tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-354070312007-05-07T15:44:48.135-07:00RichardBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35407031.post-20942893554373011842007-04-25T11:17:00.000-07:002007-04-26T22:56:21.108-07:00

(Note: I wrote an abbreviated version of this article for Seattle Net Impact April Newsletter. For more information about the Net Impact click here) Over spring break my twelve year old son, Evan, and I joined a group of eleven fifth and sixth graders from his school, each accompanied by a parent, on a trip to Costa Rica. The adventure was coordinated by a good friend of ours who worked with

Richardtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35407031.post-1161902582559895582006-10-26T15:43:00.000-07:002006-10-26T15:44:48.550-07:00

This week I attended the Project Management Institute’s annual Global Congress conference (http://congresses.pmi.org/) in Seattle. Thousands of the 200,000+ PMI organization’s members from around the work converged on the Washington State Conference Center Oct 21 – 27. To me, the growth in PMI membership and its annual conferences are signs of the increasing size and complexity of projects,

Richardtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35407031.post-1160682671283463342006-10-12T12:50:00.000-07:002006-10-25T06:37:14.226-07:00

I attended the SecureWorld Expo (www.secureworldexpo.com) conference at the Meydenbauer Center Oct 10 -11 of this week. SecureWorld is a security conference that occurs periodically throughout the year in cities in the region. While there was no stated central theme for the conference featured prominently were the topics of regulatory compliance, holistic risk management, and the convergence of

Richardtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35407031.post-1160694723342211142006-10-12T16:12:00.000-07:002006-10-12T16:26:52.363-07:00

Over the past several months I have developed some one page documents that describe what I believe are some information technology best practices. They are meant to give customers an understanding of what Gaia’s approaches and philosophies are. The following documents are currently available under the Resources section of the Businesses and Nonprofits portions of the website: Top Tips for

Richardtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35407031.post-1160434293889584342006-10-09T15:23:00.000-07:002006-10-09T19:14:09.633-07:00

I read Thomas Friedman's best seller The World is Flat early this year. The book was recommended to me by Al Erisman, the Executive Director at the Institute for Business, Technology, and Ethics (www.ethix.org). I thoroughly enjoyed the book. For me it was a fascinating read and greatly affected my perspective on business and technology. Friedman describes flattening as the world becoming

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Richardtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35407031.post-1159826020645787292006-10-02T14:50:00.000-07:002006-10-02T14:58:34.930-07:00

After graduating with a combined degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from Western Washington University I worked for 17 years in software development at Microsoft Corporation. As a manager in quality assurance and later a senior program manager I worked on the Windows Operating System, Digital Media, and the Windows Media Player. All told I was involved in releasing over twenty

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