EASCI Blog

What is Womenomics?

Put simply, <a href="http://trueslant.com/womenomics/" title="Womenomics Website">Womenomics</a> is proof of how putting women in charge is good for a company’s bottom line. The latest Pepperdine University study spent years tracking the performance of about 200 of the Fortune 500 companies and found the “correlation between high-level female executives and business success has ...

The Michael Owen Brochure

It's all well and good to pay attention to one's "personal brand" in this era of instant communication. But even <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Owen">Michael Owen</a>, a long-time international player for England and a soccer star of renown in the rest of the world, can flub it up.

Owen's current club, <a ...

Evolutionaries

We're suffering from a language deficit when it comes to talking about what we do for clients.

"Change management" presupposes reaction, albeit engaged reaction. It's not a bad tag as far as it goes, but it suggests a timeline: static-->change-->static. We don't like that; change is ever present. The question is who's driving the ...

Infinitives

Let's take as a given that, as a rule, sending out an email to all of your clients that contains a grammatical error in the first sentence is a bad idea. Let's further assume that that just happened to a humble web guy of a certain consulting firm on this, the Ides of May.</p ...

Blue Skies

Not actual blue skies, but the virtual ones - the kind that allow people to peer into the workings of government or the operations of a company.

We've been thinking a lot about clarity recently. If you visit our home page, you'll see a whole slew of media devoted to the topic. We have interviews with professionals working to ...

Back in the Saddle, Baby!

A kitten walked into a deli and spotted an Extreme Arts consultant nursing an egg cream. Naturally, he was thrilled, and he hustled up to a waiter, crawled up his leg, and leapt onto the consultant's table.

"Hey! What have you been up to? Is that pastrami?"

"Er, hi, little guy. Do I know you?"

"I read your blog ...

Worth a Thousand Words

<a href="http://www.advanced-approach.com/timothy/index.html">Tim Corey</a> provides <a href="http://www.advanced-approach.com/timothy/facilitation.html" title="graphic what now?">graphic facilitation</a> services to lots of people, including Costco. So when Carmen was there recently, speaking to assembled executives at the company, he was there to <a href="http://www.easci.com/media ...

The Year in Retrospect, the Year to Come

<a href="http://www.siliconflorist.com">Rick Turoczy</a> gave a talk this evening on the state of the Portland tech scene. His slides and comments on the presentation are <a href="http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/04/portland-web-innovators-portland-tech-2008-in-a-word-community/">here</a>. It was eye-opening to many, I think, to discover just how freaking much had been accomplished by predominantly ...

The Other Eleven

Armistice Day (November 11th) is ninety years old this year, and although most people nowadays refer to it as Veteran's Day - the name was changed after World War II - we like to double-name it. Veterans deserve all honor and respect, but so too does the concept of armistice - the cessation of hostilities in order to find a ...

Living at the Corner of Awesome and Pedagogy

Our valiant <a href="http://www.builtsoftware.com">software developer</a>, who's helping us build out the eldritch shenanigans that make up the backend of any website, pointed out that one of the key failings of the current "infotainment" that you can find on our home page is that it does not appear to be connected in ...