Andrew Yang

SCA in practice is far from perfect. Simply buying a tool doesn’t solve any problems. Almost certainly making a tool available to your team is not going to result in adoption. In fact, it rarely does. Think of the old adage: “you don’t go to a hardware store to buy a drill, you go to buy holes.” When you purchase an SCA tool you are buying fixed defects and addressed vulnerabilities. The tool, by itself, will get you only small part of the way there. The biggest challenges we’ve seen are...

Millions watched the new United States president, Barack Obama be sworn into office in Washington DC. One of the major themes of his campaign and presidency is the concept of community service – the idea that America can make significant progress when all of us pitch in. No idea is too small – whether it be organizing a neighborhood cleanup or arranging meal service for the elderly in the neighborhood. Every little bit helps and makes us all stronger.

I did my first triathlon at the Marin Triathlon in 2008 and wanted to share my experiences for any other potential first time triathletes. It was a greatly rewarding experience that still gives me goose bumps just thinking about it. I think most anyone can do a triathlon if they put their mind and body to it. In researching a triathlon, you’ll be bombarded with information. I want to share how I did it and what I found out was important to me.

As a frequent organizer of groups and as founder of a company devoted to bringing groups online, I decided to round up my top favorite tools that I use to help get my group organized and online. Not all of these solutions are for everybody but they might be open up your eyes to some of the possibilities of using digital technology to help make your life easier and to enrich your group’s experience.

Most groups are run using the most rudimentary of tools (like paper, postage, envelopes) While there’s something satisfyingly real about using physical pieces of paper, it not only is bad for the environment, but also makes it difficult for the organizer to get things done efficiently.

Families are growing increasingly apart in this day and age with immediate family members busy with their own schedules and extended family being separated by many miles. Increasingly, many families are creating family websites to help increase communication, plan events like a reunion and have fun. We'll discuss how you can set up your own family Website in minutes.

When leading a soccer team, the organization of the sports team can often be the least fun part. You have to balance your players needs, with your coach's needs, with your league's requirements and finally, with the parent's needs. With such a large cast of characters with sometimes competing interests, organizing this chaos isn't easy. Here are just a few organizing (non-coaching) tips to help you get organized and to help ensure your soccer team accomplishes its goals.

Thanksgiving and Christmas are times where many families get together to give thanks for all the things we should appreciate in out lives. It’s also one of the few great times to strengthen the ties that bind our families. With families increasingly getting geographically dispersed and with people’s increasingly busy schedules reducing the amount of time families spend together, it’s no wonder that making the most of your reunion or get-together is a priority for many families.

Leading a group of people can often be a tiresome, thankless job and yet, many find the experience to be completely rewarding. Satisfaction is directly related to how well-functioning the group is. How to get a group of people to work together is both an art and a science.

When leading a baseball team, the organization of the sports team can often be the least fun part. You have to balance your players needs, with your coach's needs, with your league's requirements and finally, with the parent's needs. With such a large cast of characters with sometimes competing interests, organizing this chaos isn't easy. Here are just a few organizing (non-coaching) tips to help you get organized and to help ensure your baseball team accomplishes its goals.