by rjhale | Dec 30, 2017 | Rambling, Small Business, Social Media
As the title would suggest – a year end review. I have started this piece a few times and trashed each one. One was too technical. One was too emotional. One just wasn’t clicking. All that tells me is this needs to remain unedited. So you get what you...
by rjhale | Dec 29, 2016 | Rambling, Small Business, Social Media
This may be the last one – but I’ve got a few more things to air out – so who knows. So advertising a small business isn’t easy when you’re into doing service oriented work. You can show up at conferences. You do training. You blog and...
by rjhale | Dec 13, 2015 | Rambling, Small Business, Social Media
Yeah – so why do I want to talk about personal? There’s a certain cathartic quality to it. Confession is good for the soul right? When you own a business and when you are me, you tend to get consumed by it. It pretty much rules your life 24/7 and there...
by rjhale | Dec 13, 2015 | Rambling, Small Business, Social Media
It was a weird Social Media Year. When you advertise as a small business, at least for me, nothing is off the table. I’ve done some incredibly stupid things and some incredibly great things to get noticed. 2015 was a bit of a social media reboot so to speak. I...
by rjhale | Dec 13, 2015 | Rambling, Small Business, Social Media
I haven’t done a year in review in a while. To be honest I’m not entirely sure why I’m doing one now except I feel like writing about a great many things so I might as well. 2015 was the year of pulling back and re-organizing on several fronts. 2014...
by rjhale | Oct 29, 2015 | FOSS4G, Geography, North Carolina, Open Source GIS, Open Street Map, OSGEO, Social Media
Ladies and Germs, The call for proposals for the Free and Open Source Software For GIS – North America is now open. So what does that mean – submit something! Come to Raleigh NC. I’ve been to two conferences – this will be number 3. To be...
