In the quote below the “they” is a group of early adopters, motivated to start projects for their own reasons. Mr. Pollard does suggest an understanding of what concerns your boss, and selecting an experiment that addresses their concerns.
Here’s a great illustration of how to make a web site redesign presentation. The use of “graphical description” is becoming more widely accepted from project diagrams to classical greek literature — so why not a design presentation? It makes me wish I was given the time to make these types of formal presentation. Maybe I’ll add this as a required part of the next RFP I write…
The best way to get people to try out new technologies is to incorporate it into something they need to do anyway. Maybe here at Yale we should start hosting meetings in Second Life — although the walk across campus is pretty nice on these beautiful spring days.
It just keeps getting better — 1.4 million downloads of version 2.1 in four months.
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One of the best presentations I’ve been to in a long time was at the last Nercomp conference. “Storytelling in the Age of the Internet” was presented by Gail Matthews-DeNatale, Jamie Traynor and Lesley Weiman from Simmons College. The first thing that made their presentation so good was their handouts. No crappy powerpoint regurgitation here, they provided a nicely bound 20 page resource guid listing web resources, tips to incorporating it into teaching along with sample lessons plans and rubrics.
We all detest spam, right? Inboxes bulging with all sorts of messages we don’t want to see, don’t want to read, and don’t want cluttering up our lives. So then why do we send so many messages?
Current best practices for email marketing are certainly much stricter than is the current norm around my department. These best practices include: Read the rest of this entry »
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