http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/ work inspired en-us Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:29:09 EST Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:29:09 EST http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html Movable Type Pro 4.33-en 60 http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/03/proposals_workshop_this_saturday.html Okay, not THAT kind of proposal. The kind that makes you money, not the kind that throws you and your spouse-to-be into debt for years to come.We're sponsoring a workshop this Saturday run by Peleg Top, whose 17 years of... Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:25:22 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/butlessaboutme//7.1999 Tim Donnelly Career Design Marketing Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/03/hooray_for_agi_techdesignology_event_in_hollywood.html So tomorrow's the big day (or the first of two big days) - Aquent Graphics Institute comes back to Los Angeles, with their Tech[design]ology event.Day One will include a lot of compelling speakers, Emmy award-winning Fred Gerantabee, Closed Loop... Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:43:47 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/butlessaboutme//7.1984 Tim Donnelly Career Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/02/and_now_a_word_about_the_economy.html We're taking a break from our previously scheduled programming (wondering who would buy a home defibrillator from Costco) to pass along some pretty valuable information we got in an email from our Aquent Employee Assistance Program about coping with layoffs.... Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:15:47 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/butlessaboutme//7.1942 Tim Donnelly Career Current Affairs Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/01/aquent_ama_webcast.html If I told you that you could save millions of dollars by bringing your online marketing department in-house, I would expect that you would close this blog and never visit it again.But if I told you that Eric Waldinger, Aquent's... Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:01:30 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/butlessaboutme//7.1843 Tim Donnelly Career Marketing Marketing Technology Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2009/01/83_more_accurate_than_the_magic_8_ball.html You've Asked Annie, appealed to Miss Manners, and even gotten Hints from Heloise, but it turned out none of these folks knew a damn about creative or marketing careers. (In fact, Heloise told you to use mineral oil to remove... Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:11:43 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2009:/butlessaboutme//7.1827 Tim Donnelly Art Career Design Marketing Networking Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/12/from_our_house_to_yours.html In the spirit of the Season of Giving.... Career Resources for YOU from US.(Print it out to read when Uncle Bob starts talking about the Nixon administration. Again.)AQCareerResources.pdfIf you have anything to add, please email me and we'll put it... Fri, 19 Dec 2008 16:22:30 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1805 Tim Donnelly Career Design Marketing Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/12/whew.html You know, every morning NPR wakes me up (well, my clock radio is set to NPR... but you get my drift) and over the last several months it hasn't been incredibly happy news.Which is probably not news to you.In light... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 18:19:29 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1774 Tim Donnelly Charity Design Networking Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/10/multichannel_marketing_and_you.html When I was a kid in New Jersey, the night before Halloween was often spent pulling pranks around the neighborhood - this was called Mischief Night (not to be confused with Detroit's arson-laden Devil's Night).Probably as a responsible Marketer,... Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:22:23 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1702 Tim Donnelly Career Marketing Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/10/being_more_social.html Our Interactive Team hosted a Social Networking Web Panel last week which was really interesting, and yes, there's something in it for you.We'd invited Ann Glenn, Social Media Guru, to talk about... well, Social Media. (Because it would have... Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:28:55 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1700 Tim Donnelly Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/10/in_our_face.html Now we've gone and done it, we've created our office Facebook page.I guess it shouldn't come as much of a surprise, as the blog is already 3 years old (which is something like 25 in blog years).Tony, our Interactive Recruiter... Wed, 08 Oct 2008 20:20:33 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1662 Tim Donnelly Career Networking Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/09/flash_ahhh_aaaahhhh_1.html If you're in the Print world and haven't made the jump to Web yet, you may be sick of hearing and sicking the words Flash, ActionScripting, and AS2/AS3.And, yes, there may be some fear about this unknown territory now... Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:47:24 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1633 Tim Donnelly Career Networking Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/08/lessons_from_he.html Though I'm not really a fan of the word "geek" (wonder why that is?), especially when it's used to refer to someone who is incredibly sharp at what they do, Anne-Marie Concepcion calls herself one and we'll just have... Fri, 01 Aug 2008 21:49:40 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1511 Tim Donnelly Career Design Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Training Web/Tech Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/04/a_break.html Sorry for the massive break in blogging, we had our Q2 Staff Meeting last Thursday (pictures to come), ran our Annual April Fool's Day client newsletter, revamped our ASAP Job List to (hopefully) work better, and took some time... Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:35:02 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1394 Tim Donnelly Career Design Networking Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2008/01/karate_chop_20.html I don't know about you, but when I hear the expression "Marketing Ops", I picture MBAs stalking around in black ninja outfits using collateral as throwing stars and nunchaku. But then again, I work in a very small Marketing... Wed, 09 Jan 2008 22:07:42 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2008:/butlessaboutme//7.1310 Tim Donnelly Career Marketing Tim's A Day in the Life Blog Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/11/were_on_tv.html Well, our booth is. And, wow, what a booth! If you're into the Flash world at all and missed this year's FITC Hollywood, you can get a flavor of the event through this clip from blip.tv. (I don't quite... Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:56:30 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1284 Tim Donnelly Networking Television Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/11/a_year_or_so_in.html Lucky you (and me) all the Aquent and Aquent-sponsored Webcasts listed in the same post! Now if I can just figure out a way to have each animated with lively, licensed characters, then we'd be gold! In the meantime,... Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:33:37 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1271 Tim Donnelly Career Marketing Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/11/thinking_global.html Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:31:38 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1267 Tim Donnelly Career Marketing Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/09/not_a_flash_in.html If you're thinking about improving your Flash skills, then you might want to start bugging your boss now for two days off in October. That's when FITC Hollywood, the Rich Media Entertainment Festival will be happening in Universal City.... Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:05:41 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1215 Tim Donnelly Career Design Film Networking Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/08/shook_me_all_da.html AIGA OC and Adobe are presenting OC/DC, a one-day CS3 training Saturday, Sept. 22nd down in (where else?) Orange County. If you're unable to Aquent Graphics Institute's three-day CS3 event in LA on September 11-13 (I can pass along... Fri, 31 Aug 2007 18:41:15 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1209 Tim Donnelly Career Design Networking Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/08/its_all_semanti.html Post by guest blogger Becky Mohr (who just relocated from LA to our Northern Virginia office. *sniff!*) I’ll bet you never thought the Los Angeles design community could learn something from the Washington, D.C. design community, but I’m here to... Wed, 22 Aug 2007 17:52:33 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1200 Tim Donnelly Career Design Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/08/you_me_cs3.html Oh the promises of CS3! Smoother layout and production workflow,new Find/Replace capabilities, and importation of multiple files at the same time... Problem is, how the heck are you going to learn all the new bells and whistles when you actually... Fri, 10 Aug 2007 14:01:11 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1193 Tim Donnelly Career Design Networking Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/08/yes_another_aqu.html On the heels of two very successful Aquent sponsored Webcasts (I believe each had over 1,000 listeners), we're doing another FREE one on August 21st, hosted by Pat LaPointe: “Is Your Marketing an Expense…or an Investment - 10 Strategies for... Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:53:27 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1190 Tim Donnelly Career Marketing Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/08/lets_take_it_fr.html Whenever we get together for our Back to School Training every year or so, there's a theme party at the end in which offices are encouraged to dress up. Previous year themes have been: Dress to Represent Your City. College... Mon, 06 Aug 2007 20:29:56 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1187 Tim Donnelly Games Networking Personal Blogging Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/07/like_a_round_pe.html Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:10:09 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1176 Tim Donnelly Career Design Food and Drink Sales Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/i_almost_forgot.html Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:48:34 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1164 Tim Donnelly Health and Fitness Personal Blogging Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/creative_sweet.html Okay, Creative Suite 3. Aquent's sponsoring another free Webcast with the American Marketing Association on Creative Suite 3's New Capabilities on June 28th (two days before my birthday, in case you're wondering). This will be a Marketer-centric presentation, highlighting Adobe's... Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:33:08 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1149 Tim Donnelly Career Design Marketing Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/06/it_must_be_vide.html Once again, has to be seen to be believed. If you have 8 minutes (exactly) you will see an amazing Photosynth demo from Blaise Aguera y Arcas at Microsoft Live Labs, that will blow your mind. Watch how far he... Tue, 12 Jun 2007 18:34:51 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1146 Tim Donnelly Art Design Networking Science Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/05/in_briefs.html Wed, 30 May 2007 18:47:44 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1132 Tim Donnelly Career Design Marketing Sales Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/05/cre8_conference.html Aquent's Marketing Director just sent over some pictures from the Aquent Graphics Institute's well-attended CRE8 Conference in Florida last week. Since I'm guessing I can't run the Mickey Mouse ones without trademark infringement, I'll post some other ones. Not sure... Wed, 16 May 2007 21:10:16 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1121 Tim Donnelly Career Design Networking Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/05/webcast_featuri.html First off, you should read this post while listening to The Dub Pistol's version of Blondie's Rapture (choice 05 on their MySpace page). Though it has nothing to do with the free Webcast we're helping host, “Successful Creative Briefs: Linking... Fri, 11 May 2007 20:42:23 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1116 Tim Donnelly Career Design Marketing Music Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/04/portfolio_revie.html Thought I'd let you know about this Aquent sponsored happening as it's next week! Please use the RSVP address on the invite below if you want to have your book reviewed. Even if you don't want your book reviewed, feel... Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:31:26 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1098 Tim Donnelly Career Design Food and Drink Networking Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/04/camps_for_coder.html Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:10:04 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1090 Tim Donnelly Career Design Networking Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/04/artistic_underw.html Or Creative Briefs, if you will. Aquent, along with the American Marketing Association, is sponsoring a free Web seminar on using creative briefs to link business objectives and creative strategies. Leading the talk will be Emily Cohen, a Creative Consultant... Thu, 12 Apr 2007 14:56:25 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1086 Tim Donnelly Career Design Sales Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/04/play_along_at_h.html Mon, 09 Apr 2007 20:45:34 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1083 Tim Donnelly Career Design Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/03/csiii_los_angel.html Well, in case you hadn't heard, last night Adobe revealed their Creative Suite 3 package in New York, which they shared to the whole world via webcast. (Okay, some of the people in Papua, New Guinea were doing something else.)... Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:24:44 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1071 Tim Donnelly Career Design Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/03/code_name_apoll.html Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:28:17 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1065 Tim Donnelly Career Design Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/03/demystify_me.html In case you missed Eric T. Peterson's Web Analytics Demystified webcast we sponsored a few weeks back, due to a scheduling conflict or you couldn't get on (there were over 2,200 people registered), you're in luck! Turns out they can... Wed, 14 Mar 2007 15:30:11 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1055 Tim Donnelly Career Marketing Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/02/analyze_that_20.html Oh, mysterious Dark Web practice of Web Analytics, how do we interpret thee? By prostrating ourselves before thine temple and presenting gifts complex codes in JavaScript? Or by attending the free AMA Webinar Web Analytics Demystified: Ten Simple Strategies for... Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:05:41 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1028 Tim Donnelly Career Marketing Training Web/Tech Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/02/a_really_really.html Wed, 14 Feb 2007 14:15:51 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1024 Tim Donnelly Design Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/02/2_fers.html Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:07:44 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1013 Tim Donnelly Career Design Networking Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/01/contented.html If content management is a mystery to you (and I'm not inferring it is), Chiara Fox over at the Adaptive Path blog has this great post which includes 5 good resources for anyone interested in learning about and keeping up... Wed, 24 Jan 2007 14:13:02 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.1001 Tim Donnelly Career Marketing Training Web/Tech Weblogs http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2007/01/from_the_where.html I see them nearly every day on my commute. The Los Angeles Traffic Cop-in-Training. They stand at the middle of an incredibly busy intersection with their hands by their sides, watching cars go by. I'm not quite sure how this... Fri, 05 Jan 2007 14:03:42 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2007:/butlessaboutme//7.985 Tim Donnelly Cars Personal Blogging Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/11/typererrific.html Mon, 13 Nov 2006 21:58:35 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.948 Tim Donnelly Books Design Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/11/flash_training.html Not really a clever title, but you sort of know what's coming next, right? I got two, count 'em, two different e-mails from folks talking about Flash trainings at the Rich Media Institute. And since one of them came with... Thu, 09 Nov 2006 16:49:51 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.945 Tim Donnelly Career Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/11/like_yesterday.html Seems like it was only yesterday I was listening to Tom Davenport describing Marketing Analytics on an Aquent/AMA Webinar. But it wasn't yesterday, it was last week. I've simply got to get a 2006 calendar. And now tomorrow Aquent's... Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:51:24 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.942 Tim Donnelly Career Design Marketing Recruiting Sales Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/10/were_looking_fo.html If you've been hearing a lot about Flash lately (and hearing and hearing and hearing), that's because it is a very in demand skill these days. Anyone who thinks I'm just making up this stuff as I go along (Mom...),... Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:07:00 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.920 Tim Donnelly Books Career Design Games Networking Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/10/snipes_hunting.html Honestly, if you're waiting to see how the Wesley Snipes tax fraud case turns out, it could be awhile. CNN reports he's alive and well and filming in Namibia (which has no extradition treaty with the US), so it could... Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:10:05 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.918 Tim Donnelly Career Celebrities Current Affairs Design Movies Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/10/the_spookiest_m.html This Halloween, Aquent and the AMA will be sponsoring a FREE Webinar with Tom Davenport, professor at Boston’s Babson College, and a global authority on marketing analytics. (Kind of sounds like a movie trailer, doesn't it?) If you're at all... Wed, 18 Oct 2006 12:40:36 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.914 Tim Donnelly Career Marketing Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/10/the_staff_of_li.html Ah, Staff Meetings: fun, games, exercises, food, and (yes) numbers. You can't escape the numbers, but you can try to make it a little more fun, right? And not forced fun (right, Susie?) Since we're in Q4, this quarter's Staff... Thu, 12 Oct 2006 21:04:31 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.909 Tim Donnelly Career Recruiting Sales Training http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/10/im_not_a_flash.html You know, I must have said that 26 times at the FITC Rich Entertainment Festival on Saturday and it never got a laugh. I think it was my timing. No, I did not attend any of the seminars, as they... Mon, 09 Oct 2006 19:49:02 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.905 Tim Donnelly Career Design Networking Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/10/flash_ah_ah.html If you're a Flashee (not a Flasher, I'm guessing) we may be seeing you in luscious North Hollywood tomorrow. Yes, the Flash Festival has begun! FITC Rich Entertainment Festival, to be exact. You can still get into tomorrow's events if... Fri, 06 Oct 2006 21:32:09 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.904 Tim Donnelly Career Design Film Games Networking Training Web/Tech http://blogs.aquent.com/aquentblog/2006/08/adobe_recommend.html You know when the software company who makes the product recommends a training site for it (a free one), you might as well pop over and have a look. Lucky for you, that's just what Adobe did in a recent... Tue, 08 Aug 2006 20:40:42 EST tag:blogs.aquent.com,2006:/butlessaboutme//7.838 Tim Donnelly Career Design Training Web/Tech