It’s not all that new.
My first boss ever, Lenny Higgins of Higgins Ice Cream, always said ‘Take and Fill a #10 tin with hot soapy water and clean the…”
Lenny had it almost right. The task is very clear, “Clean the…” all the rest are ‘To-Do’s’ which are part of the task. There was no question [...]
Entries from September 2009
September 23, 2009
Production Best Practice tip #9
September 22, 2009
Disk Space in the Cloud
When we started creating Appingo, we knew that a SaaS environment was the right thing.
We were right.
We picked open-source tools and found libraries that delivered functionality that would have taken a long time and a lot of effort to create.
Our system changed and grew. We added functionality as our users asked for it. We questioned [...]
September 16, 2009
We took our own advice…and fired the landlord this week
A few weeks ago, we sent out an AppingoJim news story entitled Publisher Fires Landlord (and also wrote a blog post). It was a fun, tongue-in-cheek article that was based on an Appingo client that wanted to dump their expensive office space and bring the company fully virtual. They were excited that Appingo that was [...]
September 8, 2009
Seth Godin’s book recommendations
Sometimes, we just like to promote the publishing industry. This is one of those times. Seth Godin offered a list of recommended books (mostly business titles) on his blog today. We just wanted to pass them along. Here is his list…go buy some books this week!
For Seth’s pics, click here.
Derek
September 4, 2009
AppingoJim: Publisher Fires Landlord. Staff Rejoices.
Publisher Fires Landlord. Staff Rejoices.
By AppingoJim, staff
BOSTON, MA — A trade publisher fired her landlord today.
In a move to save jobs and re-invigorate a 47-year old division of a larger trade publisher, the division leader made the bold decision to fire her landlord, save some jobs, and set her staff [...]
September 3, 2009
Flatworld Knowledge: Big idea for educational publishing
I’ve been meaning to do a quick shout-out to Flatworld Knowledge for a couple of weeks. We met and had a great conversation with with Jeff Shelstad (one of the founders) at the end of August. If you don’t know Flatworld, you should. They are a recent, VC-backed start-up looking to make a significant, sustainable [...]
