More and more big companies are finally figuring it out – what got them where they are today.
Rather than focusing on a new product, the 2009 “Sponsors of Tomorrow” ad campaign celebrates what makes Intel different culture, personality, heroes — and ways Intel has helped change the world for over 40 years.
One of my co-workers Travis Thomsen, a PEER 1 – ServerBeach Developer and founder of Dark Design Pictures, a film making company in San Antonio, Texas just released his newest video series. In August 2008 he began creating a script about something he knows all too well – Web Hosting… and 1-800-Tech-Support was born.
The web series follows the “interesting” life of tech support workers in the web hosting industry. The series is based on a short film called “The Night Shift” that was created for the National 48 Hour Film Challenge.
Travis, from San Carlos, California now residing in San Antonio, Texas began his independent films in 2002. In his career thus far he has won two awards – his second film, “Joined” won best picture for the 2006 Short Ends Winter Film Festival in San Antonio and his third film, “Don’t Go back to Rays” won 2nd place in the local SA48Hr Film Experience. Travis has also worked on 2 independent feature films as a both director of photography.
Rajan Sodhi VP of Marketing & Communications for PEER 1
Yep, the title says it all. Rajan Sodhi, VP of Marketing and Communications for PEER 1 & ServerBeach got written up today for “Thinking Outside the Box“. Can you imagine?! Okay, this really isn’t a bad thing. It’s actually FANTASTIC!
Rajan is an “Everyday Customer Champion“. He spends so much time doing what he does best – being creative … and it works. Much of the creativity is humorous as you can see from the videos that he’s directed – for example “Growing Pains“. But even while it was humorous, it really hit home with many of the PEER 1 customers and the general public which says that he clearly understands the growing pains that many people face in business.
You can find Rajan making his way in the social media scene, listening, communicating, and connecting on any of the following:
Twitter – @rsodhi,
Ning -http://peerone.ning.com/
LinkedIn – http://www.linkedin.com/in/rajansodhi
FaceBook, and several other places around the Internet. So if you haven’t already, be sure to follow him on Twitter and while you’re at it check out his blog too “BIG Marketing for Small Business” – http://bigmarketing.wordpress.com.
I picked up a new Flip Video and I’m quite impressed with the quality it produces. It’s the perfect size to toss in my purse and whip out whenever I want to catch something on the fly. I’ve been looking around at video sharing sites and while YouTube seems to be the best place to share videos – it lowered the quality of my video and that’s something I want to avoid.
My first attempt at sharing videos was on Flickr since A) I have a pro account and B) I’m constantly updating it with photos. Unfortunately, even the pro account on Flickr has a 90 second video limit. I uploaded the videos there anyway and just left a link to the full video on the web site I ended up going with to share the full video(s) – Vimeo.com. I’m happy with the results. Vimeo allows you to upload your videos without losing quality.
If any of you have other suggestions for video sharing sites, please comment and let me know. I’m still looking.
In my world today it’s hard to take notice of everything that’s taking place around me and I often miss quite a bit news or the little things that someone says or does. My world is fast-paced, always on the move, and there just isn’t enough hours in my days to do everything that I’d like to. Sound familiar? I’m sure that I speak for just about every woman who is a mother, a grandmother, a working mother, wife, significant other out there.
Just a few moments ago, the women in PEER 1 (the company that I work for) received an e-mail from the Vice-President of Human Resources, Tricia Hollyer. I had to re-read her e-mail a few times – not because I didn’t understand it the first time, but to really appreciate what she said to each of us women. Our company is dominantly male and well, let’s face it, tech today is a male-dominated industry.
I’d like to forward on her e-mail and celebrate all women in technology today. Hats off to you all for paving your way in this industry!
From: Tricia Hollyer
Subject: Ada Lovelace Day – Celebrating women in technology
Date: March 24, 2009 10:53:45 AM CDTTuesday, March 24th is a day to celebrate the wonderful women in technology, of which you are one!
Check out these links for more information: http://www.pledgebank.com/AdaLovelaceDay http://findingada.com/
Send a message, post a tweet, blog about a woman you know who rocks in tech!
Everyone on this email counts to me, so here’s to all of us for making our way in a male-dominated industry and making PEER 1 a better place to work. I hope I’ve managed to get everyone woman at PEER 1, but if I’ve missed someone, please let me know and/or forward this on.
I realize we don’t all work in technical roles, but we are all a part of what makes PEER 1 successful. If you want to know more about the tech side of what we do, ask Elleni – Lead DC Tech in Atlanta, or Jennifer – Developer in San Antonio, or Jackie – Technical Account Manager in Atlanta, or Marisa – IT Administrator in San Antonio, or any one of the smart women who work for us.
And here’s to our Recruiting Team’s goal for 2009 – at least one woman in every team at PEER 1. There are too few of us at PEER 1, but we’re working on fixing that.
Well done, ladies. We rock! I count myself lucky to work with an amazing group of women like you.
Tricia Hollyer
Vice-President, Human Resources
I admire women in tech period. Today, I admire and thank Tricia for acknowledging the women in our company today. Thank you Tricia!
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