The best laid lobbying ousted by mean competitiveness…

After a year or more of explaining what blogs were... After citing examples of organizations using blogs to personalize their organization, further their message, connect with their customers... After the New York Times, Times Magazine and other MSM wrote about them... After the word was introduced into the common lexicon...

Secure RSS Feeds?

I despair of getting RSS readers installed on company desktops so my co-workers can read feeds produced inside our firewall. We have standard desktops, and changes to that desktop don't happen at the speed of business, IMHO. So, I thought that instead of lobbying for changes to the desktop, I'd

The Noth-ern Gates

After enduring the trials and tribulations of a computer outage at O'Hare International Airport (ORD), I made it to New York three hours later than expected (thanks United Airlines -- I'll rant about you later). So I had to make a choice between shopping in SoHo or hoofing to Central

Slow E-mail Productivity Tip

43 Folders has five fast e-mail productivity tips, and I think it's a fine list. However, if you have more time and an interested group of people, I offer this suggestion: subject codes. In my organization, nearly every e-mail that's sent has one of the following subject codes in the

Abusing Folkonomies…

I had some thoughts this morning about how to abuse the whole folkonomy trend. Concerns really, because I'm not sure these things haven't already happened: Ideological wars fought through tagging. Tag your opponent as "evil" or "wrong", "liberal" or "conservative" and have an army of information manipulators spread the tags

Baby Name Wizard

Okay, here's a fun way to kill a few minutes: visit the Baby Name Wizard! You can check out any name and see its popularity ranking over time. Tammy seemed to hit its peak in the 1960s at number 14...Zesmerelda, on the other, has yet to make the list. *sigh*