Promotion and new job

Posted on June 17, 2007 by agentrickard

I've been spending most of my free time these days working on Drupal projects. But I still have a day job. In fact, I routinely turn down Drupal consultancy jobs because I simply don't have enough time.

Not only do I have a day job; I recently was promoted during a company restructuring. Bob Gilbert (my boss) and I are now the Strategic Partnership Development group at Morris DigitalWorks (MDW). (We are working on hiring one more person right now, too.)

What is Strategic Partnership Development? Well, to me, it's similar to venture capital, except that it works inside the confines of our existing corporate structure. Our mission, at its core, is to find ways to extend and renew our core business by acquiring, hiring, or partnering with third-party developers.

The impetus for this new team is largely the Yahoo! newspaper consortium (NPC), a complex content and revenue sharing agreement between our parent company, Yahoo!, and over a dozen leading US newspaper companies.

Currently, my time is split between reviewing agreements between MDW and its partners and looking for new technology and business models that will help the newspaper industry.

Look for more details in this space, but first I'm off to my first vacation of the year.