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360 Difference Estimating 4.0 for Macintosh, Windows and iPad* is finally here….well almost… This is the public beta were releasing and we have a special offer to any new users who join us while were still in the beta test period this December. Purchase 360 Difference Estimating for the the discounted price of $265.00 ($100 [...]

While watching the Jet Bengals game this Thanksgiving evening I saw a commercial spot from GM that touched me. I did a quick search and found the ad on a Cars.com blog with the following commentary: GM Thanks Public for Bailout in Holiday Ad Just 16 months after emerging from bankruptcy, General Motors is again [...]

I’ve been re-reading and re-listening to my Seth Godin book and audio book library these last few weeks and one of the reoccurring themes Seth talks about over and over again is the vital importance of being "remarkable" and is the fundamental concept in his book Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable (a [...]

Okay so earlier this evening maybe even this afternoon I read this blog post from a blog I subscribe to and semi-regularly read entitled: Marketing Value | The Business Renegade while it’s a great blog I like to read I didn’t find anything particularly spectacular in that article but the last line of it read: [...]

With a hat tip to Steve Holt and his message on the CMSIG Yahoo Group where on reading his message there I followed a link and discovered this great little web site (Anekedote.com.au) with a video about the one of my favorite subjects: story telling in organizations and what is called the Cynefin Story Telling [...]

I’ve been tracking the upcoming release of the book ReWork by the folks at 37Signals.com and today on their blog they published REWORK Trailer 1: Staying Late   After looking at that trailer I clicked through to Amazon to per-order my copy and I found Amazon had one of those ‘people who bought this book [...]

Contractors I talk to sometimes ask me why we don’t do our web sites in Flash. Well the truth of the matter is we would do a website in Flash if we felt it appropriate to achieve some kind of artistic experience that reflects the brand identity of the contractor, architect , or other type [...]

I’ve was working cleaning up my computer files the other day and I ran across a PDF of a Harvard Business Review article had downloaded a while back entitled How to Be a Good Boss in a Bad Economy by Robert I. Sutton. Bob Sutton is the author of the excellent book The No Asshole [...]

Twice during the last two weeks I found myself trapped in own neighborhood due to traffic snarls. You see I live on a hill right above a major intersection in northern Westchester County NY where Rte 35 the major East West route in the northern section of the county where the Saw Mill River Parkway [...]

Well we changed over to a new web site design on Dec 15th and discovered that a lot of the old CSS code we used in our previous blog posts either wouldn’t fit and work in our new design or just didn’t look as good as it should so we just wanted you to know [...]