Video on the Progression of the Web
I came across this YouTube video while watching CommandN. This is a well-produced short-film that shows the progression of the web to demonstrate where we’ve come from to where we are now using simple images and textual displays.
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Creating Effective Proposals
I came across this great list on Lifehacker.com. This is some great and concise information for all the professional services people out there like myself to whom the all-important PROPOSAL is a due or die to our livlihoods. This is also good information for those looking to HIRE professional services and a good measure to weed out the legit from the wanna-bes.
Here’s an excerpt - click on the links for the full list.
Top 10 Reasons Why Proposals Fail
Your business is great. You’ve invented something better than sliced bread. You offer such an amazing service at such a great price that people should be knocking your door down.
And they might be. But they’re all asking for a proposal. Proposals are a fact of life. We all do them, and we’re all trying to blow our prospects away.
But most proposals are bad. Here are 10 reasons why proposals fail:
1. They’re too long. Proposals aren’t meant for “shock and awe” - don’t try and overwhelm the prospect into submission. Edit and cut. Cut and edit. There’s no perfect length for a proposal, but how many of your prospects really read the whole thing? They scan and skim till they get to the price and timeline. Keep it short. [ Read full article ]
technorati tags:web, development, proposal, business, planning
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New Sync Tool for Google Calendar and iCal
This is one of those write-ups meant for my fellow Mac users out there. This is a great new tool that just got released as a public beta yesterday called Spanning Sync. The popularity of this tool, after getting dugg was so overwhelming that they had to shut it down to move to a more robust system.
The use of this tool is something I’ve been craving as I’ve been delving more and more into the tools provided by Google. Tracking multiple calendars to multiple people is a never-ending struggle with software and differing platforms. The transfer of more and more of our computing power to the internet is making this less and less of a problem but not without plenty of kinks in the process.
Out of the box, you can link to a Google calendar within iCal but it’s a one-way communication and you’re unable to edit/sync outside of the Google interface. This tool [ Spanning Sync ] is coming on the scene to fix this problem and from what I’ve seen of their demo - this is going to be a phenomenal tool for all Mac users who like the Google calendar service for broad application.
Here’s and excerpt from their blog, posted on January 30th.
Today at 6:30pm EST, we released Spanning Sync v1.0b11 and quietly opened the Spanning Sync Beta to the public. Within minutes the news broke on The Unofficial Apple Weblog and new users started pouring in. … Spanning Sync Blog
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