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ThereŌĆÖs no doubt that virtual events have their fair share of naysayers. Access Intelligence CEO Don Pazour once compared them to virtual sex.
But as the market begins to stabilize in what is now the new norm, no one is laughing as virtual events become go-to resources for publishers in every market. Vendors have ramped up social media offerings to meet clientsŌĆÖ needsŌĆöInXpo, for example, was the first to fully integrate TwitterŌĆöwhile magazine publishers tweak show offerings to attract hyper-targeted attendee leads.
ŌĆ£A big area of improvement that IŌĆÖve seen on virtual platforms is the virtual lounge area,ŌĆØ says Eric Biener, vice president of business development for Nielsen Business Media. ŌĆ£It allows the audience to communicate. I donŌĆÖt consider these types of events ŌĆśvirtual tradeshows,ŌĆÖ but actually white label b-to-b social networks.ŌĆØ
No longer are virtual trade shows a place to log on and zone out; they are valuable lead generation tools and virtual playgrounds for attendees to interact.
Better Leads Through Exclusivity
Forbes.com hosted its second annual ŌĆ£iconferenceŌĆØ in June on the InXpo platform, which included 16 sessions over two days. The major change from 2008 is the targeted attendance of financial advisorsŌĆöa ŌĆ£higher-level and more difficult conference to accomplishŌĆØŌĆösays Forbes Media vice president and investments editor, Matt Schifrin. The goal of the iconference was to draw a high-level audience (retail investors are the typical attendees), without charging a fee. For these highly-targeted advisor leads, Forbes was able to price sponsorship packages between $7,500 to $37,500.
Forbes sent invites to select financial advisors. They then received a coupon code to attend the virtual event for free while Forbes charged $75 for attendees who joined without a code. The incentive for busy advisors? Ten continuing education credits awarded through the Certified Financial Planners Board of Standards.
In May, NielsenŌĆÖs Photo District News launched its first virtual tradeshow, powered by ON24, free for professional and advanced amateur photographers. The tradeshow consisted of two events held two weeks apart. The first day was designed for photography professionals; the second for a targeted ŌĆ£pro-sumers,ŌĆØ serious consumers interested in new technologies. This second event┬Ā featured ŌĆ£a major e-commerce component in which attendees were be able to buy equipment directly within the virtual exhibit booths,ŌĆØ says Biener.
While Biener tends to ŌĆ£shy away from [virtual event] bells and whistles,ŌĆØ PDNŌĆÖs first foray into the photo marketplace had ŌĆ£enhancements and incorporated high-definition graphics and robust videoŌĆØ to appeal to more visual attendees as opposed to its typical b-to-b sector, content-focused attendees. The virtual event, launched strategically around FatherŌĆÖs Day (when the bulk of large photography purchases are made) attracted more than 18,500 registrants, with a follow-up series planned for later in 2009.
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Watt Publishing, a b-to-b publisher specializing in the agri-business market, ran its first virtual event in April with the InXpo platform. Besides using its Twitter integration, Jeff Miller, WattŌĆÖs director of e-strategy sales and marketing, says the company focused on learning how to use the metrics InXpo offers. ŌĆ£What we felt was helpful was not only looking at who was visiting the booths but the ability to create profiles based on the visitorŌĆÖs actions in the environment itself,ŌĆØ says Miller. ŌĆ£At its core, this is a lead generation device.ŌĆØ
While virtual events are developing stronger marketing plans and incentives for sponsors and exhibitors, Summit Business MediaŌĆÖs Futures, targeting futures, options and derivative traders, is considering upping the cost of entry for its i-Trade shows. Exhibitor booths are priced around $4,500.
ŌĆ£We try and base this price on the cost per lead, which is tough to determine because we donŌĆÖt have an exact number,ŌĆØ says Futures publisher and editorial director Ginger Szala. Currently, its virtual event silver sponsorships run $10,000 per show, with a $12,500 gold sponsorship offering sponsors the option of a separate speaking time that wonŌĆÖt conflict with the tradeshowŌĆÖs pre-scheduled speakers.
ŌĆśConferences Will Never Be ReplacedŌĆÖ
A number of publishers have opted to forgo their live events this year due to cost restrictions and as a response to across-the-board cuts in travel budgets. However, Haymarket Media, which uses UnisfairŌĆÖs platform, has decided to integrate both virtual and physical events for its SC Congress (a spin off of IT security title SC Magazine). Exhibitors at physical events will be able to buy a booth inside a year-round virtual environment for an additional fee, according to director of business development Tony Keefe. ŌĆ£We are trying to underpin our physical events by offering a guarantee to give sponsors and exhibitors more confidence,ŌĆØ he adds.
