smonster, it's brilliant.
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javachik - Aug 26, 2011 11:55:10 am PDT #373 of 1416
Our wings are not tired.
Atropa - Aug 26, 2011 12:03:22 pm PDT #374 of 1416
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smonster, that is a BRILLIANT idea.
smonster - Aug 26, 2011 12:05:03 pm PDT #375 of 1416
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
Thanks for the link, Ginger!
smonster - Aug 26, 2011 12:06:32 pm PDT #376 of 1416
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
I can't believe no one's tried it yet, it makes so much sense. I should check and see if someone has.
beekaytee - Aug 26, 2011 4:25:11 pm PDT #377 of 1416
Compassionately intolerant
I love the idea of using a sheltered workshop for the assembly.
Back in my non-profit days, I used workshops for all our envelope stuffing and folding needs. Virtuous and expeditious.
beekaytee - Aug 26, 2011 4:26:28 pm PDT #378 of 1416
Compassionately intolerant
And...what a genius way to introduce local recycling. Seriously, find something the locals are interested in and give them a reason to invest in something worthwhile.
Truly a stroke of brilliance, smonster.
Pix - Aug 26, 2011 8:33:45 pm PDT #379 of 1416
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Great idea, smonster! I actually have some old, authentic glass Mardi Gras beads, and I love them.
beekaytee - Aug 29, 2011 1:11:30 pm PDT #380 of 1416
Compassionately intolerant
I haven't written a press release in ages and, given that I want to distribute this document to press, blogs, social media and radio what I have is not a traditional release.
I would be grateful for as many eyes as I can get on it before rolling out my new website, services and partnership next week.
If you have a minute, please find the doc here and comment to my profile addy or in-thread.
Many, many thanks!
Jesse - Aug 29, 2011 1:16:57 pm PDT #381 of 1416
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have a question about tracking time on a project. I charge by the hour, and often work in tiny spurts, and it's occured to me that maybe keeping a post-it note with "30 min/1 hour/etc" scribbled on it, which I then throw away when I invoice, isn't the best way.
Should I be keeping (and keeping) a spreadsheet or something?
amych - Aug 29, 2011 1:50:54 pm PDT #382 of 1416
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I use toggl.com for my tiny spurts -- it lets you click a big red button (I admit, the big red button is a HUGE part of my love) when you start and stop on a particular task, and aggregates the total time you've spent in a week or month or whatever you need. There's a paid account that lets you handle multi-person tasks and sub-projects and billable vs non-billable hours and all kinds of officially project-management-ish things, but all I really need is "I was working on project A for 14 minutes, then project B for 2h23..." Especially when the 2h23 was actually made up of 5 separate little chunks, because it always is.
I like it that it's a web app (with an iphone app), so I don't worry about which computer is the spreadsheet on; the phone app also works offline and sync up when you get back online, for those times I'm actually not at a computer or don't have internets.