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Here’s Fast Company’s eight-point program for presentations guaranteed to keep your listeners on the edge of their seats.
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Open Workbench is an open source desktop application that provides robust project scheduling and management functionality. Already the scheduling standard for more than 100,000 project managers worldwide, Open Workbench is a free and powerful alternative
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A great interactve graphic of the wealthiest americans ever. The Guilded age must have been some time.
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Now I understand why It isn’t always obvious.
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In this episode we capture the developer conversations that seem to be everywhere, late at night in the streets of Palo Alto, in Buck’s diner, and at the SuperNova conference.
Ron del.icio.us’ed me a link about the Curse of Knowledge. I have to say I have been party to the curse of knowledge on more that one occasion. What I learned is that the curse of knowledge is really a symptom of flawed communication. As the complexity of the information increases so does the impact of flawed communication. So as I have had to deal with this in my career, I have developed some simple rules to help improve the communication and reduce the curse of knowledge.
- Make clear any assumptions you might have about the topic or the listener’s/reader’s understanding of the topic.
- Allow the listener to ask refining questions and respond in a supportive manner.
- Break the topic into small logical chunks. (This is one can be tough)
- Don’t expect the listeners light bulb to go off as soon as your done communicating.
- Use pictures and/or a white board when ever possible.
- Actually listen/read and consider the responses from your explanation.
- Be willing to be wrong and admit it.
- Avoid email at all cost, when the information is important only communicate Face to Face, For the less important stuff the telephone will do, and only use email for the mundane.
- Communicate until you feel like your being a bother. It is at he bother point you are just communicating enough.
Remember it never seems obvious to the listener.
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Version control as a service. I know collabnet provides subversion as a service. What would a new version control service look like. What would be innovative?
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Recently I took a look at the numerous WordPress blogs I maintain and decided to extract some of the best plugins I use across them. They range from spam management to reporting and stats to authentication and better overall functionality. Here we go:
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At that point in New York’s history, of course, the catastrophic effects of a skyscraper crashing to the ground could only be imagined, and the crisis produced a few jokes about the building falling onto Bloomingdale’s.
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Run multiple operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and Solaris, on your Macintosh at the same time as Mac OS X – without rebooting
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data visualization
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