- HighEdWeb Professionals Association

The HighEdWeb conference, which took place October 4-7, 2009, is a gathering created just for higher education web professionals. This conference is the perfect place to mingle with web developers, marketers, designers, writers, managers and all those team members in-between who are exploring the unique web issues facing colleges and universities.  It was important for Cascade Experts to take part in this event because the value gained by the exchange of ideas, stories, and experiences within our community is immeasurable.  By attending as a participant and not a vendor, it is our goal to translate the information and knowledge gained with these interactions into increased value in our consulting services.  Most importantly, it is our daily integration of best practices, well-designed processes, and advancements in modern web practices discovered at events like these that increase the value our clients can obtain by using our consulting team and Cascade Server CMS.  This adds to our excitement in attending and what we are able to bring back our clients.

Hannon Hill: “A CMS Experience You Can Trust”
Cascade Experts was very proud and excited to see our friends at Hannon Hill participating as a vendor at the HiEdWeb Conference.  Their organization recently hosted a great conference of their own, so putting forth the effort to participate in this event is just another great example of their dedication to the industry and most importantly their clients.  It has always been our opinion that the team at Hannon Hill employs some of the most ambitious, intelligent, and hardworking young professionals in the CMS industry today.  During our time in Milwaukee, we had the opportunity to discuss many of the exciting features that are being added in Cascade Server.  This makes us even more excited about the coming release of Cascade Server 6.4 and we look forward to incorporating these tools soon.  We must say, the dedication and effort put forth by the Hannon Hill team shows a continuous commitment to product improvement, development and reaffirms their commitment to provide a positive client experience.

New Friends:  Online Communities in Higher Education
Innersync is an interactive studio that understands the importance of social networking and online communities in the higher education arena.  In a series of very inspiring developments, Innersync has established that an approach combining progressive internet technologies with compelling design is needed for an organization to build rewarding relationships with their audiences.  Innersync accomplishes this by offering a service that supports a profile driven interface similar to what you might find with Facebook, LinkedIn, or Ning.  What sets their offering apart from the “freemiums” is an understanding that these communities provide tremendous value and the platform used to tap that value must be owned by the organization in order to effectively define, measure, and tailor the experience for the intented audience. We applaud Innersync for bringing this approach to the college and university setting and are proud to use their products for the management of our own site.

In Conclusion…
Cascade Experts had a great time, learned a wealth of knowledge, and forged new and valuable relationships.  In our opinion, it is one of the most valuable web conferences one can attend and we hope to extend our experience gained to the services we provide to you.  We would definitely recommend you consider attending this conference in 2010 and many thanks to all those who have helped make Cascade Experts a success.

It will be sorely missed by both it’s owner, Brock, and friends (anybody that’s ever ridden in it). Although there is a fair possibility that the car will be replaced it can never be replaced in our hearts. Goodbye Lincoln, I will always treasure the memories we had together.

Homegoing Service will begin at 10AM EST on Saturday, January 5th at JunkMyAuto in Covington, GA. In lieu of flowers, please send money towards it’s replacement.

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Gossip, Lies & Secrets tells the tale of author Sydney St. Croix, R & B super diva Essence Alexander, and soap opera star Katrina Love. These are three women bonded by an unspoken commitment to be each others confidant and best friend. After a string of bad investments, distracting relationships, and dead end writing jobs, Sydney finds herself at the end of her financial rope and needs to round up her “partners in crime.” Sydney’s solution–call her friends and get together for their ritual “sister girl sessions,” where “no holds barred” secrets are revealed and boundaries are crossed. After an evening of sharing intimate and sometimes incriminating confessions and secrets, the ladies renew their weekly pact to “never tell another soul” about what has occurred. All of that is fine until Sydney gets her big break after being approached by a major publisher who commissions her to write a novel. It is in that moment of sheer desperation that Sydney makes a plot-twisting decision to save her career by breaking the sacred pact of her friends and decide to divulge her best friends’ innermost secrets–all of them.

Florence Marina State Park is situated at the northern end of 45,000-acre Lake Walter F. George, this park offers the perfect setting for those who love water sports. It is adjacent to a natural deep-water marina with an accessible deep-water fishing pier, boat slips and boat ramp. Birders are sure to see herons and egrets, and possibly bald eagles. The park’s Kirbo Interpretive Center teaches visitors about Native Americans, nature and local history, and it displays snakes, turtles, fish and artifacts from the prehistoric Paleo-Indian period through the early 20th century. Ten miles southeast is Providence Canyon State Park, known as Georgia’s Little Grand Canyon.

Pictures from Providence Canyon State Park and Florence Marina
Providence Canyon State Park Wikipedia Entry
Florence Marina State Park Wikipedia Entry

Amicalola Falls State Park Wikipedia Entry
Pictures from Amicalola Falls State Park

As of July 9th I have chosen to take part in the 50 Million Pound Challenge and would like to introduce the community of brockbrown.com to this unique opportunity. The 50 Million Pound Challenge is an historic opportunity for African Americans to come together against a growing health crisis. Our challenge is to collectively lose 50 million pounds and reduce the very real risks that being overweight poses to our community.

Joining The 50 Million Pound Challenge means becoming part of something exciting, life-altering, historic, and tremendously beneficial! Not only for you, but to others in your family and community, as well as to future generations of African Americans.

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Pictures at 50 Million Pounds Event in Atlanta…