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Ethan Zuckerman's Liveblogging of TED 2008

If, like me, you don't happen to be attending it this year, you might want to follow Ethan Zuckerman's liveblogging of TED 2008. Recent presentations include: Irwin Redlener on suitcase nukes, Philip Zimbardo on how people turn evil, Thomas Krens on how to make museums less boring, and many others with more to come. The TED Prize itself is interesting: each winner gets $100,000 and is granted one wish to change the world. Posted: 2/28/08; 4:36:23 PM #

A Stack of Problems: Five Ways Tech Projects Fail

Our seminar on Nonprofit Technology Consulting Skills is coming up in a couple of weeks, so it seems like a good time to share some of the useful ideas from that workshop. In part 3, we explore how to prevent, compensate for, and mitigate the various problems that can come up in tech projects. In my new article: A Stack of Problems: Five Ways Tech Projects Fail, I describe five problem areas as a classic technology "stack" comprised of Business Models, Communication Maps, Interfaces, Requirements, and Architectures. Posted: 2/28/08; 2:07:19 PM #