Whistler, BC

Thinking about going to Whistler, BC or Jackson Hole, WY for a ski trip next year. Anybody know anything about those places. As you may know we went to UT last April and had a blast!

Looking forward to taking Brendan on a men only trip again!

Pretty soon Andrew can get on some skis too!

How to Sync Goldmine with your iPhone (or any phone that syncs with MS Exchange)

Since 2002,I've been syncing my personal calendar and contacts from Outlook to my Palm OS PDAs, Window Mobile OS phones, and now iPhone. It wasn't until the last few months that I cut the Outlook "cord" and put all of my info in the cloud.

However, ever since my new job, I've been more and more tied to my work calendar which we have in Goldmine. This isn't convenient though, as I'm rarely in office to manage my appointment. Since I live by my iPhone, I was looking for a solution to sync my work calendar (only) with my personal calendar.

I wanted to avoid any monthly fees that normally come with such software and services. A while back I figured how sync my Google Calendar with Nuevasync, an MS Exchange service. I synced my Google calendars (Mine, wife's Son's, etc all through Google Calendar) This is great as we can all edit, view & manage our calendars either on our phones or on Google Calendar itself. What was missing was bringing in my Goldmine calendar in amongst my personal ones.

After much research, I purchased CompanionLink Pro, and I am able to avoid a monthly sync fee. Even the people at CompanionLink were impressed at my connection. Admittedly, it's a bit hodge podge, but it works, doesn't cause duplicates and is pretty much instantaneous.

Disclosure: I don't work for any of the companies mentioned. I don't sync contacts from Goldmine, only my calendar. So there's my back-story.

Here's how my data flows:

This article assumes you have Google Calendar already in action. (some do use Outlook at work for email at work but we do not.) CompanionLink can sync and route data through many programs, but this is how I use it.

I highly recommend that you create a "work calendar" in your Google Calendar for goldmine and companion link to sync to. I tried bringing my appointments into my personal calendar but ended up with duplicates.

If you have questions on actual step by step set up, I will be happy to publish another article with screen shots. Please email me or leave a comment!

Follow me on Twitter!

I am on Twitter and you can follow me. I mostly talk about work stuff so unless you are really interested in social media and social technology, you might be bored stiff. Fair warning!

Bobby McFerrin is still cool. Don't Worry, Be Happy!

Bobby McFerrin is still cool. Don't Worry, Be Happy!

World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo.

2009 ASAE Annual Meeting Tweetup

#ASAE09 Annual Meeting Tweetup!

While at annual meeting in Toronto this year consider gathering with us on Sunday, August 16, 2009 from 2:45 - 3:15 in the Online Engagement Lounge. It is a great opportunity to meet face to face with your fellow tweeters or to find out who is on twitter. It is on the education session level – level 700. The room number is 711. See you there.

Don't forget to bring your Tweet Up Badges!

Follow me at @tony_omnipress!

The corridor of uncertainty: Conference 2.0

The corridor of uncertainty: Conference 2.0: "conference. Participants are usually so enthusiastic that you could probably just put them into groups and let free discussion flowaround a chosen topic or two. I once went to a conference where we actually did this for one session per day. Each group went to a room with coffee and"

I'm lovin it.

I'm really loving my job. It's a different kind of hard work. I've been used to having tools handed to me to use like sales scripts, fully vetted documents, etc. Now, I am the one recently who has been creating them. That's actually harder than you would think, because you are not sure what they are supposed to look like, or sometimes what they are for.

I'm having fun also organically & virally encouraging word of mouth about our new product, Conference 2.0 via blogs, wikipedia and wiki spaces. Linked In Groups.

We are going live by the middle of August!