For Your Eyes Only... We all know what that means. Okay, well beyond a sweet James Bond movie and a hit single by Sheena Easton. For Your Eyes Only: It's not meant for everyone...only for you. You get the point. You have something that you want to share with only a certain individual or a specific group of people. You want to choose who sees what and when. "You see what[...]

The creative atmosphere has always been my calling, but the templates we use for planning, brainstorming, client presentations, RFPs, etc., just don't require too much creativity. So how to turn my spreadsheets, calendars, lists, etc., into creative fun, while still being organized and professional? The answer took some time, and to be honest a big push, because I was quite hesitant to[...]

I'm a bit hungry right now and the weather is pretty mediocre here in Michigan so I'm thinking about soup. I'm also thinking about nodes as containers so you're going to get a mixed bag of soup and container metaphors. My apologies in advance. When it gets nice out I'm sure my posts will have more to do with beaches and chilled beverages, but for now, you're stuck with the rainy, cold day[...]

What are you thinking? So, you're new to mindmapping, eh? For those who aren't familiar with the term, mindmapping is basically a visual way to organize your thoughts. The idea is, that when you actually SEE your ideas and how they relate to each other, the larger picture of what you're trying to accomplish becomes much clearer. The end result? Improved expression of ideas[...]

Well it's finally here! The velvet ropes are coming down! The long awaited first official release of Spinscape is here! As of July 1st, you will no longer need an invite to get into Spinscape. We appreciate the patience of everyone in the Spinscape trial community while we sorted out the features that were most important to our customers. If you've been one of our private beta testers,[...]

We want this game to be as easy as possible for you to get in on and enjoy. So, here are the oh-so-simple step-by-steps to getting your Invite Code of the Day from spinblackbelt on Twitter.

1. First, to Twitter we go, to get a clue and guess the code. Go to www.twitter.com.

1. Log on. If you are new to

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Ah yes, if you missed Web 2.0 Expo and you're interested in getting an invite you're in luck! To help ring in Cinco de Mayo properly, we are going to blast out invite codes starting on May 5th every day until we go live...only the invite code won't be explicit. You will have to decipher a series of clues...each one more fiendish than the previous one. To get in on the fun, check out[...]

Soooooo, as we get ready for the grand revealing of Spinscape chock full of its new GUI goodness (notice I didn't say launch), a few things come to mind. Scrum has really been a beautiful ally in the development of this product. I hate to personify something so inanimate as a software development methodology, but I can't help it. The idea from the beginning was to create Spinscape so[...]

Our developers are scurrying about like Santa's Elves the day before Christmas Eve. What are they doing you ask? Well I'll tell ya. They are coding their little fingers off to put some very cool new features into Spinscape. We have applied for several new patents that will rear their heads at the Web 2.0 Expo show in April. One of the exciting things we are doing is creating an open[...]

Thanks to all our ravenous fans, our marketing site was severely crippled today by a ton of hits! Never fear, we've added more servers to make sure this doesn't happen again! (I hope it happens again!) So thanks for showing the love, and please continue sending the awesome supportive emails![...]