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Strategic Philanthropy: How and why to go about it

Since I started Red Door Interactive, I’ve made it a policy to devote a certain amount of company resources each quarter to pro bono work for worthy nonprofits. I had discovered this trait long ago within our educational system, as ...READ»

Super Bowl Lesson #2: Win By Using A Strategic Narrative

On May 22, 1453, the moon rose in eclipse over Constantinople, today Istanbul, and arguably redirected the course of world history. By that day Ottoman soldiers had spent nearly a month bombarding the massive walls protecting ...READ»

The Conversation is Changing; the Impact of a Hi-Tech President

  Much has been written lately of President Obama’s desire to hold onto his blackberry.  A battle which resulted in him losing the “old-fashioned” device we mere mortals are stuck with and acquiring the super stealthy NSA ...READ»

The Federal Stimulus Package and the CIO

Everyone is all a buzz about the Federal Stimulus package.  Will it save the economy?  Will it save my project?  Will it save my job?  The simple fact is nobody knows for certain.  We do know a lot of the broad ideas.  We are ...READ»

The Secret

Recently the book “The Secret” was released.  Now in full disclosure I have not read it.  My understanding is that it purports to give you the secret to being happier and wiser.  I can’t speak to the accuracy of the book, ...READ»

IT and The Weather Channel

I have come to realize that having Jim Cantore of The Weather Channel broadcasting from your hometown is not necessarily a good thing.  If you live in Florida and it’s during hurricane season, it’s a really bad thing.  I live ...READ»

Got Politics?

It’s the election season and we are inundated with headlines on the players, policies, perceptions, peccadilloes and politics. For my clients who sell to the public sector we have a recurring conversation that is focused on ...READ»

Translating Government Gobbledegook

Many times we have left a meeting and discovered everyone on the team interpreted the meeting differently.  It’s as if we all went to a different meeting.   Communicating and understanding effectively is difficult in the best ...READ»

Thinking about L10n

While many of the projects I work on at Learning Worlds are about communicating ideas using visual narratives, it's the localization (or L10n) part that I think about the most.  Unlike the act of translating text in a document, the ...READ»