Interview with a CEO
As part of the IEM program, we were asked to do a reverse interview on a CEO of a company that operated in a field we were interested in. Obviously, I picked a company in the homeschool theater. I’ve purchased material from Veritas Press in the past (excellent products and service BTW) and my instructor [...]
IEM Entrepreneurial Series – value received
Our instructors (more like mentors) in the Information Engineering Program constantly request feedback from the clients as to how the program is working and what changes can be made. Dr. Dale Callahan recently asked what value we received from a re-done entrepreneurial series. I thought my response may be of some interest to a more [...]
Birmingham WordCamp Take away – Plugins and Tools
On a previous post, I outlined my impressions from the Birmingham WordCamp for WordPress (WP). Here I want to list out some of the cool plugs in and tools I saw. Most of these tools need to be run on the self hosted sites and can’t be run on the free wordpress.com sites. None the [...]
Sample analysis using someone else's experience
This is the final post of the 3 in the initial series. Here we’re going to look at someone else in class. Often it is easier to see opportunities for other than for ourselves. It may even be easier to see some else’s passion than our own. For this person, let’s start with some information [...]
My passion to livelyhood – the beginning …
This is the second of the three part series of posts where I discuss passion, turning the passion into a lively hood, and show another example buried in someone’s experience. From the first post I talked about some of the things I’m passionate about – education, homeschooling, sharing experiences, and speaking to small groups. The [...]
What is your Passion?
I’m in the Information Engineering Management class at UAB,which is like a executive MBA with a technical twist. Part of the curriculum is an entrepreneur series. This question was posed to us – What is your Passion? Seems simple enough – easy question – right? Of course not, it is probably the hardest question anyone [...]