A few failed projects makes a better team You’re looking at a few possible new team members to augment your team. Who would you rather have on your team, someone who always had successful projects or someone who had a few less successful (or even failed) projects? A lot of people would choose someone with the…
If users don’t know about it, they won’t use it This summer a strategy class at the University of British Columbia (UBC) used Nugg to share discussions about strategy and to manage project teams. The instructor tied using Nugg class participation to grades, so there was a lot of use. We got some feedback from the…
Although some say that IM spam (spim) is becoming a problem, I haven't seen it and Dina Mehta makes good points at why the IM model, for example Skype, works. The default setting is to require permission to contact you and you can deny permission at anytime. Sure, this would make e-mail a little more…
This article was picked up by both Rick Bruner and Debbie Weil (who's picture is in the article). The article goes over the standard stories and stats. There is an interesting point, though, that I don't think is on the mark: Consumers are unlikely to abandon established newspapers, magazines and TV news programs for bloggers…
This is one of the first manifestos from ChangeThis and it isn't deep, it isn't even revolutionary. What it is are some basic rules of e-mail that I think are just good to be reminded of. Granted, it's not so bad as when the Internet population exploded and everyone, their brother, and grandmother got online…
Updates from Shared Spaces. I've played a bit with SocialText. I think it is interesting. But I think it would have been better (as they suggest) if I was working on a project during the demo period…oh well. Shared Spaces Research & Consulting: Shared Spaces Briefing, Aug 14 Today's highlights: PeopleSoft Licenses IntelliSync; Intranets.com Review;…
