True North Drafting To Join GCA

True North Drafting has submitted an application to the GCA. Zana Gordon will be taking our application to the next board meeting in Early November. I hope all of you members will welcome us with open arms! If you haven’t been to the GCA’s website lately, there have been great improvements since the last time I visited. Check it out here: http://www.gca-bc.org/

True North Drafting Makes Microsoft’s Web Page

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

True North Drafting was recently involved in a case study with Microsoft. Our phone system that we recently upgraded to is powered by Microsoft, so naturally a small business like TND was a perfect canditate for a case study. The whole thing can be viewed on Microsoft’s web site here: http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/casestudy.aspx?casestudyid=4000002853

New Cell Number After 10 Years!

Well I finally got my new Samsung Instinct and what a disappointment. It turns out that Bell has “locked out” a lot of the features that us Canadians would find useful. If you’re looking at this phone for your business use you should be aware of the following items:

You cannot use a pop3 e-mail account with this phone. Your only e-mail option is with Hotmail, very frustrating! You can also forget about receiving pictures by e-mail, that has also been disabled with Bell. Playing mp3s can only be done if you actually BUY the songs from Bell, that’s right – even if you copy your own mp3s onto the memory card, this phone will not play them! Thanks Bell and welcome to 2008!

I purchased this phone with the impression that the above items were possible, boy did I get suckered in by some uneducated sales people. I am currently in the process of getting an e-mail over to Mr. Matthew Summers at the Bell store at Lougheed Mall, I am hoping he will see the error in his staff’s ways and allow me to return this phone and maybe even cancel the contract. I will post a follow up to this dilemma when I hear back from Bell.  

By the way, my new cell number is 604-345-8783 (for now). – Kelly

Outsourcing To India???

I have had several clients ask me if I have any knowledge of outsourcing shop drawings to India. Although my answer is no, I think it’s time to try a little experiment for fun. This week I am going to actually send a set of architectural drawings to India (electronically of course) and have them prepare an actual set of shop drawings for me. I will choose a smaller project like a Starbucks or McDonalds and see how they do with them. Upon completion I will post the drawings for all of you to see.