Landed: Dumbo Feather

Oct 6 2012

It’s the little things. A couple of months ago I was in Sydney for the first time. Funny how certain things leave an impression on me. Of course I have my photos of the Opera House and the busy streets between there an my hotel. But two months later my memories are more of a collection of senses. Aromas, temperatures, and attitudes.

Andy introduced me to this independent magazine called Dumbo Feather. He had an extra copy that he gave me. The morning of my flight home I awoke early to visit a cafe for my last flat white...

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Rusty Smith On RD2

Aug 30 2012

We have to think like we are a part of each others’ companies in order to innovate. With so many moving parts and user scenarios, it takes a tightly integrated set of teams and tremendous focus. Rusty Smith and the team at Tyler Technologies have become great partners through the years. We’re happy to see this new project rolling out. Look for more from Tyler Technologies on the CAD application in the near future!

Thanks Rusty for these great words...

Tyler Tech Mobile CAD App

Aug 30 2012

We’ve been lucky enough to have worked with Tyler Technologies for a few years now. What does Tyler Technologies do? Here’s what it says on their website:

Tyler Technologies is the largest company in the United States exclusively focused on providing integrated software and technology services to the public sector...

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Tracy Naftalis & Counsel Source – A 17 Year Journey

Aug 1 2012
Tracy Naftalis & Counsel Source – A 17 Year Journey

It’s not very often we have the opportunity to work with someone like . Tracy started her career as an attorney and had a successful decade long run as a practicing attorney. If you met Tracy, you would understand in a second why she left her career as an attorney to become a recruiter in her field. Tracy is masterful in the art of match-making in the arena where lawyers do business as lawyers. She knows the market, she knows the people, and she is not afraid to tell her candidates exactly what they need to hear. It’s her job to advise them to become the best possible lawyers they can be...

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One Big Responsive Family

Jun 27 2012
One Big Responsive Family

It’s a sign. A signal that something special is happening at RD2. Today we’re rolling out something for ourselves and that is altogether different for us. Typically we’re the last to get the good stuff, but this time it’s different. We wanted to be the test subject. This version of our website offers a glimpse of our new framework that we’ve been building as a WordPress add-on. Known in our industry as “Responsive Design,” this version of our website takes on a new design approach.

No matter what your website is all about, chances are if you look at your google analytics over the past few years you will notice new device types (mobile devices) are requesting content from your website...

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Throwing Things Away

Jun 27 2012

Did you ever notice that when you write a document that sometimes it’s easiest to open a piece of work you have done before and start from there? It’s like this evolutionary document that you build over time and it just grows and grows. It gets bigger, grows faster, has more detail, and you can get to the end more quickly. Right?

We’ve decided that’s exactly the wrong way to do it. In fact, we made a decision not very long ago to start throwing things away. We’ve thrown a LOT away. We’re challenging ourselves to forget about old practices, old methods, old ways of thinking. After all, RD2 is a laboratory where our clients depend on us to bring them the most innovative ideas that are relevant to their business...

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On Lining Up – The Ben Spies Way

Jun 18 2012
On Lining Up – The Ben Spies Way

Sometimes *@!$ happens. Sometimes it happens every day, for weeks, or even longer. How much “control” do we really have? Talk to any shrink and they will tell you we have NONE. But we can increase our odds, certainly. We can eat right, exercise, sleep an acceptable amount, do our homework, and then keep lining up. We line up even when we get our teeth kicked in. If we want to win, we just shake off life’s challenges and we go back for more, and hope we have a few teeth left when we’re done, and back on the winning track.

We went into this year’s MotoGP season with great anticipation for Ben Spies. Bigger motor, more experience, more refined team, bigger fan club, and a new brand. Expectations can be a profoundly heavy weight to carry...

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Launch! Ford Canada Drives New Blog

May 7 2012
Launch! Ford Canada Drives New Blog

It was only a few short months ago that I picked up the phone at RD2 and met Ammar Khan of Ford Canada for the very first time. He was contacting us because he wanted to create the best blog imaginable for Ford Canada. Ammar held BlogSouthwest.com in high regard and asked a lot of questions about our process for working with the team at Southwest Airlines to build such a stable community platform...