Des Paroz of Acer Computer dropped me a line today – looking forward to catching up with Des as well. Des will be presenting at the Key Forums Seminar in March, along with a whole bunch of us, as evidenced by this post.
Des’s personal blog is at www.desparoz.com.
Apparently having been provided with a tag of “top blogger” and “blogging evangelist”, I am down to speak to the topic of “Implementing Your Online Collaboration Strategy” for Key Forums on 29th March 2006 at Harbourview Hotel.
It promises to be an interesting conference, given the people speaking:
I am speaking on Implementation and Technology, particularly on that whole, rather largeish, ‘people’ side of the equation. Full details are available from Key Forums, and I attach an electronic copy of the brochure here.
A couple of weeks ago, Rocketboom (an online video show) produced a show designed to demystify the idea of RSS (Really Simple Syndication). It’s how you track blogs and alert readers of your blog when a new post has been entered (‘zackly like this one).
So for that online, 3-minute video introduction of Really Simple Syndication, take it away Rocketboom does RSS.
Personally, I find bloglines the most useful since you can get it over the internet (even, apparently, in Port Moresby).
During the presentation in PNG – a nation not blessed with the infrastructure for vlogs, but it should be – vlogs, blogs and wikis were discussed.
A future post is required on these, but two vlogs I sometimes watch are (note – since these vlogs are not mine, and they capture a bit of life as it is rather than airbrushed away, there can be ‘rude bits’ from time to time – just so you know, I am not responsible for the content!):
They’re not usually too rude but that probably depends on your perception of rude.
This week’s CPA journal has an article in it – “It’s time to Enter the Blogosphere” – in which your humble correspondent is quoted. The article came about partly because of a discussion our Centre of Excellence had regarding blogs and wikis and such like, and our biggest booster Jan Barned suggested the topic to the editor of InTheBlack. And then the genie is let out of the bottle!
The article is also reproduced at Ed Charles’ own blog. Another “avid blogger” quoted in the article is Trevor Cook of the PR firm Jackson Wells Morris.
Good to see I’m not the only one out there blogging away to an unconfirmed audience. Corporate blogging on the rise. I am particularly interested in exploring the ideas of using the internal blog for more effective project coordination.