Exhibitors are guaranteed at least one virtual event per month; on the low end, those who only buy a booth in the virtual environment are guaranteed 100 leads, according to Keefe. E-conference sponsors, which have their distinct speaking sessions in which they can address the audience, are guaranteed 500 leads, with no extra charge for more leads than that.
Nielsen Business Media has grown revenue and online event execution by 50 percent every year over the past three years, says Biener. ŌĆ£Of all of the features marketers are looking for, there is nothing else that answers the questions in legacy media better than virtual events.ŌĆØ However, ŌĆ£We arenŌĆÖt producing these in place of actual events, but as complementary resources. Physical conferences will never be replaced.ŌĆØ
Virtual Vendors: WhatŌĆÖs on the Horizon
As virtual events continue to boom, vendors are trying to keep up with technology extras while still offering affordable packages. Here, some of the latest platform innovations and whatŌĆÖs to come this year from some of the biggest vendors.
Publishing Clients: Forbes Media, TechTarget, Ziff Davis Enterprises, Summit Business Media
Price Range: $25,000-$35,000, but this price tag can range up into the six figures for more extensive branding, environment customizations, booths and Webcasts.
WhatŌĆÖs New: InXpo was the first to fully integrate with Twitter, allowing for full information integration into back-end reporting. The platform is enterprise-ready, so it can easily plug-and-play into any third-party technology.
Publishing Clients: Penton Media, Haymarket Media, The Economist
Price Range: $30,000-$50,000 per event.
WhatŌĆÖs New: Unisfair has separated the user interface from the event management functionality, allowing customers to control the entire look and feel of the virtual experience. It also offers lead ranking and qualification analytics, which allow customers to rank leads based on a comprehensive data model populated during the event.
Publishing Clients: Penton Media, United Business Media, Nielsen Business Media, McGraw-Hill, Crain Communications, Reed Business Information
Price Range: Hosting will cost $20,000-$50,000 on average.
WhatŌĆÖs New: ON24 offers enhanced interactivity and increased engagement with advanced 3-D technologies. They also have new applications which include e-commerce capabilities, mobile and virtual learning centers.
Archive Etiquette
As a value-add for sponsors and exhibitors, itŌĆÖs become common practice to keep sponsor logos and exhibit booths alive on publisher sites. How long an event is archived and how a publisher markets the event after it is archived depends on the publisher and advertiser expectations. Here, three publishers weigh in the etiquette behind maintaining and promoting archived events.
ŌĆ£InXpo suggested that we keep our conferences on demand for two months after the live event. We not only do this, but we also have an e-mail account set up specifically for attendee questions. Even though our iconference is on demand, we continue to advertise the event. Also, we take content from the iconference and excerpt it, so, for example, I can spin off short videos for Forbes.com.ŌĆØ
-Matt Schifrin, Forbes Media
ŌĆ£All of our digital events are archived for three to six months. We have a full production staff (two producers, two editors, three sales) and donŌĆÖt treat our virtual events like a subsidiary. Our archive is exactly the same as it is live; the exhibitor booths are up but instead of being instant messaging-based, they are e-mail based. Our exhibitors can refresh their content themselves, or with our coaching and help. Our team does a majority of the heavy lifting on refreshing this content since exhibitors are not only paying for the delivery, but for our customer service team.ŌĆØ
-Eric Biener, Nielsen Business Media
ŌĆ£We send a weekly e-mail that informs attendees about updates to exhibitor information. We suggest exhibitors and sponsors put new information in their booths (and keep logos intact) throughout the three-month period that the event is on demand. This way, we can market it for them.
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American Idol Recap: Paul F. Tompkins Sees the Light at the End of the Tunnel
Man! Home stretch! Feels good! And also like I'm not done! Maybe that's how our final three have been feeling, cooped up in Hollywood all this time. As Seacrest foretold, the kids get to go home and rub everyone's faces in it. All three of them are so excited to be going back to their hometowns. Watching them makes me yearn to go home, even though I am already there. That's how much this show has worn me down. My home, which I am currently in, feels a million miles away. Not helping: The information that the contestants will be singing three songs each. I am two thirds dreading this. Oh, and it's a two-hour show. It's possible to sing nine songs in under 30 minutes, in case anyone was wondering. Next time, ask me first.
The judges are introduced. Steven Tyler has toned down his costumery and looks almost tasteful, for him. J.Lo looks amazing, like she has just arrived from a sexy funeral in the future. Randy is dressed like Mr. Weatherbee. In the audience, we see someone in a dog costume standing next to someone in an Elijah Wood costume.

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February 13, 2014 at 2:17 pm #7704
Poor puppy!February 12, 2014 at 11:56 am #7700
We're over 120% on our snow pack this year. So Corona otta be able to keep up with the yuppie demand.
