Thanks to everyone who participated in the 2nd Annual Cincinnati Scurry! It was such a fun day and we are so proud to be a part of this amazing event. We are still working out the financials, but we raised a lot of money for the Marvin Lewis Community Fund program, Learning Is Cool.  Congratulations to all of the teams who participated! If you would like to see pictures from this year's event, you can check them out here.

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Somewhere around the turn of the millenium I interviewed a guy who said he was an "Information Architect".  At the time, I had never heard the term and thought "that's a cute, dot commish, fancy term for a consultant who deals with information".  Nothing really new about it.  Just a new name. Over the past couple months we've had more opportunities with clients to work on SharePoint engagements.  SharePoint is the most rapidly adopted Microsoft application in history.  It's everywhere.  But for many organizations it's a bit of a mess.  Lots of documents scattered in lots of team sites;...

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Did you see today's Business Courier? TiER1 was named a finalist for the 2011 Innovation Awards sponsored by the Business Courier, CincyTech and The Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber. What a great honor for TiER1 to be a finalist! Congrats to all of the Innovation winners! You can learn more here.

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On April 4th of this year, TiER1 Pittsburgh celebrated Don’t Go to Work Unless It’s Fun Day. Don’t Go to Work Unless It’s Fun Day is typically celebrated on April 3rd of every year, but this year it fell on a Sunday and we wanted to make sure that we celebrated on a day when we had to go to work (otherwise, what’s the point?). Not to mention, April 1st was Sean’s birthday and April 4th was Sarah’s birthday. So how could we not have fun at work on a day that we could use to celebrate both? Before I go into detail about our fun day, let me first give you a little bit of background...

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One of our colleagues at TiER1 recently completed a bone marrow transplant. Of course our prayers have been with him throughout the process and we continue to pray that the transplant will be successful. We are also having a Bone Marrow Registry Drive at TiER1 to continue to support our colleague and hopefully help someone else in the process. On May 5, TiER1 employees in both Covington and Pittsburgh are uniting to join the Bone Marrow Registry and we want to challenge you to do the same. You can apply for the Bone Marrow Donor Registry at http://www.marrow.org. About 2 weeks after you register...

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