"You want to work here." That's how we've always begun our job postings, and we constantly strive to live up to that promise. Being a great place to work is at the essence of Rustici Software. Tim and I want to create a company that…
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People often ask us to recommend an LMS for them. We shy away from doing so because we don't want to pick favorites amongst our clients and potential clients. More significantly though, we really don't know all that much about the functionality and utility of…
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I spent last night the Music City Future 50 Awards dinner for the 4th year in a row (we were also just selected for the BusinessTN Hot100 for the second year in a row). If you make the Future 50 five times, you get inducted…
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I never liked Provence (the bread store in Nashville, not the region in France... I'm sure it's lovely). I found them to be a bit pretentious, really... the store I visited never really awed me with their breads and I never got a great vibe…
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By background, Mike and I are both technical folks. We went to the same school, graduated from the same program. While we both speak conversational English (as opposed to off putting tech), neither of us has great expertise in marketing. Opinions? Yes. Expertise? Not so…
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On our website, we invite every visitor to ask us questions. Generally, these questions are about SCORM or something eLearning related. Sometimes, though, they aren't. These questions, sometimes, are among my favorites... When you, our peeps, come up with some great questions, we'll share them...…
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Countless sites have discussed an important topic in time management... the important/urgent matrix. In my simplistic terms, these folks are encouraging us all to work on important/non-urgent things more than we do. Apparently we are collectively distracted by the less important/more urgent tasks. Email, I…
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No, unfortunately this post doesn't mean we're hiring right now. But the next time we are, it would serve an interested applicant well to read this post from 37 Signals. Plenty of people know how to code and have years of experience to show for…
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My recent vacation seems to have inspired Tim to write a few blog posts. I love that he did, but I think he missed an important point in his post about why we chose not to release the SCORM Engine under an open source license.…
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Welcome back! Yeah, that's right, it's been nearly two months since I posted on the blog. Pathetic, right? Well, we've been writing a lot, it's just spread out all over the new site. So, I'll beg your forgiveness and get on with some new writing.…
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No, we do not. We get asked about it quite a bit though. In our early years, we experimented with some formal lead referral arrangements, but they just never quite worked out nor did they ever feel right. We've given it some thought and concluded…
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Check it out. We won a modeling and simulation award from NTSA. Forterra Systems entered our joint project to deliver SCORM training from within virtual words. They describe the project and award in more detail in this press release. It's fun to be recognized just…
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