This might seem a tad peculiar, but while getting the Hot Stones treatment on our recent trip to Tucson (”The Capital of Desert Style” apparently) to attend a conference by NASCIO, a consortium of state-level CIOs, I was forced to work on my elevator pitch, or, in this case, my Hot Stones Massage Pitch for [...]
Today Citizen Agency is one year old.
One year from the date that we got our official legitedness from the powers that be.
One year. 20 clients. 14 conferences. Zero debt. Two coworking spaces opened ourselves. 11 Coworking spaces opened in total (80+ in progress). 15 BarCamps (or similar *Camps) attended (lost count of how many have [...]
Ben Metcalfe, who joined us last September as our third partner, has decided to seek out new horizons for 2007.
In his post, he writes:
It’s been a difficult decision to take, especially as I love Chris and Tara and have enjoyed working with them so much. Their genuine passion for putting the community first has been [...]
From my favorite new book, Small Giants: Companies that chose to be great instead of big, that I’m in the middle of reading (and being inspired by):
Size and growth rate aside, these small giants share some [...]
2006 was a pretty awesome year…launching CA in June, filling up our client roster in July, expanding to a team of 3 in October, getting our first office in November, with all sorts of little amazing things weaved in between all of that: travel, presentations, events, revelations, etc.
Of course, there are also the hard parts [...]
[Juan23 on Flickr: Hellooooo Nurse]
With all of the talk lately about the Ze Frank / Rocketboom numbers, I thought it would be helpful for us to jump in and talk about some of the stuff that we’ve been thinking about.
You see, we deal with this issue regularly. We work with more qualitative (ie. anecdotal) data [...]
$2672
That’s less than the cost of 3 Aeron Chairs ($2697). What did we get for $2672? This is what makes it really awesome:
10 desks with ample workspace
20 boardroom chairs (stackable)
4 movable boardroom tables (small, can come together or pull apart)
One Coat rack
4 File boxes
3 perfectly awesome adjustable ergonomic chairs
2 bookshelves
5 waste baskets
One beautiful black leather [...]
I’m a wee bit late on reporting this story…we missed it when we were in Europe and I’m finally catching up!
I just got the chance to watch Carlos demo his upcoming release of Scrapblog on Podtech. It looks fantastic!
Scrapblog is another awesome client who implements quickly and designs beautifully. They’ve created a really delightful product. [...]
We were asked the other day what happens if our clients’ Investors don’t like our open source and transparent approach to community.
We replied: “They don’t hire us to be concerned about the investors, they hire us to be concerned about the community.”
Same goes for all of the other aspects of the business. We are here [...]
“Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers, developers…”
That’s what a passionate (and somewhat sweaty) Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer famously chanted (video) some years ago at a conference - proclaiming Microsoft’s love and respect of it’s developer base.
As an operating system vendor, Microsoft has always been keen to support the [...]