tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-349304112024-08-29T02:12:17.661-04:00Bill Pfleginghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869355230717836984noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-6612235273760560782012-01-06T04:42:00.000-05:002012-01-06T04:50:20.498-05:00

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Bill Pfleginghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869355230717836984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-70538464823672504212011-05-08T20:16:00.003-04:002011-05-09T13:21:53.486-04:00

Bill and I had enormous fun doing our presentation at the Infotec conference in Omaha a couple of weeks ago, which gave us a chance to reconsider a long-standing debate:As a speaker, are you better off with or without PowerPoint?The Pros:PowerPoint can provide an outline for your talk. Of course, you already have an outline. In our case, we use index cards to prompt ourselves through the main

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-52336657084120445342011-04-29T23:27:00.003-04:002011-04-30T00:20:48.754-04:00

For anyone who was at my session on podcasting at the 40th annual American Society of Journalists and Authors conference--or just wants to know more about how to create an effective podcast, here are some links that should help you get there, provided by our speakers Christopher Kenneally who podcasts for the Copyright Clearance Center, and Susan Barnett, host of the radio program "51% The

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-45670802489079242852010-05-17T15:43:00.002-04:002010-05-17T15:48:39.031-04:00

Google Alerts (I love Google Alerts) just pointed me to my new piece up on the Inc. magazine website about making policy for the use of in-house social networks. Turns out mostin-house networks are fairly trouble-free because most employees assume the boss is reading their posts whereas with Facebook, for instance, they assume the opposite.Turns out an in-house social network is a good way to

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-89403647385605211072010-04-29T12:14:00.002-04:002010-04-29T12:17:29.479-04:00

Just got a Google alert from Ubervu Social Conversation that 362 people had commented on or linked to my new Inc.com article about measuring the effect of social media. I guess social media loves nothing more than media coverage of social media...kind of a snake eating its own tail that (like having a videographer at Bill's and my panel on video at the ASJA conference...)Anyway, I had never heard

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-43550489182629868032010-04-27T13:33:00.002-04:002010-04-27T13:47:21.134-04:00

(posted by Minda)Bill and I spent the last several days at the ASJA conference in New York City, and part of yesterday in Chinatown. If you like Chinatown, but have confined yourself mostly to Mott Street, I highly recommend going a bit further South and East to East Broadway underneath the ramp to the Manhattan Bridge. There you will find no Western looking people at all, no one who speaks any

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-84321985600703449092008-08-20T00:45:00.003-04:002008-08-20T01:15:33.250-04:00

How can you tell if a geek is lying? Because his or her lips are moving.That wasn't quite the message from radio personality Rick Gillis when he interviewed Bill and me this past Sunday on his ESPN radio show--but awfully close. In his experience, he claims, whenever a geek answers a question about how long it will take to complete a task, that answer is always a falsehood.I've overheard Bill on

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-5474514052592476162008-06-14T12:47:00.002-04:002008-06-14T12:55:23.666-04:00

Is it true that suits don't care about their relationship with geeks? That's how it sometimes has seemed to us as we've traveled the country discussing this topic. The greatest interest in the book always seems to come from geeks who want to improve their relations with suits, and rarely the other way around.But maybe we're asking the wrong people or selling the idea in the wrong way?Anyhow, we

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-29250515637779758822008-05-30T12:12:00.002-04:002008-05-30T12:25:59.444-04:00

A little flattery goes a long way.A new friend of ours decided to peruse this blog and just sent us the nicest email about the Net Neutrality post (below) but also my Inc. Technology article on sales training for geeks (two posts down).Which serves as a good reminder. One reason I glommed onto the Geek Gap as a topic in the first place is that I do a lot of business technology writing, and it

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-46435562378479330672008-05-15T15:52:00.002-04:002008-05-15T16:36:21.803-04:00

Funny how one thing leads to another.Bill and I (thanks to Netflix) are belated fans of "A Bit of Fry and Laurie"--Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie's comedy series that ran in Britain in the 1990s. We just finished watching the third season, in which each episode ends with Fry concocting some sort of bizzarro cocktail while Laurie plays the piano. At the end of the piece, Fry hands Laurie the cocktail

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-30452564950246282452008-05-09T17:42:00.003-04:002008-05-09T17:58:24.917-04:00

Yes, according to Martyn Lewis, founder of Market-Partners, and once a lowly geek himself who screwed up his fair share of sales by not understanding the process.There's a great story in The Geek Gap, courtesy of Paul Glen, author of Leading Geeks, about an engineer on a visit to a customer, who, when asked for his opinion of the company's technology replies "You have NT installed on some of your

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-64265225839878203812008-05-07T12:20:00.002-04:002008-05-07T12:41:14.400-04:00

We're getting more involved in SAP's BPX community!BPX stands for "business process expert"--what we call go-betweens, the increasingly important liaisons between the business world and the tech world.We've begun contributing regular content to the site, as articles, blogs and wikis, and it's some of the most fun writing we've done for a while.Here's our first entry, about how the 2010 Census

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-13642883803285634212008-04-16T16:45:00.002-04:002008-04-16T16:55:46.262-04:00

If you've been following our Geek Gap doings, you may know that we traveled to California week before last to give a Geek Gap presentation to a live audience at SAP Corp., as well as countless watchers over the Web via Webex and Quicktime.If you missed that event online, here's a chance to see it again. (You will need to use Internet Explorer to view the video.) It will be up on the SAP site for