We need those 11 million mexes to help cover the 93 million of us who decided to say F it and stay home to follow our dreams.February 12, 2014 at 11:47 am #7699
That sucks, hope nothing seriousFebruary 12, 2014 at 11:41 am #7698
Yu never call back any way….
FYI Midnight April 1stFebruary 7, 2014 at 11:53 am #7677
Maybe we otta make it a date. Lord knows we don't have any corn here to even give them snows pause.
I know it means I'll have too come down off my mountain, but that is more likely then yu climbing up here. Besides how could I miss a chance to room with Thad or watch 1Cup choke until he blows beer out his nose?February 5, 2014 at 7:03 pm #7671
I know you're waiting for me to get old enough so yu can at least keep up.
First in my bucket is to make it through this damn winter. I'm tired of shoveling snow and ice.
I feel a road trip is in order, preferably to some place warm.
Maybe the 6 should try their hand at slaughtering some snow geese?February 5, 2014 at 6:24 pm #7670
Good to hear from you. I gotta lot of respect for someone taking on another man's responsibility. Best wishes for you and yours in the coming year.January 10, 2014 at 12:30 pm #7589
Nice. I remember when I used to shoot grey ducks too.January 10, 2014 at 12:24 pm #7588
You got it.January 2, 2014 at 8:30 am #7519
I don't know, looks like some of the 013 bs is continuing into 014 but hey, I can now buy pot with the blessings of the local gestapo.December 24, 2013 at 5:00 pm #7497
It wasn't on a Christmas but me and my o'l Duke spent a week fishing the Arkansas from the headwaters down to the eastern plains. Camped in a different place every night. Found the grave of Kit Carsen's great nephew. Caught a ton of fish.
When I first got Dalle from Mike I drove back home over some of that same road. We bonded over a bag of barbeque Fritos.
I miss them two dogs as much as any good friend I've lost.December 24, 2013 at 4:43 pm #7496
Merry Christmas to all my merry brothers!
I ain't fired a shot. For a lot of reasons I'm not in the mood this year. Took the wife's dog out 4 times. She'd be a good dog but I wasn't planning on really huntin her so most of what I got is my fault. To her I'm just the guy that drives the truck. I been thinking of taking her to real trainer. But I just need to get off the rag and do what I need to do.December 18, 2013 at 10:05 pm #7453
This year ain't done yet, wife's car blew up today. SOB is paid for too. I can't even get mad. I've had so much chit happen that I just shrug and go pifff what else you got?December 17, 2013 at 9:19 pm #7437
I'm torn. Didn't have much work, but hell I never cared for the shit anyway. Got a new dog for my wife then I Lost a great dog. Chased deer for a month and never got a shot, then killed my biggest bull. Got to spend time with Kevin but couldn't make the trip to see Yu. Been duck hunting 4 times and haven't killed a duck. Not that I really care this year.
I guess it has all balanced out. And that maybe that is the way it should be.
I'll toast 2013 good bye and embrace 2014 with it's good and bad with hope and faith.December 17, 2013 at 8:33 pm #7436
Not yet but I figure with my luck it's only a matter of time.December 2, 2013 at 7:58 pm #7277
Good for you Webbie, too bad there ain't many of us around anymore to enjoy all these sponsors.December 2, 2013 at 7:51 pm #7276
How could you forget Martin Sheppard?November 20, 2013 at 6:00 pm #7124
I ain't busted a cap yet. It's been too nice. I finally bought a stamp.November 20, 2013 at 5:57 pm #7123
I feel for both of you.November 20, 2013 at 5:48 pm #7122
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The department-store retailer kept selling, general and administrative expenses under wraps. In dollars, SG&A increased by just 2.4 percent, and as a percentage of sales, they dropped 70 basis points to 22.8 percent. Fourth-quarter gross margin rose 110 basis points to 34.1 percent, due in part to a two percent decline in same-store inventory. Net sales were up 5.5 percent to $1.9 billion, including a seven percent increase in same-store sales.
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A World Without E-mail: One Man's Vision of a Social Workplace – Wear Sunscreen
Usually, weekends, as most of you already know, are rather quiet over here in this blog and in most of my virtual social networking hang-out places. More than anything else, because I use that time to unwind properly; to chill out, relax, charge some batteries from that week at work and, eventually, connect with my real life social networking connections (Those who don't live on the Web…). I guess it's all part of that work / life integration that one has got to put together in place in order not to lose that balance. Well, this weekend has been an exception… And what an exception! Late on Friday evening, yours truly was featured on the front page of Mashable (Yes, that Mashable!) on a beautiful article put together by Amy-Mae Elliot under the title "A World Without E-mail: One Man's Vision of a Social Workplace".
