One of our clients is looking for someone with 3-5 years of Microsoft .NET development experience (VB and/or C#). Experience with any or all of: WPF, LINQ, relational database programming, CSLA Business Objects, Web-Services and XML/XSLs is highly desired.
You need to be made of awesomeness, as our project manager puts it, and be both extremely reliable and easy to work with. Don’t bother if you know you’re kinda flaky—it won’t be fun for anyone, and you will be let go. If you are reliable and easy to work with, great! Extra-special brownie points go to Seattle folk, as the client is based there.
E-mail your resume and cover letter to dotnetjob2010@causeit.org. Please do not call—we are not screening developers for this client, just forwarding on your information.
Posted by mj petroni at 6:07 pm on February 1st, 2010. No comments... »
Categories: found objects, job listings. Tags: .net, .net Web-Services, CSLA Business Objects, dotnet, jobs, LINQ, portland, relational database programming, seattle, WPF, XML, XSL.
Just saw a great article on the importance of online reviews for products. According to the author, there are a couple of interesting bits of info for those new to the process:
- After about 20 comments, search engine rankings and click-throughs increase.
- Retailers needn’t be afraid of a few bad reviews if they are confident in their product: “…a handful of bad reviews, it seems, are worth having. ‘No one trusts all positive reviews,’ [Google's retail industry director John McAteer] says. So a small proportion of negative comments—’just enough to acknowledge that the product couldn’t be perfect’—can actually make an item more attractive to prospective buyers.”
- For products with a large volume of reviews, a ranking system for the helpfulness of reviews increases trust and allows for a blend of ‘most recent’ and ‘most relevant’ reviews to be aggregated into a glanceable area.
Read the full article in The Economist’s 5 Mar 09 print edition “Fair Comment” column, or here.
Posted by mj petroni at 11:02 am on March 13th, 2009. No comments... »
Categories: causeit brief, found objects. Tags: article from other source, Economist, google, online review systems.
At Causeit, we often use outlines or other organizing tools to help process the huge volume of information and brainstormed ideas in staff or client meetings.
comapping.com
We’ve struggled to find a solution that works to meet the needs of our clients across the board, though. Simple solutions like word processing documents are often too limited, graceful desktop apps cost money and/or are platform-specific and may not share easily, and web apps online only work with a good internet connection and often have limited features.
In a blog entry from GTD Times we may have found a solution in Comapping. It’s not ‘battle-tested’ yet, but seems to be an affordable software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution for sharing thoughts, collaboratively authoring outlines and mindmaps, and even beginning the work of coming up with task delegation. It looks like it will work both online and offline (using Adobe Air), and the interface, while not the sexiest, is a good blend of power and entry-level accessibility.
Jury’s still out, but you can check it out at Comapping.com.
Posted by mj petroni at 1:36 pm on January 29th, 2009. No comments... »
Categories: causeit article, causeit brief, found objects, toolbox, web apps series. Tags: Adobe Air, mind-mapping, outline, SaaS, tools, web app.
For all the Portlanders our there, here are a few great foul-weather driving tips a business associate forwarded to Causeit.
Considering the early and continuing winter weather we are having, I decided to fire off an email to my son, who is now living in New Mexico. As a TV journalist, he will be doing a lot of traveling on snow and ice-covered roads and up and down mountains. He has relatively little experience driving in these conditions, and that is true of many of us living here in Portland. After sending this to him, it occurred to me that I might share it with some of my friends. I am not insinuating that anyone is not a “good” driver. However, I have traveled on snow and ice and over steep mountains more than anyone I know. I was also a licensed instructor at several trucking schools, as well as training director at one. I hope there may be something of value for you as well in this letter I sent to him. Feel free to forward this if you think it’s worth something to others you know.
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Hi Son,
Please allow me to be not only a “dad” who sometimes (rarely but yes, sometimes) worries about you - but also a professional driver.
