Jeff O’Hara

Arcedium Coffee House – My New Office

// June 30th, 2009 // No Comments » // General

My new office is now at the Arcedium Coffee House in St. Charles, IL.

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Keystone Colorado 2009

// January 24th, 2009 // No Comments » // General, Photo

By order of the fire marshall

// December 8th, 2008 // No Comments » // General, Photo

Do not remove by order of the fire marshall.  You can always get my full size images on my flickr account.

Wordpress iphone app

// November 20th, 2008 // Comments Off // General

Just thought I would test out the wordpress iPhone application. It’s super simple to use. This will work great for quick posts on the go. Looks like you can post photos from your photo library. If all goes well some screenshots from an ipod touch will be posted below. Definately a must have app for any iPhone/iPod touch user.

Nominate Edmodo for Mashable’s Open Web Award

// November 10th, 2008 // Comments Off // General

Someone on twitter Nominated Edmodo for a Mashable Open Web Award. Please vote for us, it will help us get the word out about Edmodo.

An Evening with Gary Vaynerchuk

// September 19th, 2008 // Comments Off // General

I just wanted to let any Chicago area readers know that tommorow evening Gary Vaynerchuk is going to be in Woodstock, Illinois at the Woodstock Opera House doing “An Evening with Gary Vaynerchuk” which is a benefit for the Creative Living After Dark Series of the Woodstock Fine Arts Association.

Gary is a wine expert, author, entrepreneur, host of Wine Library TV, and has appeared on many national television shows.  Gary is an amazing personality in the online world and very passionate about people and wine which is completely evident from watching any episode of winelibrary.tv.

My friend Frank Gruber of Techcocktail will be emcee’ing the event and I will be there with my wife to show my support.    I had the chance to see Gary speak back in may of this year and he truly is an insperation to all no matter what kind of work you are in.

If you have nothing going on tommorow evening, Saturday Sept. 20th I recommend you come check the event out for an evening you will never forget. You can purchase tickets online here.

We launched Edmodo…Finally!!!

// September 4th, 2008 // Comments Off // General

I just wanted to let everybody know that we finally launched Edmodo!!! I can’t even begin to explain how excited I am about this.

Even though we’ve launched that doesn’t mean we can sit around. We have lots of documentation and how-to videos to produce. I am heading to to the Techcrunch 50 Conference in San Francisco next week to demo Edmodo in the demo pit. These are exciting times and hope my readers come along for the ride.

The launch went awesome and extremely smooth. I’m going to blog about the launch in more detail over at the Edmodo Blog soon. I just wanted to let my readers here know we are up and running at Edmodo.

10 reasons why Jason Calacanis should give me a free ticket to Techcrunch50

// August 15th, 2008 // 9 Comments » // General

10. Cause I am awesome and everyone @techcrunch50 should meet me
9. You need people out of the Silicon Valley Bubble to come: Chicago Represents!!!
8. The money I allocated for Conferences went to “Big Oil” this year and My Tesla hasn’t been Delivered yet.
7. So I can document all the crazy ways start-ups try to get Michael Arrington to write about them
6. I have a man crush on Kevin Rose & he’s going to be there
5. I hear there’s going to be good schwag, I need some new t-shirts
4. So I can convince Mark Cuban to give me the water boy job for the Mavericks
3. I hear the vc’s are going to be giving out venture capital like it’s candy
2. I have a startup to pimp of course: Edmodo
1. So I can meet Taurus & Fondue!!!! Jason, your bringing them right?

That was fun. All jest aside, I think Techcrunch50 would be a valuable learning experience for me and would learn as much as I could from all the great entrepreneurs & VC’s that will be attending. My partner Nic and I are just 2 guys living in the midwest with zero funding, lots of drive, and an idea to improve E-Learning by using microblogging.

Divine Daisy

// July 9th, 2008 // No Comments » // General, Photo

You can always get my full size images on my flickr account.

Comcast, Twitter, & Support

// July 1st, 2008 // 1 Comment » // General, twitter

Comcast has not had the best reputation as an Internet Service provider in regards to support, but all this negative publicity they have received may be coming to an end. Comcast has been heavily monitoring Twitter users having problems with Comcast and contacting the users directly to rectify any problems they are having.

This leads me to last week when I was having connection problems with comcast. The problems started occuring Tuesday evening and my service would go up and down, and persisted through thursday. Thursday was the last straw while I was working on Edmodo . I fired up twitter and sent a message off to @comcastcares and a few minutes later they got back to me asking for my phone number. They checked the line and noticed massive drop outs on my account and said they would have somebody call me to setup an appointment. First thing the next morning somebody called me from comcast and scheduled and appointment for that afternoon. The technician came out and was extremely thourough and ultimately determined it was the line outside which he replaced. After he replace the outside line we were back in business.

This is just one of many good instances I have heard about comcast and twitter over the last few months. I would just like to say thanks to Frank at Comcast for really caring about customers and customer service. I wish every company out there was using Twitter to provide excellent support to their customers.