I just learned about the companion site to LinkedIn called SlideShare. There are thousands of presentations and other items posted there, on a variety of topics.

A few months ago I wrote a blog posting about "Tips for Presenting to an International Audience", and it received some pretty good feedback.

I decided to give this a try, using the same material, but in a different format. Of course the content of a short presentation like this is not going to have as much information as a longer article, so the last slide in the presentation contains links to my blog posting and to this web site.

The site is called SlideShare.net, and here is a direct link to my presentation.
http://www.slideshare.net/AlanHood2/tips-for-presenting-to-an-international-audience?qid=da3bbb1b-9257-4ac7-ad34-514bb19e6175&v=&b=&from_search=1

Maybe in the future I can use this site to share some more "meaty" technical topics. Those would be topics that would be appropriate for a public forum - i.e. of general interest, and without proprietary information.

Even though the site claims to have three publication modes, Public, Private with a Link, and Private, I think I would be very careful to only post information that would not cause harm if it was accidentally published to the public. (A general guideline for anything you put out onto the internet.)

Please let me know how you like it, and if there is a topic you would like to see in the future.

It has been a few months since my last blog posting. I told myself I wouldn’t do that, because I hate it when someone starts a blog – especially one that seems to have some interesting content – and then they don’t keep up with it.

What can I say? I’ve been busy, but I’ll try to do better in the future.

Since the previous entry two papers I have written for Unisys have been published. One on Agile Development with Agile Business Suite, and the other on AB Suite in the Application Lifecycle.

Both of these papers deal with application development, and ways to do it better. Even if you are not an AB Suite user you may find the paper on Agile development useful because it gives a summary of The Agile Manifesto, which is the core of all that is currently called “agile” development.  
Even though the agile development methods have only been popular for a relatively short time, most of the concepts have been around for many years. People who have been following what we previously published as the “LINC Development Methodology” were practicing something very close to modern agile development processes. These include short iterations, frequent delivery, early and continuous involvement with the users, continuous testing, feedback, and ongoing improvement. In recent years development tools have evolved, or new tools developed to assist with agile development and release, and that is essentially what these two white papers address.  
Agile Development with Agile Business Suite

AB Suite in the Application Lifecycle.