Category: People on the Move

  • Happy Birthday, Ma.tt – Thanks for Your Continued Inspiration

    Happy Birthday, Ma.tt – Thanks for Your Continued Inspiration

    Happy birthday, Matt Mullenweg. Thank you for your relentless pursuit of open source and for being a great role model.

  • A Memorial to Clifford Alfred Pyle

    A Memorial to Clifford Alfred Pyle

    [Note, according to U.S. Veterans Affairs, over 650,000 U.S. Military personnel have been lost in battle over the course of U.S. history; lives that were cut short. This is a brief rememberance of one the young men who didn’t come back from the horrors of World War II. The inspiration for this article is the…

  • R.I.P. Dutch Hemler – Solid, Loyal, & Wise

    R.I.P. Dutch Hemler – Solid, Loyal, & Wise

    Pennsylvania Dutch evokes an image of an oak tree. Something that is solid and firmly planted in the ground.  loyal and true. wise, yet ageless. It is appropriate, that Jerome Hemler got his nickname thanks to his Hanover heritage.  Dutch had a great story about how he got that moniker. And like many of his…

  • Viodi View – 12/13/20

    Viodi View – 12/13/20

    Telecommunications is fundamentally about connecting people. Despite the amazing things that broadband and the associated video conferencing ecosystem have done to keep us connected in 2020, it isn’t the same as face-to-face for capturing non-verbal communications. An anecdote from Brent Christensen’s eulogy about his late father, Everett, and the non-verbal communication he would use to…

  • Leadership in Challenging Times

    Leadership in Challenging Times

    Although the title of the event was “Christian Leadership in Challenging Times”, the ideas shared by the panelists were relevant to any business leader dealing with the events of 2020. A common theme was the idea of being a servant leader who serves staff and customers first. As the panel moderator to this Christians in…

  • Viodi View – 10/25/19

    Viodi View – 10/25/19

    Listen to the highlights of this newsletter here: https://soundcloud.com/viodi/a-tribute-to-tom-olson-october-25th-viodi-view-newsletter It is the connections with people that ultimately matter in business. This is an unintentional lesson taught by mentor and friend, Tom Olson. In sharing a fun Twitter thread with him last weekend, I had hoped to bring a smile to Tom’s face, by reminding him…