As you can imagine, that article has got a lot to do with this initiative I have been carrying out since February 2008, originally called "Thinking Outside the Inbox" and nowadays just simply living "A World Without Email". In it, Amy-Mae tells the story of how I got things started over two and a half years ago on giving up corporate email and, instead, making a much heavier use of social software tools and how I'm still going strong at it, right as we speak, while still employed by my current employer, IBM. If you would remember, there have been a few other publications that have echoed, in the recent past, what I have been doing so far (Starting with The New York Times, Forbes and CIO, amongst several other dozens) and Mashable's piece is the latest one on that very same topic. Exciting stuff, to say the least!
The interesting thing from that excellent write-up by Amy is that it captures, very nicely!, not only plenty of the great discussions we had last week in preparation for the article itself, as part of the interview, but also she captured the latest progress report available, so that folks could catch up with things in the last year or so; at the same time, she has also put together, and quite nicely!, the three major tips I keep sharing with folks over and over again on how they themselves can reduce some of their inbox clutter, should they decide they would want to tackle it at some point in time. To name:
- "Don't Reply (to email)
- Study your inbox (i.e. group conversations)
- Tackle one area a week"
These are the very same tips that I talked about not long ago, when I blogged about the last progress report and where I included a link to a recent mindmap I put together on the topic as well as a recording of a customer event that I did just recently as well. So those folks who may want to find out plenty more about what this nearly 3 year old experiment has been like all along could surely have a look into those materials to find out the whole story.
Now, at this point in time, I am sure you must be thinking that I have got the job done; that I have proved it's possible to survive in an email driven corporate world without making use of it at all and, instead, rely more heavily on social networking tools to carry out work. I guess there may be plenty of folks out there who feel that now that I have been featured in Mashable, I am done with. It's time for me to move on. It's time for me to go back to business and continue making use of email as before, since there may be a sense that all I am doing would just work for me and no-one else. You know, the eternal battle of the early adopter. Always go against the current. No matter what! However, that's not the case. Quite the opposite!
Like I have mentioned in the past a couple of times, this is just another step; another move in the right direction to hopefully raise plenty more awareness of the harm that the misuse (and abuse!) of email has been causing within the enterprise for decades as a knowledge sharing and collaboration tool. To me, it's just one more step towards continuing to push gently for that successful re-purposing of email altogether to bring it back to basics; back to where it belongs: a messaging and notification system of content that's stored elsewhere!
Yes, to me, all of this living "A World Without Email" is just an initiative to keep pushing for more open, public and transparent interactions where multiple parties could take place and participate, where knowledge workers could help, finally, bring forward much more clarity on how they share their knowledge with others and collaborate more openly. After all, that's the final frontier, as far as I am concerned, and Mashable's Amy-Mae's superb write-up is just another step in the right direction that, eventually, it will be happening!
Whatever it takes, whenever it happens, whoever decides to embark on it, I will still be there as well, wearing my sunscreen, which was my first reaction, to be honest, after I read Mashable's article. "Wearing your sunscreen? Are you crazy?" You know, it's still summertime, but what has got this article to do with wearing sunscreen then, you may be wondering, right? Well, I blogged about it over three years ago and thought I would finish off this blog post with it, embedding it over here, as a clear reminder of what lies ahead… Errr, what? Wait, don't worry, watch the YouTube video clip in its entirety (It's only 7 minutes long…) and you will see what I mean:
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(Note: A big and special Thank You! to Amy-Mae for the great interview and wonderful article put together and to Laurie Friedman for making it happen! And another special thanks! to all of those folks who over the course of the weekend have been tweeting it, liking it, buzzing it , blogging it and sharing it across in multiple online places! Thanks ever so much!)
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A World Without Email – Year 3, Weeks 11 to 18 (Social Networks Spur the Demise of Email in the Workplace)
Like I have just mentioned in another blog post, I am making my way already to Boston to attend, and present, at the Enterprise 2.0 conference event that will start taking place next week Monday. And the excitement is building up more and more by the day. I am currently drafting this blog post on my way to Chicago, but I'm sure I'll only be able to post it once I settle down in Boston, later on today or tomorrow morning on Sunday… Either way, I will have plenty of time to spare for this one flight, right?, so I thought I would go ahead and put together another blog post. One that would include a much long overdue update on how things are going with that work related activity of living "A World Without Email". It's about time, don't you think?
Yes, that's right! I guess it's about time that I share an update on how things are going, if they are still going… A bunch of the good friends who are going to be in Boston next week have asked me lately whether I'm still going strong with that, now consolidated, experiment of "giving up email at work" or whether I have abandoned it myself altogether and moved into other things… No, I haven't, quite the opposite! Going stronger than ever!
If you would remember, the last time that I put together a blog post on this topic was about two months ago. Yes, two months! So I guess it's a good time to come back and share with you folks what's been happening. I am not planning on sharing the various weekly progress reports, since you would be able to check out all of those eight weeks directly from the latest one. However, what I thought would be rather interesting would be to include that new graphic that includes the timeline, week by week, from over the last three years so you can see how the number of incoming emails I have received has been decreasing consistently and steadily over those three years. And how that trend seems to be consistent.
