Archive for 2008
It’s the User Experience as much as the Technology!
All that is wrong with IT in a sentence? “I have nothing against iPhone. It’s great,” says Manjit Singh, CIO at Chiquita Brands International Inc. “But we’re a BlackBerry shop, and I don’t think iPhone brings anything new to the table. It has a great user experience, but that’s all.”
Personality Sorters and Social Media – Part II
In a business (and the world in generally), we need both clay pots and brass ones. Different personality types each have their (complementary) strengths and weaknesses. The brass and the clay pots need to get along together; not by being separate, but by working together. It is probably one of the reasons we have culture and etiquette – some rules of engagement that help to protect us from our individual differences.
Personality Sorters and Social Media – Part I
Understanding personality types is very useful, not just for self awareness, but for working in team environments, especially where social software, social media or any technology-mediated form of communication is in play. This post is for Lobelia and others, in response to her blog post on personality types “personality types, can you be sorted?”.
May Top 10 Blog Posts
May in the UK is always an interesting time – two bank holidays, a school half-term and pseudo random British weather all synthesize into a zigzag journey. The highlight of the month was attending NESTA’s Innovation Edge 08event, as you can see from the posts (Gordon Brown attracted lots of comments, as did Tim Berners-Lee).
WOWNDADI Podcast II
Episode two of the WOWNDADI podcast looks at bootstrapping – how to get started in making change, and the nature of change that we can make.
Speeding Your E-mail
There has been a big increase in the amount of e-mail I am receiving of late. It has prompted me to revisit my rules for dealing with it. Here are three simple rules to get you through the interminable torrents of e-mail that much more efficiently. The first e-mail rule: Touch each e-mail message but [...]
WOWNDADI Podcast Introduction
So finally, after almost two years, the WOWNDADI gets a podcast to go with it – and I get my voice back.
This is a just little introduction (6 minutes) to the roots of the WOWNDADI blog.
