Why I left HubSpot to do nuCloud full-time
I have been very bad about blogging lately. Not just bad about blogging here, but also on the .eduGuru and nuCloud blogs also. If you look at the timeline you will see that my last blog post here was July 28th, 2011! I promise I’m going to fix that. One of the reasons for my lack of blogging was I spent the last five months at HubSpot learning sales. I say learning sales instead of “doing” sales because it was absolutely a learning experience for me. The psychology of sales is something that everyone should learn. Sales is one of those skills, like customer service and people management, that are invaluable no matter what profession you are in. Sales is also an all-consuming beast that has kept me so focused on it that I haven’t...
Engaged: How It Happened and Lessons Learned
So for anyone who lives under a rock or simply doesn’t read Facebook/Twitter I got engaged last night! It was months in the planning and Heather was none the wiser throughout the experience. It’s been a while since I’ve written a blog post, but it feels like it’s time and this seems like a good story to tell. Also me being the teacher that I am it feels like I might be able to give some guys some advice about how to do this important moment in their lives the right way. Well, all this is simply my opinion and sometimes I’m full of it, but it might make an interesting enough story. Picking The Right Ring I am very much a traditionalist who likes to keep things simple. When I first went looking at wedding rings, completely unbeknown to Heather,...
My Latest Website Side Project (#mikefights)
For about six months now whenever I hang out with my buddy Mike Petroff we always end up staging hilarious pictures of us posing in fights and push them out to twitter. At the HighEdWeb conference this week we decided to step up the game a little. We had a running hashtag where we started posting lots of pictures and finally did what I always end up doing. Pushing things too far and go and create a website for it. So here you go mikefights.me! This is the first time I’ve used tumblr and so far I’m really impressed. I’m not sure what all we have in store for the site, but until we figure it out be sure to get your follow on! Mikefights.me Tumblr Mikefights on...
Newest Pet Project: Foursquare Badge Guide
I’ve been playing around with foursquare for a few weeks now and have to say that it’s quite addicting little game. What makes it so much fun is because of all the reasons that twitter was initially fun. It’s not overpopulated, yet, and all the people that I follow are mostly in Boston so it’s people that are local. The most addicting part of the tool is the badges that you can acquire by doing certain things and checking into certain locations. Think of these badges like achievement points that you would get while playing games on your Xbox 360. The more badges that you collect the more locations that you have been to and bragging rights that you have. One way that I’m a little anal is that I want to be the best at whatever...
10 Things I Miss About South Carolina
This past weekend I took a wonderful trip back to South Carolina for some R&R. I’m also about to be a first time uncle as my younger brother is about to have his first child. I thought it was scary enough when my younger brother got married before me, but now he’s about to have a kid. I remember back when I used to drive him to school every day or even further back when we used to play Contra in the yard squirting evil alien bushes with our water guns! Man I’m OLD! So while I was home I started tweeting “Things I miss about South Carolina.” This list built to ten things so just in case you missed out, here was my list. The warm weather, even the humidity. How cheap everything is, especially food and clothes (yes, I went clothes...
Forget a White Christmas When You Can Have a White Birthday!
So today was my birthday. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not much of a birthday person. In fact I usually try to sneak by another birthday without anyone noticing. So although I flew back to South Carolina for a long weekend it was more to see friends and fill out some loose ends in the move to Boston instead of a social calling. It was great to see the family and some friends in South Carolina, but to prove my point today, my birthday, was suppose to be filled with travel as I make the 1,000 mile trip back to Boston. Still this being my lifestream I have to document the adventures of the day somewhere. White Birthday In March… In South Carolina So we had a gigantic snow storm come through last night and today which really did a number on...
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