Category — Diversions

So it’s a “Dear Santa” letter, but it’s neither a breakup nor a Christmas request…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re1qHMPgqGc

Want to be quoted in a book or whitepaper?

You’re in luck ~ I’m writing both and need your quote submissions.

The essence is this:  what is your experience with online presentations?  It can be from an attendee’s perspective OR a presenter’s perspective, and it should be geared toward being helpful…what would you like to tell online presenters about how to improve their online presentations?

Obviously I can’t use them all, but here’s your potential benefit:

If you complete the survey where I’m studying online presentation best practices (for the whitepaper), you can win an iPod touch.

If you want to shoot me a quote for the book, I’ll send a free copy of the book to the first 50 who respond.  roger (at sign) 1080group (dot) com will get you there.

I appreciate it, and so will the readers who benefit from the book.  Thanks for “paying it forward!”

As an active member of the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professionals I was recently invited to sit on a panel.  One of the other panelists, Mark Chussil of Advanced Competitive Strategies, is one of those guys whose math skills you flat-out envy, and he invited the audience (and those of us on the panel) to be part of some pricing research he’s doing for an upcoming book.

The research, a pricing strategies simulation, asked for us to determine what we’d do in fast growth, mature, and ailing industries relative to pricing.  And our results were compared against each other.

Cool news, I scored higest in the “ailing” category and had the highest overall score.  The bad news is that I can’t disclose much else because of some proprietary info and the upcoming book.

If you care to take a peek at the SCIP Oregon blog post that outlined the contest/simulation, though, you can check it out here.

Completely personal and going into the Diversions category.  The huge windstorm that has plagued the last two days, caused power and web outage, brought a couple trees down.  One hit the kids’ fort and fortunately did no damage (the fence didn’t fare so well).  Good news:  it was the neighbor’s tree, and they’ve already said they’d make good.

Notice TWO trees down, actually… one that hit the kids’ fort in our yard, and another that went the other direction.  Argh!

I can’t say I’ve check out a lot of ImageGenerator.net, but I saw someone in the distant past use it to create a variation of the graphic below.  I wrote my own text, and feel free to rip it off.

-R

I haven’t used a screensaver in years, and I’d probably vote that they get a new name (since screens don’t need saving any more) right after I vote that we do away with this daylight savings time nonsense.

BUT, for Dilbert lovers, this is pretty amusing.

Introducing a new category. I’d call them work-wasters, but you might find them strategic, Quadrant II stress relievers.

Here’s a fun tool for the next time nobody can make up their mind…

http://www.coverpop.com/wheeloflunch/