Another Day in the Antz Farm

(Via Don Dodge) Whoever said that what happens in Vegas has to stay in Vegas? Following the success of Remix 07 in Vegas, the US team is having condensed version in Silicon Valley!

I wonder if we would have a ReMix-lite in Sydney or have the most popular content redelivered via user groups?

In any case, don’t forget, all the Mix sessions content are STILL available online.

Digital Diplomat Originally uploaded by NickHodge

Nick is truly the Speical one! He even has “Digital Diplomat” as his job title on Headtrax! This shows the unique role Nick plays to reach out to more people get around technology Entry posted via Flickr.

What is the maturity is your company’s IT strategy? This crux of this question looks beyond technology renewal roadmap. It is a question of the focus of your current strategy against it’s immediate and longer term future.

A different way of looking at it, is your IT department working proactively with business and transforming itself into a competitive edge for the whole company or is it still stuck in the ruck – reacting to the current demand of the business?

Find out your company’s current IT maturity stage? (McKinsey) and How to organise your IT strategy to take it up to the next level of maturity (McKinsey)

Scott Adam, the author of Dilbert went into great lengths on his blog (”For the Love of Soap“) to express his relationship with the humble bath soap bar. I’m a soap lover (esp Irish Spring-IcyBlast)too, I never like those fancy shower gel.

A - I am slowly but surely getting on top of my RSS subscription since my holiday.

B- 1.40am, I should get some sleep soon.

Feeling over-stretch at work? Finding it hard to segregate your tasks between urgent and important? Maybe you need to employ these workload triage strategies suggested by Michael Hyatt. 

1. Acknowledge that you can’t do it all.

2. Accept the fact that some things won’t get done at all.

3. Practice workload triage.

4. Categorize your tasks by priority.

5. Practice “intentional neglect.”

6. Do the next most important thing next.

Good luck and have a productivity one!

Frank Arrigo has been interviewed for all sorts of topics - including Silverlight, Vista and evangelism . But CSharpzealot (Brian Madsen) could possibly wrotethe first personal interview of Frank. What makes this guy tick? How does this guy get in to office so early in the morning? What stuff does he add in his morning tea?

In absence of a proper wikipedia entry, I guess this interview is the next close thing we have to a doisser of this GREAT and GENUINE Microsoft Evangelist and people manager - Frank Arrigo.