Thursday, 7 January, 2010

Social processes

The following presentation was linked to by Dennis Howlett, who said: The…slideshow from Mark Masterson makes the point that when dealing with exceptions, the best tools available to us are the knowledge that resides in people’s heads. Ergo – the…

Wednesday, 6 January, 2010

Being up to date

James Gardner has a good post on staying up to date. His point is that if you don’t bother to follow the latest developments – which might mean doing so in your own, not work, time – then you’re going…

Bookmarks for January 4th through January 6th

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. Enterprise 2.0: Totally Unacceptable – I don't agree, but the challenge is good: 'Too often I hear Enterprise 2.0 positioned as a technology set that represents a better way of…

Tuesday, 5 January, 2010

Jakob Neilson on intranets

Jakob Neilson has some good stuff in his yearly roundup of intranet trends: Intranet design is maturing and reaping the rewards of continuous quality improvement for traditional features, while embracing new trends like mobile access, emergency preparedness, and user/employee-contributed content.…

How I write

I thought it might be useful to offer a sneaky-peak into my processes for writing this blog. After all, given that I am trying to encourage others to do the same, it’s probably only fair that I let people know…

Monday, 4 January, 2010

Easy blogging

Two services which aren’t very new, but which I only started using recently, are Tumblr and Posterous. They are basically blogging platforms, but in a different way to, say, WordPress, Blogger or TypePad. It’s all about how you post to…

Bookmarks for January 1st through January 4th

I find this stuff so that you don’t have to. WordPress › Sentimeter « WordPress Plugins – Very interesting plugin: "allows users to express sentiments (a la getsatisfaction.com, e.g. happy, neutral, outraged etc.) through the WordPress commenting system" podPress –…

Friday, 1 January, 2010

2009’s top tech

Here’s a quick roundup of some things I’ve really started to get some use out of in 2009. Not necessarily services that were new to the last 12 months, but ones which became a vital part of my toolkit. You’ll…