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.
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beekaytee - Aug 26, 2011 4:25:11 pm PDT #377 of 1416
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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
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
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
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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.
beekaytee - Aug 30, 2011 8:11:52 am PDT #383 of 1416
Compassionately intolerant
No takers for the opportunity to tear up my press release?
I feel like I make requests at the exact wrong time and then they get lost in the shuffle.
If anyone does have a moment, I would be grateful.
I just got a terrific photo to go along with the release and am feeling quite chipper about it!
smonster - Aug 30, 2011 8:15:05 am PDT #384 of 1416
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
How soon do you need it, bonny? I could have it back to you by Thursday morning, most likely.
Toddson - Aug 30, 2011 8:23:27 am PDT #385 of 1416
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smonster, there's a local artist who recycles glass; if the glass bead idea takes off, you might spread this idea.
You might also contact the society of glass bead artists (can't remember their exact name).
Jesse - Aug 30, 2011 8:42:14 am PDT #386 of 1416
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
Interesting! I'll check it out.