Life without Power
So this past weekend we got some snow. Strike that. Lots of snow.
Eric Dye
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Overwhelmed
A few years ago I had shut down my old blog. Thankfully, I saved the posts and have slowly been resurrecting some of them. I’ve published the posts worth keeping on ChurchMag and here as well. Some I’ve rewritten, others have been copy and paste, but this one needs to be set into context and left…
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The Greatest Client Service
Clients and vendors, vendors and clients. I’ve been on both sides numerous times. As a client, you know what you want, you communicate what you want, and wait for the vendor to deliver. If you’ve picked the right place, you’ll not only get what you asked for, but they’ll throw in some extra ideas and insights—like icing…
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Do I Suck at Design?
Design. Creativity. Edge. I love it. There are some days I am so happy with what I create, and then there are days it seems like a 3-year old with a copy of The Print Shop could do better. Design is a language and it’s important to my generation.
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The Ever Changing Map of the World Wide Web [Images]
If online communities were drawn out like a map of the world, what would it look like? I found these a few years back. Comparing these fictitious maps of the Internet from 2007 and 2010, you see how much the topography of the web has changed in just a few years:
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Too Much Information
Whenever you are communicating with a client, superior or sometimes co-worker, be mindful of TMI – Too Much Information. We’re not talking about the High School kind of TMI or birth story TMI, we’re talking about information overload. Your client or company has hired you to do something that:
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Captain Zoom Sings, “Hey, Eric, It’s Your Birthday!”
When I turned five years old my Grandma and Grandpa mailed me a personalized birthday song. It was Captain Zoom, the song came on a vinyl record and it went something like this (replace “Big Guy” with your own name):
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She Drew Her Favorite Thing
Working from home has its advantages and disadvantages. (Many of which I am sure will become excellent fodder for future posts.) Recently I left my desk and headed into the kitchen for a refill of some kind.
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Love Is Different Than You Think
Today marks seventeen years. Seventeen years of marriage to the most awesome person that has ever graced my life. Seventeen years of love. Seventeen years of hate. Seventeen years of hurt. Seventeen years of healing. If there is anything that I have learned in these past seventeen years, it is this:
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New Year Newness
The New Year is here. Hello, 2015. 🙂 I wanted to write this yesterday — makes sense right? — but today is better than never. That’s the latest New Year advice my wife gave me.