... or something like that...  The title comes from an old song by Simon & Garfunkle, a "folk-pop" duo from the 60s and 70s...  They gave us a LOT of hit records in their years together - and Paul Simon certainly had a string of hits after they split.  Art Garfunkle didn't do as well, but he still stayed busy and active in the recording industry. I always think of the old adage about "stopping and smelling the roses" when I think of that old song (BTW, it's "FEELING GROOVY")...  Which then leads to thinking about "tunnel vision"...  And all of this came up today because of a comment made to a previous post that fairly SCREAMS "sales pitch!" and ... well, I've never been a fan of the heavy-hitting sales pitch. Years ago, I actually was in sales - I was selling new (and used) Chrysler and Plymouths for a dealer in the San Francisco Bay Area.  This was in the late 80s and I only did it for a few months.  I had to get out of there because, while I love cars - I'm a certifiable car nut - I couldn't deal with all of the high-pressure tactics that so many sales people used.  It actually kind of shocks me to think about how ...

Just recently, I had responded to a post over on the EDI-L Yahoo! group, and this set off a "chain-reaction" e-mail chain between our esteemed "admin" John Burmeister and Myself about collaboration... of course, we were talking about the EDITalk blog-site and a book deal - co-authored by him and I... Mind you, that's just "pie-in-the-sky" kind of thinking, but it got Me thinking more about COLLABORATION and what it can mean to our EDI partnerships. It probably should be mentioned that our admin and I share a trading partner relationship. He's the EDI guy over at one of the vendors that we buy from. We also, obviously, share the EDI-L Yahoo! group, as well. When we discussed collaborating on the book (HA!), we bandied about a few titles - including "EDI DONE RIGHT! A Perspective From a Vendor and a Buyer"... Of course, I also likened it to the reputed "Rap Wars" between the East and West Coasts - and I was thinking about how we both use the same basic EDI formats and standards and data, but to different results... Late in 2007, I went to the Inovis Roadshow Training event when it swung through Southern California. Again, as I am an Inovis user and customer, I found it to be a very helpful conference/seminar ...