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New technologies, concepts, and Web 2.0 tools are popping up everywhere. How can you use them to help your project team collaborate, communicate - or just give your project an extra boost? [Contact Dave]

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Is Coaching Dead?

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Situation: You're Interested in Leadership Best Practices for Your Company

This month's issue of Chief Executive magazine includes an article entitled, The Best Companies for Leaders.  The best part of the article is not the company ranking, but rather the view on best practices it offers (the basis for the company rankings - what they did to deserve it).  The best practices were interesting enough:

























but what I found even more interesting were the time wasters...


















which are all practices that most companies believe in, including external coaching services and development plans for high potential leaders.   Are all of these practices just great in some environments and terrible in others?  Who knows?


Posted on: December 22, 2007 02:50 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Project Mgmt is UP ... and Down.

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Situation: You're Interested in Quirky PM Trends

Since 2004 - it looks like "Project Management" is more newsworthy, while the term "Project Management" has become better understood and less searchworthyGoogle Trends graphs the search volume over time of any key word set you put into it.  Type in "Project Management" and you get the charts below.  

What do you think it means? (if there is any meaning to the trends...)

Posted on: December 14, 2007 03:32 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Create a PM SHOW - and Put it on the Web

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Situation: You Need A Very Functional, Free Presentation Tool

I've posted in the past about a number of different online presentation tools that compete with PowerPoint using a basic functionality/ease of use approach.  None have the power of PowerPoint, but many offer the basics at low or no cost.  ZOHO Show is part of a larger suite of online office tools that does a great job with the basic features that are 95% of what most users need.  The latest version comes with the themes, shapes, fancy bullets, and clip art features that are basic to PowerPoint.  It also comes with tag and widget functionality that are very web 2.0 and go beyond what a desktop app can offer.  This means that you can create your presentation in ZOHO Show, then post it to your internal blog or any web page where the information might be useful to others (see below).  this is incredibly simple to do by cutting and pasting aline of code, similar to the way you would post a youtube video.  



If you are a consultant pushing your services, you can show prospects what you know in ZOHO's public presentations section or even sew them into your facebook page.

So there you have it, ZOHO Show is a pretty good way to create and share presentations online.
Posted on: December 12, 2007 03:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

A Management Wikipedia?

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Situation: You Need Another Source of "White Paper Insights"

Insightory logoInsightory is relatively interesting to me, as it's effectively a web-based resource of best practices - which is what gantthead provides to a large degree.  TechCrunch said this site wants to be a "Management Wikipedia", but they mean it more in the spirit of " the place to go for management knowledge.  It's less of a web 2.0 site than it is a place to upload white papers.

In any case, there are some good papers on the site that would be interesting to ganttheads - with topics like knowledge management or ITIL.  There's only one PM white paper there so far and its a PMI conference piece.  (I'm not sure how they got around the copyright on that one - because PMI is pretty tough about that.)

Take a look - judge for yourself...
Posted on: December 03, 2007 05:29 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)

A Poor Man's iPhone (desktop only)

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Situation: Skype Just Isn't Cool Enough For You...

shoutss.pngDevelopers are starting to do some cool things with Ribbit (which helps developers create phone applications for the web) - this desktop version of an iPhone is one them.  It's one of those "hey look at this" conversation pieces reserved for those on the very bleeding edge of poor time management. 
Posted on: December 03, 2007 04:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
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