I am very grateful for all of the connections, friends and followers I have accumulated over the years but it is hard to keep everyone current with my actions without being a pest so I thought I would write the post below as a form of update.
Employment:
I left CASNET last November after almost three years as VP of Sales and Marketing. I learned a great deal about the structured content management industry, from scanning to software it is an interesting marketplace.
In January of this year I started working with a company called AWH. They are a small (15 employee) software development firm that wanted to invest in me to help them take a product to market more effectively, the product is named GeoDocs and is the backbone for doing almost anything through a website. We had a good first 3 months and effective April 1 I came on board as what I call the Chief Growth Officer and am principally responsible for sales, marketing and channel development. It is a great opportunity as I now have at my fingertips a ‘best in class’ software development team that will let us be very responsive to our markets.
Hobbies:
Those of you who know me well know I have many interests, I love to learn and am always exploring. A couple of old friends of mine,Craig and Sue James and I have been brain ’storming’ together over the last several months things that range from lifestyle minimalization to short-form video, I am grateful for their contribution of time and love to this effort. We don’t worry about where it will lead but just enjoy the journey and trust that good things will happen.
Digital Storytelling – One thing that has happened for me as a result of these discussions is my growing interest in digital storytelling, what is it, how can it be used, why does it matter, how can it be accomplished and so on. Right now I am starting to work on one Digital Story for Geeta Morris a church member who died last October of cancer at age 35. A fellow member made up a great physical scrapbook with written notes but I intend to do the same thing with images and audio for her family.
Golf – I have been working all winter on my golf game and I hate to say but I think addiction is setting in, actually I am really enjoying the process being followed for improvement and learning how to self-diagnose errors and problems.
My Faith:
I continue to work on discovering and evolving my personal spirituality, I just finished a program during lent called Unbinding Your Heart which aided this personal exploration through small groups and conscious prayer. I was re-elected to our Vestry in January (kind of a board of directors) and continue my work with several community missions. I have also started a new one that aims to bring prayer to those in need in our community, prisons, halfway houses, women’s shelters, food pantries and more are opportunities for what I call applied prayer.
My Family:
Everyone is healthy, allergies, colds, tooth decay, braces continue but nothing major, we are blessed. Adam (age 26) is going to school full time in Minneapolis, Liz (Age 15) is doing well in school and has really evolved into a good video editor, Hannah (Age 12) is also a great student and is our Ace of Cakes, she has taken 10 weeks of cake decorating lessons and is amazing. Melinda (the wife) continues to really drive her knitting group in new service directions, she can crank out a scarf in minutes I swear.
Thanks:
If you took the time to read this thanks, I am grateful for your support, even if it is just psychic energy in nature. I hope everyone keeps looking at the glass half-full and remember, you move toward what you think about.
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Steve
