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Re: Twelve Horses Has Merged With One to One Interactive

robertmerrill — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 18:12:59 -0000

My intro here of @cspencer makes it sound like he's a contender in a boxing match! lol

Re: 4 Things To Never EVER Put On Your Resume

robertmerrill — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:31:51 -0000

I have one more to add to the list... never put your marital status on your resume.

Re: Contract CakePHP Developer

robertmerrill — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:25:07 -0000

Position filled!

Re: More Than Half of Employers Now Block Twitter, Facebook, MySpace

robertmerrill — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:35:44 -0000

Awesome. :-)

Re: About My Company

robertmerrill — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:34:18 -0000

Note: I wrote this post while I worked for SOS Technical. I don’t work there anymore. I run my own recruiting agency now called M|REC (Merrill Recruiting). I still recruit, but now I do it even more awesomely than before. I can help your company suck less at recruiting, too. This post is here for archival purposes, but please know I am not on their payroll any longer. Thanks!

Re: More Than Half of Employers Now Block Twitter, Facebook, MySpace

BHMediaMarty — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:08:54 -0000

la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. I can't hear you.

Re: More Than Half of Employers Now Block Twitter, Facebook, MySpace

TalesOverCoffee — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:43:36 -0000

Most people I know that use Twitter and Facebook "from work" are actually doing it from their mobile phones. Though, my wife does have access to Twitter and Facebook from her office because her company encourages it. They want employees to talk about their work (obviously only the good stuff) in an effort to make a connection with younger generations in this area.

Re: More Than Half of Employers Now Block Twitter, Facebook, MySpace

robertmerrill — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:24:25 -0000

Is this news? Of course companies will restrict employees from spending as much time as possible online for less-than-professional reasons. That's why their called "companies" not "cafes".

In my experience, companies that keep their employees from peering out into the world also spend a fair amount of time with their fingers in their own ears trying to be sure nothing negative gets in, either. All that truth gets in the way of navel-gazing.

Say it with me: "la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. I can't hear you."

If anything else, I heard a rumor that Facebook, MySpace and Twitter work on those newfangled cellular telephones now, too? Wow.

Re: SAP Business Analyst

robertmerrill — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:18:49 -0000

@tim the environment is SAP Business by Design, feature pack 2. There is CRM, Financials and Supply Chain in use, but not Product Development or Project Management.

Re: EnticeLabs Receives $2 Million from First Advantage and Omniture Founders

robertmerrill — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:17:00 -0000

Way to go EnticeLabs! :)

Re: Twitter Me This - Why Hyper Connected People Need Twitter

Robert Merrill — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:21:41 -0000

They can, but not as fast as sales people can. If "driving sales" is what you want, and you can only choose one or the other, consider the latter. This other stuff is really awareness and marketing. It generates awareness and that can engender trust, and trust results in sales.

Re: My APX Story

robertmerrill — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:10:20 -0000

Any business model that relies on "Well, you signed the contract, fork it over" isn't a business, it's a lie.

If my legal contract required payment for services that didn't work, and allowed me to still demand payment even if it didn't work, I would revise my contract or my services.

If other APX clients are happy, that's awesome. I just wasn't. I've never said the whole universe of APX clients never get their money's worth. But I didn't (ever) get what I paid for and simply wanted APX to make good on that.

If the service had worked as advertised/sold OR if the repeated attempts to contact APX directly had resulted in something before posting this, I never would have had a problem--and this website wouldn't exist.

Re: Is An RSS Feed Important Anymore?

robertmerrill — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:00:09 -0000

Great thought, Thom. The progression of all these vectrors to get in touch with you is BECAUSE of the feeds though and, since I am on a social network regression binge, feeds are, in fact, becoming much more important again... in fact, that's how I read this post first :)

Re: How is the Economy and Recession Affecting YOU?

robertmerrill — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:36:41 -0000

I received the following other two comments on this post via twitter:

jalbright: "Cancelled cable (which I hardly watched anyway) and now bring my lunch to work. Those 2 things have really helped out"

monicabuckles: "We had to cut back on vacations. we haven't been anywhere in over a year. "

Re: APX ALARM of Provo, Utah is a Thief and a Liar.

robertmerrill — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:00:58 -0000

Sorry Margarita.... GOOD LUCK! :(

Re: How is the Economy and Recession Affecting YOU?

robertmerrill — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:34:54 -0000

That's interesting, Matt. How has your clientele received the change to Net-15?

Re: Considering Dumping Disqus

robertmerrill — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:10:22 -0000

Well, go figure, seems like they've all appeared. ;)

Re: Considering Dumping Disqus

robertmerrill — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:09:41 -0000

Like Thom said... How do you integrate friendfeed?

Re: Utah boycott being organized by Proposition 8 opponents

robertmerrill — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 21:30:02 -0000

There is no list like that, Jesse, because it can't be produced. Nobody wants to admit that, if you step back and look at it, this issue was decided by *people*--on both sides.

