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Archive for February, 2007

Buried Treasure – The life cycle of a high-performance workforce

Remember this old Xplane Diagram?

The life cycle of a high-performance workforce, Xplane Illustration
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My client handed me this today I was like… whoa blast from the past. There is great stuff in here to think about though when designing Enterprise applications.

Know Thy User is important. Consider how employees will interact with your application from Orientation to Retirement.

So if you dig this Xplane diagram remember that Viz Think1 (not crazy about the name Ryan :-) is happening Tuesday, February 27th, 2007. Check it out.

[tags]Visual Thinking, Employee LifeCycle[/tags]

Husband eats 50-year-old chicken

dude with old can of chicken

A man celebrated his golden wedding anniversary by eating a 50-year-old tin of chicken.

Les and Beryl Lailey, of Denton, Gtr Manchester, were given the chicken in a hamper on their wedding day in 1956.

This grosses me out more because of the age of the meal then my obvious fowl POV. I thought the golden anniversary was… well… GOLD.

 

[tags]BBC, gross, TinnedChicken, GoldenAnniversary[/tags]

Jared Spool and his funny, accurate description of a problem with SharePoint.

Implementing SharePoint is a lot like building a house. It’s like a friend of yours says, “I know exactly what to do.” And, he drives you to a Home Depot, drops you off at the front door and says, “Everything you need is here.” Then, drives off.

- Jared Spool (paraphrased from his closing keynote at Web Directions North by Joanna)

I think the important thing to take away from this is that installing SharePoint is not a enterprise strategy. Using SharePoint as the tool to enable you Enterprise Strategy Vision is a much better approach.

[tags]MOSS2007, MOSS, MicrosoftOfficeSharePointSystem, JaredSpool[/tags]

Toronto Transit Camp’s Welcoming Circle

Watch the introduction to Toronto Transit Camp given by Misha Glouberman where he runs through what to expect from the event and then encourages people to come up and tell everyone what they would like to discuss. (I apologize if some of this video is a little shaky.)

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[tags]TorontoTransitCamp, TransitCamp[/tags]

The Accordion Guy at TransitCamp

Joey treats us to a new song at TransitCamp. I was caught a little of guard so the video is a little patchy.
[tags]TorontoTransitCamp[/tags]

TransitCamp – Toronto, Gladstone Hotel, Feb.4th 2007

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