Digital Media Certifcation

For those who just joined us here  - or who have been here from the first but forgot - I'm currently on a journey from an AV Project Manager role to an AV Project Engineer role. De facto, I'm almost exclusively doing PE work, but before I get to change the  title on my business card I need to collect all of AVI-SPL's official requirements. Along the way, I'm picking up the skills and knowledge to better be able to handle the work.This week...

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Touch on Your Hands

Crestron is leading provider of control and automation system for home, offices, buildings, schools and many more.With over 40 years in business and 57 offices worldwide, Crestron Electronics is the leading provider of control and automation systems for homes, offices, schools, hospitals, hotels and more. Crestron provides the ultimate technology lifestyle. No matter where you are, or what you do, with Crestron you're always connected.At HomeYou don't need multiple remotes just to watch television, or a wall filled with switches and knobs that...

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Ink, Pixels, and Roses

This weekend was a digital vacation for me. No email, no social media, no blogging, not even any writing!Why?Because I had the pleasure of spending the weekend away, with my lovely bride Karine, at a Bed and Breakfast in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania on the occasion of our tenth wedding anniversary.May 19, 2012 We stayed in a neat little bed and breakfast, did a farmhouse tour, checked out the wonderful quilts and other local crafts, snacked...

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Blog Hop time! Riley's Story - Part the Third

Time to shake off the pixels and dig back into the virtual ink-bottle for some collaborative writing. I'm a couple of days late on this one; life was too busy to do a credible job with it last week, and this past weekend was a "digital vacation" for me.Part the First at Carrie K Sorensen's Chasing ReveryPart the Second from Nicole Pyles at The World of My ImaginationNow, let's rejoin our hero Riley, and see what Fate has in store for him."Riley's...

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Hello Project Management Academy. Fare-well Project Management!

This past week I've been away from the office (and home, and the blog) for AVI-SPL's in-house "Project Management Academy". Along with Tech 2 Academy, Tech 3 Academy, and Sales Academy it's a part of our training and  consistent standards to our team. It is also a requirement for my new position as a Project Engineer. So, ironically, I had to take Project Management Academy to leave my current position in Project Management!Project Management,...

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May I? Day 5 - The Girl who Loved Film

My usual process is to write during my commute, post when I get to a wifi hotspot. This means that weekends are ironically the least likely time for me to post, as I like to have the day with my family and need to have it with chores.This one I'm writing on an airplane, en route to Dallas for some training. More on that later this week. For now, we'll pick up the next daily-ish writing exercise, another of the "May I?" photoprompts from over at G+. This is a core conceit that I very much like; it might be one of the daily flashes which grows into...

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May I? Day 4

I'm editting today, but wanted to give something quick and different here. A few lines of iambic pentameter referencing the story of Candaules and Gyges from Herodatus's histories. In darkness on her throne beneath the earththe dead and nameless queen did read her tale.The king - her mate who'd shown her as his prizebetrayed her naked form to unfit; eyesand slain in turn be he who'd seen her form. And now she sits there naked on the throneand reads...

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May !? Day 3 - Games in the Park

Some people are writing long, substantive works using one prompt for each day's installment. Kary Gaul, for example, has what looks like it's going to be an erotic story involving BDSM. If that's the kind of thing you like go check it out. I prefer to find short, punchy vignettes; usually the first thoughts the images bring to mind.Here's another flash. I may someday finish the sonnet, I may not. I'm not certain that it was really on its way to saying...

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May I? Day 2. Summer

May I? enters Day 2 with another vignette, in the first person this time."A Taste of Summers Past"Twelve popsicles. Three grape, Three orange, three lime and, best of all, three cherry.The yellow box wasn't as I remembered it, but the picture took me decades back in time, to bare feed on grass, a baseball game on the radio, sprinklers to run through and, of course, cherry popsicles. My mother scolding me for refusing the grape and the orange, the...

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May I? Day One

For May I'll be blogging a daily writing excersize, along with some others from the Google+ social network.  Springtime is the season for rebirth and for love, so the prompts might tend toward the sensual side; on this blog I'll keep things as tame as you've grown accustom to. These will all be written pretty much in the space of a single, one-way commute on the train, which will give some immediacy and raw energy. So, without further ado,Day...

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