"Question: How do I manage two separate products on the same platform?
I am responsible for two products that use the same underlying code, but I have to plan out the new features. Should I try to get a few upgrades to each product or release upgrades for each product separately?"
A good tip: configure your CMS' WYSIWYG Editor to support semantic markup, not just plain styling. This gives you more control about content and presentation.
You can change iTunes' genre icons for genres that do not have a correct icon out of the box or for genres that have an icon you do not like. A flickr pool is a good find for icons other users have created.
"Branding by bullet point. Really bad idea.
Why do companies do this? I think one reason is that they don't want to miss any potential business. Therefore, they feel compelled, on websites, on collateral, and in presentations, to list off every conceivable thing they do. In a live presentation, it's one of the quickest ways to start the audience on a business nap."
Even if school teachers tell differently, there are powerful reasons to use repetition in your copywriting: repeat for clarity, repeat for certainty, repeat for comic effect, repeat for poetry.
MBA Speak, Geek Speak, No Speak, Weak Speak. Try to avoid this at all cost.
"Just open Terminal (/Applications/Utilities/) and type in the following command:
defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true"
Seth Gottlieb's evil tactics for spreading Wiki-adoption in MS Word-infected organizations: "This method works even better if you have a co-conspiritor working with you doing the same thing. During the process, watch out for signs of mental instability or fragility and remove all sharp objects from the office. Make sure that the Employee Assistance Program posters are visible and well placed."
Sign-in forms to social software should be bound to a specific action of engagement. If you want to vote, you should sign in to vote. This keeps the user's context and preserves the interaction flow.
Big organizations fail to innovate, because success is measured by margins and risks, which might be low for innovative products. If product managers evangelize using the Product Opportunity Gap Model looking at economic, business and technology factors from the point of view of existing products, innovation becomes possible.
Good collection of market insight on making money in the Enterprise SaaS market as a startup, and how to get funded.
Where Open Source development practices and Enterprise 2.0 knowledge work meet. It's not the tools, it's the methodologies.
- mailinglists, wikis and IRC
- vision and tasks
- holding sprints (hackatons for developers)
- componentizing
- committership and community roles
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