This post is about a fun little script I wrote to tackle a real-world problem I constantly experience. I am a father to a very photogenic little 16 month old daughter. Between my wife’s camera and my cell phone, we take a lot of photos of her. Our daughter also has 3 grandparents that anxiously await new photos of her. The problem? Getting those photos to our parents in a timely fashion without requiring a lot of extra work (I hate “extra” work, don’t you?).

I’m working on a new business idea with a friend and we continue to run into problem after problem. What we want to do is time consuming, hard to schedule, risky, and our equipment costs are turning out to be very expensive. Prohibitively expensive for what we are wanting to offer. Vendor after vendor gives us prices that are just too high. It’s getting frustrating and becoming clear why there are not many people doing what we’re trying to do. I should be depressed right now.

While planning for the Blog Indiana conference next month, an idea was put forth about a creative way to have some fun with a normal networking event. The concept involves having people wear “tags” or keywords representing areas of expertise or knowledge they have.