Written by: Matthew Hile 9/24/2008 3:35 PM
I was listening to a .Net Rocks! interview of Eric Brechner, the director of engineering learning and development for Microsoft Corporation. His group is responsible for improving the people, processes, and practices of software development across Microsoft through the application of Human Performance Technology. His blog posts, I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code”, typically start with a rant and weaves that into a useful lesson in the human side of work/life. This he does is with humorous touch. He has combined a number of the more memorable posts into a book by the same name. In the show he is discussing the reception of his posts at Microsoft and mentioned that he did not expect staff to go to the external blog but would "...include it in the email I sent just minimizing the effort required to actually get the column." (about 21:47 into the podcast). I have been touting the advantages of using RSS feeds for years. In this way users can decide what they want and automagically pull new information from web sites. This is the general currency of blogs and news sites. But if Eric is needing to package his information into emails for the clearly tech savvy individuals at Microsoft I will need to rethink my insistence and come up with some alternative approach.
I was listening to a .Net Rocks! interview of Eric Brechner, the director of engineering learning and development for Microsoft Corporation. His group is responsible for improving the people, processes, and practices of software development across Microsoft through the application of Human Performance Technology. His blog posts, I. M. Wright’s “Hard Code”, typically start with a rant and weaves that into a useful lesson in the human side of work/life. This he does is with humorous touch. He has combined a number of the more memorable posts into a book by the same name.
In the show he is discussing the reception of his posts at Microsoft and mentioned that he did not expect staff to go to the external blog but would "...include it in the email I sent just minimizing the effort required to actually get the column." (about 21:47 into the podcast).
I have been touting the advantages of using RSS feeds for years. In this way users can decide what they want and automagically pull new information from web sites. This is the general currency of blogs and news sites. But if Eric is needing to package his information into emails for the clearly tech savvy individuals at Microsoft I will need to rethink my insistence and come up with some alternative approach.
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Re: Even nerds need an email!? See, I TOLD you not everyone was as active in gathering information as you are!
Re: Even nerds need an email!?
See, I TOLD you not everyone was as active in gathering information as you are!