I have been working with Amy a relatively short time, but have come to appreciate her professionalism and her willingness to think through somewhat complicated technical issues in a way that is intelligent and often times insightful.  Whenever a website is being developed, there is some gap that by definition exists between the stakeholders of an organization and the people who are performing the development work.  Sometimes, there is a need to have non-technical stakeholders grasp a highly technical concept in order to make an intelligent strategic decision regarding moving forward for the organization.  In my experience as a developer, those conversations can be difficult to have gracefully.  Amy has stuck it out with my endless logic loops and algorhytm-speak time

In order to update our website and provide you with some new functionality, the site will be down intermittently between 7am - Noon Pacific Time on Thursday August 19th for scheduled maintenance.  We appreciate your patience.

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In order to update our website and provide you with some new functionality, the NetSquared site will be down intermittantly between the hours of 12pm and 5pm Pacific Time today.

If you have any questions, you can contact us via email or Twitter.

I went down to the city of New Orleans about a month ago in a quest to continue to explore how what I do for a living can make a difference for the world.

Don't worry, it wasn't all so serious.

Organizations are nothing without structure.

Structures give people avenues for interacting with one another, and when there is a desire to accomplish work collectively they give us tools with which to share that work. There are many ways that organization an organization can choose to structure itself ranging from the very hierarchical structure in the armed forces to collaborative consensus models.

Background:

Communication is becoming increasingly web-based as the use of database-driven social media tools and apps becomes standard for social interactions, business, networking, and project management.

While this technology is being used by many, it is in the hands of relatively few: larger businesses and organizations with the resources to build and maintain comprehensive custom database driven technology platforms.  

An organization is a collection of people and resources whose common goals create an interdependence between them. The methods used to achieve these goals create flows of information, services, people and resources that mirror exchanges between stakeholders in the different communities they touch. These infrastructures (and the organizations that utilize them) become more effective the more they mirror the human systems which depend on them.