How technology changed us !!!!
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Friday, June 13, 2008
SocialCalc - a new online spreadsheet
Zoho, Google Spreadsheets, EditGrid ... you have competition!!
Our traditional analytical tools--whether Visicalc, Lotus 1-2-3, Excel, or even Google spreadsheets--have done a great job enabling us to crunch the numbers. But they've made it really really hard to talk about the numbers we were crunching. There's no good way in Excel to explain where the figure in Cell I-57 came from. There's no good way to ask whether the growth projection in Y-163 feels reasonable to the rest of the team.Source: http://michaeli.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/lets-talk-about-numbers.html
What a concept...talk about the numbers. If you've done a lot of modeling, you know that the hard part isn't the mechanics of the model; it's the reasonableness and consistency of the assumptions, the accuracy of the inputs, and the strength of the modeling logic.
What's different about SocialCalc - and I think it's really fundamental--is that SocialCalc is integrated into a wiki. You can drop a spreadsheet into a wiki page. You can drop wiki text into a spreadsheet. You can link from a spreadsheet to a wiki page that explains where the numbers came from. In short, you can talk about the numbers.
New age education for Kids
http://www.kidzmatter.com
Replace the words "church / ministry" with "schools/ coaching classes" in the paragraph above - and you've got a winner business for the Indian marketplace
Here .. take a look at the product range https://www.kidzmatter.com/engine.cfm?mid=2
What's more - they have all the other pieces of the web 2.0 jigsaw for their niche community - a forum to connect pastors, a small online marketplace (like eBay) where other sellers can sell their own custom products.
Their about us page
KidzMatter partners with churches to make an eternal impact in the lives of kids. We're here to help you, whether you're a Sunday School teacher or a vocational children's pastor. We want to help you succeed in ministry.
KidzMatter provides the best cutting-edge resources in the field. This includes curriculum, music, games and more! Many of these resources are available as instant downloads and can be used immediately in ministry.
... a team of creative people that help pull off our events, publications, website and the many other facets of this ministry. Need help with a PowerPoint game? We can help. Looking for a new song to use tonight in your kids club? Got it. Downloadable training for your team? Bingo. We'll work hard to get you what you need so you can make a difference in the lives of kids.
Replace the words "church / ministry" with "schools/ coaching classes" in the paragraph above - and you've got a winner business for the Indian marketplace
Here .. take a look at the product range https://www.kidzmatter.com/engine.cfm?mid=2
What's more - they have all the other pieces of the web 2.0 jigsaw for their niche community - a forum to connect pastors, a small online marketplace (like eBay) where other sellers can sell their own custom products.
Their about us page
Purple Cow is a Purple Cow only if people actually care about it
More ideas .. more Purple Cows
Airlines have bad "food." Law firms are dull. You're required to wait in line at the supermarket. Customer support reps are difficult to understand. Visits to the doctor's office involve a boring wait in a drab waiting room.http://jonathanbostrom.com/blog/?p=10What if you changed one of those things? What if the waiting room was turned into a multimedia experience? What if your customer support reps were retired radio announcers? What if checkout at the grocery store were eliminated by a walk-through scanner that totaled all your items and charged your credit card?
What an idea!
Here's a Purple Cow of real estate :-)
http://www.roommates.com
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http://www.roommates.com
Roommates.com is a roommate finder and roommate search service which covers thousands of cities nationwide. Currently, Roommates.com is the Web's most popular roommate matching service, receiving over 50,000 visits and 1,000,000 page views per day. Let us help you find the perfect roommate.
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The Purple Cow ... marketing in the e-age
First, build an audience that wants to hear from you. Second, create something they want to talk about and make it easy for them to do so.
Seth Godin on his blog, recounting the Purple Cow story...
As of now .. I am quite motivated to read this book "The Purple Cow" - a new age bible for marketeers. But before that, there's too much on the blogs to catch up .. just Google and start reading more about it ...
More Purple cow links
Monday, June 9, 2008
Google's 20% model explained
Source: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_19/b4083054277984.htmCan other companies emulate Google's famous model of letting engineers spend about 20% of their time on projects outside their main job?
The story of innovation [is] a small team of people who have a new idea, typically not understood by people around them and their executives. [This (the 20% model) is] a systematic way of making sure a middle manager does not eliminate that innovation. If you're the employee and I'm the manager, and I sit down and say, "Our product's late, and you screwed up, and you gotta work on this really hard," you can legally say to me, "I will give you everything I've got, 80% of [my time]."
It means the managers can't screw around with the employees beyond some limit. I believe that this innovation escape-valve model is applicable to essentially every business that has technology as a component.
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