In a post last week I mentioned Future Babble, Dan Gardner's recent book which looks at human's desire to predict the future, and our inability to do it very well. It's a topic I've been exploring a bit more since, talking with a few folk about the subject. One of Gardner's key arguments is that … Continue reading The same, but different
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After a two week holiday, achievements this week included: - catch ups with many of the team - catching up with the state of planning for the new financial year - planning for staff changes (don't forget - I'm looking for a new Audience Marketing Manager!) - a bit of blogging - and some thinking … Continue reading Weeknote 54: Back to work
I've been inspired by a couple of pieces of writing this week: the first, an interesting blog post from my former BBC colleague, and Social Media guru Euan Semple, and the second a tweet that I have since lost, but will paraphrase as "Cloud Computing isn't killing the IT Department, they're committing hari kiri." What … Continue reading Points of IT Control
I had the opportunity to find out a bit more about the Kinect SDK for Windows in a session held at the Microsoft Campus on Tuesday morning. If you aren't aware of it, the development kit provides a series of software tools to allow developers to use the Kinect controller in the Windows environment. There … Continue reading Kinecting
I'm recruiting at the moment - looking for a new Audience Marketing Manager to co-ordinate marketing activity in the UK for the IT Professional community (ie people working in IT outside of development). There is full detail here: http://bit.ly/iVG2d8, but feel free to drop me a line if you want more information.
I arrived back in Portsmouth on Saturday night after a two-week break with the family in the Charente region of France. For the entire two weeks, I was offline, and I struggle to remember such an extended period when I wasn't in some way connected to the Internet in the last decade. Partly this was … Continue reading Time out
Achievements this week included: - a valuable two-day off-site session with my leadership team colleagues - getting focus for the next financial year in the evangelism team (it's probably a process thing) - getting up to speed with all that is Windows 8 (that we know so far...) - a catch up with Trudy from … Continue reading Weeknote 53: Awaydays and bank holidays
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=otc5n0pWn8w Another whiteboard session for you - covering a bit of management theory that I think is particularly relevant to IT heads today.
12 months ago I started weeknoting. You can read the first one here: http://bit.ly/kumHWB. It's turned into a useful habit, and one that I (for the foreseeable future at least) intend to keep up. Taking ten minutes at the end of a week to quickly reflect on things that have happened is a useful exercise … Continue reading Yearnote 1
Achievements this week included: - watching many of the team in action at UK Tech.Days (nice work, chaps) - a productive meeting with community leaders from UK-based user groups - lunch and all things cloud with @justinpirie - another lunch with @em_stone - and another lunch with @mrsimonking at Imagination - a fascinating afternoon at … Continue reading Weeknote 52: Out and About
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