Today's show, The 10 Secrets of Highly Productive People, features Matt Rissell, CEO of TSheets, a Boise-based provider of online timeclocks used by employees and consultants. On his blog, he writes about how he set out to interview CEO’s and find the Top 10 Productivity Tools they use to manage their time. What he learned: There are 10 rules that the 75 successful people he surveyed all followed.
WorkFast.TV, a live Internet-distributed video show focused on how Internet technologies are changing the way we work, will air live on FastCompany.TV today. Tech bloggers Robert Scoble and Shel Israel will co-host the show that features interviews with people who are using new tools and work styles to become more productive.
As a live show, WorkFast encourages user-interaction and feedback through comments, chat, video response, and Skype call-ins. Feedback and questions will even be taken through FriendFeed and Twiter. In other words, the viewer gets to actively participate in the conversation and ask questions along with the hosts. Kyte, the video platform that makes streaming the show live possible, features chat, where users get to type in comments and responses in real time.
This weeks' show won't have a chat room during the show, but will be interactive after the show. This will allow the hosts to focus their attention completely on the guest during the interview.
Filmed in the Revision 3 studios, WorkFast is live today at 10 a.m. [Pacific], 1 p.m. [Eastern.] The program is sponsored by SAP. Tune in here.
This week WorkFast.TV comes a day early to accommodate July 4, Independence Day. The guest today, Timothy Ferriss, is a great advocate of getting out of the office and getting on with life. To watch the show live and join the interactive chat room go here.
Timothy Ferriss, author of the #1 NY Times bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek comes to WorkFast to explain how you can automate and outsource the process of becoming prosperous and then spend the rest of your time enjoying the things you love to do in life. Timothy speaks six languages, runs a multinational firm from wireless locations worldwide, and has been a popular guest lecturer at Princeton University since 2003, where he presents entrepreneurship as a tool for ideal lifestyle design and world change.
WorkFast.TV, a live Internet-distributed video show focused on how Internet technologies are changing the way we work, will air live on FastCompany.TV today. Tech bloggers Robert Scoble and Shel Israel will co-host the show that features interviews with people who are using new tools and work styles to become more productive.
As a live show, WorkFast encourages user-interaction and feedback through comments, chat, video response, and Skype call-ins. Feedback and questions will even be taken through FriendFeed and Twiter. In other words, the viewer gets to actively participate in the conversation and ask questions along with the hosts. Kyte, the video platform that makes streaming the show live possible, features chat, where users get to type in comments and responses in real time.
Filmed in the Revision 3 studios, WorkFast is live today at 10 a.m. [Pacific], 1 p.m. [Eastern.] The program is sponsored by SAP.
Today on WorkFast.TV: Best Buy's Michele Azar (VP Emerging Customer Channels) and Gary Koelling - co-founder of the 22,000-employee behind-firewall social network BlueShirt Nation talk about how employees are helping each other as well as customers to solve problems more efficiently on the front line.
WorkFast.TV, a live Internet-distributed video show focused on how Internet technologies are changing the way we work, will air live on FastCompany.TV today. Tech bloggers Robert Scoble and Shel Israel will co-host the show that features interviews with people who are using new tools and work styles to become more productive.
As a live show, WorkFast encourages user-interaction and feedback through comments, chat, video response, and Skype call-ins. Feedback and questions will even be taken through FriendFeed and Twiter. In other words, the viewer gets to actively participate in the conversation and ask questions along with the hosts. Kyte, the video platform that makes streaming the show live possible, features chat, where users get to type in comments and responses in real time.
Filmed in the Revision 3 studios, WorkFast is live today at 10 a.m. [Pacific], 1 p.m. [Eastern.] The program is sponsored by SAP.
Tune in live for the interview, and our interactive chat room here.
"Four experts in web services and data aggregation will showcase their offerings, ranging from sophisticated new voter file tools to services mashing up all kinds of data on influence-peddling, to blog aggregation at the neighborhood level. This session is for the hard-core geeks in the audience, and will cover not only the potential of today's database tools but the challenges in this work as well. "
Interesting conversation for sure, as was others I attended about the rise of the ProAm journalist (Professional-Amateur). But nothing was as interesting as an interview that Andrew Rasiej conducted with Elizabeth Edwards via skype. John Edwards was coming home from a trip, just as the interview was being conducted and ended up joining in.
Here are two clips from that interview.
(Note: These were shot on a Tmobile Wing [a Windows Mobile Smartphone] and not a Video Cam or multimedia phone, like the Nokia N95. Please keep this in mind while viewing. The picture and audio may be a little rough on the eyes and ears.)
T-Mobile's @Home service promises to do what Vonage did before it, offer families choices for their landline service. The mobile phone company also plans to offer this choice at an exceedingly low cost -- only $10 per month.
If you own T-Mobile's version of the Blackberry Curve (or any other HotSpot enabled phone) then you may have already seen this concept in action with T-Mobile HotSpot @Home over WiFi, where users can make unlimited WiFi calls. Now, with this new service, customers will be offered unlimited nationwide calling from their home phone starting July 2.
But of course, nothing is as easy as it sounds. It's not that there's a catch, but there are a few things to consider.