Thus without much further ado, here you have got the latest progress report and that comparative new graphic to see things in perspective:
And here is the graphic itself with the timeline from the last three years for the first 18 weeks of each year:
As you would be able to see from both snap shots, the decrease on the amount of incoming emails has been rather notable, specially from the second year into the third, where you would expect that things may not be the case. Let's talk about some of those numbers…
For the first 18 weeks in Year #2 the total amount of emails received was 461, whereas in Year #3 that number has been 323. So that basically means 138 less emails from one year to another. Or to put it in another way, in Year #2 I got an average of 26 emails per week for the first 18 weeks, whereas for those very same 18 weeks in Year #3 the average has been 18 emails received. Not bad. Not bad at all!! Well under the 20 emails per week mark I have been going for over the last 16 months! Very nice, indeed!
The interesting thing from this particular trend is how, as I keep getting less and less emails at work, most of my interactions keep happening elsewhere, as you folks already know, i.e. social networking tools; however, as a result of that, I am finding out as well how more and more those colleagues who used to rely on email quite heavily, instead, take the plunge and start relying more and more on the same social software tools where I usually hang out. End result? Well, that over time a good chunk of our mutual knowledge sharing and collaborative efforts will be happening out there in the open, available to everyone to participate in, or not, depending on the need and / or the context. But the option is right there, which is not the same thing I could say about email itself, for instance.
Later on, in another blog post, perhaps, I will go ahead and share with you folks a couple of charts I keep reusing myself at various different conference events and workshops that cover the incredibly massive transformation that IBM is going through with its wider adoption of social software within the enterprise. To the point where some of that growth has been, if anything, rather exponential. Rather shocking, I can tell you, if you come to think how email driven IBM has been all along, and, perhaps, still is in some areas. It really is rather exciting to witness such transformation and even more exciting to show and help demonstrate how knowledge workers can remain as productive as ever, if not more!, by making use of these social tools!
That's why, like I have said a couple of times already, there is no way back for me. I have seen the light; the many benefits; the tremendous power of relying on your social networks to get the job done as a group activity in half the time for simple things like putting together a presentation on whatever the topic, or helping answer the questions by the right experts; the lack of stress having to process hundreds of emails every week; the huge opportunity to share and collaborate in a much more open, public and transparent manner; in short, the unprecedented opportunity to take back control of my own productivity and, as a result of that, help others benefit from that exposure to an increasing and constant learning path, while on the job, established by those social networks. Priceless!
And in this context, I thought it would be a good idea to move on and share with you folks a couple of rather interesting links relevant to this topic of living "A World Without Email" that can certainly help set the stage on why email perhaps doesn't cut it anymore as the main dictator of how communication and collaboration should happen.
The first link is a WSJ article put together by Sue Shellenbarger under the title Email Backlash Builds and which pretty much describes a rather interesting experiment from an American company, SuccessFactors, that just recently decided to stop using email for an entire week (Not just one Friday, but an entire week!!) and, instead, communicate and collaborate through other means, whether face to face, through the telephone, or, of course, making use of a social networking tools (Microblogging in this case).
I bet you may be wondering what triggered such a radical experiment, right? Well, Lars Dalgaard, CEO of SuccessFactors, puts it quite nicely. And, in fact, when going through the quote I will be including below I just couldn't help thinking about how some of those various reasons stated in the article are the very same ones that prompted me, amongst several others, to give up on email at work over three years ago in the first place… Here is the quote, so you can have a look:
"Mr. Dalgaard objects to email partly because people use it to avoid talking with others, or to hide negative or critical messages or information from coworkers, sometimes by hitting the "bcc" button. His goal in setting the ban is to get employees "authentically addressing issues amongst each other," he told employees. "Confront issues head-on, don't hide behind emails." So far, the edict is working; people are grabbing their phones or walking to each other's desks to talk, Mr. Dalgaard says. Employees can still contact each other online through in-house social networks, where groups post short messages that can immediately be seen by everyone"
Goodness! Who would have thought, right? Not sure what you would think, but I suspect that Dalgaard pretty much nails it when detailing some of the evils of email and how knowledge workers keep abusing it for purposes and contexts that should not be used in the first place. Of specific relevance in this case it's the political reference to using the ".bcc" button. I just can't remember the last time, it must have been years ago, that I used ".bcc" in a notification. I guess I know now why and suppose I would be rather grateful for it. Indeed, I am! Playing political games through email exchanges can be so harmful to any business that may have a strong, trustworthy, open and transparent corporate culture. So much so that they should be avoided at all costs. Just imagine how much time did you spend the last time you sent, or received!, one of those political ".bcc" or ".cc" to realise the kind of damage they could provoke!
