Archive for May, 2008
Attention Profiling: APML Beginner’s Guide
Friday, May 30th, 2008“APML allows you to share your own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers. The idea is to compress all forms of Attention Data into a portable file format containing a description of your ranked interests.” APML Website
“…consolidated, structured descriptions of people’s interests [...]
Scott Berkun Lecture: The Myths of Innovation
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008This goes well with his recent essay “Lessons from 4 independent years”
In 2003 I quit my management job at Microsoft to try to live by writing books, teaching and public speaking. It was the scariest decision I’d made in my life and here on the other side, about 4 years later, is what I’ve learned. [...]
Why Employees Jump Ship, Self-Coaching and Straing Trainers
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Here is a round-up of some good Gannthead articles
Why Employees Jump Ship
Contrary to popular belief, lousy pay is not often the primary reason for quitting a job. Not that money isn’t important, but it’s seldom the primary reason most people change jobs.
If you take job insecurity as a given, statistics predict that you won’t be [...]
The (Virtual) Global Office
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008IBM and others are using Second Life and other virtual worlds to help with coordination and staff geographical and cultural barriers.
The (Virtual) Global Office
Will the global energy crisis crash the web?
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 A really good article on how energy expensive the web is. Green Data Centres and energy awareness has definitely gone mainstream.
So you’ve heard the hype on going green, wouldn’t you like to know how the internet fits into the big picture of saving energy? Every time you search Google you could power an [...]