My Gadget Life

Some thoughts from Michael’s talk:
- Control your technolust – sexy technology
- beware “technomust”
- technodivorce – can we let go of dead tech?, cabinet of dead & dying technology, library garage sale
- article: “planning for wireless in kansas city”
- user-centered planning
- expose hidden costs: training, staff time, promotion
- technology landscape: bringing structure to unstructured data, open source software, security, authentication and DRM, distributed, component-based software
- best practices for instant messaging: make IM part of your technology plan (“the millienials”), promote your screen name, add your IM name to your business cards, sig files, web site, use a multi-client, use away messages well
- report and de-brief your staff, give them numbers
- blog/wiki your planning for new projects
- be discoverable: offer access via handhelds, check your search rankings, offer RSS feeds of important content
- Stephen Abram: The Google Opportunity
- new Mac OS (Tiger) has screensave with RSS feeds built in (he demo’ed this), also Safari browser has RSS button built in
- make your own downloadable toolbar for users
- jybe.com (co-browsing plugin)
- unplug – get away from the computer!