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Web 2.0?
Comments (1)Here’s a nice post by Russell Shaw on ZDNet. It is a rather different view than the one we ‘re getting from the hyped media… and I tend to agree with him. What I think is usefull about this naming/marketing/slogan is a common name for the category of really cool applications we’re seeing these days. Maybe Web 2.0 is a marketing slogan, but why not give them another name, something like RW-Web? I really belive though, that the Web 2.0 name will stay for a while.
Squidoo
I’ve been playing around a little bit with Squidoo since the closed beta. Unfortunately I had not a lot of spare time during these days to really get into this, but I did manage to build a small lens on me. Yes, that was the fastest way to get this to know, and here it is!
Squiddo is a radically new concept from Seth Godin which is really worth looking into!
Presentation Makeover II
I promised to follow up on this post… and here it is.
I got some last minute inspiration from Tom Asackers’s blog, thanks to Seth Godin. He posted a PDF-ed presentation that really inspired me, so I wrapped up my one in a day o so and presented it last thurday. I really impressed the audience, since they never thaught I would do something like this, but best of all, I felt I got their attention and kept it for as log I presented. It was around 4:00 pm and they all had a tough day, so it was really challenging to get my message across, but it seems like I did.
I should get some feedback from them in the next days… let’s see.
Web 2.0
Well, as you may know, there is a lot going on in the web 2.0 world these days and I just came across a really nice page that Joshua Porter has written on Squidoo: introduction to Web 2.0.
Take a look and you’ll see not only what Web 2.0 is all about, but also what Seth Godin did with Squidoo.
Another interesting post related to this is this one by Richard MacManus on his Read/WriteWeb blog. He writes about the Web as a platform, which is another way to look into the same thing. He’s compiling a list of possible applications on such a platform… hmmm, let me think about it.
Leadership
Tom Peters has a nice write-up on leadership and how it is being taught “on the side” in Business Schools and corporate “universities”.
Maybe I should go and apply for West Point!
Presentation Makeover
A few weeks back, I got a new and challenging assignement that will probably need some tough presentations to a few top managers. This is never easy to do so I googled around a little bit for inspiration and found some really interesting stuff
At first I got hooked on Presentation Zen, a blog devoted to improve our presentation skills written by Garr Reynolds, a former Apple guy who is now teaching in Japan. He has a lot –I mean A LOT– of cool stuff there and that’s how I also got to Cliff Atkinson’s Beyond Bullets blog, a site devoted to his book Beyond Bullet Points. Cliff maintains a quite usefull discussion board there that got me to really try to kill that template driven style we all learned from Microsoft.
This is really getting very interesting, and I’m trying to write my first story with a much more visual set of slides. I’ll let you know when I’m done with it…