The other interesting reading that I thought was worth while sharing over here is this other one, put together by the smart folks of SocialCast, under the heading "Social Networks Spur the Demise of Email in the Workplace" and which pretty much comes to put together "10 reasons why email is dead". Well, I am not really sure, just yet, to declare whether email is dead or not, but certainly the article brings forward plenty of really good points as to why "email no longer rules the communication dictatorship in the office".
However, I particularly like the graphics used on that blog post that try to demonstrate how email may no longer be the best communication, knowledge sharing and collaborative tool out there within the enterprise and as such, if you would have a chance to read through the article itself I can certainly recommend you check it out and pay special attention to that graphic, because it is rather revealing, to say the least.
It's probably a rather long read, but certainly, one I can strongly recommend, specially for the sections on Information Overload (Check out the average number of emails that people still send across per day, compare to the statistics I shared above!), Information Fragmentation (On the topic of prioritising incoming emails to figure out what to respond to first), and, finally, the section on Activity Streams, which, by the way, I totally agree with, since that has been my very own same experience when using those activities streams behind the firewall with our very own Lotus Connections Profiles Boards.
Well, I guess that's enough for an update on what has happened over the last two months of living "A World Without Email"; somehow I suspect that if things continue to follow this trend on the second half of this year I'll start seeing how more and more I'll be getting closer to the range of 10 emails, or less!, per week than the just a bit under 20 I'm getting at the moment. And, as you can imagine, somehow, I just can't wait for that to happen!
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The Man Who Should Have Used Lotus Connections – On the Misuse of Email
I am not sure whether you may have been listening to the CBC radio show Spark interview I did with Nora Young earlier on this week, and which I have blogged about it over here, but, if you have, you may have noticed I have tried to explain how all along, during all of this time living "A World Without Email", I don't have anything against it per se, as a system to help people communicate with one another. In fact, I still think it's probably one of the best tools out there for 1:1 communications.
A different matter would be email as a collaboration tool, although that's perhaps the subject for another blog post at some point in time. What I have been up against all along, throughout all of these months though, is not email as such, but how we keep misusing it (And abusing it!), over and over, for the daily tasks that we know we could use better tools for, in the first place, but that perhaps we don't because email is just way too easy.
To follow up that statement with an example, I would love to point out to you a YouTube video that one of my fellow IBM colleagues, Jean Francois Chenier, has made available and which has been so incredibly popular inside IBM with hundreds of views and downloads that by that same popular demand it made it into YouTube itself, and the best part is that it won't be the last one!
Go and have a look into The Man Who Should Have Used Lotus Connections; a short, incredibly accurate, and hilarious, video clip of a bit over three and a half minutes that describes the painful experience of going through such a relative easy task / activity of sharing files with your colleagues using what we have been using for years: yes, indeed, email! (Funny enough, if you would ask me for the number #1 misuse of email file sharing will be it, by far!; hummm, well, perhaps followed closely as well by Reply to All !)
You will find plenty of humorous commentary that describes pretty well (Too well at times!) the scenario that we go through every time we share a file through email. Pretty much along the lines of what Chris Rasmussen detailed not along ago with this graphic, but this time around showing it with an amazingly funny animation.
The rather interesting part of the video clip is from minute 2:14 onwards, where you will be able to see what a difference it would have made making use of a social software tool for file sharing. In this particular example, it showcases IBM's Lotus Connections (The Files component, to be more precise, which is by now one of my favourite social software tools behind the IBM firewall! And I am sure you will be able to see why after you go through the video clip).
I tell you, indeed, after you watch that last part of the video you will see the huge difference between both approaches and you will see as well why I'm so keen on living "A World Without Email", specially when someone decides to send me a 10, 20, 30MB large presentation just because they wanted to make things really easy. Really? Do you think so? Specially, after going through that video clip? I am not sure what you would think, but I don't think so!
A special big thanks to Jean Francois for putting together in a wonderful video clip the struggles we go through with relatively simple tasks just because we didn't want to start Thinking Outside the Inbox! Well done! Thanks for showing us the way, Jean Francois!
Have a good one everyone!
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Dáil Éireann - Volume 372 - 14 May, 1987
Ceisteanna-Questions. Oral Answers. - Road Freight Licensing.
Mr. McCoy Mr. McCoy
10. Mr. McCoy asked the Minister for Tourism and Transport if the timetable for movement from quantity licensing to quality licensing of road freight can be accelerated; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Mr. Wilson Mr. Wilson
Mr. Wilson: The Road Transport Act, 1986 sets out the timetable for the move from quantitative to qualitative control in the road haulage industry. The liberalisation will be fully effective from 30 September 1988.
