Google Wave is Making Waves!

Posted on August 26th, 2009

I was reading my eWeek this week and I read an article for a new product from Google called Google Wave.

After reading the article, I was confused.  What was it supposed to do?  It looked like an email system with extra features.

After sitting through the demo, I finally got the concept.  Google Wave is a new service that blends email, instant messaging, file sharing, and software collaboration into one giant messaging center.

In other words, this is Google’s vision of what collaboration should look like in 2009.  And I must say, im pleasantly impressed.  From a single application, all of your daily communication tools are combined into conversations called “waves”.  You can even have your own “wave” server because Google has made the technology open-sourced.

I believe this will be the future of collaboration as we know it.

Google Wave Screenshot

Google Wave Screenshot

The importance of a mentor

Posted on December 15th, 2008

You have finally took the “big step” and started your own business. No more worrying about cutbacks, bonus checks, your ex-boss looking over your shoulder, co-workers trying to keep you from getting a promotion, and the other daily corporate politics. You are your own boss. With that, comes a lot of responsibility. Now, you sign the checks, handle legal issues, write the budgets, watch the balance sheets, become the focal point, set the tone, and the other hundreds of tasks the entrepreneur handles on a daily basis. To many, this can be overwhelming. Running a business is more than just the skill that you may have; its all of the tangible items as well.

Considering you no longer have a boss to guide you, one way to get a feel of the business side of things is to obtain a mentor. A mentor is someone who, generally free of charge, serves as your confidante and offers you advice on an ongoing basis. Your mentor should have more experience than you both in the area that you are pursuing your business AND has been successful in that area for some time. They have gained a great deal of entrepreneurial experience over the years due to their business dealings and relationships with other professionals in the industry.  They can also assist you in making the difficult transition from employee to employer.

I will be dedicating a few posts centered around the importance of a mentor in the life of an entrepreneur over the next couple of days and weeks.

Use of Patient Focused Social Networks

Posted on November 30th, 2008

As many of you may or may not know, one of my long term interests for many years has been to write a software application that will allow patients to manage their own healthcare record. The product to do so has been namely called, PatientAssist.

Today, I was reading an article on Manhattan Research, which concluded that more than 60 million Americans are using Health 2.0 type applications. For myself, this is absolutely perfect timing. With the new healthcare agenda for President Elect Obama, and general social trends, I feel that this is a great opportunity to release PatientAssist formally to my readers. Its ability to allow patients to communicate to several outlets makes it a truly innovative platform. Ill be posting more information here as well as the PatientAssist website.

Assisting Entrepreneurs to become Real Executives

Posted on May 31st, 2008

As im sure many entreprenuers would attest to, starting a business is much like life in general. You must “grow up” and you learn best from your own experiences and the experiences of others. As you may have read in my previous post on the importance of a good mentor, often good mentors are hard to find and looking for that needle in the haystack is often very time consuming.

There are many websites that help the young business professional gain exposure, such as LinkedIn, and many others. However, where would a young professional go to gain valuable knowledge and and share that knowledge with others? This need has led me to create StartUp Endeavors.

The concept behind StartUp Endeavors.com is to provide entrepreneurs their own personal portal designed to harnest information from multiple sources and place them on one easy to use platform. Its more than just a forum, its more than just another bloggers website; its a place where entrepreneurs get things done.

Something New from MIDS Coming Soon!

Posted on April 8th, 2008

Soon Mega Input Data Services, Inc. will be transitioning to being a part of Mega Input, Inc. Im very excited about this transition because it will allow us to focus our attention to what we want to do now, and in the future. While Mega Input, Inc. will have various properties, each properties expertise makes us extremely agile, lean, and most important, customer oriented.

As part of the transition, one soon to be name division (well, we know the name, but the press release will come soon), which serves as an idea incubator, will be releasing our first new product. Have you ever wanted to plan an event but didnt have the proper software to organize it? Are products currently available too costly? Well, we have the answer!

Scrambled Eggs Media Website Launched!

Posted on March 21st, 2008

After going through a few custom designs, sketches, revisions, and 3 months of deliberation, the Scrambled Eggs Media website has finally launched.
Scrambled Eggs Website
With this design, I wanted to showcase the work that Scrambled Eggs has done for its clients on each page of the website but in way that wasnt distracting to the sites visitors. I also wanted to use a limited amount of Flash on the site thus the rotating banner that is on the front of the site that was designed by my business partner JurJuan Walker.

The site also features a custom designed quote generator. The resulting quote gets sent to our design team for processing with our custom quote management system. This allows for the "quess work" to be taken out of charges to be given to the client. It tells the sales representative if the client is available for any discounts and what adjustment, if any, we are willing to make on the price and how this affects their commission. This way, everything is known up front to all parties.

To see what we are able to do for you, please visit Scrambledeggsmedia.com!

Have a great idea? Move forward with it . . . NOW!

Posted on March 11th, 2008

There was a time in which I thought “this idea is TOO innovative. . . no one will come up with this idea”. And out of 5 times of saying this over the years, 5 companies have taken the ideas that I had (not from me though) and turned them into multi-million dollar businesses. The learning lesson? No idea is sacred. Just as your are thinking of innovative ideas, others are doing the same.

So how can you protect yourself?

  1. Get a good attorney.
  2. Get a patent
  3. Get funding
  4. START NOW

Making good from the bad . . .

Posted on March 4th, 2008

Thank you all for your patience as I have reupdated my blog after its unfortunate mishap.

However, the downtime wasnt all bad. It allowed me to take some time to create this new website design and rearrange my priorities. With that said, I will do a better job of doing the following:

With that said, I would like to welcome you to the New Willie Pritchetts WebBlog!!!

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