Experiences – Good and Bad – With Online Group Coupons
Like most other people who I know, I latched on to the group coupon craze last year, buying coupons for things that I probably didn’t need at prices that seemed to be a good deal. I’ve slowed down considerably from my initial rush, although I still have a few coupons to use up from those [...]
Ten Years Later
On my last business post about the upcoming BPM conferences where I will be speaking, I accidentally typed “2001” instead of “2011” for the title. As I fixed up that little goof, it had me think about the past 10 years. 10 years ago, I was finishing off my last few weeks as an evangelist [...]
Living the Mobile Life
This morning after I left the house, I checked the real-time streetcar tracking to see when the next car was coming by the end of my street, looked over a presentation that I’m working on, checked which subway car to board so that I would exit near the escalator at my destination, read a chapter [...]
On the auto industry bailout
Via The Beast.
PM Hell
Every once in a while, I run up against a project manager on a client project who seems to be there just to make my life hell. Usually I just let this roll off me since it’s only a temporary condition — that’s part of why I work as an independent, after all — but [...]
Some things never change…
I missed the CASCON conference this year, but just found some notes from last year’s conference, which included a session on barriers to women in technology/business. In addition to some dismal numbers on the percentage of women on corporate boards (14.7% in the US, 11.2% in Canada), I jotted down a brilliant quote from the [...]
Online retailing to drop? I don’t think so
From an article today on Money Morning: More than a decade after Internet pioneer Amazon.com burst upon the scene and revolutionized online retailing, experts are projecting that Internet-based shopping is destined to fall out of favor. In the next five to 10 years, those who are already comfortable shopping online are likely to grow even [...]
Camping for beginners
Talking about *camps and unconferences on my business blog is starting to have some effect: yesterday, I received the following email thread that had gone between two conference organizers in my industry: You mentioned a technique for facilitating a discussion and I think you called it CAMP? I did a brief search on the web [...]
Striving for guru status
One of my favourites from Jessica Hagy’s daily scribbles on index cards:
Google spamming me in real life
When I receive postal mail at the PO box address for my wine club, I know that something is weird — the PO box is only emptied every few days by another one of the (volunteer) board members, and I only see him every couple of weeks, so anything that I want to receive in [...]
