Taking a moment to post a quick update on what’s been happening. Balancing work and school this semester has been extremely challenging, but the focus will shift from coursework to thesis writing from now on, meaning I can structure my schedule in a much saner way.
Work
I’ve completed a Reddot consulting engagement (see my last post) and am now focused on Sitecore technical planning for a large nonprofit. A number of interesting Sitecore challenges cropping up:
- Branching workflows
- A keyword tagging approach to dynamically assemble content
- Integration of legacy applications
I’ll be crunching those out with the team, but they should make for some great blog posts once we’ve determined courses of action.
Finally, after a few months of hard work, my whitepaper on building a faceted navigation with a CMS is to be published imminently. Stayed tuned on the NLC blog.
School
Ahh….school! It’s been a whirlwind since January. In one course, we are building business plans to be presented in front of certain members of the Ottawa community (!). My team is pitching a small-scale renewable energy device and we’ve had some hard schooling in class around our business model, value proposition and financials. It must be an incredible amount of work to do this “for real”. Wow.
In addition to that, I am presenting my “Gate 0″ next Friday, which is basically a 10-minute pitch on my proposed thesis research, which I have to defend in front of the faculty. Current working title: “The Mashup Ecosystem: Linking Competitive Actions, Event Sequences and Ecosystem Evolution“. Huh? 
This will become a lot clearer in the next few months.
For the next three weeks…it will be a matter of survival to get everything done. I can’t wait for April!
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