Posted on April 21st, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Blogging, Entrepreneurship
OK, not really. Elance posted a nice article about the way I use Elance to source service providers for different projects. I recently contracted a design house to develop a new WordPress template for me. You are viewing the end product. What do you think? Here is part of the Elance article: Meet Carel Bekker, a technology expert, [...]
Posted on March 3rd, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Blogging
OK, I assume you know that this is Robert Scobler‘s list of 21 tips for writing a corporate blog. It’s called the The Corporate Weblog Manifesto and he wrote it in February 2003. It’s still valid today. You can download the manifesto from changethis.com. Btw, Scrobleizer launched his new channel, ScobleizerTV today. Guy Kawasaki always [...]
Posted on February 19th, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Blogging, Technology
OM Malik’s post on Scribd’s iPaper prompted me to try this service and so far I am very intrigued by the possibilities. It’s easy to sign up and the viewer works great. Here is NOT an example of an embedded document. I couldn’t get it to work on my blog (It may be an issue [...]
Posted on January 9th, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Blogging, Technology
I’m using tumblr.com to blog about interesting web items. These are typically a link with one or two sentences of text. Do you have a tumblelog? How do you use it?
Posted on January 3rd, 2008 by Carel
Filed under Blogging, Business, Technology
I attended SoCon07 last year and really enjoyed it. SoCon08 will be held at the University of Kennesaw, just North of Atlanta from February 8-9, 2008. You can register here. It’s not free like ’07 — this year it’s $43 for the full 1.5 days (including a Networking Dinner) or $15 for the Saturday. It’s [...]
Posted on December 7th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Blogging, Technology
Well, not really… I recently started to see that many blog URLS omit the www. prefix, e.g., using only blog.beyond438.com instead of “www.blog.beyond438.com”, or “jeffnolan.com” instead of www.jeffnolan.com. Read all about the deprecation (I had to look up the word) of “www.”. The no-www.org site seems to be the definitive source. It’s a quick read [...]
Posted on October 2nd, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Blogging, Business, Leadership
I’ll be attending the Catalyst 2007 conference at the Arena in Gwinnett County, just North of Atlanta, Oct 4-5, 2007. This conference usually draws over 10,000 people and is aimed at sharing leadership insights with young, upcoming leaders. It’s a great event with an impressive list of speakers including: John C. Maxwell – author of [...]
Posted on June 28th, 2007 by Carel
Here are a few interesting HCM/HR blogs that I read frequently. Let me know what you think of these? Btw, will you be attending the HR Tech conference in Chicago in October. Why are you going? I’m not sure if I want to attend so I’m asking for some feedback. HCM Blogs: Human Capitalist My [...]
Posted on June 6th, 2007 by Carel
Today I decided to switch from Apple’s iWeb to WordPress for my business blogging. I will migrate the old blog entries over time. Here is the link to my old blog: http://web.mac.com/cbekker/iWeb/CarelsBlog/Blog/Blog.html
Posted on April 29th, 2007 by Carel
Filed under Blogging, Green Energy, Leadership, SAP
Shai Agassi recently left SAP AG to pursue other interests including alternative energy. Here is the press release. He is still a technology consultant to SAP with an office in Palo Alto. His post-SAP blog is called the Long Tailpipe. You can also find a great podcast here that he recently delivered at Stanford. What [...]
