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Effective facilitation: Instantly save $500 off the standard course price when you register on TechRepublic or ZDNet! Offer ends April 30, 2008.View Available Dates and LocationsIn this highly interactive and hands-on course you'll gain the skills needed to be an effective facilitator. You'll learn how to focus and re-focus the...; Tags: Global Knowledge Network Inc., San Jose, Facilitation; Training 2008-04-01
Developing facilitation Skills: Facilitation allows a group of people to reach an outcome for which they will take responsibility and to which they will be fully committed. The facilitator acts as a catalyst, creating the conditions for productive behavioral chemistry to take place. These facilitation best practices will help you improve this skillset.; Tags: Facilitation; Download resources 2006-06-01

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Mozilla launches Mozilla Messaging unit; Can it fix email?: Mozilla on Tuesday unveiled its Mozilla Messaging company--formerly MailCo--and outlined a few plans for Thunderbird 3, the open source email and communications suite. In a blog post, David Ascher, who joined Mozilla to lead Mozilla Messaging in September, said the company's goal is to help fix email--quite...; Tags: Mozilla Thunderbird, Messaging, Mozilla Corp., E-mail, E-mail Clients, Online Communications, Software, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-02-19
If yesterday's ruling holds, TorrentSpy must die: If, as I think likely, TorrentSpy.com loses its appeals, then that's one more piece of corroboration to my long-held believe that the torrents are dens of thieves. Not only that, but that would mark one more reason why, at least in my book,...; Tags: Evidence, Deletion, TorrentSpy, Productivity, Network Technology, Networking, Russell Shaw; Blog posts 2007-12-19
Technology Solution Offers Lassoo Media Mobility and Improved Work/Life Balance: Lassoo Media is a full-service media and public relations company, offering a range of communications services from brand strategy to event facilitation. The company had managed its own IT needs, but realised a need to consolidate its infrastructure to support future growth and moving to new larger premises. After installing...; Tags: Information Technology, Media, Mobility, Microsoft Corp., Lassoo Media, Public Relations, Branding, Advertising & Promotion, Microsoft Windows XP, Strategy, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software, Management; Case studies 2007-12-01

User precision: User precisionZZzzzzzz....“The red car came through the light, hit the yellow one, and bounced into the power pole”“The guy in the yellow car was definitely speeding when he hit that light pole and kind of glanced off...Once I read this far I realised that I had given this blog too...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Microsoft PowerPoint, computer, business work, eBay Inc.; Discussion threads 2007-11-06
Is Ron Paul running a botnet spam op?: Is Ron Paul running a botnet spam op?CorrectionThe open letter you quoted from CNBC was not from John Harwood at all. It was from Allen Wastler, managing editor of CNBC.com (check the bottom of the letter). John Harwood wrote his own open letter, which disagreed with Wastler:http://www.cnbc.com/id/21270546/Harwoods personal opinion is...; Tags: Cyberthreats, Gary Warner, Ron Paul, spam; Discussion threads 2007-10-31
Facilitate a meeting to define what success looks like for your project: Although most projects start enthusiastically, optimism fades quickly unless an analysis and design team gets traction and learns where it is going. Working from a project charter, the team's next step is defining typically, "what does success look like". These high-level requirements help clarify the project's vision and give the...; Tags: Team, Team Management, Management; Download resources 2007-09-25
EasyNeatly (EasyNeatly): The program is intended for facilitation of a transactions of the Web-masters of acceleration of their activity and improving of quality created CSS of a code. The program name bears in itself two main operations and pieces of foreign exchange Easy and Neatly. Easy - Means a simple compact code...; Tags: Code, CSS, Scripting Languages, Software/Web Development, Web Development; Software downloads 2007-07-27
These stats offer fascinating insights into Internet music, retail use: Internet infrastructure services provider Akamai says it delivers betwen 15 to 20 percent of the world's Web traffic on any given day.Now, Akamai has launched a fleet of free Web-based services that show real-time, last-24-hours and historical traffic pattern data on activity and demand for general Internet connections, retail transactions,...; Tags: Streaming media, Predictions and Observations, News; Blog posts 2007-06-07
