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The ICEDIP model created by Geoffrey Petty describes the creative process, contributing to many different aspects from creative writing to creative design. The ICEDIP model was developed to make best of the creative process.

Petty’s creative process has six phases. The first letter of each word spells out ICEDIP. This will help to remember each of the phases:

Inspiration-research and generate ideas
Clarification-focus on your goals
Evaluation-review your work and learn from it
Distillation-decide which of your ideas to work on
Incubation-leave the work alone

In the 2008 CMS satisfaction report by NTEN, a Non-Profit Technology group, Drupal received very high marks. This is great news for us since we recently decided to make the shift to Drupal rather than building our own CMS. Apparently, we’re not the only ones who have embraced Drupal. NTEN evaluated hundreds of nonprofit groups using a wide array of CMSes like Plone, Joomla, Convio, Blackbaud, and Antharia. Drupal had the highest number of responses and the highest number of respondents using Drupal as their primary CMS.

Technology moves at the speed of light. Cell phone widgets are added daily. You can outsource everything these days from virtual assistants, work, paying bills, making travel arrangements, running errands to in some cases your entire life. With the ability to do so much these days you would think that we would be able to find a better solution for something each and every one of us creates……Trash!

Quite often I find myself searching for a string or a command line in an entire drupal installation. If you ever poked around the files and directories of your drupal site you appreciate the complexity of all the nested directories and all the files that together make up a typical installation. It turns out that searching for a specific string is quite time consuming and tedious work.

The first commercial starting Bill Gates, Jerry Seinfeld and the $10 million endorsement from Microsoft came out yesterday.

I'm not typically great at "about me" posts. It's probably because I'm always looking for a fresh angle - some way to go about things that's different - and, frankly, that's a tall order for this type of post. The purpose of most "about me" posts is an introduction. I want you to know me better and I'm sure you'd like to know who's behind all this commentary. Let's start with the basics:

I just started at Level Ten as the Project Management Intern. I'll be spending the majority of my time assisting the various project teams here at L10. Plus, I get to update this blog on a regular basis!

It's not uncommon for me to download numerous tools over a period of time while I'm online. Today I had spent the last few hours reading blogs, checking twitter, downloading a few SEO tools, and so forth. All of a sudden I notice that all of my links are highlighted in red!

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Some days....you just do not feel like making another cold call. As with anything you do, some days you get tired of the task, am I the only one that goes through this..I do not think so!

So, when I have a day like that I have to find another task that relates to my job, that can interest me. I like research...poking around in the marketplace and seeing what kinds of new directions I can go with my message. Sometimes it works out very well and and when that happens, it adds to my education and adds to my perspective on the company.

"With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do."

Yesterday Mozilla Lab launched Ubiquity, an interactive search tool that takes web usability to another level.

I often send documents to co-workers or clients in Microsoft Word format so that they may edit them. The pesky red underlines for supposed mis-spelled words and grammatical errors has bugged me for awhile. Well, I finally Googled it, and found out how to temporarily remove the red:

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