I’m trying to return to writing blog posts and as part of that had considered splitting myself in two. Two blogs that is.
The original plan was this:
"Anything related to my professional life (such as it is) will continue to be on blurgl blog. Things related to anything else will appear here [on TellyAddict, my [...]
Much has been written about the Facebook Generation, most of it quite negative. They represent a tempting target for those of us of older generations (even if not by much). I can’t help but feel that this is often a 21st century reinterpretation of the age old “back in my day things were different” scenario [...]
I was asked a few months ago to be a judge at this years Learning Impact 2008 Awards sponsored by the IMS Global Learning Consortium.
The event highlights educational and corporate institutions who leverage technology in innovative ways to enhance learning. I’m looking forward to seeing the finalists and honored to have been asked to [...]
While the cool kids like Facebook, MySpace and YouTube get most of the attention when we think of how the Web has changed over the last few years, I was reminded this week of what is in many ways a more important but much more subtle change that has emerged in the form of personalization.
It [...]
ReadWriteWeb has a short but great post discussing some key trends on how to build clean, simple interfaces for web applications. I am particularly a fan of the concept of gradual engagement that is discussed.
Make it drop-dead simple for people to try your application and only force them through a sign-up process once they [...]
Colleague Pierre Khawand was recently rounding up links to hard data on e-Learning effectiveness and I contributed a few based on my own past experiences with LMS and LCMS deployments. Pierre has now summarized his findings in a blog post and its well worth a read.
Getting hard numbers on e-Learning effectiveness is notoriously difficult [...]
Two Apple posts in a row is really starting to risk blowing a hole in my objectivity but I couldn’t allow this one to slip by. In a current interview in Fortune, Steve Jobs has plenty of interesting things to say but by far the best comment for my money is his view on focus. [...]
I have been thinking about writing about Apple Stores for a while now. I think there is so much to learn about how to interact with your customers and what it means to market to them in the age of the Web. I have resisted because I am, as many people know, a self-described unabashed [...]
One of my favorite sites (and pretty much the only one worth reading on good presentation style) is Presentation Zen. I really like Garr’s approach, which is highly visual.
Despite the fact that I have been giving public presentations for over a decade, I must admit I have often been guilty of many of the classic [...]
If you have ever struggled to convince your management, investors or team members why successful software companies have almost always focused on a given vertical or niche market on the path to glory, Seth Godin sums it up well in his short post “The more people you reach the more likely it is that you’re [...]
