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June 2008 - Posts

Thursday, June 26, 2008 12:49 PM

Weighing Progress in Pounds

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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Monday, June 23, 2008 11:15 AM

Mike to Write Blog Posts

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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Friday, June 20, 2008 4:14 PM

Summer Help Arrives at ETC

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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Monday, June 16, 2008 7:47 AM

2 Scene or not 2 Scene

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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Friday, June 13, 2008 8:20 AM

The Opera risk

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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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 8:05 AM

High School Theatre moves on

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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Monday, June 09, 2008 8:30 AM

A little Lagniappe anyone?

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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Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:03 AM

Hey, what are you all looking at?

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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Thursday, June 05, 2008 8:16 AM

On Angry People

Seth Godin out up an interesting post on dealing with Angry people . One of the things I like about Seth is his use of small illustrations and he uses one here to point out the separation between angry people and everyone else (even other angry people!)
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Monday, June 02, 2008 8:15 AM

Getting to Green

Thomas Friedman has done a great piece of video on NYTimes.com. In the video is discusses the article he wrote for the Times Magazine "The Power of Green." In this piece he talks about reasons for America to take the lead on green power and environmentally
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