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-31662182694638920132008-04-07T18:18:00.002-04:002008-04-08T12:20:45.273-04:00

You don't need road manners if you're a two-ton truck.Amazon proved the truth of this adage this month when it issued new contracts forcing print-on-demand publishers to use its service BookSurge to print books.For anyone who doesn't know, print-on-demand (POD) is a long-tail technology that allows publishers to print and sell books one at a time, in response to purchaser orders. You still wind

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-30817661413592620222008-03-27T18:29:00.002-04:002008-03-27T18:43:36.009-04:00

Bill and I hade a great time doing a presentation on The Geek Gap for the SAP BPX (Business Process Expert) community. We had role-play of a real-life geek/suit conflict with Bob Mcglynn and Mark Finnern (thanks, guys!), and a couple of people afterward talked to us about doing a Geek Gap presentation at their events own events. We may be back again on the West Coast in the next few months.For

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-28311146446597453152008-03-18T21:00:00.004-04:002008-03-18T22:07:49.908-04:00

California, Here We Come.On Wed. March 26, 2008, 10am to 11:30amPDT (that's 1pm to 2:30pm EDT for the timezone-challenged), we'll be in Palo Alto, CA as guest speakers for the SAP Salon series. You can join us there for the event at SAP, or join the live stream. Click here to see the invite for the event, get the address, and for the link to log onto the live stream.Also check out the blog entry

Bill Pfleginghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869355230717836984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-3554187723107984782008-02-07T11:46:00.000-05:002008-02-07T12:31:55.097-05:00

Bill's granddaughter Julia had her first birthday in early December, and after the party, Bill and I were hanging out with her parents, Bill's daughter Alyssa and son-in-law, John.Alyssa is as much of a tech-head as Bill is and talk swiftly meandered to the latest and greatest tech devices. I mentioned my interest in Amazon's newly-released Kindle. I have stacks of books all around my office and

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-48109974323761035342008-01-06T08:53:00.000-05:002008-02-07T11:44:43.819-05:00

Every semester, Bill and I do a presentation on the Geek Gap to a management class at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in Troy, N.Y.These are the technology leaders of tomorrow (in case you're not familiar with it, RPI is a top school for geeks. Uber-geek Ethan Zuckerman, who wrote an introduction for The Geek Gap is just one of its many prominent alumni.)Perhaps because they are young,

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-37882020294319089762007-10-16T13:24:00.000-04:002007-10-16T14:35:47.352-04:00

So we got on a plane--actually a few planes--and went to Las Vegas for SAP's humongoid TechEd conference. What a time that was!You can catch just a glimpse of Bill in the video highlights, but there is also some video of us talking Geek Gap in a roundtable discussion that we will post at least part of when we get it.It was awesome to be in a crowd of people who get it about the geek/suit

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-72195219861411148282007-09-04T23:28:00.000-04:002007-09-05T00:11:18.720-04:00

I've read it in half a dozen places now: A poll shows half of all employers won't let employees use Facebook on company time. The poll, conducted by the security company Sophos, bounced around from tech news outlet to tech news outlet, appearing and reappearing over at least a week.This raises three questions: 1. Why Facebook? MySpace is out there, as are Orkut and Friendster. And then, of course

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-32713772911360407832007-08-19T14:08:00.000-04:002007-08-19T17:40:43.681-04:00

We've always been big Google lovers. We think the way they structured their business is brilliant: create a graduate-school like atmosphere. Serve gourmet meals. Embrace open source. Make everything simple and fun.Paul Graham, a geek much smarter than either of us, pointed out how Google's clean, simple and mostly white space look was not so much an aesthetic choice as a recognition, years ahead

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-19924294970853381252007-08-10T17:41:00.000-04:002007-08-10T19:12:14.103-04:00

If you're a geek and you lived through the boom and bust of the dot-coms in the late 1990s and early 2000s, it must be nice to know...this time no one is blaming you.The culprit this time is the most bricks-and-mortar of industries, real estate. Real estate spent most of the last decade in a delusional state that was quite reminiscent of the dot-com boom: things were going to keep going up and up

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-1836523952484092032007-08-08T12:38:00.000-04:002007-08-08T13:14:35.319-04:00

Is it me?Nokia's new viral ad campaign for its N95 centers around Internet warnings of jealous laptops viciously attacking their owners when the computer spotted the Nokia phone and responded with unbridled rage.The site comes with warnings as to what to do in the event of a computer attack, offers of camouflaged ringtones (so the eavesdropping computer won't know it's a Nokia) and even the

Minda Zetlinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02185989876293620382noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-34802595444491478582007-08-07T11:19:00.000-04:002007-08-07T16:31:36.195-04:00

Lenovo, makers of the formerly IBM Thinkpad, have just announced at the 2007 LinuxWorld Conference and Expo that they'll now be offering Linux operating systems on new Thinkpad T60p laptops, one of their leading core business models. According to this Reuters article, the 3rd largest PC maker will be shipping Thinkpads pre-installed with Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED 10), one of

Bill Pfleginghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869355230717836984noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34930411.post-40144489637426115212007-08-07T10:36:00.000-04:002007-08-07T11:58:22.177-04:00

The new novel, Spook Country, is set in the recent past.There would be nothing unusual about that, except that its author is William Gibson, who, for more than 20 years, has made his living and his reptuation writing books about the near future. Gibson is most famous for inventing the cyberpunk movement and the term "cyberspace."Why the switch? In part, Gibson told Silicon.com, because the future

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