While DeRose says he’s normally given to expansive visions of the company’s future, nowadays he’s focusing near-term. In addition to the company’s journey to a Nasdaq listing, that boils down to one word: Growth. “In the next three to five years, we want to build a list of thousands of clients,” he says.
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Out with smarty-pants, in with experts
Wednesday, February 15th, 2012Should You Have an AED in Your Facility
Monday, January 16th, 2012An AED, or automated external defibrillator, can save the life of someone in your fitness facility, but most health centers don’t have one. They cite either the cost of the device (price varies by make and mode; most cost around $3,500), the time and cost of training, or simply lack of knowledge about what it is and how it can save a life. This trend is changing, however, and more fitness facilities are deciding to have an AED at their facility. I spoke to two facilities that currently have one, one of which actually used the device to save the life of a member. (more…)
A Need for Speed
Wednesday, December 28th, 2011Like all new technologies, the Internet was derived primarily as a mode of quick and efficient communication. This need for speed is not lost on the fitness industry whose dues-paying members expect the club to not only be equipped with the “latest and greatest,” but that it be up and running and ready to be put to exercise use. (more…)
Linux opens door to low-cost, easy-to-use devices
Thursday, December 1st, 2011We know the cost of computer technology has dropped precipitously over the past few decades. We hear this point made at conferences. Speakers observe that if cars had experienced the same technological progress as computers in the past two decades, they would travel thousands of kilometres on a litre of gas, boast 40,000 horsepower and cost less than $500.
Hi-tech Video. Part 3
Thursday, November 17th, 2011To top it all off, I’m making the videos that I produce available via my Web site: I’ve got several dozen videos available in a variety of formats, which people can access on demand. Not only that, but I’ve established what I’ve come to call jimcarroll-tv: it’s a continuous, 24-hour a day transmission of a random sampling of speech topics and videos that I’ve produced.
Hi-tech Video. Part 2
Thursday, November 17th, 2011The quality and capability that lets me do this in a $1,500 video camera might have cost ten thousand dollars or more just a few years ago. That in itself is a significant revolution.
But there is a far more subtle capability that has emerged with such technology.
Hi-tech Video. Part 1
Thursday, November 17th, 2011Welcome to the future!
It’s a world in which every association in Canada has their own television station! One in which video highlights of annual conferences and meetings are distributed to attendees within but a few hours of the close of the conference. (more…)
Scrapbook Convention
Thursday, November 17th, 2011I just got back from the Great American Scrapbook Convention in Arlington, Texas. While there, I managed to meet up with AMOM Loree, AMOM Chryl, and several folks from my scrapbook email loop. (more…)
5AM, Western Red Cedar, and Ethernets….
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011I’m typing this at 5:07am. I’m out on my new deck on a beautiful clear June morning, having just plugged my laptop into the network jack.
I think I’m the only guy in the neighborhood with an outdoor deck that sports western red cedar, a bbq, several lounge chairs, an assortment of planters and flowers, as well a 10-base-T Ethernet connection and a variety of phone jacks.
Critical optimism
Wednesday, August 17th, 2011Brigham agrees the lack of standards will cause problems for the technology at the outset: “It’s a lot of work to code XML and [create a DTD]. Until there are standards that everyone can agree on, many companies won’t think it’s worth the effort.”