Category: General
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Recent learning: Content, data, and collaboration
Last week’s learning was a big week of content and data, with a touch of governance. I completed the Introduction to Content Design course by FutureLearn and GDS. Prompted by Lizzie Bruce, I’ll be writing a review for the course’s suitability for people responsible for intranet content. In the meantime, my overall opinion is the course…
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Learning Technologies – a digital workplace perspective
Last week I got to spend a day and a half at the Learning Technologies exhibition in London, and had many interesting conversations. As I’ve commented before, learning tech feels like a strange parallel universe where intranets barely exist, so would this year’s show be different? Something borrowed, something blue There is a concern in…
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Every thing we do…
Two quotes from tweets have really got me thinking this week, and reminded me of a quote from Karen McGrane that is never far from my thoughts. The first was this from Simon Rohrbach’s talk to the Leading Design conference about joining, building and leaving a company. Having confidence in the business makes everything else…
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Pebble, Rock, Stone
This is a blog post that has lived with me for several years, and this version originates from August 2010. Computing has gone mobile, it has moved over more than half a century from room-filling beasts, through so-called mini computers, to the desktop PC and other static devices, through the laptop and onto the mobile…
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Happy 0th Birthday to Me
How nice for My Offers to think of me on my birthday, but I’m sure I remember 30+ birthdays, and really don’t fancy being born again. Thinking what’s going on behind the scenes, they have mislaid or lost my year of birth (not sure how that can happen) and their email-generating script hasn’t been set…
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Is anyone policing your out-of-office comments?
How does your organisation represent itself in its emails? Do you have a brand document that declares in minutiae the absolute font, size, colour and wording of signatures? Do you leave it to managers or individuals? I’ve lost count of the number of job titles I’ve given myself over the years. Certainly, consistency is good…
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Tactile Phones – forget about touch and haptics
What do you really need from a phone? How do you really use it? This is something I photoshopped a while back and forgot about, but it seems quite relevant just ahead of the 3G iPhone arriving in shops. Pic 1 is of the LG KF700, another phone trying something different, in this case a…
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The gold rush to new extensions – Gandi Bar
Like many others, I’ve got mixed feelings about the “relaxing” of top-level domain names. There are great potential domain extensions like .movie, .book, .sony, .apple and many more. Some leave me puzzled, would I prefer myrestaurant.ldn or myrestaurant.london? Some will leave me baffled at their arrogance, ignorance or avarice. No doubt, there will be lots…
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Benjamin Zander: In contribution, there is no better!
I feel indebted to Garr Reynolds of Presentation Zen for introducing me to Benjamin Zander, or at least the following video of him talking to music students: Link: YouTube – Benjamin Zander Speech Preview Zander is the British-born conductor of the Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra, clearly an incredible presence on stage, and apparently now a big…
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Windows Vista – how to inspire confidence
Spotted in a Tottenham Court Road tech store window last month, it’s a laptop running Vista. But what’s that box in the right-hand corner? Should we wait until service pack 1?
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