This is number 11 of 55 things I have learned in almost 55 years. You can find number 10 here , ten days ago, and that brings me to number 11. “Just accept that you can’t always do everything.” I’m very bad at taking this advice, as anyone who has ever met me can…
Are meet-ups worth your time? In a word – maybe. It’s often said that half of the money spent on marketing is wasted but nobody knows which half. I’d say the 106 miles meet-up we attended at General Assembly in Santa Monica was worthwhile for several reasons. 1. We were doing a demo. If you…
I wrote a post recently about how social media may be overrated for marketing, but that doesn’t mean, paradoxically, that I think social media is over-rated. I think social media is often under-rated for its value as information. For example, as part of our Kickstarter campaign, I have received a number of questions and suggestions…
Every time I see one of the websites that say “Free Money! Millions in grant money going unclaimed!” I want to shoot my monitor. This is for my friend who has been a community college instructor for 30 years and has probably asked me 25 times, How DO you get grant money? Why don’t you…
As I write this, our Kickstarter campaign has 119 backers at around $6,700. That’s not the significant part, though. This week, I am truly humbled. We can see in the Kickstarter dashboard where the contributions come from. Well, our CMO can see, and she will call me and say Do you know someone named…
We started this Kickstarter campaign a little over a week ago. For those of you who are considering it, here are a few things I learned 1.Kickstarter was not nearly as well-known as I expected from my non-random sample of close family and friends. Many people outside that group, when I mentioned it said, “What?…
In The Christmas Choir, a nun asks a Wall Street businessman volunteering at the homeless shelter what the meaning of life is. He guesses to be happy. She says, “The meaning of life is to be useful.” I thought of that this week when someone on twitter commented on all of the different activities I…
I was going to use SAS Enterprise Guide 4.3 with SAS On-Demand to do my mixed model analysis, but it did not quite work out. First of all, if like me you are used to doing PROC GLM where each subject is one record, you have to change your dataset to be one where each…
The truth is, what I wanted to be talking about today was either data mining, text mining or mixed models. Those are three things I want to be doing more and would be doing more except that we have a Kickstarter campaign going on to fund the next six levels of our game that teaches…
Logan can kiss my wrinkled, grey ass. I’m 54 years old. I don’t say I’m 54 years young or you’re only as old as you feel because some days I feel 92. I feel zero impulse to go get a facelift or any other procedure to make me look younger so I can compete with…