For those of you who know me in person, have spent any amount of time listening to me speak, or follow my conversation via other Social Media outlets, you will (quite likely) have heard my reference my daughter. What can I say, I’m a proud father? For those of you who don’t know…I am blessed [...]

o’ mice an’ men, gang aft agley.”  Or, in slightly more modern parlance: “The best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.”  Or, perhaps more succinctly, (and slightly less profane than I sometimes feel) “Stuff Happens.”* What bring about this measure of speculative reflection on ancient Scottish poetry?  Quite simply, hosting woes.  It [...]

I have several online, and offline, conversation about my most recent blog post…it has prompted both interesting and frustrating conversations.  Of course, there is always interest in those who agree (or whole-heartedly disagree) with an opinion.  Perhaps one of the best follow-ups was found on the Payment Systems Blog. I highly encourage you to read [...]

I spend a fair amount of time interacting with people in the payments industry.  Frequently, after a brief discussion of what the job title “evangelist” really means, there comes the question: “So, what do you think of social media?” I reckon it is worth memorializing the resultant conversation in written form for future usage.  NOTE:  [...]

The last several weeks have been rather interesting for me…As is periodically my want, I have spent a fair amount of time in reflection determining whether the “things” that I am doing as an evangelist are appropriate.  And, by appropriate, I mean for the audience that IP Commerce serves as well as a larger community [...]