THE DREAM IN ACTION

I spent the last 2 hours relaxing at a tea shop in a market called Tea City in Zhong Shan Park, Shanghai. As I read (4 Hour Work Week) the man running the shop (Wu Jin) prepared and poured tea in the typical Chinese fashion. My goal was to read, relax and have tea. The [...]

On Saturday afternoon I went to the top of the Shanghai World Financial Center. This sky scraper is the tallest building in the world (if you don’t count the spire on top of others). And, it’s the tallest structure in China. The building stands 492 meters high or 1,615 ft. The technology in this building [...]

Sunday night photo from the Bund on the opposite side of Pudong, in Shanghai, China. Tonight we are headed to Skybar at the top of the needle behind me. Yes it is true, the dream is certainly in Action! Here are some pics from the trip thus far. I’ll be updating the China 2009 set [...]

This is our network solution for our Ecommerce case study. I’m not sure how many of the readers of this blog are technical but  I’m definitely open to thoughts, tweaks, or suggestions? I’ll also have to impliment a similar solution for my next role so it will be helpful to learn from this example. Cheers!

  I’ll probably end up posting a cumulative version of this list at the end of my trip but I wanted to share a few of the crazier things I’ve experienced here in Shanghai over the first week. Some are just cultural and some are just weird…some are both. -massages while urinating – You know [...]

“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others. They may have particular visions of who we are and hence may subtly prevent certain sides of us from emerging… Being [...]

Today I’m traveling around solo in Hong Kong, the first of my 3 city month in China. We’ve been here for 2.5 days and we leave on Saturday evening. First impressions: amazing city. When we first arrived we hunted around for a place to stay on the Island of Hong Kong. The places were expensive [...]

As you are reading this post, I’m likely on a plane a la Shanghai, China. This image of Shanghai was taken by my friend Blake when he was on this same trip 1 year ago. I’ll be in China for about a month and for that time this blog will likely (temporarily) transform from a [...]

A few days ago, the San Diego based Mashable writer, Jenn VanGrove, wrote a post comparing and contrasting Last.fm and Slacker.com, 2 popular music streaming sites. I commented and I also subscribed to the comment feed so I could follow the conversation. I usually don’t, but wanted to see what people had to say. It [...]

ActionsTalk #26 – Thief Wine

Amateurs built the Arc Professionals built the Titanic

I’ve recently been thinking proactively about what to do when a partnership going wrong. I’m not talking about a co-founder, or good friend I’m talking about a client partnership. You should already have a agreement/contract in writing, I won’t even dive into the importance of that. These are some thoughts for after the fact. Note: [...]

Been listening to (RAA) The Rural Alberta Advantage a lot recently. Good tunes. Have a taste with ‘Don’t haunt this place‘ or ‘ Frank AB‘. *photo credit to Fred Wilson – AVC.com

Last week I had the great opportunity to speak at Alverno College on the power of embracing the web to professionally network. It’s something that I love doing and something that I’ve really focused on as you know. Using social networks, especially twitter and my blog to meet people in person has been a blast [...]

Image via CrunchBase One fo the huge reasons that Gmail has been so damn successful is how simple they made the email experience. You can do it from anywhere, reliably. You can pull other email accounts into your Gmail inbox so you don’t have to have a Gmail.com email in order to use the service. [...]