Rocket Science

I read an article on WebWorkerDaily that summarized two other articles (“Getting to No” and “4 Signs That Your Potential Clients Aren’t Interested (and What to Do About It)“) about selecting and working with clients that are applicable to our work at OEIT. Well, with a little translation.

OEIT

OEIT takes on projects dealing with educational innovation and technology. We’re supposed to work to either scale up interesting projects that have been prototyped by faculty/researchers or explore innovative technologies with the potential for broad adoption at MIT and beyond. And what I believe really makes us different is a view to connecting the dots and scaling up. We may choose to work on some fairly narrowly defined projects for individual faculty, but we do so with an eye to what we can leverage more broadly.

So, OEIT is a bit different from the target audience of WebWorkerDaily, which focuses on freelancers and consultants. But we’re also similar. We have the choice as to which projects to take on, how to integrate those projects with a greater whole, and how to accomplish the goals of the project.

Nevertheless, I think we can learn a lot from the two posts, and some of these items I’ve already tried to nudge us toward.

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