Digital Lifestyles, LLC Blog

Let’s see… I have FaceBook, Yahoo, AIM, Google Talk, LinkedIn, Plaxo, Ryze, Ecademy, and Windows Live. I subscribe to Netflix, Hulu, Veoh, Last.fm, and LaunchCAST. I administer and maintain a webstore that serves to fuel my business as a financial means. I need to keep up with all of these networks, but only 24 hours to work with to meet with potential clients, service their needs, and follow up with all vendors, suppliers, partners, and subcontractors. How can I do all of this without going out of my mind of who I’m talking to and what each conversation was about? DandyID.

DandyID is a service that brings all of these services, accounts, and profiles (over 300 in all) to one portal that people can find out more about you as a person, employee, businessperson, friend, or relative. For me, I combine these entities into my blog (listed on the left sidebar). For someone who knows more people know him than he can admit at a given time, this service is a great way to both promote and keep up with friends and associates.

The sad thing is that you must set up each account or profile in its totality in order to benefit from this effort–which takes a great deal of time if you are as busy as me (or more). Thankfully, I have set up most of my profiles to the point that they are presentable and accurate to my current situation. I have a couple more profiles to go, but I should be at or near 95% finished within a week. I do hope that this effort will pay off quickly and soon so I can buy a shoe or two! (maybe I can get a sock with that…)

In either case, I’ll know how well the service works the more I use this service with my other accounts and profiles. I’ll keep you posted.

I was here thinking about what incentives and programs I could employ to help promote my Linux Conversion store. This is the season for Fathers’ Day and graduations, which has me thinking “what about student pricing and Fathers’ Day gifts?”.

Well, I happen to be late with this thought, but I figure, it’s never too late for a gift. I will be adding in a means for students to use our services while keeping their costs low with a coupon I will create and enable. As for Fathers’ Day, I missed the boat this year, but there’s always next holiday!

Wesley

I have been at this business for over eight years. I have worked as an adult since I was 14. There seems to be one thing that I have learned with all that I have experienced: the greatest invention for a business is reinvention!

When my first attempt at the home automation industry failed, reinvention kept me afloat. When I worked as an independent computer consultant, reinvention allowed me to shelve that skillset for what I was going to become next. Now that I have made the contacts that I have, with acquiring the knowledge that I’ve gained over the years, reinvention is allowing me to bring past experiences and knowledge together because it is these exact skills that will help me in this new venture.

When I was about to start thinking about my career in grade school, I decided that I wanted to be an architect, an electronic engineer, or a cartoonist. Now, in 2009, my computer and electronic histories have fulfilled my desire for engineering, home automation has fulfilled my desire for architecture, and documentation has fulfilled my desire for cartooning (which is actually illustration).

So what does this mean? Well, to me it means that nothing is over until the last breath is spent. In life, there must be a way, no matter what path you’re on, or which direction you are headed, to shift or adjust your focus. I’m glad I can improvise, adapt, and overcome as I had been taught to see my own way through this economic hardship.