fusedlogic loan program

i've been so busy lately, much more than usual and i've simply lacked the energy and frankly the inspiration to blog. so i took a bit of a break.

in the mean time, i've made some changes to the corporate site at www.fusedlogic.com
and you should take a moment to check them out...make sure you look under every rock and in every corner for goodies. hint: where there's red there's something interesting to see...

one of the most exciting things we've added is a brand new small business loan program for consulting services...the fusedlogic small business loan program is where we accept an applicant and agree to extend financing terms to against the cost of the consulting project. so now even more companies can take advantage of our programs.

reach out to us for more information

changing lives...

for a while now i and countless others before me have been talking about web 2.o and what it is...why it's important and how it may change your life.

not may..."will" change your life and "is" changing your life...whether you know it or not. my opinion is that web2.0 is essentially a shift in programming philosophy. a philosophy that states in a massive voice "power to the people". here's another more indepth description.

this is mass disruption...on business models, business people, communities at large formed for specific reason or topic...attitudes have changed to one of all inclusive technologies that look to inspire communication, sharing, experiencing, generating content, i-pinions, good or bad thats what's going on...

if you use the internet for any reason and for any length of time...web2.0 is most likely touching your life in some way...the largest outcome of this internet disruption and resulting evolution is the ease of use it provides...user interfaces are much more intuitive then before...designers have finally figured out it's about the user comforts rather than their ability to produce cool graphics and mystery navigation architecture. (some still don't get it...but what are you gonna do?)

the learning curve from "net neophyte" to "net-know-it-all" is much easier and shorter than in years past...that also includes business models to market...what took many years to accomplish before is now taking one or two or even less...

what does that mean for the net generation that's growing up sharing their lives online? they will achieve even greater things in some ways and lose out in others...instant international one person companies are being generated at an alarming rate.

without going into detail on that thread here, i wanted to remind everyone that it's important to have balance between the digital world and physical one...in other words connect with friends through web 2.0, web services and mobile technologies but don't forget to get out and go for dinner with friends, spend time with family and get fresh air...go camping and getaway...

for example, the David Thompson Resort is a cool place that my family and i will be heading to very soon...my dad took our family there often when we were kids and now i'm doing that for my family...it's a gorgeous part of the world...

Board meeting....

Cindy asked a great question about user friendlyness as far as Web 2.0 tech goes...

this is pretty simple as she can tell ha ha ha...

tapping into the bravery...

tapping into the bravery that exists within each one of us is the general underlying topic of a discussion i'm having with a committee that represents the economic development and tourism interests for an Alberta community today...

i'm proposing a project that will encourage an entire community to tap into their bravery and belief in themselves to promote their region while learning and using new strategies. i know they can do it, i've talked with locals and the energy is there and i dare say the bravery...

if it didn't require some bravery it wouldn't be worth doing.

changing behavior can be a challenge with one person, never mind an entire community...my team and i are most definitely up for that challenge...this is going to be exciting, it's what someone like me dreams about...have an idea, create a strategy, implement it and change lives for the better...

this project will impact this community for years and years to come, we're going to create an entire tech sector locally where one didn't exist before (in a manner of speaking).

the key to my idea is in finding the right community...so far it looks like we're heading in the right direction, time will tell...finding the second community will be much easier.

facebook...

just catching up with some old friends on facebook

pretty cool to see some of old gang...it's been almost 20 years...wow time does fly right by....

marketers and twitter...

twitter is something to watch as gen-y connects for up to the second life updates on twitter...things like...i'm blogging right now, i'm drinking coffee, i'm answering my other phone...

as silly as this seems, not to mention time consuming as they pound very small qwerty keyboards...the twitter phenomenon is growing. here's an imedia article as to how marketers may use this technology in the future with the uber connected gen-y and other technology hounds...

this technology has even penetrated the political realm. Barack Obama
and John Edwards

people who want the most recent information are going to have a field day with twitter...

twitter....

question: what is the intrinsic value of an application such as twitter?

does it help to quell this massive desire that many people online have to communicate in some form of community environment and just facilitate that on a per second basis through multiple submission mediums?

it's true, as human beings we have always had a need to congregate, the internet in many ways allows for that need to be fulfilled in a multitude of ways. web2.0 is very much about software and code enabling that urge in my opinion...companies are launching new apps with the primary purpose of building communities of communicators...nothing wrong with that i suppose. there's now an entire micro-economy built up that allows lot's of people who do nothing to do something to generate revenue with the limited time they have away from doing nothing, not a bad gig if you can get it...

now admittedly i'm a complete neophyte blogger, i break all sorts of so called rules within the blogosphere as to how to be a professional and respected blogger type person, such as the now famous scoble........... or his obscene, perverse and yet oddly effective buddy macleod at gapingvoid . a blog i've been following for sometime... and admire his unique take on this medium, i don't necessarily agree with his explicitness relating to his self-professed failed sex life, however, i suppose that's part of the uniqueness that is hugh (shown below).


i'm not and don't suggest to be a professional blogger (not even close)...i simply don't have the time, nor the skill. that said, here i am rapping keys for the purpose of communicating a thought via this medium, why, because it's so technically easy to do (that's good for me)...poorly done many might say, but who really cares?

so how would twitter put more money in my corporate bank account? i'm not sure that it does other than to study it, first the technology, then maybe understand human nature a bit better and then apply that knowledge on behalf of my clients...it's an interesting new entry in the digital ecosystem and it's way too early to tell what precise impact it will have past wasting time and telling people about how you just dumped your cheerios down your pajama bottoms in real time.

i suppose this could fall into the category of a new definition of "open source"...not open source as in the code, but as in the source of open communication...(lot's of the mundane is included...like meet me in central park for a salad) but still "open source communication".

much like what lenn pryor was thinking when he started channel 9 at microsoft as described in april's issue of wired magazine. which was arguably the platform for scoble to gain much of his fame before he left...

regardless, this is an interesting thing to ponder and watch...maybe even participate in...we'll see...i don't think that i need another voluntary husband tracker...i already have a blackberry. my wife is actually really great, and isn't at all that type of person, that's just one of many reasons why i love her so much...i know, you're shedding a tear right now aren't you?