Jun 30, 2006 | blog
I was convinced of that today during a meeting at work. I’ve been planting the blogging seeds at work for several months, with some success at the IT management level, but was reminded quite aggressively by a coworker that some people have a real hard time with something new.
To some people, change brings disruption, uncertainty, fear, and anger. Obviously they don’t understand what a blog is for or what it can be utilized for. The reaction I experienced today has made me certain that there are some people that you simply can’t reach. Their ability to grasp new concepts and really understand the significance of the difference from existing ideas is a wall blocking their ability to learn new skills.
The amazing thing to me is that intelligent people actually fear things. Rather than take a minute or two and actually listen to a quick explanation or demonstration, they simply make knee-jerk assumption and move on, not knowing what they missed.
Oh well, more opportunity for me!
UPDATE: If anyone is interested in a tactic to address some of the things I’ve talked about here – check out Ann Michael’s post The Change Resistors: Snipers on her Manage To Change blog. There are some great tips on dealing with individuals who enjoy shooting down ideas simply because of lack of understanding.
Jun 30, 2006 | blog
This week was the week from hell. It just seemed like everyone was overworked, overtired, overstressed, and trying not to let it get to them too much. Maybe its the run-up to one of the biggest holiday weekends of the year, but work just seemed not to let up all week.
Ugh, glad to be out of the office and away from everyone for awhile – I think everyone needs it.
Jun 29, 2006 | blog
Jason Fuller has posted about a new version of Virtual Earth Mobile v1.64 on the Windows Mobile Team Blog. If your interested, you can read the post, or download directly from here.
Jun 29, 2006 | blog
msmobiles.com is reporting that Ateksoft has released CoolCamera 1.12.5. Operating as either a camera or camcorder, the new version sports some improvements over the standard camera software.
Supported on a wide variety of HTC devices, the software supports higher frame rates and smoother video. Check out the msmobiles.com site for more details and the download link for the software.
Jun 29, 2006 | blog
Wednesday was Robert Scoble’s last day at Microsoft. Though he didn’t talk about Microsoft at all, he did post some interesting topics (as usual)! One is a neat video tour of Carnegie Mellon’s robotics lab – check out his post here.
I think Robert is giving us an idea of where his focus is shifting too with the new job. It looks to be quite interesting – I’ve not really followed video bloggers, so I’m kind of interested in what is developing in that area.
