SPF13
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
If you use *nix, no doubt you’ve spent some time on the command line. Here are a few of the most helpful tricks you can use in the bash shell to really optimize your time, impress your friends, and make everyone else feel inferior… not to mention become more productive. People familar with the command line can usually work considerably faster (for most tasks) than you can through a gui.
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Monday, November 30, 2009. My Time Leading Tech at BusinessWeek.
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Fountainhead
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
'skip to main | skip to sidebar. Fountainhead. Insights into Data Center Infrastructure, Virtualization, and Cloud Computing. Thursday, November 19, 2009. Infrastructure Virtualization: The Next Logical Step. 2010 will be an interesting year for virtualization - but not from the perspective youre probably thinking. It will be the year of the virtual infrastructure, not of the virtual machine.
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Even if you are not a technical person, you may have heard about the apparently arcane robots.txt file which sits on websites but is seen only by computers, not by human visitors. The file contains instructions for search engines on what they can and cannot index and make searchable. Note that in the examples below # indicates a comment line that is not read by the computer; the other lines provide specific instructions to allow or disallow access to search engines.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
All Things Distributed
NOVEMBER 9, 2009
At the end of Q3 2009 we counted over 82 billion objects in Amazon S3. Congrats to the team for providing such a rock solid service! When looking at the graph keep in mind that the first 4 markers are a year apart, but the last one only 6 months.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
Every now and then someone will write an article - or a comment on an article - that pins the cause of autism on “overprotective&# parents. These parents - also known as “ helicopter parents &# - are so involved in their kids lives, the argument goes, that they warp them into being autistic. (Almost the opposite of the old “ refrigerator mother &# theory, since this new “cause&# is the result of too much - not too little - love and affection.).
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Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 17, 2009
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, November 17, 2009. Turning Good Ideas into Operational Reality.
Leveraging Organizational Knowledge
NOVEMBER 22, 2009
I am increasingly becoming a supporter of the principle that it is more efficient and increases the chances of success to leverage organisational knowledge with a stealth approach, meaning not in a direct open way, but indirectly and without advertising it as THE objective. The less a company’s culture is conducive to knowledge sharing (see my list of corporate culture traits not conducive to knowledge sharing ) the more this principle should apply.
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 25, 2009
Last week I did the keynote presentation in a webinar run by ITNews and Oracle on How to spark sales using social media apps. My presentation was titled The Future of Sales is Social. The slides are below, and you can listen to the on demand webinar here (registration required). Keynote: The Future of Sales is Social View more presentations from rossdawson.
Chief Seattle Greek Blog
NOVEMBER 18, 2009
'Officer Tim Brenton. On Friday, November 6th at 1:00 PM, five thousand people gathered in Seattle to grieve for Seattle Police Officer Tim Brenton who was murdered in his police cruiser. At 3:30 PM the killer was caught , after a week of diligent detective work, and through use of video technology. This tragic incident illustrates why first responders need improved technology, including a modern 4th generation (4G) wireless network.
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I'm not lost, I'm wondering
NOVEMBER 26, 2009
On February 17, 1986, shortly after excusing himself from the ice for a breather from the hockey game he was playing with my brothers and some friends, my father collapsed and died from “massive coronary failure&#. Had he lived, today would have been his 70th birthday. I usually refrain from writing anything that is overly personal here on this blog, but my dad deserves much of the credit for my interests and my direction in life.
SPF13
NOVEMBER 24, 2009
'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Does Seth Godin Get It? Earlier this week Seth Godin. announced his first presence on twitter with the post Delivering blogs via Twitter.
Social, Agile and Transformation
NOVEMBER 3, 2009
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Tuesday, November 03, 2009. No Scrum Master? No Problem. How should Enterprises fill the Scrum Master Role?
SPF13
NOVEMBER 11, 2009
Image via CrunchBase Recently a book came out The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience. Jobs has mastered the art of presenting. I thought it would be interesting to look at his presentations over the years. Here are the three biggest announcements Apple has made. iMac (Jobs first product after returning),iPod, iPhone.
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SPF13
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
'by Steve Francia. blog. code. talks. me. share. Twitter. Facebook. Google+. LinkedIn. Delicious. Reddit. StumbleUpon. sharing is caring. follow. RSS. Twitter. Facebook. LinkedIn. GitHub. Google+. SlideShare. join 10k+ subscribers & followers. Apple's iconic presentations. Image via CrunchBase. Recently a book came out The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs: How to be Insanely Great in Front of Any Audience.
