Two Important Things

The first thing is...
Tis the season for holiday parties and merriment. Especially in the government sector we tend to have an hour or two in which we have some food and socialize. I have seen it where there will be 10 different parties on the same floor over a 2-week period. The important thing I want to draw attention to is in the plight of contractors. If you have contractors embedded with the feds, you should make a point of inviting them to participate in your holiday festivities. Think about it like this, you want them to be part of the team, committed to the mission all year long. Don't be inconsistent in the month of December.

I remember when I was a contractor working with and near the feds, and I could hear them in their holiday party. The party that they chose to not invite their contractors to. It was completely demoralizing to me. It communicated that, I was a part of the team when it was convenient for them to include me. So if you are going to have a holiday party, make a point of inviting the contractors to come. It costs you nothing, but it will help to maintain the team structure.

The second thing is...
I really expected to see a lot more negative comments about the Motorola/ Verizon Droid, and I have really been watching. But I haven't seen anything. I saw the MiKandi thing and that might prove to be negative, but I'm not going to download those applications. I saw that it can be hacked to get Root access, but that was inevitable. I've read that the developer community is frustrated with Google, but no matter what they are less frustrated with the Goog than they are with Apple right?

I've had the device for about 3 or 4 weeks now, and I find new things on it every day. It is so easy and intuitive that I find myself using it more and more. Then I read that Time has chosen the Droid as the Best of everything in 2009. I'm not telling you to abandon your iPhone, it could still be used as a paper weight or as a sculpture from the aesthetic period in contemporary culture, but you should get a Droid for communications.