I came across this diet on a few blogs (the wonderful David Pollard and Kathy Sierra) by chance and was fascinated by its simplicity: leave at least 2 hours between eating food with flavour. At least one hour after eating take some flavorless food (a glass of sugar water or a tablespoon of...
I have been worrying for a long time about how to improve the benefits delivery from investments in desktop, office and collaborative systems and it’s always bothered me how little attention Microsoft has invested in the problem until now! They have come up with a tool called the Enterprise Learning Framework,...
Over the last few years I have paid a lot of attention to improving my happiness at work and it’s certainly paid off. But more interesting has been the impact on my professional activities. I work mainly in vision and strategy for a large systems integrator, my focus is on...
Gartner have recently published a press release – Prepare Now, the 20-Hour Job Description is Coming – for a recent report that makes the case that: By 2015, a significant increase in ‘less-time’ roles will increase the total number of knowledge workers and decrease the average number of hours each Web...
There are lots of blogs reporting on Microsoft’s new Surface product but Michael has a great post where he describes a wide range of collaboration related scenarios that it could support, definitely worth a read. However I can’t help but think that Surface is a bit like Telepresence, a technology...
Brian Badden has made available a huge range of presentations and videos from his BriForum events in 2006. He plans to make the sessions from 2005 available soon and right now you can also order the 2007 sessions on DVD. However many of the 2006 sessions will still be very...
I really like this idea by Alan Lepofsky, he’s asking his readers to share things that they need to get done during their normal working days. There’s no mega business processes here, just the simple stuff that fills most of our time and is often still poorly optimised despite much...
I am consistently surprised by Microsoft’s low key marketing around SharePoint lists and also by the fact that the power of lists is rarely mentioned by enterprises who select SharePoint for collaboration. The focus seems always to be on document libraries, blogs and wikis. My surprise can be traced back...
My Mum said she was attending a computing course the other week, so I decided to get an old laptop repaired and set it up for her. She picked it up this weekend and it was quite an experience! To date I have worked mainly with IT professionals and super...
Back in September of last year I wrote a post on the lack of support for authenticated RSS feeds and the BIG issues that this was going to cause enterprises trying to do rollouts this year. Jon Udell recently mentioned this and the comments and his post are quite useful. In...