Archive for November, 2006

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Presto! Get E-Mail Without a Computer

Thursday, November 30th, 2006

Presto is a service that allows people to send e-mail to people who don’t. And Presto! the people who don’t get a printout of the e-mail. (There are lots of senior managers out there would would benefit from this service, because they use their AAs as a Presto service and have all their e-mails printed [...]

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Gapingvoid’s Under 500-Word Manifestos Make You Go Hmmm

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Hugh MacLeod of gapingvoid is soliciting under 500-word manifestos. Here’s the deal:
I have to say, after writing an under-five-hundred-word mini-manifesto, I find myself quite taken by the format. Somehow the brevity just clicks for me.
Why take 50,000 words [the length of your average business tome] to say what you have to say, when 500 will [...]

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Hey HR Sportsracers, Get a New Perspective with Ze Frank

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

Hey HR Sportracers, listen to Zefrank. I find him very compelling. (Nope, I’m not him. I’m just Plain Ol’ Frank.) Start with this 3-minute video called New Perspective on his show, which is the appropriately-titled The Show. If you click the tab called “About The Show” you can get some background and look at some [...]

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HR Communication Flowers

Tuesday, November 28th, 2006

I saw this description of the Communication Flower on Engadget:
[T]he Communication Flower pulls double duty by sprucing up your living room and adding a bit of chatter to break up the depressing silence. Although you can’t wirelessly cater to its every need, this device sports a colorful motif and packs an integrated speaker to randomly [...]

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Silence Your Cell Phones…

Monday, November 27th, 2006

..or they will be silenced for you. What presenter hasn’t had this “smash the cell phone” fantasy when phones ring right in the middle of a big point? And just how difficult is it to “silence your cell phones”? Here’s an idea for HR L&D: A training class on how to turn cell phones to [...]