MONTHLY ARCHIVE: April, 2007

Bees and Colony Collapse Disorder

Posted on April 22, 2007 by Charles Erdman Comments (1)

Researchers have found that during the past five decades, the domestic honey bee population has declined by fifty (50%) percent. Since honey bees pollinate between 15 and 30 percent of the foods we eat, conservation biologists warn that the declining honey bee population could mean that some of the fruits and vegetables we eat may not be available in the future. Read more »

Get the Glass! site

Posted on April 19, 2007 by Charles Erdman Comments (0)

Wow!
Get the Glass is a new web campaign by the California Milk Processor Board. The same organization that issued the “Got Milk” campaign that has been quite successful. If it hasn’t improved milk sales, it at least has become a cultural phrase widely mimicked in the bumper sticker world. Reminds me of the “Where’s the [...] Read more »

Cactus

Posted on April 19, 2007 by Charles Erdman Comments (0)

I’m impressed…
With all the sites I review literally on a daily basis and the number of interactive firms I examine per month, I’m taken with Cactus. They’re a firm in Denver (close enough to tempt) that has been creating some strong work.
It’s the flash work that I find compelling. Yes, their company site is [...] Read more »

Wikinomics and the N-Gen

Posted on April 17, 2007 by Charles Erdman Comments (0)

N-Gens? I new demographic term that doesn’t care about your business. Or do they? They are using digital tools to share and collaborate in highly creative ways that may seem senseless to those of a different generation. They are not interested in a hierarchical business model. They seek creative, stimulating experiences that are communal in nature. Read my review. Read more »

Lee Iacocca- a rational voice

Posted on April 13, 2007 by Charles Erdman Comments (0)

“Congress was in session only ninety-seven days in 2006. That’s eleven days less than the record set in 1948, when President Harry Truman coined the term do-nothing Congress. Most people would expect to be fired if they worked so little and had nothing to show for it. But Congress managed to find the time to vote itself a raise. Now, that’s not leadership.” Read more »

Knee recovery

Posted on April 10, 2007 by Charles Erdman Comments (0)

Eight days a week… rehab is a constant job.
In ‘03 I launched a ski jump at the Canyons in Park City. After a 35′ high, fly-away experience, I landed. My left femur kept going and blasted through the tibial plateau. Shock set in as little pieces of bone began to float around the knee capsule.
After [...] Read more »

Change is in the air

Posted on April 2, 2007 by Charles Erdman Comments (0)

“Should I stay or should I go now? If I stay there will be trouble. If I go it will be double.”
The band’s name eludes me, but the tune is stuck in my head! Moving on is hard to do, but staying put could be a slow death.
Things have reached a simmering boil and a [...] Read more »

Professional Transition

Posted on April 2, 2007 by Charles Erdman Comments (0)

TWO in the MORNING and the affliction of most entrepreneurs strikes- insomnia.
The idea of “moving on” has resurfaced. After four years of design, development, manufacturing and marketing of our first product, the exhaustion of being every role is taking its toll. I entered in to a capital intensive business that, as a whole, was already [...] Read more »