New Year, New Blog.

Happy New Year!

As we roll into 2007, I've decided to start making use of the time between when I wake up and when I leave for the gym. Why not blog? Do I have something to say? Well, that remains to be seen.

So last night, we rang in 2007. Well, some people rang it in. I was sleeping. I volunteered for a shift at First Night, then hit a couple of the venues with my family. The baby was tired, so we came home. Then the wife and I debated going to another venue, where some friends were. I decided against it - if I had gone, I would have gone to the after-party, then instead of sitting up blogging right now, I'd be in bed with a pillow on my head, dreading the coming of 7am when the kids get up. Besides, alcohol doesn't go well with the Zoloft.

What's up for the new year? I think that our cms company, Belmonster, will take off this year. The product is good, and we're starting to gain traction with the sales efforts. We've got some big plans for it this year, including a free build-your-own-website community. After all, what better way to get the name out there than giving the product away?

We've also got some great projects in the works in our branding company, Belmont, Inc. The Chief of Staff for the U.S. Army just renewed their contract, so we'll be working on a number of exhibits and displays for the Pentagon. Sales efforts there are starting to bring new projects in as well, which is good because my wife will be taking maternity leave soon.

So what am I going to talk about in my blog? Well, it will be a mixture of branding, website subjects (interface/interaction design, information architecture, technologies, marketing and strategy), leadership/business-related topics, reviews of other blogs that I read, and perhaps the occasional picture of my kids. These are all things that I am interested in and do an enormous amount of reading about.

So happy new year, and I hope I don't bore you too much!