If you do not live under a rock then surely you know that earlier this week Apple surprised the world and released an early beta of Safari 4, packing a major interface change, speed enhancements and a few other nifty features. Rather than report on the actual release of the browser itself, I thought it would be more beneficial to use Safari 4 for a couple days and write-up my thoughts on such usage. So without further ado, here is what the miso soup lovers found over the course of the past few days.
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It is always a shame when IT projects fail because of a lack of the ‘7 P‘s.’
Positive Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance are words to live by. You can use them in just about every aspect of your life, but we’ll focus here on how they apply to IT projects.
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I am unable to figure out, for the life of me, why there are so many people who blindly believe that Apple needs to release a netbook. Most folks claim that for Apple to stay viable because of the economic situation facing America, and how that sudden fallout is going to affect their ability to sell niche products at elevated prices, they need to do the smart thing and release an inexpensive Mac netbook.
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In most media organizations, content producing staff maintain something called a ‘story budget.’ It’s a running tab of ideas that allows you to document and track content being prepped for your publishing pipeline.
Like major media organizations, blogs too can put a good story budget to use in organizing posts. Whether you’ve prepared eight paragraphs for an upcoming story or just have fleeting thoughts for your next 20 stories, a story budget can help put it all in order for you.
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The most obvious aspect of a successful blog is exceptional, timely, relevant content. Your readers visit your blog or read your RSS feed because they are interested in the quality articles you post on a presumably regular basis. However, content production is not the only feature of a successful blog, especially when a team of writers is generating the blog content. One of the often under looked yet essential facets of team blogging is communication. Failure for the team to effectively and regularly communicate can lead to the destruction of a thriving venture.
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‘Things’ naturally just feed off each other. Butterflies and hurricanes, housing markets and recession, US economy and the world economy. There are no two systems on our globe that maintain complete independence of each other.
Whether they work together smoothly or grind gears is worthy of debate.
It’s a butterfly effect and it applies to businesses and their systems as well as it does to butterflies and hurricanes. No two business towers operate without affecting the other — finance and marketing — manufacturing and advertising — all are intertwined at some [if not many] x-y point in a process. In reality, business is chaos.
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One of the hardest things new bloggers have trouble with is finding their blogging voice – that is, how a post “sounds” to the readers and ensuring it accurately portrays who you are. After all, you are an interesting person with motivating experiences which will help enrich your readers’ lives. So not only is finding your voice tricky, it is the chief ingredient for a successful blog.
Until you find your voice you are going to find yourself playing around with the wording and phrasing of your posts, perhaps spending considerable more time tweaking the way your posts sound rather than focusing on the truly important aspect of blogging – just writing. In fact, your early blogging efforts may find your voice sounding bland, too robotic, too much like Tom Brokaw on the evening news or even worse; you may have no voice whatsoever.
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When creating a quality defense in depth strategy , you must not forget to build a quality “policy program”. A “policy program” is not just a binder, wiki, or web page with all of your current policies categorized neatly by date and purpose. A “policy program” will include the drafting of the policies, the communicating of the policies to all of your user community, enforcement of the policies, and validation that the policy is meeting its defined goal. We often see policy programs that only encompass one or two of these steps and administrators wondering why their policies are ineffective. In order to create a successful program you need to utilize all of the steps in the policy program framework.
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By rough estimates, the number of rioters over Facebook’s sudden change in ‘terms of use’ amounted to less than 1% of the entire Facebook community. And all the blogs (including ours) that reported the Facebook hoopla have ignited nothing more than a small containable dumpster fire.
Regardless of the final legal wording – Facebook and many other [free and paid] online services will continue to get away with murder for the unforeseeable future. These services ‘will’ effectively co-own your online stuff for as long as you let them.
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If you do not live under a rock then surely you know that earlier this week Apple surprised the world and released an early beta of Safari 4, packing a major interface change, speed enhancements and a few other nifty features. Rather than report on the actual release of the browser itself, I thought it would be more beneficial to use Safari 4 for a couple days and write-up my thoughts on such usage. So without further ado, here is what the miso soup lovers found over the course of the past few days.
Not quite your brain on crack cocaine, but it may come close. 
