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At first read you may think “Pickle Pizza?” Gross! But “Pickle Pizza” is not the name of a new creation from your local or national pizza place, it is what we call Wednesdays at Fresh – a day when we order PIZZA from Papa Johns and play the beloved game of PICKLEBALL outside our offices …

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Many of our team members used to be consultants for international companies. At that time, our standard bill rates were double what we are now. But then and even now, we can be perceived to be expensive. It’s not uncommon for an employee or client manager to look at consultant’s bill rates, run some simple …

At Fresh Consulting, we manage much of our life and our work on the web in the cloud. The majority of our software is web-based to accommodate our flexible work for our core local team and our distributed team. Because we spend so much time with 1 piece of software that connects to all of …

As we prepare for the future, we look to emergent innovation, not just continuous innovation. To help understand what’s coming, we hypothesize on the near term, mid term, and long term timing of a few concepts worth watching a video about (below). While emergent vs. continuous could be argued for the concepts below, all are …

In the spirit of trying to keep our minds “fresh”, we had an important “company meeting” at the closest freshest place possible: Crossroads Par 3 Bellevue 9-hole Golf Course. It was close enough to make this mostly a lunch hour event to not interrupt our timely client work. We had some fresh first time golfers …

I just have to say—I love that title! Wish I could take credit for it myself, but it comes from a fascinating book by Sarah Lacy along with the subtext ”The Rebirth of Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0.” I read it when I first got to Fresh Consulting and the guys were …

A few months ago, with the launch of the iPad, the question on everybody’s mind was whether Apple was going to decimate the Kindle with a device that had nerds everywhere salivating with gadget lust. On that day, Fresh Consulting office was abuzz as everybody gathered in the main space (described as the War Room …

REDMOND, Wash. March 18th, 2010 – On April 15, 2010 the Social Media 201 Conference will be hosted at Microsoft’s Conference Center in Redmond, Washington. Social Media 201 is designed to help organizations take their social media strategy, tactics, and implementation to the next level of customer engagement, profitability, and ROI. This one day event …

Just because Enterprise 2.0 tools are often easier to use and social in nature doesn’t mean everyone is going to adopt them. After all, there is always inertia to change no matter what it is, especially with how busy we all are. Whether you are a small business or a large enterprise, a little planning …