Bradley J. Shively

The Only Thing I Love More Than Twitter…

// February 4th, 2009 // View Comments // personal

Apparently, is IST2U. Well, and the word “using” but I’m sure that is used (ha!) in a multifunctional context.

This, of course, isn’t true at all. There is a lot to my life. I love music and movies. I’ve been plowing through business books, and my new Nike+ & iPod touch combo should help me get through audiobooks on my list even more quickly. I enjoy spending time with friends, and I even do some school work occasionally. However, I tend to focus on a few core topics on this site. The past few months have been all about the process of migrating IST2U to Wordpress, and the changes that have been made to it.
While the results have been great thus far (I’m sure I’ll write a summary post within a few weeks; once the waters have settled a bit more), I’m starting to feel as though I come off as one dimensional.  I want to break into other topic areas and touch on subjects other than just the professional projects I work on.  Perhaps in a month or so, I’ll regenerate my Wordle, and see how it has changed.  Hopefully by then I will have met my goal of talking about something other than my job.

Thanks to Wordle for the cool tool, and thanks to Cole Camplese for the inspiration, which I stole from here.

A Quick Word

// January 11th, 2009 // View Comments // news, personal

I haven’t posted any news here for some time, so I thought I’d post a brief update.

Classes start tomorrow.  I’m extremely excited for IST 402: eMarketing / The Google Online Marketing Challenge.  I hope to learn a lot about using AdWords and online marketing in general in the class.

My holiday break was enjoyable, but uneventful.  I did get some reading done, including the excellent Managing Humans, which everyone should check out.

I’ve started a small personal project to teach myself jQuery and improve my PHP skills.  The beginnings of it can be found here.

Silence On the Wire

// October 28th, 2008 // View Comments // Penn State, gtd, personal

I’ve kind of abandoned this page [with the exception of my tweets in the side bar] since setting it up.

Suffice to say, there are a lot of things going on.  I don’t want to go into too much detail right now, but here’s a quick overview:

• The Magazine of IST (MIST) has launched it’s new site (using Wordpress) and will be releasing its Fall 2008 issue soon
• I am in the process of organizing a team for a startup, to be launched in Summer/Fall ‘09
• I have, of course, been attending to my various duties at school (classes, papers, homework, programs etc.)

Big updates will be coming soon.  I have a few articles in ‘draft’ stages, and I’ve also got some posts coming out in the Fall issue of MIST.  Check back for more soon.