ProjectWizards’ Dave Prior and The Project Shrink, Bas de Baar, catch up on social media and project management. Continue reading
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Points to Bas
Editing the new episode of Project Potion. Points to @projectshrink (Bas de Baar) for coming up with a reason to actually use Flipbook – to catch up on recent tweets into a specific hash tag.
The new episode includes a look back at how our use (as project leaders) of social media tools has evolved over the past 12-14 months. It should be up in a day or so.
Podcast Co-working at Coloft
This is a mirror post of Dave’s Prior entry at Project Shrink for Podcast #42.
In episode 42 of The Project Shrink podcast, Dave Prior is talking to Cameron Kashani from Coloft in Santa Monica about co-working.
According to Wikipedia: “Coworking is a style of work which involves a shared working environment, sometimes an office yet independent activity. Unlike in a typical office environment, those coworking are usually not employed by the same organization. Typically it is attractive to work-at-home professionals, independent contractors, or people who travel frequently who end up working in relative isolation.â€
Click here to watch the episode on my Youtube channel (over 250.000 views!).
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The iPad2 and Project Management
Last year when Apple unveiled the iPad, I, along with countless others were overcome with that all too familiar craving for new gear from Cupertino. Having tried and quickly abandoned several tablets running the other operating system, I was hopeful that the iPad would gain the acceptance it has rightfully earned, but as a project manager, I was mostly curious about how this new device would fit in with my job. The Windows tablets I had tried in the past always seemed to make my job harder. So, when I purchased it, I wasn’t exactly sure what I was going to do it… but like I said… The craving…
Since then I’ve found a number of ways the original iPad enables me in managing projects and best of all, I’m able to use it with Merlin. And now, we have the iPad 2. Continue reading