To reduce the timetable would require me to introduce new legislation and, since I am satisfied that the process is proceeding satisfactorily, I see no good reason for changing the existing arrangement.
Mr. Cullen Mr. Cullen
Mr. Cullen: Would the Minister ensure that the final date will be 1988 because we are some 20 years behind the United Kingdom and it is essential that this move [2040] takes place as soon as possible. I would ask him to look on this as a priority.
Mr. Wilson Mr. Wilson
Mr. Wilson: If we do not have it by September 1988 we will be breaking the law.
Mr. Cullen Mr. Cullen
Mr. Cullen: I accept that.
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I stopped being personally offended probably a decade ago. Since then, when people suggest or imply I should procreate, my mind immediately goes to the people I've met in the past 10 years who have struggled and are in so very much pain because they CAN'T have children.
So, it's happened twice this week on social media. In two very different instances from two very different people. Both are people I treasure dearly, and I know they mean their comments as compliments -- that they think I'd be a great parent.
1. I posted a photo of my cat with a story about her. A friend commented, "Have a child!" I just burst into hysterical laughter. How on earth does she know I'm not trying to! I've never talked ot this person about being CFBC. In her defense, she's currently pregnant (not her first) and has several stepchildren as well. So she's got hormones coursing through her fingertips and babies on the brain. But really? My husband noticed the comment on the photo a few days later. He was outraged. "WHO IS THIS PERSON? WHAT KIND OF COMMENT IS THAT?" I explained that I couldn't believe it either but that I wasn't taking it personally. Again, my mind now goes to the poor soul who is on the receiving end of such a comment later. I don't mind hearing it, but what if my lack of human children weren't by choice?
2. Last week was the anniversary of my meeting my husband. I posted an anecdote about this, and dozens of people gave it a thumbs up or posted comments such as "How sweet!" or "You belong together!" This morning, an elementary teacher of mine commented, "What a great story to tell your children." Sigh. Really? REALLY? She knows how old I am. It wouldn't be unheard of for me to have a child at this point, but the liklihood that I'd have trouble conceiving at this age is pretty high. So why would she say that? I'm sure she also means well, and as a parent of three and a grandmother of many, she doesn't think about other family choices.
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Experts evaluate earthquake potential off Washington coaston February 20, 2012 @ 12:04 pm (Updated: 11:37 am - 2/21/12 )
The Northwest's largest earthquake zone, just off the coast, which is called the Cascadia Subduction Zone mirrors the area where the quake rocked Japan last March.
From the data recorded there, the Seattle Times reports that experts now believe a mega-quake in the Northwest could be more severe.
They are now working to create a new analysis of the hazards off the coasts of Washington, Oregon and British Columbia.
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The shallow quake recorded at 7:31 p.m. on Feb. 14 more than 150 miles west of southern Oregon did not generate a tsunami.
Within about an hour, the information center's website recorded 39 reports of people who reported feeling the quake. Most were in northern California and southern Oregon and characterized it was "weak" or "barely felt."
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Join us for the 43rd Annual Mercy Ball for the event of the season to support and celebrate Scripps Mercy Hospital. Featuring delicious cuisine, exciting silent and live auctions and fabulous entertainment, the event will benefit Scripps Mercy's maternal and child health services at both our Chula Vista and San Diego campuses.
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Home Investment Partnership Program: $6,383,682*The HOME Investment Partnership (HOME) Program provides federal funds for the development and rehabilitation of affordable rental and ownership housing for low and moderate income households. Broward County's Median Income is $61,700 effective December 2012. HUD has found the areas where 51 percent of the population has income below 80 percent of the Median Family Income for the Fort Lauderdale Metropolitan Statistical Area (click here to see both charts). Broward County receives its HOME Program allocation as a part of the Broward County HOME Consortium. The HOME Program operates under a consortium which includes eleven entitlement jurisdictions of Broward County: Coconut Creek, Coral Springs, Davie, Deerfield Beach, Lauderhill, Margate, Miramar, Pembroke Pines, Plantation, Sunrise and Tamarac. The cities of Fort Lauderdale, Pompano Beach and Hollywood administer their own allocation of HOME funds.
