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• Get off your butt and blog!

  Hey again! Yes, I know, I'm blogging again. Gasp. Shock. Awe. Hehe. This week I want to talk about what it takes to get blogging on a normal basis. If you read my post last week about losing weight and the discipline it took there, I thought surely... Posted Feb 27 2008, 03:21 PM by Jason Alexander - Social Networking, business, ASP.NET, C# and so on. Filed under: Business

• What's on your Phone?

  Wow, who woulda thunk it? 5 years ago I was adamant about the fact that you should only use your mobile phone as a phone. I really didn't like using email on the phone, I hated text messages... yes, call me a grumpy old man. But, just this morning... Posted Oct 12 2007, 02:29 PM by Jason Alexander Filed under: Business

• Disciplined Everything!

  Continuing on with multi-post, detailed review of Good to Great , by Jim Collins - Another core concept that Jim talks about is the overall formula to make your company great. It's hard to really boil down the specifics, and many of the Executives... Posted Jul 31 2007, 11:54 AM by Jason Alexander's Blog Filed under: Business

• The Bus

  Continuing on with my various thoughts after listening to Good to Great , by Jim Collins, I wanted to talk about "The Bus". Jim does a great job of explaining the right/wrong employee situation using a bus metaphor (paraphrased): First, you... Posted Jul 30 2007, 11:26 AM by Jason Alexander's Blog Filed under: Business

• Finding the Right People

  One of the first audio books that I read, as I mentioned, was From Good to Great by Jim Collins. This was an incredible book. In it, Jim and some of his researchers created a system by which to profile a company to understand if they were good or great... Posted Jul 29 2007, 05:12 PM by Jason Alexander's Blog Filed under: Business

• Backwards Businesses

  It's amazing to me sometimes how some businesses are still stuck in the dark ages, and how society continues to put up with it. For instance, today I tried calling aroung to make my wife a doctor's appointment with a specialist in town. Now, to... Posted May 24 2007, 09:18 PM by Jason Alexander's Blog Filed under: Business, Rants

• An article on the father of wikis, Ward Cunningham, his stint at Microsoft, and much more.

  Here's an interesting article that fell into my reader this morning. Most interesting to me, is that it talks about his brief stint at Microsoft. Many can probably remember back in 2003 when Ward took the job at Microsoft. I can still remember the... Posted May 20 2007, 09:32 AM by Jason Alexander's Blog Filed under: Business

• Telligent Internship Program

  So, the past month I've been taking the lead on the Telligent internship program for this summer. Following Joel's lead, we'll be building a four person intern team that will work May through August building a new product from the ground up... Posted Apr 02 2007, 06:11 PM by Jason Alexander's Blog Filed under: Business, Technical, Community Server

• Yahoo! Mail API and Unlimited Storage

  Jeremy Zawodny posted about Yahoo! opening up their email to be unlimited storage, and their new Mail API's. Definitely expect one of my upcoming projects to involve this. It's mind boggling the different ways you could think to use these. Hmmmm... Posted Mar 29 2007, 05:47 PM by Jason Alexander's Blog Filed under: Business, Technical