  Chris ButlerVice President
My job at Newfangled involves management of personnel, company resource utilization, strategic planning, marketing and writing- which means I don't actually spend much time at my desk. I love that.
A year after graduating with a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design (FAV, '03), I began my career here as a designer and developer. Since then, I have been determined to develop the account management and resourcing departments into a well-oiled machine, which probably
has something to do with my robot obsession. When not running around at Newfangled, you might find me reading, writing, drawing, thinking about the future, or just plain running around. Blog Posts| 3 |  |
Many of our agency friends have been blogging for a few years now, but it's been about as effective a strategy as attending a networking mixer; most companies know instinctively that they need to be there, but they just don't know exactly why, what they will bring to the conversation, or what they'll do with the experience. As a result, many agency blogs are pretty unfocused. Some are mostly "neat stuff" aggregators, while others are "innovationspeak" engines running on the Taco Bell model—you know, same words, different combinations. Few actually know what they're about...
March 8, 2010 at 9:00 am 
This week was a special one at Newfangled as we welcomed the guys from our Rhode Island office, who visited for a few days around our annual winter retreat (Jim arrived on Monday morning and worked with us for the entire week; Steve and Justin arrived on Wednesday). Aside from the retreat, we marked Jillian's 1-year anniversary at Newfangled, Bettina's birthday, and Katie's promotion to Director of Client Services...
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Yesterday, the entire Newfangled team gathered for a one-day mini-retreat. This is something we do each winter as a sort of state-of-the-company event, where we go over company news, talk about various topics related to what we do as a group and individually, and think about where we're headed.
As part of that event, I gave a brief presentation on the notion of hyperity--that we're in a state of being connected all the time, and everywhere--and how that affects and will affect our company. Below are some of the key slides and an explanation beneath... 
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