Managing Data

I still don’t take meetings. I make tweetings. @clarocada

“Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot masturbate” – Dave Barry

I don’t do meetings any more. I used to do a lot of meetings. But not any more.

The change from meeting to tweeting – where a series of brief exchanges (each a maximum of 140 characters) can make up the content – has been brought about by a variety of factors over the past 15 years or so – but here are the ten factors that I think are critical.

  1. IN GOOGLE TIME
    I no longer have a phone book, business directories or yellow pages. Those were essential when I started my first corporation in 1993. But now, I use Google. On my Nokia N86, as I move.  As a result, I have less patience for slow ways of doing things – I am impatient. I demand speed, efficiency, and immediate results.

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Will Amazon be your digital publisher this year, or next?

I had the pleasure to talk to Amazon’s Vice President Worldwide Architecture, and Chief Technology Officer, Werner Vogels, at The Next Web Conference in Amsterdam earlier this month, and asked him about what’s next for Amazon’s ‘Kindle‘ product… just click on the arrow below to listen to our discussion, or click the image to go to utterz.com for other options.

Dr. Werner Vogel, Chief Technology Officer at Amazon.com, talks about The Kindle. And what’s next, of course…

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5 little-known Gmail features you may not yet know about

Gmail (or Googlemail if you’re in the UK) keeps on improving. And its free. And you never have to delete anything, and it’s pretty good at dealing with sp*am… yes, I like it. But I just came across a blog from Google with 5 great time-saving practical features I did not realise existed…

5. “Archive and next” shortcut
4. Share mail searches with friends
3. Browser navigation and history
2. Bookmark emails
1. “Filter messages like this”

PS: If you don’t have a Gmail account, just ask me to send you an invitation – email david dot petherick at gmail dot com

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Certain Host: Reliable, affordable Web Hosting is here…

Certain Host from Clarocada is launched to the general public in the UK today, 1st of July 2006 – offering reliable, affordable and certain web and email services, and features Speaka! in its identity…

  • You have not one, but TWO domains hosted with CertainHost. Host 2 domains.
  • You also get to Register a new Domain name for FREE – .COM .NET .ORG .INFO .BIZ or .US. Yes, free. A free Domain name.
  • 99.9% Server Uptime Guarantee
  • 24/7 Technical Support with a UK non-0870 number! (020-7993-2768
  • 1 Hour Support Response Guarantee 9am-2am GMT. Seven days a week.
  • Instant Account Activation – sign up, and you’re in business. No waiting around.
  • 2 Hosted Domains – yes, two. One of them is a free, new registration
  • 20 Hosted Subdomains – so you can have, for example, http://ecademy.mydomain.com as well as http://www.mydomain.com, http://usa.mydomain.com, http://news.mydomain.com etc, to offer your customers customised content and additional ‘doorways’ into your web site.

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When Acronyms CAN be useful…

I have never been a fan of acronyms. Until now…

ASAP for As Soon As Possible makes sense, not least for its brevity – it is short and to the point, but the over-use of acronyms can simply confuse and make real meaning difficult to see, and is a ploy regularly used by those numpties who prefer to converse in ManagementSpeak and GobbledyGook.

However, a friend from Amsterdam, Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, blogged yesterday at the Fleck Blog about something that really got my attention: the use of acronyms to add meaning to messages, specifically email messages. That was something new…
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