Housekeeping

A few items of update on the blog:

1. Our profile is fixed, so the whole family is back! There's even an updated picture (it's bigger, too, so you can actually see us!). This was a snapshot taken at Thanksgiving.
2. I've added a couple of little tools. The first is a service called Snap Preview. It allows you to hover over a link with your mouse (try it with the one above) and a small pop-up window will give you a preview of the website. This will help you determine if you really want to go to the site before you click and navigate away.
3. Obviously we have been sporadic in updating (we are trying to correct that!). I'm sure that you have better things to do with your life than coming back to our little corner of the web just to see if we've posted anything. Well, worry no more. Over to the left I've added a place where you can sign up and you will receive an email notification whenever we get around to posting something. This is a service from a website called FeedBlitz. There is no spam, you aren't signing up for anything other than this update, and you will never have to worry about your email showing up anywhere. I've used this for a while and I've never had a problem. You will receive an email the morning after a post has been made. We'll try not to clutter your inbox too much! ;)

Finally, I have to give props to where these cool tools came from. The President and CEO of Thomas Nelson, Mike Hyatt, is an avid blogger. He's been a huge inspiration for me wanting to blog. He's also a fellow technophile and helps keep me up to date on technology. He has an incredible blog and I highly recommend that you take a look, and subscribe to it. Those of you reading this in the business world will find a treasure trove of information here, but even if you aren't in business you will find a lot of what Mike says useful. I've added his blog, From Where I Sit, to the links on the left.

I hope you enjoy these small enhancements. Like I said, we are trying to get better at updates. Keep checking back, or better yet subscribe and look forward to a surprise in your inbox soon!

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15 Seconds

Scott isn't the only one in the limelight these days! Jessica is enjoying some fame via an article in the newspaper about her class at school. It wasn't on the web, so below is a scan of the actual article (to read it, just click for a larger image):

Today the class went on their "special field trip surprise". They went to Chick-fil-A for lunch, then they were off to meet the Mayor of Murfreesboro, go to the top of the AmSouth Bank building (the tallest building in Murfreesboro), and then to the park to play (although with the high expected to only be 41 today (and it's only 30 now!) I'm not sure how long that will last!).

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Almost Famous

Recently I had two opportunities to represent my job, and my company, in two high profile situations. I'm excited to finally begin to establish myself as an expert in the arena of digital publishing.

First, in November I was a guest on a nationally syndicated radio program called Point of View talking about Bible study software, and specifically our brand, eBible. It was a two hour radio program and I was the guest the whole time! Unfortunately, the link is gone on their website, but here is a link to listen for anyone interested. A few technical notes: The first 5 people can click and do nothing. After that, you have to sign up for a free XDrive account. If you do, you get 5GB of online storage for free. If you don't, I understand. Also, the file is 22MB and the interview is long. I will NOT be offended if you don't listen! :)

Second, The Tennessean, our local newspaper, ran an article today about the future of e-books. This article was prompted by a press release from our company about a new partnership I made with a software company. The newspaper called me and I spent a lot of time on the phone educating the writer about the world of e-books. In the end, we weren't the feature of the article, but I was quoted in it and the partnership was mentioned. Here it is, for your reading pleasure!

I just thought I would share with you a couple of successes for me lately. It's great to have a job you love, and have the opportunity to communicate that to others.

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Scott's trip to Washington DC

Happy New Year to all!!

We have been a little dry on posting over the holidays because we have a lot of pictures to share and I've been trying to figure out the best way to accomplish this. The previous slide show of my trip to Washington state was done at a site called Flickr, but in order to upload any reasonable amount of pictures you have to pay for the service. I wanted to avoid that. After much research, and even trying to do it myself in Flash, I found Slide. It's free and it even gives you all the code you need to put a slide show directly into a blog post. Before I had to do some HTML coding (a not so easy task when you have no idea what you are doing!). So far Slide seems like a great solution. Let us know what you think and we'll get more up as soon as possible (including the long overdue updates on each of us, and the house tour!). On a little bit of a technical note, I'm very suprised that Picasa doesn't support doing this since Google owns both Picasa and Blogger. Maybe in future updates...

Now on to the subject of this post. Below is a picture slide show from a business trip to Washington DC I took in November. Unfortunately, I left a few hours before Mark and Shary came home from Florida, so I didn't get to see them. :( This is a summary of about 4 hours of hard and fast sightseeing! All in all there are some good shots, so I hope you like them.

On a final note, Blogger has updated their site recently and in the transition my picture and my profile have become the default. I'm not sure why, but I will work on that quickly so that you can see all of us again.

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