http://easci.com/feeds/blog-media/Latest entries @ EASCIen-usSun, 05 Jul 2009 23:34:55 -0000Copyright EASCIbusiness,culture,changeBusiness/Business Newstisha@easci.comnobusiness,culture,changeThe latest ideas from EASCI.http://easci.com/blog/2009/jul/02/what-womenomics/<p>&lt;p&gt;Put simply, &lt;a href=&quot;http://trueslant.com/womenomics/&quot; title=&quot;Womenomics Website&quot;&gt;Womenomics&lt;/a&gt; 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 ...</p> http://easci.com/blog/2009/jul/02/what-womenomics/tisha@easci.comhttp://easci.com/blog/2009/jun/22/michael-owen-brochure/<p>It&#39;s all well and good to pay attention to one&#39;s &quot;personal brand&quot; in this era of instant communication. But even &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Owen&quot;&gt;Michael Owen&lt;/a&gt;, a long-time international player for England and a soccer star of renown in the rest of the world, can flub it up.</p> <p>Owen&#39;s current club, &lt;a ...</p> http://easci.com/blog/2009/jun/22/michael-owen-brochure/tisha@easci.comhttp://easci.com/blog/2009/may/21/evolutionaries/<p>We&#39;re suffering from a language deficit when it comes to talking about what we do for clients.</p> <p>&quot;Change management&quot; presupposes reaction, albeit engaged reaction. It&#39;s not a bad tag as far as it goes, but it suggests a timeline: static--&gt;change--&gt;static. We don&#39;t like that; change is ever present. The question is who&#39;s driving the ...</p> http://easci.com/blog/2009/may/21/evolutionaries/tisha@easci.comhttp://easci.com/blog/2009/may/15/infinitives/<p>&lt;p&gt;Let&#39;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 &lt;i&gt;first sentence&lt;/i&gt; is a bad idea. Let&#39;s further assume that that just happened to a humble web guy of a certain consulting firm on this, the Ides of May.&lt;/p ...</p> http://easci.com/blog/2009/may/15/infinitives/tisha@easci.comhttp://easci.com/blog/2009/apr/30/blue-skies/<p>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.</p> <p>We&#39;ve been thinking a lot about clarity recently. If you visit our home page, you&#39;ll see a whole slew of media devoted to the topic. We have interviews with professionals working to ...</p> http://easci.com/blog/2009/apr/30/blue-skies/tisha@easci.comhttp://easci.com/blog/2009/mar/07/back-saddle-baby/<p>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&#39;s table.</p> <p>&quot;Hey! What have you been up to? Is that pastrami?&quot;</p> <p>&quot;Er, hi, little guy. Do I know you?&quot;</p> <p>&quot;I read your blog ...</p> http://easci.com/blog/2009/mar/07/back-saddle-baby/tisha@easci.comhttp://easci.com/blog/2009/jan/02/worth-thousand-words/<p>&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.advanced-approach.com/timothy/index.html&quot;&gt;Tim Corey&lt;/a&gt; provides &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.advanced-approach.com/timothy/facilitation.html&quot; title=&quot;graphic what now?&quot;&gt;graphic facilitation&lt;/a&gt; services to lots of people, including Costco. So when Carmen was there recently, speaking to assembled executives at the company, he was there to &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.easci.com/media ...</p> http://easci.com/blog/2009/jan/02/worth-thousand-words/tisha@easci.comhttp://easci.com/blog/2008/dec/03/year-retrospect-year-come/<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.siliconflorist.com&quot;&gt;Rick Turoczy&lt;/a&gt; gave a talk this evening on the state of the Portland tech scene. His slides and comments on the presentation are &lt;a href=&quot;http://siliconflorist.com/2008/12/04/portland-web-innovators-portland-tech-2008-in-a-word-community/&quot;&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;. It was eye-opening to many, I think, to discover just how freaking much had been accomplished by predominantly ...</p> http://easci.com/blog/2008/dec/03/year-retrospect-year-come/tisha@easci.comhttp://easci.com/blog/2008/nov/11/other-eleven/<p>Armistice Day (November 11th) is ninety years old this year, and although most people nowadays refer to it as Veteran&#39;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 &lt;i&gt;armistice&lt;/i&gt; - the cessation of hostilities in order to find a ...</p> http://easci.com/blog/2008/nov/11/other-eleven/tisha@easci.comhttp://easci.com/blog/2008/nov/07/living-corner-awesome-and-pedagogy/<p>Our valiant &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.builtsoftware.com&quot;&gt;software developer&lt;/a&gt;, who&#39;s helping us build out the &lt;i&gt;eldritch shenanigans&lt;/i&gt; that make up the backend of any website, pointed out that one of the key failings of the current &quot;infotainment&quot; that you can find on our home page is that it does not appear to be connected in ...</p> http://easci.com/blog/2008/nov/07/living-corner-awesome-and-pedagogy/tisha@easci.comCopyright EASCInonadultThe latest ideas from EASCI.