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Delivered a presentation at Microsoft this week, at their fab offices in Victoria, London.

Met up with some old friends too, like Anneleen Vaandrager, 20 years in the industry – great to get together with such good people every so often. Also saw a breathtaking demo of Silverlight from Microsoft – what a cool product. I especially love Deep Zoom! The Hard Rock photo demo was outstanding, Andy (Sithers), great job.

Need for Speed

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It took 50 years for the landline telephone to be adopted by the masses.
3 billion mobile phones were sold last year.
3 billion more will be sold by 2010.
It took just 5 years for CDs to overtake the vinyl record market (I loved those covers).
We are living deep in a digital world…moving from Yellow Pages to Google, car boot sales to ebay, wine bars to dating websites.
Are we keeping up? Are we influencing this new world?

Dubai development and technology

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Just returned from Dubai, where I presented at the HelpDesk Institute’s annual conference on developments in technology underpinned by skilled people.
The adoption of technology in the Middle East equals the 24/7 construction of quite stunning new tower blocks and residences. The Burj Tower now stands at over 600 metres high, and they are not finished! The local population welcomes change and new technology with open arms, witnessed by the incredible adoption of mobile technology at an average of 1.7 phones for every person in the UAE. The speed at which change is taking place is impressive, and they say they are yet to reach 50% of their development plans – personally, I really enjoy Dubai.

Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide

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Teachers are being rated by students and parents alike at http://www.ratemyteachers.com/.
Nobody can stop this wave of change.
What’s next – will we rate our doctors, our supermarkets, our insurance providers and the restaurants we eat in?
Martha & the Vandellas were right back in 1965, “Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide”, I can hear it now!

Bloggers, Gameplayers, Facebookers – Tomorrow’s Workforce

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Companies are very defensive about their staff on Facebook, MySpace and Youtube, and yet we could all so easily turn these to our advantage. For the first time, the Net Generation are authorities on something really important – for them these tools and technologies are part of their birthright. Kids can run 5 instant message windows at the same time, chat and multi-game play; this is perfectly normal for tomorrow’s workforce.
What are we doing to attract and engage them?
Are we on their terms?
They are our workforce and our customers of tomorrow!
A storm is gathering Mr Corporate – a new force in business is emerging with this new technology – mass collaboration – and the self-contained, inwardly looking company is dying…