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Crowd Mics: Audience Participation via Voice, Text, and Polling

April 5, 2015

UPDATE: May 2019 I guess they are gone. Hmmmm, even great ideas don’t make it sometimes. 😦 In the old days, I gave a ton of speeches at conferences on…
Remote Working Paradise

March 30, 2015

I will be spending a lot of time in the next few months evaluating remote working locations in Tracy, CA. Thought I’d add this one to the list: Our backyard…
COWORKING: An Open Collaborative Work Environment

March 26, 2015

I owned a COWORKING location in Tracy, CA for 5 years and 7 months, finally selling it for economic reasons on Dec 31, 2014 (see my blog about the lessons…
Remote Working at Starbucks by Raley’s in Tracy, CA

March 25, 2015

I have been using the Starbucks by Raley’s for meetings since selling AltamontCowork. Since I am familiar with that location, I chose it to be the first of many in…
Beam: Robotic Video Conferencing

March 22, 2015

I started seeing robotic video conferencing devices appear around 2010. I wrote a few blogs on the HeadThere Giraffe, AnyBots, and VGo (see my blog entries here) and even watched an…
Using MileIQ: The Smart Mileage Tracker

March 17, 2015

I saw an ad (I think on Facebook) for MileIQ. In that ad, MileIQ promised to make tracking personal miles vs business mile easy. Since I know a few people…