Archive for June, 2007
LinkedFace. Sorely needed, isn’t it?
Posts: 41
Hits: 162
Spam comments prevented: 72(!)
Comments from readers: 0
Hits per post: 3.95
Spams per hit: 0.44
Not pretty numbers, are they?
I continue, undeterred. This is fun.
So far I think it is fair to say that this blog has not had a huge impact on the world.
Fair enough.
But strangely, if you search Google for “The Man Who Invented Electricity” this site comes up as the third-ranked page as they pick up Post Thirteen.
I’m getting a hit most days on that search [...]
A couple of weeks ago I joined Facebook, more out of curiosity than anything else.
I’ve since been deluged with offers of friendship and people galore are coming out of the woodwork and finding me.
At the same time, mysteriously, I’m getting LinkedIn requests at the rate of about two per day.
I have no idea why this [...]
Well … the event I describe in post Thirty One has been and gone.
I’m a little surprised at how fired up I got explaining how freelancers differ from staff journos to an audience of young PR people.
For those who did not make it, a summary:
We are micro-businesses, so don’t assume we can give our time [...]
… that albums on sale in the USA in digital format are not on sale in Australian online stores weeks later.
They Might Be Giants‘ and The Polyphonic Spree’s new albums have been out for six and one weeks respectively, but not for those of us here in the antipodes. I am sure fans of [...]
I’m branching out with my friend Steve and his company NRG solutions into training.
Together, we have devised an “email detox” course.
The premise is simple. By now you know that email can eat your life if you are not careful.
But have you considered how careless use of email can hurt your productivity in other ways? We’ve [...]
A piece for Next on why WiFi meshes are not the answer.
What does it take to build a humongous new data centre, again for Next?
Fibre Channel vs. IP storage, for searchstorage.com.au and searchcio.com.au.
I’ve used FoxyTunes for a while. For those of you who do not know it, the program is a plug-in for Firefox and IE that puts a small control panel for your media player in the browser.
I’ve come to rely on it more than I use iTunes.
Anyway … yesterday FoxyTunes added TwittyTunes which lets you [...]
PR: Come to our event where we will discuss the terrible risks to business posed by the APEC summit.
Me: What are the risks?
PR: Business continuity
Me: Sorry? I don’t get it. How does the APEC conference threaten business continuity?
PR: Ummm
Me: The city will shut down for a day. What’s the business continuity risk in that? It’s [...]
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- TechTarget ANZ
- Three ways Lean processes can improve your BPM effort
- The pain of SOHO IT
- Twelve free project management templates
- CIO: Don't attempt BPM system without mapping process flows
- Seven jobs to launch your business process management strategy
- Six mistakes that make SOA implementations fail
- Adopting agile development methodology is a stretch, but the exercise pays off
- Chapter download: Find new value in your IT
- How to pick a server virtualization vendor
- Microsoft promises easy upgrade when SharePoint 2010 beta lands late this year
- What I’m listening to
- Smart Call Podcast
- Smart Call # 70 - Travel and analytics advance agentsOn this show, we have a look at two unusually advanced ways to improve agent performance. The first comes in our main presentation, which comes from Paul Cahill, General Manager Customer Service at Internet Service Provider iiNet, which operates contact centres in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Paul explains how iiNet works to build a consistent [. […]
- Smart Call #69 - Who’s the boss?In this episode of Smart Call, we ask: Who’s the Boss? And we do so in two ways. First up, we have Dr. Catriona Wallace of callcentres.net sharing the results of her firm’s annual Australasian Benchmarking Report with us. Catriona finds that call centre bosses have some happier challenges at the moment, because fewer workers are leaving [...]
- Smart Call #68 – The geek show!This episode of Smart Call gets geeky as we talk to two IT strategists. But don’t worry that we are going to go all dry and technical on you! Instead, we have a fascinating presentation from Genesys’ G-Force about the future of customer service, from Bill Peer, a Vice President for Enterprise Architecture at the InterContinental [...]
- Smart Call # 70 - Travel and analytics advance agents
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