We just completed our first major virtual workshop. We had people in 8 different locations spread across 7 timezones and 4 countries. When we first planned this workshop, we had planned to run it in the traditional way: fly everyone in to a central location where we...

This article caught my eye today. I'm always watching out for interesting new approaches to education and funding for higher education is one of many challenges we just have to figure out. There's arguably a student loan bubble as we've encouraged people to go to...

As one of my colleagues (John Justice) mentioned last week, being at the mercy of the Cloud can be challenging. I haven't been able to log into Blogger (which I use to create this blog) for about 10 days. I'm back in, but it was really a pain to be at the mercy of...

Yes, I'm the kind of girl that had the foresight to buy the blog domain as soon as I had an engagement ring, but it took me more a little time after getting married to figure out how to transfer over my blogger account and then get my old www.lisabreytspraak.com...

By now, most people heard about Amazon's cloud computing disaster which left countless websites and companies with tools supported by Amazon's ....scrambling to get reconnected. Amazon's (business unit) data center outage on the East coast caused the company the flex...

This weekend, I had an argument with a friend about the marketshare of various mobile suppliers. He was arguing that Google 's Android was now the top Operating System. I thought he was nuts.Well, I can admit when I'm wrong. As the chart to the left shows, Android has...

Every time I describe Moore's law to someone who hasn't heard of it before, they often say something like "Yes, well, its held up so far, but I've heard that we're about to hit the end of it." Well, IBM has once again shown that human beings can be pretty creative....

I stumbled across an interesting infographic the other day. I've capture the media section for those that don't want to click through.I'm not sure I agree with all of it, but it definitely contains some eye opening Mac vs. PC nuggets. I would never consider myself a...

OK, I just had to do something scary and I'm going to admit it to all of you. First, I must admit that I moved into my husband's house in January and I have never actually turned on the TV, let alone attempted to operate the DVR or DVD player. Honestly, there might...

For the last few weeks, my colleagues and I have talked extensively about employee motivation and a particular book that details this discussion, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. One of those colleagues actually beat me to the punch on part of this...

One of my colleagues, just wrote a fun article about the gadget that first captured his interest when he was a kid: the Commodore 64. I know exactly what he means. For me, it was the Atari 2600. We’d had gaming consoles before, but this was the first one you could...

One of the most common phrases we hear in the modern business lexicon is "You can't manage what you can't measure." This phrase was originally created by Tom DeMarco, one of the pioneers of the use of technology in businesses and a pioneer in project management. Based...

I'm feeling a little nostalgic this morning. The WSJ included an article about the rebirth of an 80's classic, the Commodore 64 computer. This 2011 reincarnation of that classic computer is definitely light years more robust. It was never cosmetically sexy, but during...

This article about Paul Allen's new book was in the Wall Street journal yesterday and I found it an interesting read. Not only does the article introduce some of the more inflammatory ideas Allen conveys in the book, but it really draws the curtain back one of the...

I really liked this article on CIO http://www.cio.com/article/674763/8_IT_Cliches_That_Must_Go.I particularly liked #3 (in fact, it cracked me up a bit): "We have never seen anyone else implement our software/hardware in quite the same way that you have." I've heard...