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Improving IT planning in 2010 - A hint for CIO's and IT Leaders. Just finished reading Chris Curran’s article on CIO.com titled How to Improve Your IT Planning in 2010 – CIO.com – Business Technology Leadership. Good article with some survey results that are very surprising. A snippet from the article: Diamond’s Digital IQ research, in which we surveyed 451 senior business and IT executives of large companies, found that firms spend roughly 240 man weeks per year on planning and budgeting—almost five man years!

Think about what could be accomplished with 80% of that time back in the hands of your senior-most leaders. Roughly 25% of this effort is geared toward collecting the project ideas, another 25% toward preparing business cases, and only about 15% on linking the initiatives to the strategic roadmap. Our study also found that the presence of a multi-year strategic roadmap is a strong indicator of company performance, but that only 37% claim to have a clear roadmap. Emphasis mine. Interesting results. That last sentence in Chris’ points the way. Mind Mapping Software Blog » Your best resource for advice on mi.

Perspective 2.0: *This* is a design revolution. NASA's "Alien Eyes" - Unlocking Secrets of the Universe 3.6 Beta. "Our personal window on the Universe is terribly small within a stunnng range of wavelengths. With our eyes we see wavelengths between 0.00004 and 0.00008 of a centimeter (where, not so oddly, the Sun and stars emit most of their energy). The human visual spectrum from violet to red is but one octave on an imaginary electromagnetic piano with a keyboard hundreds of kilometers long.

" James Kaler, astronomer and author of "Heavens Gate: From Killer Stars to the Seeds of Life, How We are Connected to the Universe. " The image below is an infrared photo of M82 is a remarkable galaxy of peculiar type in constellation Ursa Major. It is usually classified as irregular, though probably a distorted disk galaxy, and famous for its heavy star-forming activity, thus a prototype member of the class of starbursting galaxies. Much of what you see above is outside our human visual band, our eyes cannot register wave photons no matter how powerful they may be. Casey Kazan Source: NASA/Hubble. How to export Outlook email to a spreadsheet, including Date/Tim.

TweetStream: An App to Drive the Global Brain – Pt 1 « Thoughtfu. A few days ago in a post titled Twitter & The Global Brain I blogged about the parallels between twitter and giant neural network. Now I want to flesh out that model and make it a little more tangible by describing an app that I call TweetStream that could potentially solve several of twitter’s current problems: Taming the torrent of information that blasts current twitter users.Monetizing content and rewarding participation in the twitter experience.Moving the global system towards a coordinated efficient information exchange framework through which global consciousness crise and be exercised.

The TweetStream App Imagine an app that provided not only the chronological list of friends updates that are is currently provided by Seesmic and Tweetdeck, but also provides what I’ll call a “personalized tweet stream”. My personalized tweet stream would be composed of two parts, presented by the App in two separate column – my “Input” stream and my “Output” stream. The TweetStream Rank Algorithm. GoogSysTray: An app to help manage Google addiction 3.6 Beta 4. Twitter finally in the money with Google link - Times Online 3.6.

30 Predictions Of The Future For Twitter « Jeffbullas’s Blog 3.6. The direction Twitter will go will be determined not just by ”Twitter” the company but by the market forces and its users and especially the trends in Social Media, Search and Social Search. The emergence of Twitter Lists in the last few days is producing some interesting dynamics regarding influence real or perceived on Twitter. Some obvious trends Its growing importance as a real time search engine and feed from its API to startups such as Sency, Topsy and OneRiot and of course Google and Bing.The growing use of Twitter to drive traffic to blogs and websites .. Guy Kawasaki makes no apology when he says “I approach it as a broadcast marketing tool to help me make Alltop successful”Twitter is heading in the direction of more filtered and intelligent conversations not just inane chatter ..

Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur has some interesting and revealing and radical predictions … and though I don’t agree with all of them the future will be the real judge and jury. Twitter App Review #18 | THE CHRIS VOSS SHOW 3.6 Beta 4. Report: Nine Scientifically Proven Ways to Get Retweeted on Twit. If I wanted to make sure this post did not go viral--according to the standards put forth by Hubspot viral marketing scientist Dan Zarrella in "The Science of Retweeting"--I could promote it on Twitter by posting something like this: was bored watchin the game on tv and saw this thing about RTs...made me lol after i had really bad stomach cramps Note the lack of punctuation, the use of of slang and abbreviations, the limited vocabulary, and the awkward overshare--all traits that Zarrella can now definitively say would turn Twitter users off.

How? Because the avid Twitter-er and author of the upcoming The Social Media Marketing Book spent nine months analyzing roughly 5 million tweets and 40 million retweets (which are usually symbolized with an "RT" on Twitter). The full report is 22 pages, and won't be available until tomorrow (UPDATE: It's here). 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 7 Reasons Why Companies Should Blog « Jeffbullas’s Blog 3.6 Beta.

I have this discussion with clients all the time.. ” Why should we have a blog? “. It’s a good question and most customers eyes glaze over. I don’t have the time.. We don’t want to give away our company secrets..Our policy is not to use or allow Social Media… I don’t have anything to write about. Well there are 7 Good Reasons to start Blogging. It helps your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) as Google loves new content! Note: Most importantly it helps you improve your rank on search engines and assists in getting found, when people enter those important key words in Google. So if you are going to start a blog what functions and features should a blog include? It is better to use a minimalist format ( keep it simple) and preferably a 2 column template design. 1.

About usHome back to your company website 2. 3. 4. 5. A one sentence description of who your company isYour clients 6. FacebookTwitterSubscribe to our Blog RSS 7. 8. 9. 10 Browse by Category So do you think your company should be blogging? Looking for alien Earths? Here they come - Space- msnbc.com 3.6.

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Perspective 2.0. 51 New Year resolutions for graphic and web designers | Graphic. The traditional New Year Resolution: some dread it and some embrace it. Of course, it’s not always easy to sit down and decide what we hope to accomplish over the next year. Below you will find a few ideas that I hope will be helpful in making you a more successful graphic or web designer next year and for the rest of your career. If you have more suggestions please add to the list . Graphic Designers, Code your first web site Web designers, Design your first set of business cards, a logo, or a poster Design and Code your first wordpress theme Learn the basics of Photoshop and Illustrator Learn the principles of usability in any design setting. Written by Preston D Lee Preston is the founder of GDB, a designer, programmer, marketer, and entrepreneur.

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