We have all received new or upgraded software or new gadgets and sometimes are totally lost in the user guide. Take a look at this User Guide for the switch to dial telephones. Now this is a direct and clear user guide.
For the more advanced user check out the first 2-3 minutes of this one. And you thought a stylus for your PDA/Smartphone was a recent invention.
Kathy Sierra has a great blog that is all about Creating Pasionate Users. Although she is not actively posting anymore, there is tons of great content that can help anyone who wants to create the best experience possible for their users. One of the ones that really hits home, is about high use of PowerPoint presentations in business today.
It seems that everyone has a mobile phone. Stores are selling new cell phones to people who already have one. It is no surprise then that in many countries, there are more cell phones than people.
For anyone who has been stuck in an elevator after a group of kids just got out on the 5th floor.
Well the Apple iPhone is out and one of the first rites of passage is a full teardown. We need to see what’s inside. AppleInsider has full photos of the teardown – courtesy of ifixit.com/.
Microsoft is planning to announce something around digital content in the home. Checkout The Center for Digital Amnesia Awareness for a teaser.
News from laid back Vancouver - the inflated, domed roof of BC Place Stadium has collapsed. What a shock! They say that a piece of the fabric came loose from the concrete or there was a tear that quickly grew and it deflated in 60 seconds. A new meaning of “gone in 60 seconds”!
The stadium is the largest, air-supported, doomed stadium in the world. Not sure yet the reason for the failure in the roof fabric. Here is some raw footage from CTV.CA.
deflated, originally uploaded by Uncleweed.
This is what it looked like in the past. The steel cords hold the roof fabric in place and the inside of the stadium is under pressure lifting it up. I remember back in 1985 when the “raising of the roof” happened. The roof was installed hanging down into the stadium. Then the fans were started and it slowly inflated lifting the roof up. Finally with a “pop” the roof lifted above the rim and then fully inflated. It is going to be while to fix this and get it inflated again.
Kudos to Starbucks for getting with the program and cutting trans fats in its baked goods (Starbucks cuts trans fats). There is ample research that indicates that trans fats raise the bad cholesterol leading to higher risk of heart disease. Other chains and jurisdictions have already made that change.
Melanie Turek provides some good tips on blogging: Blogging in the Enterprise: Tips for Success. There are still many organizations that are not taking advantage of blogs behind the firewall.
In the increasingly virtual workplace, it’s important for employees to make virtual connections—and blogs are one way to help them do that.
In the enterprise, there are two ways to use blogs. One is a corporate-supported (and approved) blog that’s meant to be read by the outside world; the other is an internal blog for employees’ eyes only, for sharing information and creating job and interest-related connections. (There are also lots of blogs out there penned by individuals who use the space to discuss their companies and the markets they are in, among other interests, but these are not technically “enterprise blogs,” as they are not established or supported by the companies themselves.)
Frankly, I don’t see a lot of either type of enterprise blog being used today, and I rarely talk to people who have even considered an internal version. But I think that’s actually the type that has the most promise for the enterprise.
Internal blogs can provide tremendous benefits if developed and supported by the culture change that is necessary:
Internally-focused blogs are easier to maintain and serve a more relevant purpose. Companies with large numbers of remote or virtual employees can use enterprise blogs to keep those staffers connected to the company and one another. By setting up a variety of blogs tagged to specific topics, companies allow employees to share ideas for new products, IT fixes and best practices, better business processes, strong customer service.
Are you taking advantage of blogging in your organization?
The CBC reported that Santa paid a visit to the Canadian troops in Afghanistan. But this was not your everyday Santa.
Santa Claus, aka Warrant Officer Jean Blain of Montreal, visits a Canadian soldier whose name is witheld for security reasons at forward observation base Mas’um Ghar on Sunday, Dec. 24. (CP/Bill Graveland)
It had a Canadian look to it but the red and white uniform worn by the visitor to Canadian troops at forward operating base Mas’um Ghar was definitely not regulation.
However, the government-issued flak jacket worn underneath certainly was.
“Santa may be silly, Santa may be jolly, but Santa is certainly not stupid,” said the famous old gentlemen
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