dangerouslyawesome

I'm Alex Hillman, the co-founder of IndyHall and a guy who makes things better in Sunny Philadelphia.

I work on Beanstalk, Postmark, and DynamicWear.

I think technology is cool, but people are infinitely cooler.

my name up in lights…

…or in screws.

Maybe I’m simple, but seeing my name as a brand always makes me chuckle.

[tags]hillman, screws[/tags]

what's it like to be in my shadow?

I’m watching my newsreader this morning, and it looks like microsoft is getting swept into the shadows once again. With the impending release of the Zune, Wii, and Playstation (in that order, if i’m no mistaken) the gadget with the most realistic chance of being able to touch RIGHT NOW is getting the least press.

Not that I’m particularly excited for the release of any of the holy trinity, but if I had to pick, I’d say the Wii is gonna be pretty cool (maybe I’m just a sucker for Zelda).

[tags]zune, wii, playstation 3, zelda[/tags]

congratulations…

…are in order for the ENTIRE fearnet team (not just the empathylab part) on creating a website which surpassed it’s baseline competitor’s registered user base in almost exactly 1 week. Thats right, we’re past 12,000 and almost at 13k. Insane.

To commemorate, I’ve created a little tribute that includes about 1500 user icons arranged into the fearnet logo. Sorry it’s biggest res is 1024, I’ll work in a higher res one with more icons later, if people like this one.

[tags]fearnet, mosaic, user icons[/tags]

recruiters that "get it"

I’m admittedly not a big fan of recruiting agencies/head hunters. I was pleasantly surprised when I met MaryHelen Votral and the CM Access crew back in September at Creative Camp and saw a completely different kind of recruitment process.

CM Access is definitely an agency that “gets it”. The understand the value of relationships in the business world, and instead of being focused on meeting quotas they work with employers and talent to find matches that will work for the long term. Relationship building and the shared value of networking play a key part in barcamp events, so having these guys backing up the event was a perfect fit.

MaryHelen clued me in to the launch of the CMAccess blog a couple of days ago, which should be another tipoff that they “get it”. Utilizing technology in an effective manner to spread a message and provoke both thought and involvement…right on!

I’m looking forward to CreativeCamp v2 on December 2nd. [tags]cmaccess, barcamp, blogging, recruiters[/tags]

record breakers

So FEARnet, that little thing I posted about a week ago, has broken 12000 registered users in a week, and with over 1,000,000 uniques that puts us at just shy of a 10% registration turnover.

Thats insanse.