My writing here has languished in the past year as I have worked on Seamless Teamwork and the other projects that fill my days (not to mention learning to type again!). And even when I did write here, most of my blogging time was devoted to abstracting what […]
It’s been a week since I switched back to a Windows machine. If I hadn’t said publicly that I was going to, I’m not sure I would have stayed 🙂 Main observations: – The keyboard on the Lenovo is much more clicky than the MacBook Pro keyboard. Much […]
On July 29, 2003 I switched from Windows to Mac. I had used Windows as my main computing platform for 12 years, and was frankly fed up with its instability. Well, after 5 years on the Mac platform, today I switched back to Windows, and demoted my MacBook […]
The printed edition of Seamless Teamwork is done, KMWorld has come and gone, I’ve recovered from my US trip … so it’s time for a vacation. The New Zealand countryside awaits, and more importantly, so does my family. I’ll be back on the 13th. Grace to you.
I received notice last night that I can attend and present my PhD work at the Doctoral Consortium at the ACIS 2008 Australasian Conference on Information Systems in December (here in Christchurch). Is there a single word in the English language that simultaneously conveys the sense “hurray” and […]
Apparently Gmail has been having some issues in the past week or so … and I’ve noticed it via reduced email. So … if you have sent me an email and I haven’t yet responded, please re-send it. I may not have received it. And yes, I’ve shifted […]
I am in Sydney this week for the Open Publish Conference, which starts in 3 hours. And I am here with my Dad, who came with me … I’ll be doing the conference thing, and he’ll be doing the tourist thing. I haven’t been to Sydney in tourist […]
With the manuscript for my first book, Seamless Teamwork, almost wrapped up, I have been reflecting on the process of writing a book. If I do it again — and yes I have ideas of books that need to be written — I would do some things differently. […]
I’m experimenting with a few changes around here … I have changed the name of the blog from Effective Collaboration to Working with People You Can’t Be With. For many of the people I deal with, the new name means something, whereas the old name drew “So what […]
I have been invited to speak at three special events in Melbourne, Australia next month, and will be there from Wednesday July 23 to Friday July 25. The three events are: I’ll be presenting to three groups on Wednesday evening, July 23. One suggestion is that I talk […]
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