Comments on: Dogear-Nation – Episode 55 – Get it?

By: Mikael Haglund

Mikael Haglund — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:58:59 +0000

I tried downloading this episode and …. I got it!

Excellent One of the best episodes thus far both content and sound-wise. Keep up the good work (and I’ll try and catch up – just in time for the next show I guess).

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:42:06 +0000

Triple T Sweettt.com

By: Andy Piper

Andy Piper — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:01:59 +0000

Hi Michael… actually the last two episodes showed up with really odd timings in iTunes and on my iPod… 1.5 and 2 hours respectively even though they were “normal” length. It’s weird.

By the way, the audio quality is so much better now… and I’m glad you shortened the intro piece, it works better shorter.

By: David S. ( @seemsArtless )

David S. ( @seemsArtless ) — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:35:30 +0000

Ah, THREE T’s, I tried 1 and 2, but three worked, thanks.

By: MichaelRowe

MichaelRowe — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:45:27 +0000

We’ve had some people report that this week’s show is coming in at over 2 hours. Please drop us a note at dogearnation@gmail.com if you are experiencing this problem.

By: MichaelRowe

MichaelRowe — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:55:37 +0000

The site is http://sweettt.com thanks for the reminder.

By: David S. ( @seemsArtless )

David S. ( @seemsArtless ) — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:03:35 +0000

I was having some trouble skipping through this week’s show, but did you mention a site called Sweet with two T’s? I don’t see it on the links above, though…

By: Michael Martine

Michael Martine — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:37:41 +0000

Stephen — thank you for the thoughtful post! It is easy to be exhuberant (perhaps even irrationally so) when talking about the next technology wave. You capture the spirit around collaboration very well — the technology is a means to the end of getting to the right person/answer in a frictionless way.

I’m kind of jealous of Matt attending the E2.0 conference in person. Following the Tweets isn’t quite the same experience.

Thanks again for your comments. Guess we may have doubled our listeners this week, knowing you dialed us in.

Michael M

By: Stephen Collins

Stephen Collins — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:01:36 +0000

Hey, Matt! Thanks for the namedrop and generous assessment. It was very cool to meet you at E2.0.

As to the other guys’ thoughts on Kool-Aid and evangelism, I get you. My focus is on getting organisations and people understanding how to communicate properly – across departmental boundaries, between people and up and down the org chart.

I want my clients, as much as possible, to break down blocks to sharing and communicating with each other. If they use a wiki or a blog, or Connections, Sharepoint or Clearspace, or even 3×5 index cards, I don’t much care. So long as they get better internal communications and sharing and then extend it to communicating with their clients and stakeholders outside when they’re ready for that step.

Sure, *I’ve* drunk the Kool-Aid, but it’s up to me to convince my clients that there are real benefits in moves like this for them. That can be hard, and the best metrics are pretty soft – no dollar terms, rather things like ease of finding the info or person you need to answer a question and whether that’s faster now than it was before we made changes. C-levels can struggle with that, but when they get a steady stream of people hanging on their office door saying stuff is better than before, the value gets proved.

I’d love to talk more about it with you some time.