Will Google stop video piracy?: I recently asked “YouTube riches: Social video production or social video pirating?”: Do the YouTube riches stem from the facilitation of the theft of others’ videos? I have put forth that Google’s YouTube copyright owner be damned DMCA umbrella philosophy inspires a YouTuber “broadcast yourself” by uploading pirated videos...; Tags: Advertising, Amateur Content, Culture, Google, Google Software Applications, Legal, Movies, Video, YouTube; Blog posts 2007-02-13
Here's what that so-called "Zune Phone" really is: your thoughts, please?: Here's what that so-called "Zune Phone" really is: your thoughts, please?Sorry about my post.Seems my Windows Clipboard (or this text editor) truncated all of my line breaks/carriage returns... :(I'm going to try to make it easier...1st image:The first shows the diagram of now all the components will work. The top...; Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Microsoft Zune, phone, TV Channel; Discussion threads 2007-02-10
YouTube riches: Social video production or social video pirating?: Nicholas Carr underscores that YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen each pulled down about a third of a billion dollars in selling their video-sharing company to the search giant Google, asserting they “came by their windfall fair and square.”How so? “They built a better mousetrap,” says Carr.Perhaps, but what...; Tags: Business Models, Web 2.0, Media, Advertising, Search, Google, Social Web, Video, YouTube, Amateur Content, TV, Television, Google Software Applications, Social Networking, Social Media, ROI, YouTube Inc.; Blog posts 2007-02-10
Master the facilitation skills you need to lead an effective software development iteration retrospective: As a software developer, you are already an expert at what you know--software development--but you can still improve your team's methodology to allow you to continually learn from your software development experience throughout the life of a project. In this sample chapter from Agile Retrospectives: Making Good...; Tags: Software, Software Development, Development Tools, Tools & Techniques, Software/Web Development, Management; Book chapters 2007-01-17
Evolving from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0: In “Web 2.0 = a piece of jargon,” fellow ZDNet blogger Dan Farber highlights Tim Berners-Lee’s recent commentary on Web 2.0 and notes that “For Berners-Lee, the Web is just the Web (no versioning) and has always been about interaction between people online.”Berners-Lee reflected on the evolutionary nature of the...; Tags: iSyndicate, YellowBrix, Web, Web 1.0; Blog posts 2006-09-02
Pouring cold water on SOA 'reuse' mantra: Pouring cold water on SOA 'reuse' mantraOnce more for the hard of hearingReuse has 2 major problems that have NEVER been solved (or even addressed) they are:1. How do I find what I need?2. If I can't find it, is it because it doesn't exist or my searching is inadequate?Having...; Tags: Service-oriented architecture (SOA), Web services, Middleware, Enterprise software, cold calling, Reuse Reduction, SOA, redundancy; Discussion threads 2006-08-30
Identity on the mind: Last week the Burton Group Catalyst conference focused on an identity management, from enterprise single sign-on to user-centric identity. This week the "identorati" are gathered together for the Identity Mashup Conference hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Mark Dixon has a good summary...; Tags: Identity, Identity Mashup, mashup; Blog posts 2006-06-19
Is IBM making enterprise mashups respectable?: ZDNet blog colleague Joe McKendrick beat me to the punch earlier this week with an excellent analysis of the fascinating ramifications of IBM's recent statements at the New York PHP Conference aimed at mainstreaming mashups and Web 2.0 technologies. If IBM is getting seriously involved in this,...; Tags: mashup; Blog posts 2006-06-18
Punjab National Bank Dramatically Improves Rural Banking in India: Punjab National Bank (PNB) is one of the 500 largest banks in the world, and enjoys a rich history and heritage. PNB was the first Indian bank to be started solely with Indian capital. Established in 1895 at Lahore, and nationalized in 1969, it has worked assiduously to build the...; Tags: Punjab National Bank, Banking, Financial Services; Case studies 2006-05-02
How Google can tell Ed Whitacre to get lost: Ed Whitacre is CEO of AT&T- which intends to buy BellSouth and hopes to charge high-bandwidth content providers like Vonage and Google carriage over their pipes.But that photo is one of dark fiber, of which Google has lots. If Google plays it right, those fiber strands could strand the broadband...; Tags: Google Inc.; Blog posts 2006-03-06