I’m not going to bother you with the detail of my crappy day, but I was listening through my iPod and “We Made It” by Linkin Park and Busta Rhymes came on and it did reminded me to keep my head up and eventually it will get better… Below is the second verse and it ready just hit home.
“Yeah, yeah, yeah, yo
When it all got started we were steadily
Just getting rejected
And it seemed like nothin’ we could do
would ever get us respected
At best we were stressed at the worst
They probably said we’re pathetic
Had all the pieces to that puzzle
Just the way to connect it
I was fighting through every rhyme
Tightening up every line
Never restin’ the question if I
Was out of my mind
It finally came time to do it and let it die
So we put the chips on the table and
Told them to let it ride, sing it (yeah)”

“We Made It” Music Video

Full Lyrics to Busta Rhymes & Linkin Park “We Made It”

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This is the question that has been captured my mind the last few days.

As most know, I am co-founder and Chief Geek (aka CDO) at TRImagination, an educational startup (edu-startup) focused on creating a better solution to digital textbooks. 

We’ve been working since last November to put this project on paper and get it funded. Currently, we have a business plan, we are now working on a demo (we will have that ready early nexy week)… then this week rolls around and the bottom falls out of the market and then @JasonCalacanis (Jason’s blog post) & @fredwilson (Fred’s blog post) about startups having issues getting financed cause of the lousy economy and I have to agree with the points they made. 

Here at TRImagination have gotten this far in 10 months without financing (except from our own pockets… which for a recent college grad with school loans isn’t alot) by being lean, flexible, extremely persistant and very resourceful. We are working our butts off to find a small investment to help us excellerate our development and get a full product to market.

For those have startups out there what are you doing to stay standing in these rough times?

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Central Virginia Tweetup

• WHO:      YOU and your Friends! 
• WHAT:    Central Virginia Tweetup
• WHEN:    October 1 @ 545PM
• WHERE:   Hilton Garden Inn (map)
• WHY:       We are doing something a bit different. We are adding a twist… Speed Networking. Every 10                  minutes we will rotate tables so we everyone can meet each other.
• RSVP:      If we have 20 people show up they are going to provide us with a free conference room. So                    RSVP to @donaldleegraham or @CherylSmith999 today!

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The Problem!
Ok, when most people here eLearning they associate it with boring computerized, voice-over PowerPoint presentations on sexual harassment. Sure its cheap to produce, but who really learns from these training products?

Want a solution?
In the next version of eLearning its going to be more about "edutainment".

3 Suggestions for eLearning 3.0:

• Add humor
• Make the training interactive.
• Build a training community, so that learning continues after the training is done.

If you need some help with this or want to bounce some ideas off me, email or drop me a tweet on email or drop me a tweet on Twitter .

Image courtsey of videocrab on Flickr.

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PROBLEM

• I’ve been horrible about writing blog posts over the last couple of months and even those blogs posts were a bit too long for the average person.

SOLUTION

• I’m going to blog at least once a week.
• Each post is going to be at the most a couple of small paragraphs, so I don’t bore you!

I think more people should shorten their posts to help with user engagement. Just my $0.02!

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The other day I stumbled across Balsamiq Studios and their Mockup software. I started playing with it and fell in love. This is a fabulous Adobe AIR application that makes creating mockups for software, website, RIAs, and even small webapps a breeze.

Check out their free version here!

WHO: YOU!!!

WHAT: Central VA Tweetup (2nd of the year)

WHEN: August 28, 2008 @ 5:45PM EST

WHERE: Hilton Garden Inn (click here for map)

WHY: To network with geeks and business people of the area.

RSVP: Please message @donaldleegraham or @CherylSmith999 no later that 8/25 and let us know how many set we need to reserve.

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Hi All,

I just wanted to share with you a project I’ve completed for a new and upcoming startup called Ideabreaker .

The startup was founded by Jeffrey Lyons and David Lago this year and they have entered their business into a venture capitalist competition on VenCorps .

They contacted me Sunday and said they needed a product demo based of 2 sample User Interface (UI) concepts and an Excel file with specs. I took the challenge and went in full speed ahead.

Take a look at what I created: Ideabreaker Product Tour/Demo Link

Pretty much when it is all said and done this product will be the first, "Semantic Project Management " WebApp on the market. But this isn’t just going to be a PM application, but it is a combination of "Idea Management " tool as well!

Give me your feedback.. the good… the bad… the ugly…

If you are interested check out the blog: Ideabreaker’s Blog Link

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Back by popular demand… the political mudslinging season… yee haw!

First off… I’ll say I’m a conservative independent. WAIT!!!! Don’t stop reading! This isn’t about my political views… this is all about Social Media Marketing and “Gen Y” aka ”Millennials“.

I’m signed up for both McCain and Obama email marketing lists just to keep loops on what each of them are doing. Something came through today that was very interesting from the John McCain camp.

Click on the image to see Full-Sized view. Regardless of which side of the political limbo you stand on this may be a bit out there.

I agree with the message this email is pointing out… the media is definitely obsessed with Barak Obama and yes this is supposed to be humorous, but to whom? What’s the strategy here?

Why is this so?

Obama and his Marketing/PR team really seems to have solid handle on Social Media Marketing.  As for the McCain camp,  well they don’t seem to be on track or anywhere near the right track!

Obama know that the “Gen Y” are the key to his success. In that past (and currently), we (Gen Y) are so apathetic to the political world because of all the mudslinging, rumors, lie, etc… The news is so biased. Everyone has to spin it there way. This is how the majority of Gen Y view traditional media/news. Obama is definitely trying to change that though social media. Just look at the friend stats (as of 7/22/2008):

Facebook Friends: Obama(1,177,514) & McCain(173,849)
Myspace Friends: Obama(426,453) & McCain(59,463)

This is definitely going to be the year of the “Social Media Presidential Race“.

Discussion Points

• What are your thoughts on the marketing practices of this years presidential race?
• Would you change anything about the Obama strategy?
• If you had control of the McCain camp… what would you do different?
• Did I miss anything?