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  • Bill Rice 12:56 pm on August 21, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: bill rice, education, , mi, schools   

    Bill Rice Running for Flat Rock, MI School Board 

    Bill Rice School Board IconI am running for School Board in my community of Flat Rock, Michigan. My wife and I have been heavily involved in the Flat Rock community ever since we moved to Michigan in early 2004. With three kids it doesn’t take long to find yourself volunteering in everything from little league to school classroom.

    Flat Rock Community FieldsFlat Rock, Michigan is a great little community of around 10,000 people. When I was recruited up from Ohio to serve on the Quicken Loans Leadership Team I had many options of where to live. We visited communities from Birmingham, to Ypsilanti, to Monroe, and of course the more obvious options close to work–Livonia and Novi. All of those cities were very nice and I am sure we would have been happy living in any of them, but when we visited Flat Rock it had a remarkable charm that we immediately fell in love with.

    Flat Rock Community CenterYou see the people who have lived in Flat Rock much longer than I have created a remarkable community. The folks are friendly and they care about their city. They are hard working and have strong family values. The City is active–there is always something going on; a baseball game, a soccer match, a football game, a parade, or a picnic. We have great walking/biking paths, beautiful parks, scenic waterfronts, and state-of-the-art community center. These are the outward things that drew us to Flat Rock.

    Flat Rock High SchoolHowever, as our kids started school we discovered even more hidden treasures–the teachers, the schools, the parents, and most importantly the children.

    Unfortunately, the economy is going to make maintaining the quality of our community and education system challenging. This is what made me proud when several people from the community of Flat Rock asked me to run for the School Board.

    I wait to represent these great people during these challenging times. And I know we will continue to improve on the strong foundation those before me have created.

    If you want to read more visit the Flat Rock School Board website or the Bill Rice for School Board Facebook Fan Page. Feel free to join!

     

    • angelinacook 8:12 am on September 14, 2009 Permalink

      Really nice information. Thanks for sharing…

  • Bill Rice 7:35 am on April 17, 2008 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: bill rice, greg cieslik, jason calacanis, jason nation, kaleidicians, , keith burwell   

    Jason Nation…bah humbug…We are the Kaleidicians! 

    I guess you have arrived when members of your company are given a “nickname” by reporters–The Kaleidicians! I am not sure if this makes us a nation, a sports team, a gang, or a cult?

    I do know that while the Jason Nation is out thinking up logos we are quitely gaining underground strength.

    Follow me and the other Twitter enabled Kaleidicians:

     

  • Bill Rice 9:17 am on April 11, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    Who Inspires You? 

    I have been running hard this week. Early wake-ups and late shut-downs. Running out of gas…

    So, I popped open my RSS feedreader looking for inspiration (I suppose).

    And, I found it in Chris Brogan’s “Inspiration and Origins“:

    My big point: none of us are originals. It’s okay. And I’ve DEFINITELY done it myself, where I’ve thought something WAS my thought, only to find out that I was synthesizing something I read a few days back, or a conversation I had (Did that famously badly once, to a friend I love, and had to rescind). But if you KNOW you’re going to riff off someone, give a little link love and be done with it. Fair?

    This is who inspires me:

    • Dave Winer: I hate his politics. I often hate the way he treats past or non-friends. But, he has an amazing genius to him. I read every word. I love his pictures on Flickr. He seeds thought and software. He gets user-first design. I wish I knew him better.
    • Stowe Boyd: I love his brevity. Master of 140 character poetry.
    • Seth Godin: A storyteller. Creates simple, short stories that if absorbed yield big results.
    • Joel Spolsky: Hero of the ISV (Independent Software Vendor). Master of effective software development methodology.
    • Twitter: I find more who inspire me everyday.

    Who inspires you?

     

  • Bill Rice 3:39 pm on April 9, 2008 Permalink | Reply
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    In Case Anyone Wants to Know Kaleidico’s Strategy 

    From one of the smartest guys in the software business, Joel Spolsky:

    I’ve never learned as much about business strategy as I did from the simple infantry concept called fire and motion (it’s also sometimes referred to as fire and movement).

    Here is how it works. You fire at the enemy. That’s the fire part. And you move forward at the same time. That’s the motion. Get it?

    You’re firing because then your enemy has to take cover. He can’t fire back at you when he’s cowering behind a wall. But firing is not enough. You also have to move forward, or you won’t make any progress. Moving forward brings you closer to the enemy. And closer enemies are easier to hit. You need both — fire and motion — to accomplish anything. Almost every military tactic, whether it’s employed on air, sea, or land, is a variation on this fundamental pattern. Successful business strategies are based on fire and motion, too.

    (Source: “Fire and Motion,” Inc.com, April 2008)

    I was in the military too. Competitors, feeling any fire? We’re moving!

     

  • Bill Rice 8:35 am on April 2, 2007 Permalink | Reply
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    Excuse the Silence 

    I apologize for the silence. Focus on Kaleidico, accelerating the visibility of two new Web properties (http://www.bettercloser.com & http://www.leadbuying.com), and starting up our new “start-up” Church’s marketing team has been consuming all of my personal time–including contribution to Rice’s Riffs.

    The good part is all of the stored up ideas and inspiration that is making it’s way to my draft folder and onto the publish button. 

     

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