.) Instead, people all along the value chain for this one thing turned a blind (and possibly at times, ignorant) eye to what they were producing, focused more on delivering to spec versus delivering to need.
Regardless if you’re producing signs for a large grocery chain (in this case, Roundy’s Markets under the brand “Pick N Save”), high tech electronics, or collateral for an educational campaign focused on SQL, it is imperative that you take responsibility for understanding the need you’re trying to meet and speak up when you see feature creep or glaring errors making their way into your end product.
P.S. - Oh, and in case you are wondering - the correct word? Incontinence.
Rachel Maddow - “Dudes Get Paid More”
This is according to the US Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor & Statistics, AND The Government Accountability Office.
THIS FACT IS NOT POLITICS.
Scott Walker, Republican Governor of Wisconsin, recently repealed the Equal Pay Act here. What is going on?!
PORTLAND, Ore.—The first automated software-to-chip dream came out of the closet Monday (April 23), when Algotochip Corp. (Sunnyvale, Calif.) claimed to be able to produce a system-on-chip (SoC) design from a C-code specification in just eight to 16 weeks.
Oh wow. if that’s true…
#in
From the Tumblr blog “Things Organized Neatly.”
(Source: karinkihlberg-reubenhenry.org, via thingsorganizedneatly)
