Robert Stackhouse

I’ve been meaning to write my review of Kelsey Ruger’s talk for a little bit now. Forgive my tardiness. Be expecting an edit; I’ve got a question out to him he said he’d need to answer by email, and I am patiently waiting for said answer.
Kelsey is good at expanding my reading list. His second [...]

Social Media is about making and maintaining connections, not about hawking your wares. If all you ever talk about is your “deals”, people are going to change the channel (unfollow, unfriend, block, etc.).
Rather than try to bribe people into visiting your establishment, buying your T-Shirt, or whatever, you should try to remind them why they [...]

Here’s my take on what a Net Tuesday is/does:
The aim of any Net Tuesday is to connect digital creators, tech literati,  social media types, etc. with local non-profits to aid those non-profits in spreading their message, bringing in funding, locating volunteers, etc.
In short, Net Tuesday is about empowering for-good non-profits through the web.
Here’s [...]

I’ve been hacking around with Postfix and Procmail on Ubuntu recently. One thing I’ve used Procmail for is to solve the problem of how to get Direct Messages from more than one Twitter account to the same phone.
Verizon and other providers will let you send email to a cell phone provided you know the mail [...]

I heard a lot of talk this weekend about how Houston can vault themselves into the top cities in America. Plans for re-vamping transportation. Plans for re-thinking urbanism. Sustainability. Etc.
I believe Bryan, Texas is in a position to make more substantial progress than Houston.
This post was already in draft form when I heard about Save [...]

Went to TEDxHouston this past Saturday. I think the question I wanted answered was something like, “How do you make philanthropy profitable?”
Like most other knowledge workers, I want my work to be meaningful; to have purpose. Like way too many knowledge workers, my work isn’t as meaningful as I’d like it to be. I would [...]

Though I have read Harrison Owen’s Open Space Technology, I am certainly no expert on the subject. I have been to one open space, and tried to help a student organization make use of the principles of OST. OST sounds crazy, but it works.
I think OST is about empowerment; about the equality of ideas. I [...]

I tend to think of myself as an honest, hard working, principled person who is generally kind and open to new ideas. The last few years at work have been really difficult for me seeing as there was a huge mismatch in values between myself and senior management. Their attitude had always been: do what needs to [...]

An acquaintance of mine posted a link to this site this morning. As I was reading through the blog, I stumbled on this story. It almost immediately made me recall an experience in a college 3D rendering class. When the other students in the class found out that they would be using open source software [...]

I recently read Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers), and in the book, Andy Hunt talks about hosting an all text wiki on a PDA for use as a mind map.  For those of us not into schlepping hand-held devices around or syncing them to desktops or the web, a VPS (Virtual [...]