Thomas Van Der Wal.
Social Tools Need to Embrace Granularity
What we have is partial likes in others and their interests and offerings. Our social tools have yet to grasp this and the few that do have only taken small steps to get there (I am rather impressed with Jaiku and their granular listening capability for their feed aggregation, which should be the starting point for all feed aggregators). Part of grasping the problem is a lack of quickly understanding the complexity, which leads to deconstructing and getting to two variables: 1) people (their identities online and their personas on various services) and 2) interests. These two elements and their combinations can (hopefully) be seen in the quick annotated video of one of my slides I have been using in presentations and workshops lately.
"What I'm here to tell you is that if it's like school, it doesn't work." Great, highly entertaining message from a guy who has taught at Yale, Stanford, and Northwestern. ****
Ignite is a rapid-fire form of presentation. The presenter must present 20 slides in 5 minutes. Every 15 seconds a new slide advances automatically.
It is amazing how much information one can cover in 5 minutes if you boil the message down to essence.
It takes me longer to prepare a 5-minute Ignite session than a one-hour presentation. And I suspect people retain more information when I've finished, too.
Talk about making meetings efficient. Watch some of these and give it a try.