How To Get Started In Social Media When You Have Nothing To Say

Is this the first in a series? Don’t know. But it is the first 30-minute session. Date: April 12 2010 Time: Eastern: 2pm, Pacific: 11am, GMT: 7pm, CET: 8pm Location: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-project-shrink The number one argument I hear why professionals are not engaging in social media: “I have nothing to say.” or it’s twin “I don’t …

Beach. Shorts. And Leadership.

Darren Rowse is an Internet celebrity. He is a full time blogger. He is making a good living from his blog ProBlogger.net. This Australian new media role model is writing about “how to make money from a blog”. He is talking about a dream some people have. Not necessarily a vision of spending your days …

Trusting People You Don’t Know

Why do you think a certain person is more “trustworthiness” over another person? This is a relevant question. Not only when dealing with television doctors but also when operating on the Internet, or working with people you have never met.

Mashup Of Scrum, Lean And Kanban: Scrow

You learn a lot when you are trying to combine methods and approaches. Yes, we talked about it before: mashups. That is why I like this presentation by Lasse Koskela performed at Oredev a little over a month ago. “… teams are dropping Scrum to go Kanban. We see good ideas in all of these …

Project Potion. Meshing Up Projects.

Don’t you hate a 3000 page method description with in the footnote: “Oh yeah, by the way, you need to tailor this to the situation. You don’t need everything. Sort of. Kinda. We guess.” Hate it. Hate it. People put labels on methods. They give it a name. We need to categorize everything just to …