Remember this comes from years of experience and literally hundreds of thousands of miles in bad weather on 18 wheels (with as many as 30 wheels - three trailers - sometimes) in weather worse than most people ever even see! And no accidents. But I have seen too many injuries and deaths in bad weather. The vast majority were avoidable and were caused by driver error and often, stupidity. I say stupidity because most people know these rules. They don’t remember them when the time comes and that is their downfall. Portland is a great example because it snows so rarely here. That will not be the case in New Mexico. So, to start out, the following rules for driving in cold weather and/or isolated areas:
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Posted by mj petroni at 10:00 am on December 19th, 2008. No comments... »
Categories: causeit article, found objects, portland metro. Tags: bad weather, driving tips, Portland weather, safe driving.
In our courses, like Small Biz Group Coaching, we find that many of our participants are tired of managing their personal budgets by hand or with a clunky spreadsheet. Recently I found Mint.com, a personal financial management tool on the web. Once you grant it access to your online banking accounts, it downloads all of your transactions and balances into one place, looks for trends in your spending relative to your account history and to national financial data, and helps you monitor your progress with both your day-to-day investments and your long-term assets & debts.
Check it out—it’s super-easy and pretty powerful. I’ve been using it for about a month and have already noticed some trends in my spending which I hadn’t spotted in my system in Excel.
Posted by mj petroni at 6:43 pm on November 4th, 2008. No comments... »
Categories: causeit article, found objects, toolbox, web apps series. Tags: budgeting, mint.com, personal financial management.
Ars Technica has released a comprehensive evaluation of McCain’s technology policies. Check it out and research Net Neutrality, RIAA War and Sharing and other issues. In contrast, Ars Technica also reviewed Obama’s technology policy, which includes provisions for more equitable access to high-speed internet in economically depressed areas and highly ambitious reform plans for our nation’s technology infrastructure and government use of technology—including transparency provisions.
McCain’s Tech Policy
Obama’s Tech Policy
Posted by mj petroni at 12:32 pm on September 4th, 2008. No comments... »
Categories: business news, found objects, national/world news. Tags: ars technica, government, mccain, net neutrality, obama, RIAA, technology, transparency.
One of Causeit’s clients, Jess Bogli, a highly regarded K-12 health education consultant was interviewed on OPB today. Think Out Loud aired a piece on health education as it relates to Sarah Palin’s pregnant teenage daughter, Palin’s stance on abstinence education in schools, and how sex education fits into an overall health curriculum.
Find out more at OPB and meet Jess Bogli; read her blog post below:
Today I was interviewed by Emily Harris of OPB’s Think Out Loud. It was a great experience and I hope that people listen and take out of it the following:
Teens are having sex. Not all, not even the majority. But, many are sexually active.
Family and community support is important; when you have it. Some of our teens are homeless, living in horrible living conditions, do not speak English well enough to navigate our health system, etc.
Abstinence-Only programs are ineffective. They have been proven ineffective over and over again. They work for intent, but do not lead to behavior change.
Abstinent-Based programs are effective and promote abstinence, but include contraception lessons. They have lead to behavior change and abstinence for a longer period of time.
Sexuality Education should be skills-based, not just basic biology where students learn information and are tested out of a textbook.
In Oregon, we need teachers to be supported through professional development opportunities by the Oregon Department of Education (ODE). Currently there is no health education specialist on staff and we’ve recently lost our school health team lead. We need to advocate to ODE to support school health programs. Because healthy kids learn better…
Posted by mj petroni at 4:29 pm on September 2nd, 2008. No comments... »
Categories: causeit news, found objects, national/world news, portland metro. Tags: Jess Bogli, OPB, Palin, Sex Education.
Found on Guy Kawaski’s How To Change The World
My favorite company of the day: Posterous. If TypePad is blogging, and Twitter is nano-blogging, then Posterous is mini-blogging. Or, blogging for the rest of us. You send an email to post@posterous.com with pictures, PDFs, video, etc, and voila! you have a blog.
The implications are awesome: anyone with an email account can have a blog—no server, credit card or even ability to remember logins required.
Steps:
- Email your blog entry to post@posterous.com
- That’s it.
Posted by mj petroni at 1:05 am on August 27th, 2008. No comments... »
Categories: causeit brief, found objects, toolbox, web apps series. Tags: awesome tech tool, blog, kawasaki, posterous.
