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Five Stages of Twitter Relevance

By ⋅ April 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I’m already fielding internal (as well as external) questions about the application of Twitter in a manufacturing company, and I’m developing a reasonably good model, I think – one that will apply to the hard-core, salt-of-the-earth, manufacturing business leader that I’ve worked with at many organizations. This “maturity model” approach has been used before; back [...]

KM Overcomplicates: Heisenberg Impact on a VBA Quickie

By ⋅ February 8, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Got a simple request from one of the folks in Operations; we’re sending out Excel spreadsheets for some quick data gathering, might we do a little basic input validation before they send in garbage that needs to be scrubbed? This person is very sharp, knows a decent bit about what is possible, and this is [...]

Back to the Future: Twitter "microblogging"

By ⋅ January 10, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

“That’s pretty good, Johnny, but that ain’t the way I heerd it. . . .”I recall when all this “blogging” talk started, way back in 1999 or so (thanks to Hallett for a decent history). The idea was to post thoughts and feelings, observations about technology, society, or whatever – anything from a daily diary [...]

Third Time’s the Charm? Blackberry Bold

By ⋅ January 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

I recently had to part ways with my Blackberry Pearl – some heartache, I suppose, but time and product innnovation march on. There is a lot to like about the Blackberry Bold – I am definitely happy to have made the change … <aside> … although my inner conspiracy theorist sees a case of planned [...]

New Twitter features starting to make things more relevant

By ⋅ June 3, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Here’s a new plugin for Firefox that’s helpful for my use of Twitter – twitterbar. Yes, there’s a number of plugins designed to integrate Twitter with Firefox, but this one seems to work fine. Note that it works better now that I’ve upgraded to Firefox 2.0 – always a good idea to keep up with [...]

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