For one, you must already be a T-Mobile customer. If you are, then you can add on the @Home service to your T-Mobile account. But only qualifying wireless plan customers (potentially any $39.99 plan would qualify) can get the service. Also, the @Home user, like the Vonage user, must already have a broadband Internet connection. The service uses a wireless router, that costs $49.99 from T-Mobile with a two-year service agreement.
On the easy side of things, customers get to keep their existing numbers, and there's no need to use a special VOIP phone. A traditional phone will do.
Users will receive traditional landline features such as call waiting, caller ID, three-way conferencing, voicemail, call forwarding, but they will also get wireless service addons like CallerTunes (ringback tones).
Considering the battle between the ISPs and the phone companies with these bundled services nowadays, it's somewhat refreshing to see a new model enter into the fray. Many phone companies already bundle home services with mobile services, but this is the first to offer it the other way around. It'll be interesting to watch how other mobile companies react -- especially to the price. Even with the router cost and the two-year lock in, the odds are in T-Mobile's favor. The biggest question that remains is whether the service is actually any good. Give me a couple of weeks, and I'll have an answer for you.
Technology bloggers Robert Scoble and Shel Israel interview Ismael Ghalimi, founder-producer of the Office 2.0 conference, founder-CEO of Intalio, co-founder of Mondolabs the experimental Office 2.0 startup incubator, on WorkFast.TV over at FastCompany.TV today. He will talk about the state of office productivity and show a couple of his favorite software tools.
WorkFast.TV, a live Internet-distributed video show focused on how Internet technologies are changing the way we work, will air live on FastCompany.TV today. Tech bloggers Robert Scoble and Shel Israel will co-host the show that features interviews with people who are using new tools and work styles to become more productive.
As a live show, WorkFast encourages user-interaction and feedback through comments, chat, video response, and Skype call-ins. Feedback and questions will even be taken through FriendFeed and Twiter. In other words, the viewer gets to actively participate in the conversation and ask questions along with the hosts. Kyte, the video platform that makes streaming the show live possible, features chat, where users get to type in comments and responses in real time. CLICK HERE FOR LIVE CHAT
Filmed in the Revision 3 studios, WorkFast is live today at 10 a.m. [Pacific], 1 p.m. [Eastern.] The program is sponsored by SAP.
WorkFast.TV, a live Internet-distributed video show focused on how Internet technologies are changing the way we work, will air live on FastCompany.TV today. Tech bloggers Robert Scoble and Shel Israel will co-host the show that features interviews with people who are using new tools and work styles to become more productive.
WorkFast will examine real-world case studies showing how blogs, social networks, Twitter, Facebook, wikis and other collaborative tools have been used to reduce costs and simultaneously increase productivity. It will feature hands-on examples of the increasingly hyper-productive work/lifestyle.
The show's first guest, Mark Bernstein,, CEO of PARC (formerly Xerox PARC), will offer the historic overview of how we got to desktop productivity today. PARC is the lab where Microsoft Word has its roots, as well as the ethernet, Object Oriented programming, laser printers, and Adobe's page description language that enables printing.
As a live show, WorkFast encourages user-interaction and feedback through comments, chat, video response, and Skype call-ins. Feedback and questions will even be taken through FriendFeed and Twiter. In other words, the viewer gets to actively participate in the conversation and ask questions along with the hosts. Kyte, the video platform that makes streaming the show live possible, features chat, where users get to type in comments and responses in real time.
Filmed in the Revision 3 studios, WorkFast will debut today, live at 10 a.m. [Pacific], 1 p.m. [Eastern.] The program is sponsored by SAP.
Is Print Dead? How Digital Media is Changing the Face of Publishing
Mobile phone. Audiobook. Ereader. Social Media. Widget. What do these all have in common? Each of these forms of digital media, and the rate of consumer adoption of them, are rapidly changing the way publishers do business. Print isn't yet dead, but it's definitely in need of a transplant. This presentation explores successful convergence strategies for print media -- the stuff that can get it back on track -- while also glancing into the future of what publishing could ultimately become.
Below, I'm sharing the slideshow from a talk I gave on the future of print at WebVisions in Portland.
I'm heading to Portland, OR for WebVisions, which takes place May 22 - 23.
This is what the conference is about:
"Explore the future of Web design, user experience and
business strategy for two days of mind-melding on what's new in the
digital world. Get a glimpse into the future, along with practical
information that you can apply to your Web site, company and career."
"Mobile phone. Audiobook. Ereader. Social Media. Widget. What do these
all have in common? Each of these forms of digital media, and the rate
of consumer adoption of them, are rapidly changing the way publishers
do business. Print isn't yet dead, but it's definitely in need of a
transplant. This presentation explores successful convergence
strategies for print media -- the stuff that can get it back on track
-- while also glancing into the future of what publishing could
ultimately become."
In addition to speaking at the event, I'll be filing blog dispatches here in my blog, and perhaps include some photos and videos to provide futher context, as well as links to slideshows of presentations.
Also keynoting at WebVisions is Jeffrey Veen, a Design Manager for Google and one of the founding partners of Adaptive Path, who will talk about "Overcoming Chaos: Designing the Future Web"
