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The Process of the Process

Today I had the opportunity to speak at the 2011 Echo Conference here in Dallas. I had a great time and was very encouraged by the turn out and response. Process development and management is something that is part of my everyday and the challenge to change, manage and create processes is one I t [...]

Project Management: Four Strategies for Budget Control

Project Management: Four Strategies for Budget Control

Budgets, budgets, budgets Unlike Darth, we can't use the force to bend budgets to our will. Its a real challenge to know how to budget for a project and continually forecast the budget right. For now, this article presents four strategies to keep sanity in this important function around p [...]

QR Codes: A Primer

A Primer We use QR Codes here at BigBadCollab. We use them on conference badges, our door signage (example in the picture above) and generally when we see an opportunity to market ourselves that it makes sense. We typically get the same general questions so I thought it might be helpful to pu [...]

Kung Fu Panda 2

First, let it be said that I love movies. More than most probably. I am not afraid to go to the movies by myself and sit through 3 in a row just for the fun of it. The main reason I love movies is to sit and be emersed in a good story. A story that isn't mine. I can check out from the stresse [...]

Pixar: Five Observations of Creativity Cultured

Pixar: Five Observations of Creativity Cultured

Pixar has a style, but one that is the sum of its parts rather than a stern adherence to established creative restrictions. There is no other company in the world that does Pixar better. In the span of their short history, they literally replaced an almost entire century of animation standards an [...]

Selfless Acts of Awesome

It seems everywhere we turn we are confronted with an ever-increasing selfish society. What seemed like common courtesy in only recent years is being encroached upon by life at Internet speed, self-centered agendas, and just overall attitudes of ‘me first’. Maybe its a sign of the tim [...]

Skype 5.0 for Mac is out of Beta and ready to rock

Skype 5.0 for Mac is out of Beta and ready to rock

In late November last year I ran across the Skype 5.0 for Mac beta and immediately clicked the download button to get that thing on my machine. I felt a little twinge of hope for the only app I continued to use that reminded me of my lesser Windows days. The download was fast, the install was eas [...]

The Power of Influence

Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick was released from federal prison. The build up to his release has been growing as I have seen and heard more conversations around what he will do now that he is out, and people's opinions on the matter. For me I am anxious to see his path. I haven' [...]

Social Media Hiring

Growing and hiring is a great teacher. We love to share what we learn along the way and sharing openly is in our culture. Here are some quick observations we have from our short time in actively pursuing our team development. Honestly, this list could go on for quite a while. Its not easy deci [...]

JavaScript Tool Library

I have spent my fair share of hours trying to troubleshoot implementations of different javascript tools, and to no avail at times. The frustration is one that is shared among every developer I have talked to on this subject with no real solution.There are a lot of great tools out there, and ther [...]

Creative Work Environment

Yesterday I was having an interesting conversation about being a designer and how burnout seems to be a common thing at times. There are days where things just seem hard, weird, out of sync. Your Apple products aren't as exciting as they usually are, you can't figure out what music to lis [...]

Gmail: Integrating Your Social Media

We do a lot of work with social media. Everything we do we try to make it as efficient as we can, keeping it simple but effective. We think "innovation" is often seeing the complex as simply as possible. In the spirit of gathering up our most used tools, this post should help you with some of our fa [...]

BigBadCollab: Ten Quick Facts

1. We started in a garage. No, really. It was Ben’s garage converted over a weekend and a thousand bucks. See the pic at the bottom of the home page called, “Contact Us”. That was where the garage door was. #goodtimes 2. The co-founders met, literally, on Twitter. The first [...]

Managing Growth in Three Easy Steps

Growing Pains. More than a popular TV sitcom of the '80s, its been a reality of BigBadCollab. Growing is a great thing and done right, can be an experience that pulls a company together rather than just stretching it to its seams. That said, nothing complex is possible in "three easy steps" but we a [...]

Amazon Vs Walmart: Retail Showdown

The Process of the Process

Project Management: Four Strategies for Budget Control

QR Codes: A Primer

Kung Fu Panda 2

Pixar: Five Observations of Creativity Cultured

Selfless Acts of Awesome

Skype 5.0 for Mac is out of Beta and ready to rock

The Power of Influence

Social Media Hiring

JavaScript Tool Library

Creative Work Environment

Gmail: Integrating Your Social Media

BigBadCollab: Ten Quick Facts

Managing Growth in Three Easy Steps

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