Wednesday, March 30, 2005

Concepts.Crisis.

During one of my many wanderings upon this World Wide Web, I stumbled upon a horrible catastrophe! As clever/brilliant/funny/attractive as we all are, someone (or someones) have beaten us to the punch. Concepts.Inc. is already a marketing and communications business run out of Maryland, USA. While there is no definite proof that they started Concept.Inc. before we did, they seem to have developed a large portfolio, with clients that include US Department of Labor, Mortgage Bankers Association of America and Immigration & Refugee Services of America. While they do seem to have some big credentials, they do not have the employee numbers that we carry and in today’s society of gender equality, they do not have a strong representation of both male and female employees.

Here is the link for those who are interested:
http://www.conceptspr.com/

This does leave us with some concern about the future of the better Concepts.Inc. (ours). We as a group must decide if we should prevail over our rival and buy them out when we make our first few millions, or, although it would bring tears to me eyes, re-vamp our company name in some way, shape or form.

So I am opening this up to everyone! Give your opinion on what you think we should do and place it in the comments section. Nothing will be made official until there is a group discussion and vote….but please throw some ideas into the ring.



….And remember there’s no bad ideas, only bad gers



Scott.Concepts.Inc.

Sunday, March 27, 2005

London Meeting Debriefing

The March 19-21 meeting in London was a great success! Thank you to Lorcan who hosted the meeting and Ian, Lisa, Trevor and Glen who were able to attend despite prior engagements. Lorcan’s underground meeting room was the perfect location for discussing business and catching up on recent concepts.
Thank you to Lisa who organized the gathering as well as the Saturday board discussion which was relocated at the last minute to her sisters’ home and hot tub. Some of the issues which arose were:
1. How can we encourage better attendance?
We realized that there was less notice this time and the distance was quite far for some people, or that some members had made arrangements for the weekend of the last meeting. An idea was to have different ‘chapters’ in different regions (Ottawa Chapter, Kingston Chapter, Central Ontario Chapter, Western Ontario Chapter), but that may detract from having the full board meetings at all when it would be easier just to see the people closest to them. Also, we do realize that money is getting tighter, and without current funding, transportation is less accessible.
2. There is a general lack of concepts on the Concepts.Inc website
Going back to the regional chapters concept, if there are smaller groups of Concepts.Inc, it may be easier to meet the other board members to discuss possible concepts. These ideas could then be recorded and published on the website.At the March meeting we did not set a date for the next meeting, but we would be interested in hearing when others feel a good time would be, or who can hold it. Thanks again to everyone who could make it to the last meeting and we can’t wait to see the entire board at the next one.
Trevor.Concepts.Inc.








Monday, March 07, 2005

Comparative Advancements

I was thinking the other day, as I so often try to do, about the wonders of technology and how far we as a nation of intelligent animals have outsmarted the most dangerous predators by using an intellect, which has the power of foresight. Foresight and the ability to distinctly remember past events (i.e. learning) have given humans an advantage, which makes them fairly invincible to possible predators. Over time, they have been able to tame predators, train predators, fence them away, or kill them with little effort by remembering how they act and noting what they like and what they don’t. Now that the struggle for survival would be considerably lessened, a mentality amongst humans would evolve which would be very carefree and safe. Without a worry in the world, it would slowly become a norm for individuals in a group to become creative. Creativity would spark the advent of spirituality (the one force that cannot be tamed is the earth and the sky, often thought of as being God-like), better-crafted tools, and better tasting foods.
Of course, human animals would evolve gradually until large communities of humans would stay in one place and become permanent households on the land. Villages would allow active trading and bartering would create the advent of business. Naturally, simple objects would obtain a ‘worth’ and individuals could actually begin to own more ‘worth’ than another. This new idea and the drive for more ‘worth’ would create competition and hierarchies that would later create governments and corporations. With that in mind, consider this…
Is it not possible that there may be a place on Earth, which has not been combed by any explorer or gazed down on by airplane? A place where a nation of human animals was somehow excluded from the developmental hype that was going around near the end of the prehistoric times. They could have the exact type of animals that we have such as dogs, pigs, horses, but they have been separated from the rest of their fellow humans for some reason or another. Now lets say that on one particular instance, a rebel native on a spiritual quest for his inner solidarity came unexpectedly upon a busy freeway with cars racing both ways in a dash for somewhere. A couple of reactions are expected with such a circumstance, the first being total and complete overwhelmingness. This would be when actual blood capillaries in the brain are damaged with the mere thought of what could possibly be happening around him.
The second emotion is that he would be extremely amused at how flexible horses were and how they could go so fast on the smooth rock path, and how their eyes would be really bright when it was dark. Later he would see a television and would think that it is horse hide and eyes or something. With nothing to compare anything to, the native would be forced to accept the modern world as an altered primitive world he is used to. As expected, cell phones would look as though people are talking directly into a severed horse ear, and normal telephones are also made of horse somehow.The third emotion is indifference.
Trevor.Concepts.Inc.