QVIews

Fourth of July seems to be a good day for me to pontificate about what loyalty means.  First off, I'd like to differentiate loyalty and love. It's easy to confuse them because love usually leads to loyalty, but I think you can be very loyal to something you don't love. And very rarely, we have…

Since I don't enjoy crowds, it's my tradition to stay at home and catch up on my reading. I have two new (to me) books on managing nonprofits, recommended by Steve Barnhill of Edge Creative Strategies, Small Change by Michael Edwards and Uncharitable by Dan Pallotta. 

The key to failing well is learning from the experience. Fortunately, learning is something I enjoy. Fast Company Design blog: Among Six Types Of Failure, Only A Few Help You Innovate, 2011-Jun-28, by Jamer Hunt With this extended vocabulary, we may now be able to recognize that there are valuable kinds of failure that are…

After making major progress on plans and updates, I'll need to focus the next few days on bringing other people into the loop.

Finally finished reconfiguring the categories on the Creative Houston web site, but now to many of them are sparsely populated. Feel free to create a profile and add listings for me. Today I made major progress on the Columbia Club business plan and handed the introduction off to an alumni/prospective investor. Am I allowed to…

"Don't solicit ideas: give people tools to actualize them." Adam Greenfield (Urbanscale.org), an insight from the Eyeo Festival presenter Jake Barton. 

I'm meeting Jerry Davis at a lunch today, so that's a good incentive to make the Columbia University Club of South Texas plan look nice. It's not finished yet but we are planning to raise money to bring Columbia U. students to Texas for internships. 

Spent the day writing blog posts, updating databases, and editing business plans. It looks like I'll be able to finish the second draft of the business plan for Columbia University Club of South Texas, the revamping of the Creative Houston categories on the web site, and my new biography this week. Also worked on accounting…