Just for the record, if Kevin ever sends you an email out of the blue and asks you to participate in 20×2. You must say yes.
20×2 is an ongoing project that exists to showcase the creativity that lurks in each of us. Writers, musicians, filmmakers, web geeks and other bon vivants are asked to take [...]

A friend told me this morning that apparently anger is the difference between those who survive and those who don’t. That sounded kind of profound. The more I think about it, the more I think she might be right.
I’m not really an angry person… in fact, when I’m angry it’s more than likely I’m just [...]

I like this idea. It’s like a short, sharp, Friday evening version of BarCamp with beer.
Well, actually it’s nothing much like BarCamp at all except I imagine a bunch of the same people turn up and more who aren’t so interested to invest a weekend in it. Oh, and who like free beer
Here’s [...]

World Usability Day: Is It Harmful to Usability Practitioners?
An interesting question. I’m not really a huge fan of the ‘u’ word, but I am a big fan of trying to get people to not accept poor design (and poor design usually = poor usability).
(tags: usability WUD design)

There’s some cool stuff going on now for World Usability Day 2006 (14 November). In London today we’re particularly honoured to have Usability Man (pictured in action above) helping us out with our mission to identify good and bad usability throughout London. Read more about him on the MakingLifeEasy website, and check out the [...]

Thinkature - Real-time collaboration for the web
This looks cool and potentially useful… instant messaging inside a visual workspace. Use it as a collaboration environment, a meeting room, a personal web-based whiteboard, or something entirely new.
(tags: thinkature, collaboration, whiteboard diagram visualisation web2.0)

Mary, my colleague who was in the room when Michael first sent me a link to Like.com can attest to how much I enjoyed playing with Like.com when I first saw it. And I’ve liked playing with it since then too! Within a short time from first hitting the site I had a few thousand [...]

Today was National Ban Bullying at Work day. We had an awareness activity at work today - not that bullying and intimidation is something that’s rampant or even existent in our workplace, or in any work place I’ved worked in so far (thankfully), but it’s important not to take that as a given.
It got me [...]

Plateauing: Redefining Success at Work - Knowledge@Wharton
something i’ve been thinking a bit about lately…. you don’t necessarily have to go UP the ladder to succeed at work.
UPDATE: you now have to signup/log in to access this article
ANOTHER UPDATE: Google Cache version can be found via link in the comments - thanks Greg!
(tags: work success)