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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

..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 [...]