Part of my reading over the last fortnight, as well as on the plane trip from New Zealand to Switzerland, has been Super Competent: The Six Keys to Perform at Your Productive Best, by Laura Stack, the productivity pro. Her key thesis is that being competent (“average”) is […]
Saturday night I left my home outside of Christchurch and began the 37-hour trek across the world to Geneva. It went fine – thanks to three flights on Air New Zealand, and one on British Airways. A few notes: – I upgraded to Business Premier for the Auckland […]
While I was in Auckland earlier this week, I created the Kindle edition of SharePoint Roadmap for Collaboration. This is (essentially) the only way to get a copy of SharePoint Roadmap now. While there are a few copies of the paper edition left, I’m going to hold on […]
Ed Brill, an IBM executive, writes about living Microsoft free for two years: “Two years ago, I switched to a MacBook Pro as my business desktop. A year later, I added an iPad. My mobile device during this whole time has been some flavor of Blackberry. In our […]
I flew from Auckland to Christchurch last night – on the last flight out of Auckland. I sat in Row 2. In row 1, there were 3 people. In row 2, there were 5 people. Everyone in Row 2 had an iPad – and it was the device […]
There are only 8 RSS feeds I check on a daily basis, and Cool Tools is one of them. Today’s item is the HitchSafe Key Vault, for storing your keys in a safe place on your vehicle when carrying them with you is difficult or inadvisable: “I recently […]
Step Two Designs has opened the doors for entries to the 2011 Intranet Innovation Awards for this year: “Now in their fifth year, the global Intranet Innovation Awards uncover great ideas for the benefit of the whole intranet community. Winners have come from countries around the world, from […]
A client wanted to meet for a workshop – I live and work in Christchurch, they were up the top of the North Island. The question: where to meet? Yesterday, we met half way. I flew to Auckland Airport, and they drove from their offices to Auckland Airport. […]
My second blog post is up on The BrainYard – Don’t Forget Users When Deploying New Collaboration Technology: “Yes, you can build it. But employees won’t come unless you have an adoption strategy. User adoption is the single biggest challenge with new collaboration technology–it is now, it has […]
Dan at CNN Business Insider writes about Apple’s three biggest weaknesses: “Apple and CEO Steve Jobs have celebrated a string of huge hits over the past several years, including the iPhone, the iPad and the MacBook Air. Reviews have been mostly glowing, sales have been strong and investors […]
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