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Thursday, August 29, 2002

The blogging CxO. Blogs, I recently suggested, can turn the game of high-tech PR inside out. Ray Ozzie is the most dramatic example of how that can happen and why it should. Here are three others that I find inspiring: ... [Jon's Radio]

Jon concludes

We long ago passed the point, in this industry, where an "elevator pitch" could convey anything useful. Things are increasingly complex, interrelated, and subtle. On trade show floors, in meetings, and on phone calls, it can take an hour just to synchronize on the terminology and concepts needed to have a meaningful discussion. I hope there will soon be many more Phils, Marks, and Edwins [the three CxO's he has cited in the post]. I claim it's win/win for those who step up to the plate. The creators of technical strategy are best qualified to explain it to both internal and external audiences. When context can be shared in this way, understanding comes easier and runs deeper.

1:53:24 PM

Summarized from a post by Stephen at Blogging Alone:

Stephen says that Michael Helfrich's essay on Swarming was the inspiration for a paper he's working on, Notes from Sara Busse's paper Strategies for Daily Survival in Russia. His struggle is with properly crediting her work (documented in her paper (PDF) based on her research in Novosibirsk). I wanted to note the two papers, his and hers, for those of my friends familiar with Novosibirsk or living in Novosibirsk.

1:47:58 PM

Today in Knowledge Management: more Corporate Culture-Shifting. [Steven's Weblog]

1:14:10 PM

A selective list of the 7 Deadly Sins. Being a church-related site, I thought it time to compile a list of the 'Seven Deadly Sins of Web... [Heal Your Church Web Site]

Well, we have some agreement on the traditional “Seven Deadly Sins” (think PALE GAS to remember them), but I doubt we can distill these several seven's down to a single seven.
12:57:30 PM

postcardX.net. postcardX is about exposing a part of yourself to a random person somewhere out there in the ether. you can send a postcard with your latest poem or life instance. send a dried flower you found on a walk the evening before. send a box full of trinkets found from your childhood. send that book you just finished. send a mix CD or tape of your music. send that painting that took you 40 hours to a stranger along with a packet of your favorite tea. send a secret.... [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE]

12:54:32 PM

Shinola Naming and Branding Awards. The Shinola Awards are produced by A Hundred Monkeys, a naming and branding company in Sausalito, California.... [xBlog: The visual thinking weblog | XPLANE]

12:54:09 PM

Usability testing a registration form. Matthew Ellison writes up the results of usability testing five different versions of the registration form for the WinWriters online... [Column Two]

By a happy coincidence, I was coding a registration form webapp when this post sifted gently through my news reader. I would have let it slip by but the sharp edges of “registration form” snagged on my mind as it passed. Read the whole article referenced here.
12:51:21 PM

Nice article on builting a culture of collaboration.[Darwinmag] [Blogging Alone]

A list of points from the article:

Start small
Find a champion
Pick a real problem
Fill the space
Prod employees to participate
Promote the benefits
Celebrate the experts
Don't be safe
Let the users rule
Measure the effect

I've seen these discussed elsewhere, so my reposting may be redundant. But it is a good article...and it introduced me to Roland Picquepaille's blog.
12:44:14 PM

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12:15:17 PM

Dan Bricklin on Blogs in Business.

Dan Bricklin (co-creator of VisiCalc, founder of Trellix) posted a great piece a couple weeks ago about the growing importance of blogs in the business world. He focused specifically on the importance of blogs in small businesses. Two quotes stand out:

It is important to understand that the purpose of a blog is not always to get the largest and widest readership possible. The purpose is usually to communicate with interested individuals. Even in business, the number of those individuals may be very few, but the impact of the communications can have economic impact far beyond its cost.

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As blogging moves more and more into the mainstream, it will eventually be surprising when you don't use a blog. [emphasis mine] [Dan Bricklin's Log]

The full text of his post is here.

[tins ::: Rick Klau's weblog]

9:18:26 AM

Art of Email Typing. Thinking back to when I wrote real letters to pen pals or family members when away from home — I tried to recall how I wrote such letters in comparison [meryl's notes]

Meryl's note continues with a reference to a review of a book where

...the authors focus on the etiquette of writing emails. From the reviews I've read, it sounds like common sense. However, there are many who haven't figured it out.

Looks like a good idea to pass on.
9:17:30 AM

K-Logs. The next generation desktop. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

America has been hurt by early standardization many times in the past. It is often the burden of an early adopter. The consumer TVs in Europe are niftier than in the US. This may be due to some of the aspects of their television system, which was adopted after ours. NTSC (funny acronym—“Never The Same Color”) was adopted as a standard because it came first (or almost so) making the transition to digital or more sophisticated methods difficult. Cell phones are similar. It may take some time until we have phones as nifty as Japan or Europe, because we locked into early standards. Heck, we still use English units while everyone else used metric. Talk about locking in an obsolete standard. But, our culture is nothing if not adaptable so we will survive. Japanese cars killed us but we won back the market. In the long run, it is better for everyone. [Richard Gayle: Knowledge Management]

9:14:06 AM