A client had just completed managing a thousand person global technology gathering and we were conducting the post-learning. Before the event, her strongest team had been the planners. Granular she called them. Material was ordered and inventoried, prepackaged and pre-staged. As the event started, the plan blew up, and another team came to the front.Read… Read more »
Most of what I read about SEO, metatags, website tuning, is aimed at attracting citizens of a global web. That certainly sounds impressive, but I haven’t had much use for it. Most of my web promotion is targeted to a specific community, for a limited time, a specific event. The web destination delivers the experience,Read… Read more »
In a recent post What Happened To The Management Pyramid? I alleged Seagull Management occurred when someone comes in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then flies off, leaving a lot of heat and no light. A faithful reader one-upped me with the more modern Seagull Collaboration, where some manager of dubiousRead… Read more »
The traditional management pyramid became popular after WWII, showing one guy at the top and a majority of people at the bottom. There were successive layers of fewer people going up, and business types thought their career was moving up the pyramid. I don’t think I got the memo that said that the likelihood ofRead… Read more »
One of the problems with the explosion in instructional video is that watchers can confuse watching with learning. Consider the milquetoast who watches Bruce Lee movies and figures that makes him a threat, a dangerous man, legend in his own mind. Humor invariably follows when reality sets in. Learning is not just being exposed toRead… Read more »
A man is incomplete until he is married. After that, he is finished. – Zsa Zsa Gabor For the last five years I have been trying to understand the tension between enterprise or proprietary development and open source development. A prominent example has been the competition between the iPhone and the Android operating system. WhenRead… Read more »
Google’s Steve Grove announced today that they’ve worked out the legal requirements for more federal agencies from the United States government to join Google+… http://oreillyradar.tumblr.com/post/26155759845/federal-government-social-media-camp-blog-howto-gov
Video is a powerful educational tool. With internet distribution and storage, a world class video can easily be shared globally. Salman Khan of the Khan Academy has been making short videos that teach specific technical skills to students from elementary school to graduate level. These are available for free on the web. One of theRead… Read more »
When I was talking Jack into blogging, I said, “I touch 200,000 people twice a week.” He said, “How do you know?” I said, “I counted.” A month later, he told me a post had gone to a quarter of a million people. I said, “That’s nice.” I wasn’t going to take the bait. HeRead… Read more »
I was watching the development of a corporate post and realized it’s nearly impossible to maintain humor through multiple revisions, multiple editors. A pun isn’t funny the third time you read it. If you are squeezing out humor, you’d better stop, look around, and take some inspiration from Chezeburger Network. As one of our foundersRead… Read more »