Smarter Messaging [Mike Jones, UK]

Some Values
Pipeline Data (P) = 2
Knowledge Base (K) = 2
Some CRM Package (S) = 1
Thingamy (T) = 2
Some Sums
(P * S) + (K * T) = 6
(P * T) + (K * T) = 8
Conclusion
Yay! It’s still valuable even if you don’t “put everything in it“

I once got this CD from Microsoft (perhaps the MSN team) with “What do you want to do today?” in bold black writing on an orange background. I liked it so much that I made it into a clock by ripping the guts out of an old ugly clock.

This is the phrase that came to […]

The other day I was lying in the bath thinking about the use of enforced textual hierarchies in tagging (like most people do in the bath I’m sure…). Tagging is a method for assigning words (or sometimes phrases) to an object. Most often users are presented with an empty box within which to type these […]

Data doesn’t want to be free, it wants to be knowledge!
I think I heard this on the Gillmor Gang … I’ve really got to note where I hear quotes.

I can’t remember where I heard or read the following thought (roughly speaking):
You can’t create tools that don’t reward the user if they commit anything less than 100% because they won’t get “popular”
The example they gave was of a calendar application which if you don’t put all your appointments in it you can not “trust” […]