Check out this truly innovative tool for our industry!

You’ve heard of crowdsourcing, right? You may have heard that mobile and location based applications are the wave of the future. Check out this innovative use of both! It’s called Field Agent. Basically it works like this

1. Your company needs information
2. Agents are assigned your job based on their location
3. Agents complete the job, it is verified, they get paid, you get your information

This is the first app that pays you! It’s a great way to get retail information like prices, pictures, surveys,

Download the app from Itunes App Store

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/field-agent/id364946558?mt=8

Sign up as a client or agent:

http://fieldagent.net/

Technology 101 Training & Geeks4Good are teaming up to facilitate the recycling of your electronic items.

From Monday April 12th until Thursday NOON we will be accepting your electronics at the Technology 101 Training center location in Rogers. We simply need you to print on your letterhead the items to be recycled. We will deliver them to the Arvest Ballpark on your behalf.

Here are the accepted items: http://www.co.washington.ar.us/EnvironmentalAffairs/

If you have a big pile, I suggest you find a way to bring them yourself to the Arvest Ballpark, the event runs from Thursday April 15th to Saturday NOON. (Thursdays is for Businesses only)

Thank you for the proper disposal of your electronic items!

Becoming a “Trust Agent”

Sarah Scott : @TechTeacherGirl

Bring a Friend for 1/2 Price! 6 Serious Hours for Under $200

• Serious Hands-On Workshop: Becoming a “Trust Agent”
• When: April 15, 2010, 9am -4pm
• Where: Technology 101
• 5211 Village Parkway Rd, Suite #1
• Rogers, AR

Fun activities that will quickly enhance your first leap into the social world. So many great tools and creative approaches; I welcome all existing social media nuts to come and share your approach. Look forward to seeing you there!

Comes with 1 month of free tech support! Once you get home and need help, I’ll be there for you.

Giveaways, Door Prizes & Special Guests! Cost: $250.00 (Book & Lunch Included)

Sarah Scott : @TechTeacherGirl, Web Girl, Teaching Fool, Social Media Nut

• What: Click ‘n’ Lunch (Hands On Learning)
• When: March 25, 2010, 11:30am -1pm
• Where: Technology 101
• 5211 Village Parkway Rd, Suite #1
• Rogers, AR

Fun activities that will quickly enhance your first leap into the social world. So many great tools and creative approaches; I welcome all existing social media nuts to come and share your approach. Look forward to seeing you there!

Giveaways, Door Prizes & Special Guests! Cost: $15.00 (Lunch Included)

Sitting on a bike at the Gym, peddling to the Beastie Boys, I was considering why I am drawn to various organizations and what my “gift” to them might be. As an Educator, I have seen many a student struggle with technology and feel lucky to have a knack for all things geeky.

By a great turn of luck, and a new friendship with Will Collins (@ArchetypePro), I was introduced to a student of design. Through some quick chats (thank you Google Chat) I was connected to Lisa Stancil, a Graphic Designer at the New Design School, in Fayetteville, AR.

After a few meetings and emails, she presented me with 3 logos this week. One of the draft designs, the first one she did, jumped out at me as insightful…I immediately started thinking about using its motifs all over the website (still not started…)

The next step is fully working out the plan. Thus here’s a stab at some of the goals of @Geeks4Good..

1. What objectives are you trying to acheive with your deisgn? (Marketing objectives, brand identity objectives…)

A place to bring agents of change, agents of good with geek skills to the organizations who most need it. Placing folks in teams to accomplish bigger projects.

2. Who is might care?

• Technologist who want to volunteer their time for good causes
• Non-Profit/Charity Organizations who need technical help
• Corporate sponsors who might give product to support the work (Best Buy, Cox Cable, Food/Beverage, Book Publishers)

3. What “call to action” do you want this design to achieve?

I want technologist to pledge a number of hours to serve. I want the companies in need to list their needs and allow the technologist to ‘accept’ the need as their own. I want organizations to donate goods and services to support the team in removing digital needs.

