pbmohara (Pamela O'Hara)

Interests

coffee, Entrepreneurship, Family and Life, web design

About Me

As the owner/president of BatchBlue Software and a mother, I spend most of my time running a truly flexible company that adapts to mine and the other BatchBluers schedules and needs of our clients. We believe better organization leads to increased productivity and gives us the time for a more balanced life. I have degrees in English and History from the University of Richmond and currently reside in East Bay area with my husband, two daughters and a newborn son.

Recent Content

Title: Ruby on Rails Developer (Marketplace)Submitted: April 3rd, 2011 - 3:32pm

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BatchBlue Software

Title: Raise Money for RI Food Bank with Blog Comment (Forum) Submitted: October 14th, 2008 - 11:36pm

As part of Blog Action Day (http://BlogActionDay.com) we are partnering with the RI Food Bank to raise $ and awareness of the poverty issues in RI.

We will donate 3 meals for ever blog comment posted on the blog article at http://blog.batchblue.com/?p=1...

Social Media Powers Activate! Please come leave a comment and also spread the word to others. Thanks for your help.

Pamela

Title: Rhode Island: More ocean, less sharks (Blog) Submitted: October 9th, 2007 - 6:31am

Editor's Note: Today marks the first of many weblog posts to come by a "guest blogger." Today's is by Pamela O'Hara, President of BatchBlue Software. If you have an idea for a post you'd like to write, please let us know.

Newport Rhode Island Here’s a quick report for the local crowd on our launch of BatchBook at the DEMO conference a week ago in San Diego. It was a great experience for us. We got the coverage and made the connections we had been hoping for and delivered a six-minute pitch of all that is our product and company. BatchBlue’s Michelle wrote a great piece for our own blog that perfectly captures our “outsiders” perspective on the experience; that of being a small company from a small state swimming in some well-connected, free-wheeling, shark-infested waters. But we held our own and came out of it that much stronger for the experience.

And it made us appreciate that much more the value of our own home state. We may miss out on the Silicon Valley pre-packaged network of PhDs, press and investors, but we have found Rhode Island to be the perfect place for the obsessively user-centric development we are doing. Our private launch at Providence Geeks, local “entrée-preneur” dinners, and hand-on usability testing have all provided us an invaluable network of beta testers, advisors, friends and cheerleaders. Without this group, we would not have had our moment on the larger stage. Not to mention this is just a great place to live.

Chris Shipley, the executive director of the DEMO conference commented on Michelle’s blog post that “Rhode Island is exactly the right place to build a software company like BatchBlue”. We could not agree more. Thanks to the DEMO experience, we were able to take advantage of our visitors pass into the tech world's inner sanctum. We’re just glad we don’t have to live there.

Editor's Note: Watch the video of BatchBlue's DEMO presentation. And sign up for the free beta trial of BatchBook.