When we migrate business software like CRM, Accounting, Fundraising, Student Information, Collections Management, Content Management, or anything else to the Cloud or to SaaS (which is probably on some Cloud–so I’m going to use the terms interchangeably in this post), we accrue a lot of benefits. Remote access is easier, and you don’t need any […]
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A simple marketing plan for an advocacy startup
In 2014 I took a job as Director of Product Management at America Achieves, working primarily on their Raise The Bar program. America Achieves is a nonprofit startup accelerator, and Raise The Bar was its program dedicated to aiding parents in supporting their children’s education. It was exciting to get back into advocacy (1993-1999 I […]
Moving a small business to the Cloud
Early this year (2023) we began working for Astral Artists, a talent agency for upcoming jazz and classical music performers. Astral Artists is actually a nonprofit, which like most small businesses has to be really careful with expenditures. Astral Artists, with only seven employees, is too small to have its own internal IT staff. Tech […]
A few words about the Metropolitan Museum of Art Website Relaunch
I was the primary lead on The Met’s website relaunch 2009-2012. We called it a “relaunch” rather than a redesign or rebuild because it really was about the whole site–strategy, design, technology, workflows, marketing, fundraising, everything. In 1999, The Met launched a website that made a lot of news and broke some new ground. There […]
Car rental is the opposite of service
I don’t rent cars a whole lot, but for six years I had a job where I traveled a lot, about 6 times a year, and I needed cars most places I went. I worked in NYC, and the other offices were in DC, LA, Oakland, Boulder, Austin, and Raleigh, only DC was realistically a […]
Philadelphia
We moved to Philadelphia in December 2017, so we’ve been here just under 16 months. Here are the main differences between Philly and NYC: Restaurant food in the sub-$100 range (dinner for two) is lots better in Philly. And there’s a BYO culture here that means lots of restaurants are in that range. It’s way […]
Free, no license white noise mp3s for sleeping
My wife likes to sleep with white noise, especially when we’re somewhere very quiet. We used to try always to have a fan running–they make the best sleeping sounds. But that’s not always practical. So we switched to using Youtube, but it tends to flake out when you try to play something for hours (or […]
Remote controlled, home healthcare/housecleaning robots
The problem with the idea of Rosie from the Jetsons,