ThinkShout

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ThinkShout takes the "Sotomayor" approach to opinionated technology planning

July 15, 2009 - 00:00 -- Sean

ThinkShout is still largely in the brainstorming phase of our own brand development. Sure, we're busy with client work already, actively solving interesting social media problems for social entrepreneurs - so we don't have a ton of time for navel gazing. But in the evenings, we do get together to discuss what we ultimately want to do with ThinkShout and how we want to carve out our own niche in the social media and web technology business.

For the past four or five years I've personally been very interested in doing information technology planning for non-profits and start-ups. To me, information technology planning is defined as a two-step process of:

a) understanding an organization's "human workflow" (ie, how they organize around tasks and deliverables, and how they communicate amongst themselves and with their target audiences) and

Why ThinkShout? Why Now?

July 12, 2009 - 00:00 -- Sean

A lot of people have been asking me lately why I've decided to set up my own IT company in "the worst economic downturn in modern history" [insert screams of terror]. In the interest of full disclosure, the most immediate impetus was because, like many other people these days, I was recently laid off from my more-comfortable, full-time job. But that's actually just the opportune starting point for this chapter in my entrepreneurial work with start-ups, small businesses and non-profits to make the internet a more inhabitable and productive space. The fact is, I've been promoting open source technologies to start-ups and nonprofits for much of the last seven years, and I couldn't think of a better time for me to start my own web technology business - for four key reasons:

Reason #1 - I don't see dust bowls roving through the Midwest:

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