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'Ninety percent of success is just showing up,' Woody Allen once said. I have found that 90 percent of getting a job is not saying something dumb to eliminate yourself. [...]

Architectural design and construction is a uniquely collaborative process, performed by distributed design teams comprised of specialist firms. The distribution of effort is not accidental, but has evolved over time [...]

Intranets allow architecture firms to set up centralized company reference libraries on computer. Private computer networks known as intranets are emerging as powerful new tools for individuals within an architecture [...]

The AIA's updated CAD guidelines help architects share data with consultants and clients. Desktop computer-aided design (CAD) is more than a decade old, but the promise of sharing data easily [...]

The architects are not taking rapid steps towards the Building Information Modeling, intelligent 3 dimensional building models, from the drawing boards. The initial investments, mindset and the lack of economies of scale in the building design are seen as reasons for the slow adoption.

Focuses on a new type of collaborative on-line network, called an extranet, emerging as a communication and management tool for architects, contractors and consultants. Operation of the network on the Web site's infrastructure; Premise of an extranet; Requirements for working on the extranet.

The article presents an update on the activities of the chapter members of the American Guild of Organists (AGO) in Augusta, Georgia. The pastor/member banquet was hosted by the chapter's membership chair, Jim Nord, at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd on September 17, 2007. A workshop on choral techniques was conducted by clinician Carol Krueger of the University of South Carolina (USC) on October 15. Thomas Russell, senior organ major at the USC, played a recital on February 18, 2008.

The article provides information on several operating systems for architects. The Personal System/2 developed by Microsoft Corp. and licensed to IBM can perform design multitasking and has a memory capacity of 16 million bytes. UNIX developed a portable operating system that runs on workstations from Sun, Apollo, Hewlett-Packard, DEC, Silicon Graphics and Next. It cites pitfalls of the Multifinder operating system from Apple Computer.

A photograph showing the piano students who participated in the "Pedals, Pipes & Pizza" program at Saint John's Episcopal Church in Savannah, Georgia on October 20, 2007 is presented.

The article highlights the changes in the meetings industry from the 1980s to 2007. It discusses the expansion of the meetings and events industry worldwide, the development of educational programs designed to establish service benchmarks and unprecedented credentialing for industry professionals. The article also comments on the growth of career opportunities in the industry.

The article reports on a year-end recital presented by members of the American Guild of Organists' (AGO) Southeast chapter at the Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Springfield, Georgia on June 3, 2007. The chapter members include James Creech, Brian Taylor, Ken Sanders, Irene Feddern and Pamela McCaslin.