In Summary:

We Perform Geeky. We Serve Truly. We Seek Sponsorship.

Playing in the snow with the ‘Cabin Fever’ Kids during #NWAIceStorm…

This is my 3 Year Old with No Nap. Parenting is Pure Joy and the Hardest Job on the Planet.

Through my work @CollectiveBias and being an admitted social butterfly, I get to chat with amazing people…often over some food item. I love eating out, often it is the food that draws me, but mostly I love the taste of food not bought, prepared and cleaned up by me.

I will start a series of “Heard Over…” where I will share some ideas that were brought to me and the food items…as a side review.

So…

Heard Over…Thai

Taste of Thai Restaurant, Rogers, AR

Me and the gentlemen (Dale of Doc4Design and Kelly Miller of Millcreek Software) are regulars and I believe we all ordered our favorites. Though I don’t like Pad Thai, they both had it and get it often. The Tom Ka Gai soup (coconut soup) is excellent and tastes even better the second day if you bring some home. My personal favorite at almost any Thai place is the Panang Curry, I eat it with chicken. It is the dish that I use to measure and evaluate a Thai place…How do you measure a Thai restaurant?

Topics of the Day: iPhone Twitter Clients, Location-based Apps & Privacy

So, here’s a snippet of the conversation: “What is your favorite iPhone Twitter client?”, Kelly (@kellygmiller) asks me…knowing I’m still new (4 month owner), but completely addicted and surgically attached to mine…

“Actually”, I say, “I don’t tweet from my phone very much. If I am away from my computer, I likely am Whrrl-ing (partner of Collective Bias) and publishing my stories to Twitter and Facebook. I tweet from my TweetDeck application.”

I explained my columns, and almost sheepishly the gentlemen asked “What group am I in?”.  I had to think for a minute, as they are both Tweeters, but not all day, every day, like many of the CB community.

As a follow up to my Whrrl reference, Dale (@Doc4Design) brought up a valid question about how location-based tools (such as Whrrl) feel as though you are being tracked…It was the 2nd time that same day the issue was raised and the privacy issues will be discussed in a follow up post…going to elaborate on the excellent privacy model the @Whrrl team has implemented in another post…but for now you can educate yourself here.

I was fairly sure that were both in my “Tweeps” columns and indeed after a review…they both are there!

Today I travel to see my family in Canada for the U.S Thanksgiving and actually have a moment to collect my thoughts.

Many of my new colleagues are airport warriors, though rare enough for me that I delight in the solitude while being surrounded by such watchable people. I am treasuring this moment and aspire to be carving out (Thanksgiving pun for y’all) regular time to each week to share…you can hold me to this.

I am in deep admiration for those who blog nearly daily…how do you do it? Is it a gift, discipline, necessity? …oops, I digress.

Admittedly, I am not be the wild techno genius building some iPhone space station thingy… though have serious skills in listening to clients wishes and getting inspired to find a technical solution for them. I am thrilled to be surrounded by some web/tech/design wizards all sitting 5 feet away. You inspire and challenge me. Jay (@JayThornton000), Collin (@CCondray) and Brad (@BradLawless).

I remain delighted to have joined the Collective Bias (@CollectiveBias) team as the Director of Technology though I have to admit, my brain has had its butt kicked! Being in the den of innovation (called Ninja Storage by my hard core team mate Jay @JayThornton000)…the area where 4 of us hassle each other, brainstorm, whiteboard and beg for more caffeine is like being in the Amazing race for the brain and I rush in each morning for more.

I knew when I met John Andrews @Katadhin and Amy Callahan @AmyfromMars that something exciting was underfoot…but after being hired to deliver a contest site for our Genesis Today client, I felt the fire of ideas burning and when they lured me with the challenge of making their ideas clickable I fell in love…

Yes, that is what I do… I Make it Clickable!