The Playmakers Bible…
Alan Kelly went to ground for a year or so and is now back with what looks to be a terrific book on “Playmaking“. Looks like this seasons ‘must read’ for communicators.
You run plays. Plays are run on you. Every organization and every person runs plays to increase their relative competitive advantage in busy marketplaces. Some do it well. Some try to avoid it. Some do it directly. Some use surrogates. Some run one play at a time. Some run many simultaneously. Almost all do so on instinct but fewer with the support of stated objectives, policies and augmenting research.
You can read more on his site “The Playmakers Standard“. Or download the intro and sample chapter. I’ll post a review once I get my copy.
That Internet Explorer Thing
As Microsoft looks to force everyone onto Internet Explorer 7 – which is stunning BTW – let me share a couple of experiences.
First, it is a terrific browser. Arguably the best out there. With integrated RSS and apps like Onfolio it is a big leap forward over past Microsoft browsers and rivals anything on the market. I’ve got my delicious plug-ins installed and Google notebook.
As Steve suggests, it ushers in a new world for RSS. With a hook. I’m also running the new version of Office (beta). So, I collect all my feeds in Explorer – so far so good. Then it syncs those feeds with Outlook. Good at first. Then my Outlook inbox fills with feeds and bingo, my mailbox exceeds its limit. I’ve got feeds but no mail. Not good. And no clear way to stop the feeds syncing other that to manually delete them in Outlook. Hopefully Microsoft will fix this in the next betas of Office. Also, the feeds in Onfolio seemed not to sync with the feeds in Explorer or Outlook.
So, Microsoft is 100% of the way there in terms of competing with other browsers but 30% of the way there in terms of its own product suite when it comes to RSS. Maybe. I’m sure I’m missing something.
Either way, it’s a great browser.
Want Some Free Wine?
I’m back dabbling with my Powerbook after a catastrophic hard disk failure. Having been stuck in the world of I.E. 7 and Firefox it is really apparent now how far Safari has fallen behind. Can’t seem to find delicious plug-ins or an imbeded blog posting tool. No bookmark syncing to other browsers on other OSs. And so much more.
But that isn’t my big problem. I built our family’s site and photo album using iWeb. It seems though that should your instance of iWeb get nuked you can’t import your existing site and keep going. The site is sitting there on my iDisk but how do you get it back into iWeb and keep using it? So, if anyone can tell me how to restore my .Mac hosted site created in iWeb back into iWeb I will send you some stunning wine.
iWeb was Ok to begin with but without an import feature that enables you to import and edit your existing iWeb sites it is really a bit of a joke. Am I missing something here?
New Travel Blog
The new travelgearblog flagged Wallpaper’s City Guides.
Manresa’s Got A Blog
My fave Valley restaurant has got a blog. And they just picked-up two Michelin stars.
Manresa is the proud recipient of two Michelin stars in the newly released Michelin Guide San Francisco Bay Area & Wine Country 2007. “This is a tremendous honor,” said David Kinch. “In 30 years of working in restaurants, Michelin has always been my bible when traveling. To be in it is a big deal because it’s read and respected worldwide.” Manresa is among only four restaurants in the Bay Area to receive two Michelin stars while The French Laundry is the only Bay Area restaurant to win three stars.