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 10, 2009
There's a great article in the latest issue of B&T Today on how Westpac, one of Australia's big four banks, is approaching working with its advertising and creative agencies. Here are a few choice excerpts from the article, which is well worth a read in its entirety. Jee Moon, director of brand and marketing at Westpac [said] that an agency roster based on co-creation, not simply collaboration, is key to establishing and maintaining a strong brand identity.
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 27, 2009
The inimitable Richard Watson has come up with what just might be a big (and unanticipated) market: car engine sound downloads. Richard's fantastic Nowandnext.com bulletins are now openly available after long being a subscription-only service, used by many of the leading creative agencies around the world. To read the latest issue, go to Nowandnext.com and click on the Orange "Current Issue" button at the top left to read the latest bulletin.
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 11, 2009
The Age today has an interesting article titled Outsourcing on steroids that looks at the array of online technologies that are enabling the outsourcing of small tasks and the crowdsourcing of design, innovation, and other key business functions. I've noticed that in just the last few weeks mainstream media coverage of online service exchanges and crowdsourcing tools is picking up.
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Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 4, 2009
Newsgator's Director of Enterprise 2.0 Consulting Christy Schoon has launched a new blog Everyday Enterprise 2.0 at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in San Francisco. Christy says "I'm going to write in plain English about everyday Enterprise 2.0 from my own on-the-ground perspective working with living, breathing social computing champions at Fortune 500 companies.".
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 23, 2009
In March I gave the opening keynote at the Direct Selling Association's conference, talking about the breadth of opportunities in the economy and the role online social networks and communication might play in the future of the industry. From what I learned by preparing for and giving the keynote, I wrote a brief piece Six Key Insights into the future of the Direct Selling Industry.
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 18, 2009
On Tuesday I gave the opening keynote at the 38th annual global conference of international accounting network Kreston International. Kreston are a very interesting organization. With revenues across the network of over $2 billion, they are the 13th largest accounting network in the world. The day of the conference they made the final step in becoming a network according to the IFAC (International Federation of Accountants) definition of a network.
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 16, 2009
I was interviewed this morning on Sky Business Tech Report. Some of the things we discussed in the interview are: * How social media such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and many others change how companies engage with customers, become more efficient, and being competitive. * Among the many Australian organizations applying social media, for example Westpac has been implementing blogging and other tools internally to improve effectiveness, and discount airlines and telcos are using Twitter to eng
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
I first met Mark McCrindle when we were both part of a small team of futures thinkers engaged by a major bank for its innovation program. His company McCrindle Research provides a variety of research services focused on generational change. They also organize the Future Forum , an annual event run in several Australia cities which pulls together insights on key trends across all domains into a compact one-day session.
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 12, 2009
SmartCompany magazine is running a webinar on Monday 16 November at 2pm: How Small and Mid-Sized Companies are Using Technology to Drive Business Success. The webinar will provide a preview to some of the outstanding content at SME Technology Summit. Amanda Gome , Publisher of SmartCompany, will moderate the discussion and share some of her insights in running a young and rapidly growing company, as well in covering the best of what's happening in small and mid-sized business in Australia.
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
And one more! continuing our series of translations of Social Media Strategy Framework , today we are launching the Korean edition. See the original post for the full overview of the Social Media Strategy Framework in English and compilation of the framework in 11 different languages. Click on image to download pdf. Please share this with any Korean speakers who would be interested.
Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 19, 2009
Among our awesome cast of speakers at SME Technology Summit , our opening keynote speakers Mark Pesce and Tim Pethick are two of the those whose insights I most look forward to hearing. Both have fantastic experience and insights into where technology is today and where it's going. Mark's topic is below. Be sure to get along to see it! Using the Network for Business Success.
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Trends in the Living Networks
NOVEMBER 9, 2009
My book Implementing Enterprise 2.0 has been selling at a very healthy and consistent pace since its launch earlier this year. The front page of the book's website features links to reviews of the book, including some very useful ones from ReadWriteWeb , CMSWire , and Inside Knowledge. I thought it would be good to share some of the book's insights in a different format, so I have teamed up with Newsgator - who have been key proponents of the book - to do a free webinar on Implementing Enterpris
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
NOVEMBER 2, 2009
Eat food. Mostly plants. Not too much. These seven words make up the entirety of the “eater’s manifesto&# that is the subtitle of Michael Pollan ’s book In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. Of course, if the “doing&# were as easy as the “saying&# , Pollan wouldn’t have needed 200+ pages to explain the three rules embodied in these seven words.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
Knowledge Management vs. Social Media. Are the two incompatible? Complementary? The same thing in different covers?
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
NOVEMBER 11, 2009
How I tweet - by Guy Kawasaki. Some very useful ideas in here.
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