Contents tagged with Community
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Tips for effective communication
Communication is a really inefficient activity and that's because it takes a lot of effort to do it well. This can also be exacerbated when in an environment with mixed cultures where participants may find the "listening" part of communicating a greater burden. Additionally, there are environmental modifiers that can affect the likelihood of having good communication such as: noisy environment, people who are tired or irritated, unsuitable venue, unsuitable timing, etc. Here's some tips that I have for increasing the likelihood of having a successful session of communication&
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Some great tools to check out
During the week I was introduced to Serena Yeoh by William Luu. Serena's tagline is: I'm a little ant working in a big-big colony.
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Falling in love with Office 2003
I had a big SOA with Office 2003 day today,
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WebMessenger enhancements
I noticed some nice useability improvements in webmessenger today, at first glance I noticed:
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Canberra User Group meeting tonight
On the topic of User Groups, I just noticed that my future "home" User Group are meeting tonight: http://www.cbrdev.net/Default.aspx
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Evangelism Rhythms, "know the score"
Yesterday Dave Glover - from the Microsoft Developer Platform Group - gave a special lunchtime presentation in Adelaide titled: "What is new in VS 2005 and ASP.NET". This presentation will serve as a forerunner to the Whidbey "ASCEND" day in January.
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Member boards at UserGroup meetings; photo's, stories, etc.
One of the major problems that I find at User Group meetings is that it can be difficult to meet new people. An example of this is that, prior to our last User Group meeting I had some e-mail correspondence with a fellow developer who was planning on attending; we both agreed that we should meet up at the meeting. Once you are at the meeting though, it becomes very difficult to shout-out for the person with whom you wish to meet. I noticed that sentiment is kind of echoed in this blog entry:
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ProjectDistributor now lives - standalone!
Switched over to a standalone domain with dedicated hosting provided by WebHost4Life. The new Url is:
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And then there's Bad OneNote etiquette...
Note to self... when next sharing a session with Mitch, don't share my BIO page:
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Etiquette in a OneNote collaboration session
I teamed up with Mitch and Thomas tonight to share a bit of a OneNote collaboration session. Mitch and I actually had a session to start with and found that it is an awesome way to share ideas in an interactive and spontaneous way.. OneNote has a strength in allowing you to spawn new threads at will. Mitch decided to start a protocol to facilitate a richer experience and we continued that on when we joined Thomas's session. Here's some notes that we made, I'm sure that we'll develop more as we continue to use this awesome tool.