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I think I'm the stats guy of the blog group here, so how about another one: We have over 3,000 members of our online community, and we appreciate the contributions from each of them. When we talk about this group, which we do often, there's a rhetorical...
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It's the silly season in Technical Services. Summer time is when electrical contractors are let loose to install lighting systems in municipal buildings and since we are near the end of summer we are also facing crunch time in support. Oh, and so you...
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Many of you may have heard that we had to abruptly stop taking orders for Express and Expression consoles a couple of weeks ago. With the dust having settled a bit I wanted to offer a clear (we'll see how clear!) explanation of what is up with these products....
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Currently we have a number of Professional Services employees working with the fine folks in R+D on a several projects the most notable of which is the current development towards the release of the new Unison products. Also, just recently a Technical...
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It seems like there is always a good bit of talk about what a fun place ETC is to work but last night I was lying awake in bed obsessing over a number of different issue I need to deal with and felt that someone should address the fact that we do real...
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A very rare event was experienced today. A member of the ETC team retired and there was a party in town square! This is only known to have happened one time before and there was also a party for that occasion. Dean North has been with ETC over 12 years...
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As long as we are blogging about ETC being a fun place to work. I thought I would share this photo. It is on the door leading into Fred's office. The regular door - not the garage door. Fred posted the "addendum" at the bottom. Enough said. David Lincecu...
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So just a couple of days ago Mike Meskill, Durrell Ramer and myself went to get a sandwich and soup for lunch. Durrell always suggests healthy food places during the rare times we head outside of the building together and it's for that, and the great...
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In the wee hours of the morning on Saturday of Workshop, Michael Harris and I were bantering about workshop and ETC culture. Michael has always been one of the attendees whom I really look forward to seeing. He’s always good for a laugh, a snippet of...
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Every year about this time we hold a workshop for our dealers and reps in the US. It is always a fun event and we try to keep things active and upbeat. Attendees get in depth product training and we have a lot of fun outside activities as well. The event...
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In a few posts I have pondered what is happening to the arts in "this day and age." I do wonder about these things - but I don't lose much sleep over them. When I posted about the NYC opera deciding to take a year off and then do a season of all modern...
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Talking a while back to my buddy Victor he was updating me on the RFR being used for a NY production. Turns out it was working great until the audio guys showed up, installed their own personal wireless network and absorbed some of the last few free channels...
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So, I've been a little preoccupied. Lincecum and I talked quite a while ago about adding my two cents to the ETC blog pool and I was all jazzed about it. I mean, what a great opportunity to actually get to write something interesting! No offense to those...
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I’ve been a fan of Rush since before I was allowed to go to their concerts. Whether its 2112 taking notes from Ayn Rand’s “Anthem,” a mathematical cacophony of syncopation and time signature changes, or social and political lyrics by the non-singing drummer,...
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I noticed this while on vacation (so sweet!) That a longtime Minneapolis theatre had closed its doors dues to debt. This is a very sad situation, especially considering the strong stature of the theatre. They won a tony award three years ago for outstanding...
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There's quite a bit of chatter online the last few weeks regarding Netflix's decision to first kill, then revive, a little-used, cumbersome feature of it's service called "Profiles". I'm not a Netflix subscriber (I actually use Blockbuster's mail service),...
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After three and a half years of living and working in Europe I have only come to grasp one thing with absolute certainty: Europe is not the U.S.A. and the European Union is not a single market place. Granted, it is very nice to have a single currency...
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Figured it was worth explaining what Isaac (and some of the rest of the summer help) was REALLY doing with those big stacks of paper in a previously-posted photo. There's a group of interns helping ETC to scan an estimated three million pages of systems...
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I spent just over four years in the United States NAVY as a Fire Control Technician. (Like missile firing not the hot red flames and smoke type of fire). It did not take me long to learn that the word NAVY was actually an acronym for Never Again Volunteer...
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Summer has arrived, and with it, waves of interns and LTEs and other part-timers have descended on the ETC campus in Middleton. They're helping out in all kinds of ways, across all areas of the company. And, universally, they all seem like they're here...
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I've been hesitating to blog on this - but I think it is time. There are a couple of threads on this in the ETC forums. In the near future ETC will have to cease making the Express consoles. These desks have been a mainstay of our console sales for over...
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Terry Teachout wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal about the New York City Opera taking the big risk - a year off with practically no performances while their home - the State Theatre is renovated. Not only are they taking this year off - but the...
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I've been to the dentists a lot lately. As my colleagues at ETC know - I've been having tooth pain - Glad to say it is now gone - along with much of the tooth. Anyway, the point is I have been browsing through magazines and saw this article in Time magazine...
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I guess everyone is looking for "a little something extra." That is how I first learned the definition of Lagniappe when I moved to New Orleans. As a product manager we always talk about trying to find that "little something extra that thrills the potential...
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On etcconnect.com, that is. I just finished compiling an internal report on web activity on our site for May, and thought it might be interesting to share openly some notable ETC web trends. First of all, we've been having a great start to 2008. Before...
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