Author Archives: awalden

Europe 2014: Flight into Amsterdam

We made it! We survived our 15 our flight with Nixon without obstacle. Before we even made it to airport, I had a full week of travel: Monday started in Newport Beach to meet with a client. Tuesday I was in Santa Monica for a…

Read more

Five Great Things from 2013

2013 marks the best year since 2008. We had incredible changes to our life, mainly because of Nixon.   Nixon Arrives! Our little guy was scheduled to come on Ron Weaver’s Birthday. But, he said… “NO way! I want my own day!” And…

Read more

Six Great Work Things from 2013

Overall, this year was very successful. We were part of some amazing projects which is always the best thing to brag about at the end of the year. However, an internal goal for me was to help manage over $1 Million in project…

Read more

Reno-Tahoe Odyssey 2013: Where’s da baby mama?

The 2013 year was marked with substitutes and speed. We missed many of the core people we had from the previous year. Bridget couldn’t run with Nixon in her belly. Anya and Erin had moved to different parts of the country. And Meghan…

Read more

Book Review: A Whole New Mind

A Whole New Mind is a book describing the importance of right brain approaches. The theory is that the majority of left brain jobs (programming, math, legal work, etc.) will soon be outsourced to China/India. It’s the same concern where factory jobs were being…

Read more

Book Review: The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs

Over the past few months, I’ve been reading this book to get a few tips on how to become a better story teller. Little did I know I’d also find out how to become a more engaging storyteller. Here’s some of the cool…

Read more

Book Review: Drive

I just finished, Drive, a book that discusses the theory of movivation.  This topic is of interest to me, so the pages essentially turned themselves. I also was able to connect some principles that I recently learned from a Netflix documentary, Happy. The…

Read more

Five Web Trends for 2013

Here’s an article I recently wrote for Noble. (It’s not published just yet, but here we go…) 2012 was a year full of infographics, HTML5, and Facebook Apps. As we storm into 2013, there are a lot of exciting new trends on the…

Read more

Book Review: New Conceptual Selling

At our office, we decided to read this book as an account team. It was highly recommended by our boss to help better provide better solutions and services to our clients. Essentially, the book helps us listen. Here’s the highlights of how to…

Read more

Five Great Work Things from 2012

I started a new job with Noble Studios at the beginning of February. Since then, we’ve been able to accomplish some amazing things: ASICS On-Premise Marketing This was an on-premise Facebook app, which turned out to be a great multi-channel experience. A person…

Read more

Adventures

A blog that's dedicated towards online marketing, sustainability, and, well, life as we know it.