As much as I love the social tools that have been built over the last few years they do not replace the need to actually do in person networking. I have found that some of my friends over the last 9 months have had to look for jobs. Many of these people I never thought [...]
Mar
24
2009
24
2009
Brendon Schwartz: Social Networking not a replacement for In Person Networking
May
3
2007
3
2007
33 Rules to Boost Your Productivity
Interesting article by Steve Pavlina that gives a list of heuristics people can use
for personal productivity. I’ve listed the first 5.
Excerpt:
Heuristics have many practical applications,
and one of my favorite areas of application is personal productivity. Productivity
heuristics are behavioral rules (some general, some situation-specific) that can
help us get things done more efficiently. Here are some of my favorites:
Nuke it! The [...]
May
7
2006
7
2006
Moving up the Wisdom Hierarchy
Another post from the people at Creating Passionate Users. This one deals with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom
(DIKW) hierarchy, and how sharing Wisdom, not facts, is the most important
thing to convey to readers and users.
Moving
up the Wisdom Hierarchy
May
7
2006
7
2006
Top Management Lies from Creating Passionate Users
I love the Creating
Passionate Users blog. I would probably link to just about every entry they create,
but I’m sure readers would get tired of that. But I did get a kick out of this
listing from Kathy Sierra about management
lies.
Note that this list mainly applies to middle managers. So before you sit down with
one of your employees [...]
May
2
2006
2
2006
Aircraft Dogfights and Enterprise Architecture
How can studying dogfights between MiG-15s and F-86s help you design a better Enterprise
Architecture? It has to do with the speed of iteration, or how fast you can observe,
orient, plan and act. Read the whole article to find out more. (I haven’t had time
to read the 26 page article yet, but the premise seems intriguing)
Excerpt
Boyd [...]
Apr
6
2006
6
2006
4 Ways to Take Control of Your E-mail Inbox
An article by Sally McGhee, author of Take Back Your Life!
Do you have an effective way to process and organize your e-mail so that you can
get to an empty Inbox on a routine basis? If you have lots of e-mail in your Inbox—we
know people with as many as 7,000 messages—you might want to rethink your [...]
Mar
14
2006
14
2006
People Capability Maturity Model
Haven’t had the chance to read up on this yet. Its a link to a spec for the People
Capability Maturity Model. This a a model for managing your workforce. You can read
the excerpt below, or follow the link to the spec for more info. I haven’t read the
book yet, but I’ve included the link to [...]
Mar
14
2006
14
2006
HR Myths from David Anderson
David Anderson describes
3 HR Myths related to technical staff and pay scales.
HR Myths #1 – Merit Based Pay
“Merit Based Pay” or “We don’t care about productivity look at our cost control” is
the first in a series of blog entries which seek to blast away the human resources
myths which exist in the software industry.
HR
Myths #1 – [...]
Feb
28
2006
28
2006
How to Install Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Server Methodology in a Box
Excerpt from www.dabcc.com/miab
Welcome to Methodology in a Box (MIAB) – The Ultimate Citrix Install Guide. MIAB
is an award winning project oriented deployment Citrix book designed to educate you
on how to install Citrix and Microsoft Terminal Services solutions. MIAB is basically
a step-by-step Citrix deployment methodology / install guide!
The following is just a bit of what you [...]
Feb
28
2006
28
2006
Blog this page functionality
I used to use Zempt for posting to my Dasblog weblog,
mainly because I loved the ability to right-click on some text in Internet Explorer,
click Zempt This, and my Zempt window would open with the text I selected plus a hyperlink
to the page I was on.
I began my blog as a way to keep up with [...]