Welcome to Maximize Your Frequencies, iTech Northwest’s weblog that focuses on the tools, technologies, and even the attitudes needed to take yourself—and your organization—to a higher level.

Handmade!

More and more of my business is conducted from my computer. So as time rolls on, I will post links to my personal online resources and favorites. It is important to note that I am not endorsing the company or guaranteeing your experience, rather, just sharing my own favorites. It is pretty easy these...

Team Retreat

Recently, the iTech Northwest crew had our Team Retreat where we dedicate a day to strategy, reflection, brainstorming and goal setting. My first goal was to find a location to have our retreat. I was looking for a place that would allow us to be away from our normal work space while comfortable with...

Screencast How To: Dynamic Menu Button for OSI's TCCUS / TCBS

In this screencast I walk through the steps of creating a dynamic menu button for OSI's TCCUS and/or TCBS (I like to call it TC*). If you've never used or created menu buttons, watch the screencast to see how they are used to enrich your core processing system. In this example, I'm creating a menu button...

Reality Check: What to do when "That won't happen to me" does.

How many times have you heard or read about someone that has had their purse or wallet stolen and thought to yourself, wow, that's awful, and then very conveniently and quickly convinced yourself that that particular human situation happens to other people, not you? Well, in case you are feeling a little...

May 1st, RSS Awareness Day

Did you know that today is RSS Awareness Day ? I didn't either until I was reading RSS feeds in Google Reader with my morning americano. I know for me, RSS has greatly impacted how I browse the web. I don't spend much time browsing any more, unless I'm looking for very specific information. Most of the...

And the winners are... (imagine a drum roll here)

Our Cast My Vote Battle of the Bands promotion has drawn to a close. We had way too much fun with this one. Without further ado... The Beatles won the best of the best band award. The Eagles came in a very close second and U2 was left in the dust for third place. Nothing real original there. Perhaps...

Treat text as a user interface

There was a post on Simplebits called HyperText that stood out to me because of this statement: Web Design is 95% Typography . We are in the middle of a complete re-write of the Boardroom Web and we are paying great attention to the site layout and design. We don't plan on using a lot of graphics to...

Welcome to Maximize Your Frequencies

The iTech Northwest team is excited about the re-launch of our web site and newly added blog, which we are calling Maximize Your Frequencies . The new site is being powered by GraffitiCMS , which is a wonderful product. If you're running a Windows based web server and are in the market for a great content...

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