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The Pastel Art of Mary Jean O'Connor

Introducing The Pastel Art of Mary Jean O'Connor. This artist is well known within the Laguna Beach, California art community. A longtime member of the United States Pastel Association (USPA), Ms. O'Connor displays her work at popular exhibitions throughout Southern California. Instead of moving from frame to frame (as in a physical gallery), I created a moveable gallery within the one frame above. Simply click on this link and you'll be transported to a virtual showcase. Grab a glass of your favorite wine then dim the lights. We'll provide the gallery and the music: the perfect environment for viewing fine art.

Introducing Photographs on Photogenec

Seems like a 'no'brainer', but until today our Photogenec Design website did not display any of my photo galleries. Friends, partners, clients, and other reasonable people have been 'subtly' suggesting I set up a section of my business site for photos. Enough said. Introducing Photographs on Photogenec. I'm still working out the design elements, but the first gallery is up. Please visit Prince Edward Island on Photogenec.

The massive Newfoundland in the picture above had already eaten 14 pumpkins that morning, so he was in no mood to consume his 15th. A good thing, because I really wanted a picture of him and his favorite breakfast. Out of the picture frame is a huge carafe of Espresso.

PEI is a beautiful vacation spot any time of the year. I journeyed there on a photography trip to capture the fall colours. Please view my gallery and let me know what you think.

Just kidding about the pumpkins. . .

Be Fluid With Your Productivity

Wouldn't it be cool if you can turn a web application into a Macintosh application in about 30 seconds?

From the developer: Fluid lets you create a Site Specific Browser (SSB) out of any website or web application, effectively turning your favorite web apps into desktop apps.

Using Fluid to create an SSB out of your favorite website is simple. Enter the website's URL, provide a name, and optionally choose an icon. Click "Create", and within seconds your chosen website has been converted into a fully native Mac desktop application that appears in your Dock.

Photogenec makes it easy to get into Fluid. First, check out the Photogenec Design video that shows you the step-by-steps. . .Then fly over to the Fluid website , download the free tool, and take a quantum leap into productivity nirvana.

Todd Ditchendorf, developer of Fluid, offers up some tasty Fluid tips on his blog. Increase your Fluidity by becoming a Fluid expert.

Introducing 'Web Forms for Success'

This detailed set of screencasts demonstrate the incredibly easy power of Softpress Systems’ Freeway Pro and BatchBlue Software’s Batchbook Social CRM - as they team up to provide a complete web forms system. The ‘casts start out with a humorous look at the challenges facing a new business owner as she begins to put together the perfect website. The tutorial segments show how Photogenec Design LLC uses both Freeway Pro and BatchBook to design and develop a comprehensive working web form system. The screencasts provide step-by-step, clear instructions for the design, construction, and implementation of a client-centered web forms program.

Any professional considering the development of their first web form system, or comtemplating upgrading their client management tools should watch these screencasts. View all seven segments in one complete screencast.

Introducing VisualMe: A Better Video Resume

Photogenec Design LLC presents a more elegant, focused, and enlightened video resume. We call this concept ‘VideoMe’. In this short career documentary, we shy away from footage of our client walking in office buildings, library halls, beachside venues, and green parks. Instead, we get right to the heart of the matter: The Account of Experience. We deploy high quality stills, screencast techniques, actual resume data, and multimedia portfolios to create an emotional, factual drama. In this production concept, we chose backgrounds of light taupe and pinstripe gray. We matched the subject of the material and the tone of narration with an appropriate soundtrack. One of our production goals was to be able to construct a quality VideoMe in the shortest period of time.

LinkedIn and Facebook: A Jeckyl and Hyde Conundrum.

Well, well, well. . .and a ‘hmmmm’ thrown in for good measure. Months ago we started to read articles, critiques, and the like warning perspective job applicants to be wary of contradictions between content on chatty Social Media pages, their multiple online resumes, and their dutiful applications. Recruiters and corporate HR managers were combing the social web for ‘the real story’ about their candidates. For example, an application may have displayed a perfect driving record, but Facebook talked about a recent bevy of speeding tickets. And Twitter revealed several tweets of the same. People sometimes forget that the internet is sort of a dressing room without doors.

Now we’re finding out that the recruiters and corporate HR managers are searching that same social web to source for open jobs. How ’bout that for a twist! In a recent article on Workforce.com: Discriminatory Twist in Networking Sites Puts Recruiters in Peril, issues surface when recruiters and corporate HR staff prowl sites like LinkedIn for perspective job candidates. Why?
According to latest data from Quantcast, only 5 percent of LinkedIn users are black and only 2 percent are Hispanic. Jessica Roe, managing partner at Bernick, Lifson, Greenstein, Greene & Liszt in Minneapolis says this: “Employers don’t want to pay recruiters, so they take the path of least resistance, but they have to look very carefully at the applicant pool and cast a much broader net. Recruiters are often swept up by the latest process. Minor decisions lead to major consequences.”

LinkedIn has – what?, 40,000,000 profiles. 2 percent Hispanic, 2 percent Black. Do the math.

I suspect if a recruiter or an HR staffer uses a balanced approach (multiple postings, multiple access venues, etc.) to find, collect, and review applicants – minorities are generally good to go. But if there is a tipping toward services like LinkedIn? What then?

So, folks. . .what do you think?