About

There are two Abouts here - the first is about the web site, and the second is about me.

About This Site

beatcanvas.com was written entirely from scratch. No Blogger, no Moveable Type - I did it myself with little ol' ASP and a SQL Server backend. Why? Well, two reasons...

Creative control is important to me. I want to stretch the bounds and not be contained by the limitations of other tools. In short, I want to build a better, more interactive blog site. So I wrote it myself.

The site features all of the standard blogging features (posting articles, comments, archiving) and some of the richer blog elements (categories, custom links list), but it has a few features that others don't have:

• Threads (stories), show the posts in chronological order.
• Custom article templates, which allows each post to have its own look.
• beatcanvas.com is very anti-spam, so in the comments, rather than show a valid email address, they're hidden and if a reader wants to email a commenter, it's done through a form here on the web site.

On this site, I'll talk mostly about relationships, politics, society, my work and other creative endeavors, and...

About Me

My name is Brett Rogers, and I'm married to Tamara.

We've got eight awesome kids who occupy a lot of our free time. Me, I'm usually at work or at home.

Companies hire me as a strategic consultant. I help a company re-discover their strengths by learning who drives their culture internally. I talk to their customers and vendors and learn why people like to do business with them and dig to see how deep that loyalty is. Looking at the company's strengths both internally and externally then enables me to see what blue oceans they might explore to grow their business. My deep IT background, breadth of experience across industries, and artistic creativity help me help them see their business in new ways.

I'm kind of a free spirit - very non-routine, spontaneous. My newest and most adored hobby is painting.

I'm not a guy's guy - don't really care for sports, don't watch much TV, and my favorite tool for repairing anything is the Yellow Pages. Instead, I groove on long conversation, my family, and using my energies to do something I'm passionate about.

So, I hope you enjoy what's here... I promise to try and make it interesting.