Andrew D. Goodfellow

Good leaders get excellent results. All organizations need teams. To compose those teams you need talented people, who are disciplined, and have good attitudes. All three are necessary, but they work together in different ways. There are two equations that I use when it comes to building sustainable successful organizations. The first is the key [...]

I’ve often wondered what the best time is to post status updates so I can reach the most people in my networks. It’s been obvious that posting for maximum engagement to Twitter has very different optimal times than Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, etc. This visualization gives  a good feel for timing not only for personal [...]

A few weeks back, I think it was on a Wednesday, the world got news from Adobe about the future of Flash in mobile web browsers. It was communicated poorly and not understood well, but most of the technology leaders were able to clarify to their sales teams and customers pretty quickly. The following Friday, [...]

As part of the StudioNorth Innovation initiative we realized that to create a culture of innovation in our company we needed guidelines. We want, no, we expect everyone in our company to be innovative. Everyone can be, but many times people aren’t. Why? The only real obstacle is risk. Expressing your ideas can be risky. Especially [...]

I’ve had this projection mapping advertisement for the Hyundai Accent in my drafts forever and I’ve meant to write about it. At this point I think it’s better just to post it, because otherwise it’s going to sit in draft forever and it’s rather old at this point. I’ve often thought projection mapping could be [...]

Way back in February 2011 I wrote about how the fold was irrelevant and that when you design / build / write your website you should focus more on content and brand (http://bit.ly/eUjtQY). I still stand by that post, even though I have heard some content people preach that the fold super important still. (It’s [...]

Some really good takeaways here for Healthcare IT. Here are a few of the ones that jumped out at me: HCIT spending will grow by over $2 billion over the next two years. Two thirds of doctors use social media for professional purposes (with a surprising large slice going to Foursquare.com) Three quarters of physicians [...]

Do you want become successful? Of course you do. Doesn’t everyone? This is a video of what success looks like. This is what it takes. Repeatedly. Anyone who has achieved a good measure of success will tell you the same. Anyone who tells you it’s easy or there is a simple “secret” is lying to [...]

It’s a good thing this has never been debated before. #sarcasm Every third Friday of the month I attend (and sometimes present) at the Technology Leadership Assoc. Managers Forum in Chicago. This last Friday Steve Stern and Jim McGee presented “E-Commerce Content Management (Drupal vs WordPress).” These presentations are meant for IT managers and directors [...]

This comes to us from our good friends at Mashable and BuySellAds.com where it’s surrounded by seizure inducing ads and irritating social widgets. In addition to the two options in the infographic below there is another option. You can sponsor apps. Using Apple’s iAds, the platform independent AdMob you can advertise right inside apps. These [...]