Process Magazine featured Reno Collective, Co+Hoots, theHIVE, Collaboratory and Gangplank in their Winter 2010 issue. Check it out here. Below are the questions we were asked. Tell us about your location. is the part of town and/or physical location particularly conducive to the whole ideal of coworking? We’re currently in the building we opened the Reno [...] Read more – ‘Reno Collective featured in Process Magazine’.
Future of Web Design NYC folks who want to meetup for a group dinner, find me outside of New World Stages. I’m tall and wearing a black dress shirt do I should be easy to find but text me if you have trouble. 775-303-8027 The plan as of right now is an italian place called [...] Read more – ‘Informal Post-FOWD Dinner!’.
South by Southwest 2011 will take place in Austin, TX in March and each year the conference sessions are submitted by people all over the country to present on topics including web apps, entrepreneurship, social media, and more. This year I submitted a presentation with Eric Jennings from Loopshot called “Beyond Mashups: Connecting Web Apps [...] Read more – ‘Vote for my presentation at SXSW!’.
It’s a busy time in the world of WordPress. The Lively Labs crew will be out and about for various WordCamps over the next couple months. We use WordPress heavily as our content management system of choice for most projects and are always glad to be involved and contribute to the community. April 24th: Orange [...] Read more – ‘WoW: World of WordPress’.
2009 is wrapping up but it comes with some very exciting news. I’m very pleased to announce that Lively Labs is now open for business. The core team consists of myself, Ed Adkins, and Chelsea Otakan and we will be providing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) development and consulting using Salesforce.com, the Force.com platform, WordPress and the iPhone. [...] Read more – ‘Life just got a little livelier’.
9/27/2010 UPDATE: Read what’s going on with this project here For the Force.com developer hackathon, I developed an integration toolkit between 37Signals‘ Basecamp application for project management and Salesforce.com. This little bit of work earned me the top prize in the Dreamforce 2009 Hackathon so a big thanks to Salesforce.com for putting on the event. [...] Read more – ‘Introducing my Unofficial Basecamp + Salesforce.com Toolkit’.
I’m heading out to San Francisco this week for Dreamforce 2009, this year’s Salesforce.com User & Developer conference. Some of the things I’m particularly looking forward to: Dreamforce Tweetup Developer certification exams to become a certified Force.com Developer Force.com Hackathon: David Schach and I are teaming up on Wednesday night to develop a “killer Force.com [...] Read more – ‘Off to Dreamforce 2009’.
ColinLoretz.com is finally being redesigned. (Insert parable about a shoemaker’s children being shoeless or something here). I have a new website in the works that I plan to publish next week to showcase all of the many things I do in both work and personal life. Many of you are probably reading this through an [...] Read more – ‘Changes are coming’.
I have a lot of things going on right now so I thought it might be a good time to get it all out in writing, for my own sake as well as to share it with all of you. Now that I’ve graduated, here are the different areas of my world: Twelve Horses I’m [...] Read more – ‘What am I up to now?’.
LOCAL COMMUNITY LEADERS AND CITIZENS WALK WITHOUT SHOES TO RAISE FUNDS NEEDED TO PLACE SHOES ON ORPHANS IN KENYA Hundreds of individuals and community leaders are gathering to support the Think Kindness organization in sending over 7,770 gently used shoes to AIDS orphans and refugees in Nyeri, Kenya. Brian Williams, youth motivational speaker and president [...] Read more – ‘Hundreds to Walk a Mile Without Shoes’.
I started promoting Reno Ignite about a month ago and even with all the details I provided, the number question I have been getting is "What is Reno Ignite?" Read more – ‘What is Ignite Reno?’.
I’m now a member of the Adobe Student Rep program and will be promoting Adobe Flex and AIR to the students and colleges for building Rich Internet Applications. I see a lot of opportunity for using Flex/AIR in both the Computer Science and Journalism departments and will be raising awareness across the campus through demonstration [...] Read more – ‘I'm now an Adobe Student Rep for Rich Internet Applications’.
Reno Collective is now live at www.renocollective.com. Ed Adkins and I will be adding much more content over the next couple days with our press releases. It will be the home to any of our announcements as well as general coworking and microbusiness news. It is a great feeling to see how far we have [...] Read more – ‘Reno Collective website now online’.
If you haven’t heard of coworking – then you probably work in a cubicle. It’s ok if you do, so do I. At least for now. Coworking has been defined as many things by the people who participate but the Coworking Wiki defines it as: Coworking is cafe-like community/collaboration space for developers, writers and independents. [...] Read more – ‘Coworking is coming to Reno’.
I’ve had trouble regularly updating the blog in the past but a few things have happened this summer that will and have changed that. Of course, Robert Payne says, “I’ll believe it when I see it!” Part of this problem has been a lack of focus. I do a lot of things everyday and love [...] Read more – ‘A summer of changing content’.
I’ve been working with Salesforce.com for just over a year and it is no where near the same system it was when I started working at Twelve Horses. In the past year, I have seen the CRM evolve to include a full developer platform, Force.com, with Apex code allowing developers to create complex business logic [...] Read more – ‘Inspired by the Force, the Force.com platform that is’.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. – A.J. Lieblin This quote is listed on MagCloud, an HP Labs research project that allows anyone to publish a magazine by uploading a PDF. The service uses HP Indigo technology that allows for printing on demand in high quality color on 80lb [...] Read more – ‘Magcloud grants anyone the freedom of the press’.
Tour de Nez is back! I didn’t get to ride last year but I’m going to be at the alleycat/messenger race tonight at the Grand Sierra Resort. Come by to watch or race: Grand Sierra Resort June 18, 2008 Registration/Teams: 5:15pm Messenger Race: 6:00pm The race is for three-person teams: 1 mile closed circuit 2 [...] Read more – ‘Tour de Nez Messenger Bike Race Tonight’.
Kingsley Joseph asked an interesting question on Twitter today that had me thinking about optimizing business processes: “what does CRM mean to you? most definitions I find on the web are next to useless” Kingsley2 He had quite a few responses, mine was as follows: “@kingsley I would define CRM as any system used to [...] Read more – ‘Optimizing business processes before technology’.
Adobe has released a suite of web tools that allow users to collaboratively write, share, and publish documents online. The tools include Adobe Buzzword, ConnectNow, Create PDF, Share, and My Files. The features for each are below: Buzzword Shared document authoring Ability to export to PDF Rich document styling Adobe Connect Now Screensharing: Share your [...] Read more – ‘Collaborate with Adobe's Acrobat.com’.
The Twelve Horses gang is in Salt Lake City for the RIA Dev Shed. Check back more today for live updates. I’m currently building a Flex/AIR application at work that allows us to integrate with Salesforce.com in order to manage projects and employees. 1:30: Listening to Louie Penaflor. He is presenting on Flash Media Server [...] Read more – ‘Rich Internet Application Dev Shed’.
My business plan for Voxspot.com has made the final round of the undergraduate Governor’s Cup Business Plan Competition, hosted by NCET. I will be doing an oral presentation at John Ascuaga’s Nugget on April 21st and winners will be announced in Las Vegas at Green Valley Ranch Station on April 25th. I will be talking [...] Read more – ‘Finalist in Nevada Governor's Cup 2008’.
Download the photoshop project photos. I will be teaching Adobe Photoshop next week at UNR. The focus will be on creating images and mockups for marketing materials like presentations, brochures, and websites. The course is open to anyone, just come ready to learn! Some Photoshop tutorials will be posted here after the workshop. When: April [...] Read more – ‘Photoshop for Business Students’.
