Entries from June 2009

June 18, 2009

Prezi, an antidote to boredom

You know the feeling. Another PowerPoint. Another on screen treatise/eye test. Too many words. Too few pictures. What’s for lunch?
Launched two months ago, Prezi is a Hungarian made tool that helps prevent you, the presenter, from falling into the PowerPoint, glazed eyeballs rut. Last week at a seminar to government and financial services types, I [...]

June 12, 2009

Elastic Communications in a Crisis

In an earthquake, well designed buildings in Japan absorb shocks by separating the building from the base, by using deformable building materials or with internal counter balances.  Buildings are more elastic.  Communications in a crisis also need to be elastic, to absorb shockwaves. In a crisis, services, technology, people and resources you take for granted [...]