Thursday, February 10, 2011

Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Selling to Tough Customers - Ace of Sales

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Wearable COmputer

MIT Students Turn Internet Into a Sixth Human Sense — Video.
..For a great cause on this project. Cellphone makers soon plan to release cellphones with projectors integrated in them, which will simplify their system even more.

Gates releases “more bugs” into the world.

Bill Gates spoke at TED on Tuesday about his philanthropy work and while discussing the prevalence of malaria in some developing nations, he cheekily opened a container and released some mosquitoes into the air, telling the audience of millionaires and billionaires that it shouldn’t just be the poor who experience the disease.

It was a bizarre way to get the audience’s attention. But some bloggers and news agencies that aren’t at the conference are calling the mosquitoes a “swarm” and raising health concerns about the act. There were only a handful of mosquitoes (TED organizers say the exact number was seven) and, as Gates said onstage, none of them carried malaria.

When Gates finished his talk, TED curator and host Chris Anderson quipped that Gates would now be known for releasing “more bugs” into the world.

Monday, February 7, 2011

SCRUM Framework (Project Management)

SCRUM TERMINOLOGY

We've introduced some new terms in describing the Scrum framework. Let's look at them in more detail. Scrum is made up of three roles, four ceremonies, and three artifacts.

Three roles

· Product owner: responsible for the business value of the project

· ScrumMaster: ensures that the team is functional and productive

· Team: self-organizes to get the work done

Four ceremonies

· Sprint planning: the team meets with the product owner to choose a set of work to deliver during a sprint

· Daily scrum: the team meets each day to share struggles and progress

· Sprint reviews: the team demonstrates to the product owner what it has completed during the sprint

· Sprint retrospectives: the team looks for ways to improve the product and the process.

Three artifacts

· Product backlog: prioritized list of desired project outcomes/features

· Sprint backlog: set of work from the product backlog that the team agrees to complete in a sprint, broken into tasks

· Burndown chart: at-a-glance look at the work remaining (can have two charts: one for the sprint and one for the overall project)


http://www.scrumalliance.org/learn_about_scrum

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EGYPT : "Departure Day" February 4, 2010

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Developer vs. Designer

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Brief Insights into Rapid e-learning

Here’s a brief summary on Rapid e-learning:

  • Focus on the basics like organizing the content and some simple graphic design concepts you find in books like the Non-Designer’s Design Book. Couple this with learning how to use the software.
  • Once you feel comfortable using the software, shift to creating the right type of look for your course. This isn’t about eye-candy. It’s a combination of aesthetic, context, and visual communication.
  • As you develop expertise building courses and get things to look the way you want, focus on what makes the course most meaningful. And that’s crafting a good learning experience.

Of course these steps aren’t necessarily linear or exclusive of each other. It’s just a simple way to look at the evolution of building a course.

It’s a lot easier to deliver an elearning course today than it was a few years ago. But it also puts a lot more pressure on individuals to do more with less. If you pick the right tools, get access to some low cost assets, and predetermine some of your course structure, you’ll be on your way to success.

Im a student of Tom Kuhlmann

How Do You Design For Creativity?

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