I recently wrote a guest post for the Brainmates Product Management blog looking at the lessons that we as product managers can draw from what has been happening in the world of Government 2.0.
I highlighted in my last post here that I believe we are now entering the trough of disillusionment for Government 2.0, and the more I have thought about these two subject areas, the more I have come to realise that it is during this phase in the lifecycle of any technology initiative that Product Managers become key. Be they established Product Managers in established companies or Entrepreneurs acting as Product Managers for their Big Idea, the principles taught to us at Product Management school are key to emerging from the trough onto the slope, or crossing Geoffry Moore’s Chasm, or surviving the cynic-generated chaos of this critical technology life stage. Read More
On Podiums and their (hopefully) impending demise
There is a great post today by David Gurteen proposing the burning of all podiums at conferences. (Check out the picture – there really is someone speaking behind that particular podium!)
Hear, Hear!
I get constantly frustrated when expected to remain in a single position, behind what is effectively a barrier to communication, when presenting. Worse still is that often in this scenario I am expected to use fixed mics limiting not only body movement but head movement as well. Often the podium becomes the focus of the lighting such that if the conference session is being recorded to video then even if I wanted to move from behind the podium I couldnt because it would screw up the video recording.
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