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Hard to Resist . . .My husband probably owns more fragrances than I do. I wanted to get him a few new ones for Father's Day. His Dolce & Gabbana "Light Blue" just arrived, and I can't wait to smell it on him. It is fresh, crisp, a bit spicy, and masculine, but it is sexy above all else. It's a perfect scent for the summer. Dolce & Gabbana expertly blends Sicilian mandarin, frozen grapefruit peel, bergamot, junip...read moreer, rosemary, Szechuan pepper, rosewood, musk wood, incense, and oak moss for this come-hither scent. — 1 year, 6 months agoGigiSD | 1102 reviews
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Pleasantly surprised!To be honest, I expected to not like this fragrance. I'm not sure why, maybe it's all those Kiera Knightley ads of her in a boat. I did not expect this scent at all... it smells like something from L'Occitane more than Dolce & Gabbana. It smells like a sophisticated lemon verbena scent with just a hint of musk and cream, and a teensy bit woodsy. Sadly, it fades quickly (moments after spraying), which is disappointing for a fragrance of this price. The bottle is kind of boring also. — 3 years, 5 months agoLipglossandSpandex | 521 reviews
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While there's no shortage of cheap and cheerful neighborhood eateries, Panama City is the perfect place to lighten up the wallet, pack on a few extra kilos, and wine and dine to your heart's (and stomach's) content. – Lonely Planet Panama, 5th Edition
My experiences with the local cuisine and dining scene in Panama City were vastly different and much less romantic than this optimistic bit of narrative in our trusty Lonely Planet guidebook. Granted, I spent just 2.5 days exploring the city, and those days were spent almost exclusively in the captivating UNESCO World Heritage Site / neighborhood of Casco Viejo, which is currently undergoing a massive restoration (and gentrification) the likes of which I've never seen.
One thing LP was right about, however, is the "lightening of the wallet." Given more time, surely I would have stumbled upon tastier, more reasonably priced food than I did… right? As it is, I left Panama City–and, really, the country at large–with a stomach full of starch and carbs, but one somewhat devoid of absolute fulfillment or satisfaction.
As a pescetarian who doesn't indulge the red meat that Panama counts as one its specialties, I arrived with modest expectations for fresh seafood, fresh fruit, and hearty, flavorful plates of beans 'n' rice. I figured all three would be amply available and super cheap.. and I guess they were, sort of, but Southeast Asia this is not. Maybe Bangkok has just spoiled me.
Street food everywhere? No, hardly anywhere.
Roadside fresh fruit stands and/or vendors with carts overflowing with pineapples, mangoes, bananas, coconuts? Nope.
Mounds of beans and rice covered in onions, served with sides of boiled yuca and saccharine-sweet plantains, just like at my favorite Latin American joint in New York on the corner of Spring & Lafayette Streets? Not even close.
I realize it's an increasingly touristy area, and that touristy areas begat touristy prices, but it really was shocking to see restaurant prices consistently and favorably compare with those found in New York. A handful of buffet-style spots do still exist, somewhat hidden, within the heart of the neighborhood, places where you can load up your plate with meat and rice for around US$7 or less. Places like the no-frills Coca Cola Cafe, where I dug into the arroz con mariscos (pictured above), yellow rice sauteed with mixed veggies and healthy hunks of octopus. It was… okay, but a little bland and sorely in need of hot sauce, just like the locals eat it, except…
Most of the Panamanians I observed didn't use much hot sauce–they instead drenched their food in ketchup. Ketchup! Piles of white or yellow rice with seafood? Cover it in ketchup. Fresh fish fried whole? Pour ketchup all over it. Ceviche, one of the most beloved dishes in Panama City? I saw that, too, eaten with ketchup. Hey, I'm the foreigner with the foreign palate and I don't really have any grounds to dismiss the Panamanian obsession with ketchup, but… gross.
I didn't eat any fruit in Panama City because I didn't see any, except in or around the supermarket. I didn't eat any black beans 'n'rice, either; lentils and rice, yes, but it was less flavorful than a box of Zatarain's. I couldn't find any yuca that wasn't fried, while the popular side of patacones (plantains cut, salted, pressed into thick wafers, and, of course, fried) tasted, again, totally bland and didn't do much for me. Hot sauce was, indeed, the saving grace at most meals.
One place we did enjoy, and returned to twice, is Mercado de Mariscos, a plain-looking restaurant located on the second floor of the fish market just outside Casco Viejo that gets packed during lunch hours, especially weekends. The corvina (sea bass) ceviche is relatively cheap at US$4 and quite tasty, while the fried white fish filets ($7 – $9) were hot and flaky and wonderful.
Beyond that? Meh.
Panama City's food scene was kind of a letdown. Maybe I just needed to add more ketchup.
* I'm not actually insinuating that Panamanian food in Panama City should be set on fire because it's so bad, nor that it needs to be covered in ketchup to be made edible. That's an obscure reference to, and innocent play of words on, an obscure song entitled "Cover It With Gas and Set It on Fire" by the great Ween. The "ketchup" refers to what I repeatedly watched locals pour all over their food, the "fire" being hot sauce I often turned to myself (in part because I love hot sauce). Nothing more. And for the record, though I'm not going to apologize for being honest in that common thing all travelers experience called "first impressions", I actually enjoyed some great food elsewhere in the country and I'd love to find more if/when I return. If anything, this is merely and partially a gentle commentary on the typical oversell often found in some popular guidebooks… but, sorry, ketchup-covered food is still gross.
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