Last year I wrote about How to Lead with Agile-ity. Lessons from the 2010 Agile Leadership workshop in Melbourne . This year the Agile 2011 Conference took place over 2 days in Sydney on 15 and 16 June. So what was interesting? Some highlights if you’re in a hurry: * The
I’m looking forward to the Agile Australia 2011 Conference in Sydney on Wednesday 15 and Thursday 16 June 2011, and thought it would be useful to share the various online resources I’ve found to make it more effective, fun, interactive and shared. Click through on the links below…
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve noticed an increase in the number of invitations to either refer, rank or recommend my friends or business collegues. I already use LinkedIn extensively, and Plaxo less frequently. I’ve been invited to ReferralKey “When your colleague finds someone who can use
Solved: Using the bluetooth Apple Wireless keyboard on Windows 7 / 8 Using the bluetooth Apple Wireless keyboard on Windows 7 I recently decided to add the Apple Wireless keyboard to my Apple collection at home, primarily for use with the iPads. The keyboard works really well for any typing intensive
In conclusion, the event was worth the time invested in terms of some great panel discussions and networking. Somethings I’ll be thinking about are: * There could be more time allocated to interaction between attendees. Maybe run the conference in Sprints and have some standups? * There is an opportunity for
A few weeks ago I posted my Best iPad apps for professional & business use. My experience & recommendations. The most popular iPad and cloud based tools you’ve selected for business so far are: 1. Brainstorming with iMockups 2. Business and Time Management with CUBE 3. DropBox and Evernote
With the launch of ‘The Daily’ for the iPad, the latest attempt at re-monetizing news has arrived. Is this iTunes for news, where the price point is perfect for quality paid news from respected journalists, or is it just lovely eye candy? It may be too much, too late to
Two weeks ago I posted Quora leapfrogs Google, Mahalo, LinkedIn & Yahoo Answers. One step closer to John Battelle’s Database of Intentions . While researching the post, I stumbled across a post from Saneel Radia, the Director of Innovation at BBH New York. The post, The answer to this Quora?
Quora has got lot of attention lately including more of mine than I initially thought. When I discovered Quora a few months ago, my first thoughts were “Not ANOTHER social media/Social Network/professional network/<insert social …. here>” tool and channel of noise. I was wrong. After spending
I’m a huge fan of Gist — “Your contacts are everywhere. In email, social networks, and many other sources. Gist brings your contacts into one place to give you the only full view of your network making it easy to find anyone, anytime.” As I wrote here, it’s my
I’ve been using my iPad for around 6 months, and been through MANY apps. I thought I’d save you the trouble by letting you know what has worked well for me and why. I use the iPad primarily for business, specifically for travel, formal and informal meetings and
I’ve been using Microsoft’s excellent foray into social media tools, The Archivist, for a few weeks to extract some valuable information from Twitter events’ hashtags. This involves signing up with your Twitter handle at The Archivist site, entering your #Search terms and off you go. After looking at