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Last Sunday we relaxed on the Bear River.

From Wikipedia:

The recording by The Weavers was recorded in New York City on May 26, 1950 and released by Decca Records as catalog number 27077. It first reached the Billboard magazine Best Seller chart on June 30, 1950 and lasted 25 weeks on the chart, peaking at #1.

On the day I was born, it was still at #1, and that seems like a million years ago.

I created the video above while playing with Adobe Premiere. I’ve been in search of a program to replace Windows Movie Maker, and soon it will be time to replace Windows itself. Here is the original video that I mashed up to create the one above. I found Adobe Premiere to be a bit difficult to use, but overall I liked it. I’m not committed to Adobe Premiere just yet. Does anyone know of any video editing freeware that is good? Preferably a program that would work on Windows, Linux, and Mac.

At our Last Special Dinner, the big question was Do you want beef or pork barbeque. This time the big question is What Do You Want?

It’s no wonder that GooTube is used so much more, they are just a lot better. I’ve posted 97 videos on YouTube and Misty has posted 39. I searched Design Ninjas and got these Results:

Google/YouTube: Our vids were the first 27 of 121, and many others showed up.

Yahoo: None of our vids out of 48.

Blinkx: Ours were the first 2, and a total of 6 out of 41.

Technorati Tags: Ours were all 20 of 20.

Live (MSN): Ours were 1 and 4 out of 4.

I was reading Michelle Conlin’s tips on managing online mobs at BusinessWeek Online:

Engage Critics

Stay Professional

Being vigilant, I searched online for Bill Olen and Misty Olen and Design Ninjas and found our video Design Ninjas Mashable Brand Story and MyBlogLog Thumbnail posted at BuzzTracker. Nice!

UPDATE: Now BuzzTracker has added this photo!

Robert Scoble makes a great comment at Gapingvoid:

Regarding microbrands. The marketing challenge for a big company is to appear small. The marketing challenge for a small company is to appear big.

What size are you?

Recently, on our trip to Sacramento we flew with Delta. We found Delta to be just like all the other airlines, except on the bigger planes they had these little screens in the back of every seat. You could order movies from here or watch television for free. The cool part was they had a trivia game you could play with the other passengers. Everyone who played was recognized by the name they typed in and the seat number. It was a great way to get passengers to interact on a flight and also worked at keeping people from getting too bored. Way to go Delta!

Yes, we want to express Gratitude at the Anniversary Dinner!

John Milan posts that Enterprise IT should give up the idea of the perfect intranet and instead live on the web, giving British Petroleum as an example:

Instead of IT edicts, employees were given the responsibility – including a budget – to build and configure their computing needs. Instead of issuing rules, BP began issuing a Computer Driver’s License. A BP employee was given an increased role in managing and protecting their desktop environment, from keeping anti-virus software current to being responsible for licensing practices. In turn, IT was able to reduce its overhead and turn on the internet full time instead of maintaining an intranet/internet duality.

Do you trust yourself and the people you work with?