There are few things that web professionals can agree on unanimously. The nature of this business relies heavily on “best practices” that can often be of a subjective point of view. That being said, there are few people in this industry that would disagree on how important it is to ask the right questions and, [...]

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As I’m sure you’ve all heard by now, Microsoft and Yahoo! have finally reached an agreement to merge their search technologies in an effort to “bring competition to the search engine market” (stick it to Google). This story was all over the Web yesterday, with thousands of bloggers eager and willing to provide all the [...]

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I thought I’d take a few of the interesting things I came across today from around the Web, and put them in a blog post. If you like this format, let me know in the comments, and I’ll do it more often (maybe once a week). If you don’t like it, and want me to [...]

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I subscribe to a daily email called A.Word.A.Day by Anu Garg from Wordsmith.org. Today’s word describes a state of mind that all of us should try to possess, but especially Project Managers like myself.

Equanimity means “evenness of temper in all circumstances.” This is not easy in an agile development environment with many projects, clients and [...]

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This won’t be a long post, but I wanted to offer a quick thought for your Friday afternoon. If you’ve logged into Twitter at some point in the past day or so, you might have noticed “IE6 Must Die” in the Trending Topics list.

In case you’ve forgotten, this serves as the perfect reminder that the [...]

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If you’ve updated your Firefox browser to version 3.5 like I have, this is important news. A security loophole has been located in the browser, and it demands immediate attention. You can read a more detailed explanation here, but basically, hackers have found a hole through the way that Firefox 3.5 handles JavaScript. Mozilla has [...]

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When I was young, one of my favorite books was “The Monster at the End of This Book.” It starred Grover of Sesame Street fame, and the basic gist of the book was that Grover was convinced there was a monster at the end of the book. As you progressed through the book, Grover became [...]

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If you’ve been keeping up with the Twitter world (Tweetosphere?), you’ll know that there has been a widespread issue with regular folks posing as their favorite celebrities on Twitter. Shaquille O’Neal, for example, created THE_REAL_SHAQ to combat a Twitter impersonator. Shaq made TV appearances to confirm his Twitter identity, and would even call up some [...]

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A couple weeks ago I spoke at the Big Tweet, a Twitter networking event CommonPlaces co-organized with the Creative Economy Association. The event was held on the ocean at the beautiful new Center for the Arts at Endicott College, in Beverly, Massachusetts. We were thrilled to welcome a crowd of almost 350 to the event [...]

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