But, it's too hard to blame "people"... people vote their opinions. People exercise their rights to freedom of speech and religion. "People" isn't scary enough.

... its easier to blame a so-called outsider religious group supposedly full of zealots and freaks, who are secretly trying to undermine people's rights and take away your freedom to be yourself.

Sounds a lot like the final battle-cry from the McCain camp in this last election... "Don't vote for Obama! Fear, and unknown..... Ayers! Money redistribution! Boogeyman!..."

Marginalize the Mormons... it makes it so much easier to ridicule and abuse them and blame them for something they actually had very little to do with.

Re: Comments on Proposition 8, California Ban on Gay Marriage

philharnish — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:25:54 -0000

Alright Robert--I'll concede that it's easy for me to see both sides. It sounds like you're already aware of what I would have to say and you've still made up your mind. I've moved the line on this issue because I don't feel like "separate but equal" makes sense. It is hard for me to imagine what other social changes which could occur that would further distort and subvert tradition but as you've already said: we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. Time will tell where this goes.

Re: Comments on Proposition 8, California Ban on Gay Marriage

robertmerrill — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:15:18 -0000

I appreciate your comment, Phil. Yes, my example was very extreme--which is why I retracted and clarified it.--but in the last week, there are others making similar ones that are just as shocking.

At the end of the day, we all need to realize that what is society's "norm" can, by definition, only be defined by said-society. Where we draw "the line" with respect to what is OK and what is not is variable and flexible and will change over time, of course. I hope both of us will reserve the right forever to defend our personal beliefs, whatever they may be, and then align with eachother when the voice of the people has been heard. Anything less would destroy us.

Yet, that doesn't mean that any of us should stop pushing for what we want to see changed.

Our nation was founded on the belief that the people should choose where that line is... the people should be in charge of where that line is... the people, the people, the people.

50 or 100 years ago, this wasn't even an issue. Today, people are calling those who supported defining marriage as "between a man and a woman" bigots and haters and extremist nazis. 100 years from now, what will the issue be?

The arguments for same-sex marriage claim people should have the right to marry whomever they choose as an act of love. I respect the desire there. I love my wife and my children. If we were not allowed to be married by law, I would still do everything in my power to try and be with them, protect and care for them. I know that the place the line has been drawn on this issue leaves a lot of people out and feeling betrayed.

These are likely good people, loving people, people who, in many ways, would likely even be better parents than me. I do ache for them that, like @ryanwillis said above, what is a religious issue has been made a political one... so that people are forced to take sides.

I have a strong feeling this is going to get uglier and uglier before it gets better, and its going to get worse for people, especially those labeled "bigots" for passing proposition 8 in california.

Consider for example, an interesting problem: If it becomes the socially-acceptable norm that a person should marry whomever they choose, both consenting, because they are in love, how soon before the line becomes more blurry. Can a woman now marry her lover as well as her husband? Can a man then have many, many wives, all of them "consenting"?

Yes, my example was extreme, but there is no denying, whatever any of our feelings of "Proposition 8" may be, we will all look back on this time as a time things changed in America.

We will all remember this election.

Re: 4 Factors Creating Utah Workforce Funk

robertmerrill — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:12:22 -0000

Thanks! What specifically did you like?

Re: Comments on Proposition 8, California Ban on Gay Marriage

Sterling Okura — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:26:32 -0000

Thank you for the clarification Robert.

I agree with concerns about checks and balances within the law. I also wouldn't want my civil liberties jeopardized if courts overturn laws people voted for.

However, in this particular case it seems as if the courts are not denying, but trying to extend civil liberties to a minority group in the same way civil liberties were extended to racial minorities decades ago.

Re: Comments on Proposition 8, California Ban on Gay Marriage

robertmerrill — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:19:54 -0000

Sterling,

This is a good comment, and both yours, Lonnie and Charlie make me think i wasn't clear enough in what I was trying to say. I was sloppy in my writing and it appears that I am calling Gays and Lesbians the same as serial killers. That's NOT what I meant, and I am sorry for being unclear.

My problem is with the Supreme Court of California effectively making the law here. The court should not make laws. It should, as Lonnie mentioned, be able to check and balance the laws and judge their constitutionality. I realize there is grey area here, but when you compare the voice of 4 Million people to 4, it seems unfair that the court, effectively, made the law here through banishing another one.

I am not without sin, and am not trying to cast stones, but clarify parts of this story I don't think are being told. I realize it appears I did cast stones, however, because of sloppy language. I am concerned about MY civil liberties if courts are allowed to overturn any law the public had voted for. My intention was to draw an analogy, though I agree its sensational as Charlie mentions, and in the context it is being read, I see that it is offensive as all of you have said.

Re: Comments on Proposition 8, California Ban on Gay Marriage

robertmerrill — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:33:21 -0000

Of course its offensve. But if every group in society suddenly can get "protected status" so that nobody ever gets offended or slighted, where, exactly will it end? What groups are OK? Which ones are not?

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