A thing my sister likes to do
Some evenings after supper
Is sit upstairs in her small room
And use her Thinker-Upper
She turns her Thinker-Upper on.
She lets it softly purr.
It thinks up friendly little things
With smiles and and fuzzy fur.
She sometimes does this by the hour.
Then when she’s tired of play,
She turns on her UN-Thinker
And un-thinks the things [...]
In addition to the keynote “Tearing Down the Ivory Tower of Testing,” I will be teaching two half-day tutorials at the SQuAD 2009 Software Quality Conference in Denver -
Performance Testing Fundamentals
Testing Tools: Broaden Your Horizons
See the brochure at the link above for more information. The conference is March 11-12, 2009, and I hope to see [...]
After resisting joining yet another social networking site, I have recently been using Facebook to keep in touch with friends. I also see many business contacts on Facebook who I don’t know well enough to invite as a personal friend. I’ve found a way to touch base with business contacts - a Facebook page for [...]
And now for a bit of networking silliness. LinkedIn seems to be touting the fact that Bill Gates is a customer. I found this near the top of most of the pages on LinkedIn -
Explore People Search: Harvard - Vice President at Googleмебели - Bill Gates
I had looked at a few users named Bill Gates [...]
I’m a frequent user of some of the online networking services, but there are just so many of them, I only focus on a few. A recent communication led me down a convoluted trail through several of them.
It started with with a message from a new contact on LinkedIn, saying I might be interested in [...]
If you’re a LinkedIn.com user and want to discuss tips for using LinkedIn and networking in general, there’s a new resource for you - the TopLinkedIn mailing list. The list was founded by Marc Freedman after the LinkedInnovators list was shut down. I volunteered to help Marc moderate the list. I think Marc and I [...]
When I’m planning a business trip, I head over to LinkedIn.com to see who I know in the region I’m traveling to. I’m usually surprised to get a reminder of all the people I know or want to get to know who are nearby.
I recently booked a three day trip to Boston to teach [...]
Marc Freedman, still the undisputed top networker in the Dallas area, invited me to speak at his event on Tuesday, December 4. Come by and cheer me on if you’re in the area. These events focus on sharing information about using LinkedIn.
Marc says,
If you’re in or happen to be visiting Dallas, I invite you to [...]
I recently got a call from someone about doing some work for his company. It’s a well-known company, but I didn’t know anyone who works there and I knew nothing about what kind of work culture they had. While I was waiting to arrange an interview time, I visited LinkedIn.com to do some research. I’d [...]
A few years ago, I got burned out on conferences. I wasn’t getting the feedback scores from my presentations I was hoping for, and I couldn’t afford the time and expense of the trips. It was time to lay low for a while. I did go to STAR East last year when a client of [...]