How many websites since 2003

I took a refresher job search course with Lehigh University the past few weeks. It was awesome, and it made me think about accomplishments versus titles and responsibilities.

It is a very easy trap to fall into when you just "do" instead of "doing and recording". It was a trap I fell in early in my graduate work and quickly dug myself out when I was asked to explain my results. The same applies when you look and bid for projects, get them, complete them, and then move on to the next cycle. One day comes when you need to recall the work and the projects, and you draw a blank. You know you worked your ass off to get here, but then you cannot recall on the spot your accomplishments.

I feel that blogging and twitter might be the answer to my recall issue. I will try to record the accomplishments, like the fact that the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church Facebook and website went from a few dozen views per week to a high 300 unique for the first and 1500 unique visits for the second, after I took over both sites, within a few months. I have done this for other sites too, but the analytics in Google and Facebook are making it easy for me to quantify the results now, not so in the past.

So how many websites have I worked on by designing them, building them, debugging them, promoting them, maintaining them, redesigning them, since Jen and I founded Zephyros Inc. in 2003? 76. How many email campaigns have we built and delivered and analyzed and maintained since then? 150+. How many emails did we sent out for clients? 9,000,000+.

The next step for me is to write about the manufacturing and service industry projects. Many of them are from our collaboration with the Enterprise Systems Center.

Charalambos Marangos is cited in the International Journal of Production Economics

Charalambos Marangos is cited in the International Journal of Production Economics Yeah! Our article: Agile supply chain transformation matrix: An integrated tool for creating an agile enterprise by Baramichai, M., Zimmers Jr., E.W., Marangos, C.A. in Supply Chain Management v12, no5, 2007, pp. 334 - 348 has been cited in: A review of applications of Analytic Hierarchy Process in operations management by Subramanian, N., Ramanathan, R. in the International Journal of Production Economics v138, issue 2, 2012, pp. 215-241. Thank you!

New email name is not seen in email campaign

In a recent email campaign we changed the FROM address descriptor from Joe to Helen . When my client received the newsletter, he complained that the descriptor was still Joe, instead of Helen. He proceeded to FWD me the newsletter. The FWD newsletter included Helen as the FROM, not Joe. That was the clue I needed to help the client out. You see, the client was using Thunderbird to read emails. In the past, the client replied to the newsletter and the Joe descriptor was saved in the collected address book. A search for the email address in all the address books in TB revealed that to be the case. We deleted the Joe email addresses and instantly the FROM became Helen in the inbox view. Pretty Neat!