Waiting your turn

Are you hanging around waiting for your turn?

waiting for your turn

Does your turn never seem to arrive?

waiting for your turn 2

What are you going to do about that?

taking your turn

5 for Friday - feedback is a gift

Time for #the5 today

VIPRE and VIPRE Premium are now available with PC lifetime licenses http://j.mp/jInKqb a one time purchase covers you! #the5

I have been impressed with the usability of VIPRE. I have it installed on my netbook and am considering taking advantage of the new lifetime license for the family systems.

"the mass market has yet to fully embrace them" QR Codes http://j.mp/lMreWy me: and I wonder if it will. #pcwm #the5

Hubspot has a good summary of QR codes in this article. For me, the key is in the simplicity that is lacking currently. The summary says "can be installed on smartphones" - indeed, why aren't they? No wonder the mass market has yet to embrace them, they require too much technical work!

"instead of asking what humans want to do most when trying to translate offline to online experiences" http://j.mp/iRCH7z #the5

This Chris Brogan article gets more to the point on the same topic as the QR Codes article. How can you integrate the technology seamlessly into what people are doing already?

"the impermanence of the doodles is good news" http://j.mp/kaILRf cool, Google turns on doodling for some ebooks! #the5

As an avid reader and long time lover of books, I did take care of mine and even hesitated to mark them for notes for school, etc. Here is an opportunity to have the best of both, the ability to mark up a book and then turn the page to present a new clean slate for the next reader!

"The unit is still the individual or the small group" http://j.mp/kZAEcL Steven B Johnson on "Where ideas come from" #the5

Exploring where ideas come from has long been an interest. The collaboration and synergy of working together is cool, especially when bringing together different viewpoints!


And a bonus for today

sherku: feedback - freely given/ feedback needs/ to be welcomed/ with flip charts/ and without judgement// http://t.co/CF1nupK  #140poets

If you open yourself to the feedback, take it freely. Don't judge it. Take it!

Nail in the coffin for focus groups?

Focus Group Failure

The stories mention that brain scans are less convenient and more expensive than traditional focus groups for gauging audience reaction to a movie. The real story is that focus groups are simply incapable of providing the kind of specific and accurate feedback that we see by measuring brain activity and biometrics in real time. Focus groups may still have a purpose, but gauging how scary particular elements of a film are isn’t one of them.

Indeed, there are many points of failure for traditional focus groups. People may not say what they really think for a variety of reasons. Even when they try to be totally honest, people may not be able to articulate their experiences, rationales, or intentions.

Read the full article here

What do you think?

SOBCon08 - initial feedback on conference

working through some technical issues with the mics and speaker placements

the name tag strings are too long, your name ends up on your belt buckle. I see some folks short tying them to correct this

looking down the room, a number of heads are looking into their laptops and not at the speaker
hopefully, they are indeed paying attention

the speakers are being translated to sign language for the benefit of a couple of hearing challenged folks, great move!

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better time management, in that the concept of masterminding is great. It combines the best of learning from the "masters" and sharing and internalizing the best practices within the group. The presentations this afternoon have skipped the mastermind portion to save on time as we need to be out of the facility by 6:00 PM.

the proof is (as mentioned in the lunch post) it is hard to get the group back together again from lunch, from the master minding, there is so much energy and conversation going on when the groups get together, this is the learning going on. This is the real value of the conference. With all due respect to the presenters, they planted the seed, we helped it grow in the discussions.