10 Tips for Running Live Virtual Presentations
Every other week our product team completes an iteration and holds a demo meeting to showcase new features, improvements, comps, spike results, etc. We do this meeting online via LiveMeeting & a phone conference system. We average around 50 participants (including customers & partners!) and 4-8 presenters each week. It’s a circus and we’ve learned a lot…
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They Came from Facebook
Your next customers. They are coming from Facebook. You need to welcome them with open arms, make it easy for them to sign-in, and bring all their friends to your community. Which brings me to news that was too cool for me to just tweet. Telligent’s friends at 4-Roads have developed...
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The only tools you need spec software in 2009
This post highlights the tools you need to be a PM today in order to ideate & define the products & specifications you own. If you need more than this you are doing it wrong. The idea is to clearly communicate the goals & intent of your specifications well enough so that your development teams can start their own iterative cycles rapidly.
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Resolution: Do Less with More
That’s it. My resolution for 2009 is to do less with more. This probably sounds counter intuitive. Shouldn’t we all be looking to do more with less given the economy? Nope…
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Happy Belated Festivus: Time to Air the Grievances
You all should know by now that yesterday was Festivus. One of my favorite festivus traditions is the "airing of grievances". In that spirit I present this post. I've got a lot of problems with you people...
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Amazon has the ingredients to change mobile shopping
The iPhone app Amazon released today could be really huge. For the uninitiated they let you "remember” items while you are out shopping by taking pictures. I’ve been doing this for a while now with the Evernote application, but Amazon is taking it one step further. They are now going...
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I’m officially here to make others better again
Over the last few weeks it’s hit me. Somewhere between being 1 of 3 Telligent Product PMs in the spring and now leading a group of 7 with a growing line of products… my job officially transitioned into lead mode again. My purpose has shifted more completely to making everyone around me better...
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Don't cross the streams in online communities
There are plenty of good lessons to take away from the following deck by Randy Farmer . Context Is King: Lessons from Online Communities View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: communities incentive ) To me, a big one was that you can't cross the streams of content in feeds to the point...
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How would you evolve Community Server?
Last week, at the In.Telligent conference I gave the keynote on our product roadmap. It’s rare that I have so many customers captive in one room so I used the opportunity to gather some feedback in real time. I distributed a list of features broken out by theme and told everyone they had $100 virtual...
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4 more tips for working remotely
I accidently published my last post too soon. This morning I published the last 4 tips. Enjoy here: http://evolvingwe.com/social/x-tips-for-working-remotely/...
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