Ideas, stories & questions
I take it like me many folk run into this issue and based on my experience it seems not many people bother to fix it. But I can’t help myself as its annoying
The fix is pretty simple, go to file à options then Privacy options and then uncheck the box next to “Remove personal information from file properties on save”
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I’ve just moved my WordPress site again, I was running it on Azure using Project Nami for about the last 3 years. I’ve decided to move to another hosting option to reduce my maintenance workload (FYI it was not high but).
Anyway I cut over the DNS a little quickly and used an automated content migration tool which side not work out the best. In the end I had to manual migrate over a couple of old posts, which was fine but…. turned out that I lost some old images.
I ended up fishing around in azure and found the App Service Editor which is in preview! Click click click and boom I’ve got my lost images back
It feels like if you are not talking about crypto, blockchain, AI or machine learning you are out of the loop…… or maybe you are missing out on something. There is certainly a lot going on in the space but the question for me is where do you spend your time learning? The reality is you have to learn a little to understand if you need or want to learn a lot, also its helpful if the learning relates to what you do during the day.
Of recent I’ve been playing with Crypto currencies like every other person, after all www.coinbase.com made has made it easy……. But in additional to this I’ve been trying to get more informed. I’ve been checking out http://blockchain.global/blockchain-innovation/ as a podcast plus reading a bunch of stuff, it feels like information overload currently.
With regards to Blockchain I’ve been trying focusing on what Microsoft is doing in the space as my day job relates to the Microsoft world. The following are some of the resources I’ve checked out.
The Microsoft Coco Framework
This is interesting as it will allow the standard Microsoft Development company to leverage the skills that they already have inhouse to some degree, also as a framework it looks like it starts to address some of the common requests a standard business customer asks for.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/announcing-microsoft-s-coco-framework-for-enterprise-blockchain-networks/ here is a summary video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s6JMmGJ-dY about Coco
Also check out this web interview if you want to understand a little more from one of the key guys at Microsoft on Coco https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWuipzXYyiU
This was an interesting post to provide some food for thought https://semiengineering.com/blockchain-hype-reality-and-opportunities/
Another interesting post that I ran into https://github.com/Azure/azure-blockchain-projects/blob/master/bletchley/bletchley-whitepaper.md
On top of all the reading I keep coming back to WHY? Why do a blockchain based project and will the ROI be realized? I guess with all “new” things you have to force a fit to validate the why, the forcing motion just needs to be balanced, measured and monitored. Over time we will see more and more examples come to life to help us understand the practical implementations. I spotted http://id2020.org/ today which feels like a great example and http://www.diamonds.net/news/NewsItem.aspx?ArticleID=59618 and UNICEF is putting some money on the table https://www2.fundsforngos.org/news/unicef-funding-opportunity-for-blockchain-start-ups/
Time will tell where this all lands but its looking interesting.
We have so many tools available to us to collaborate with people these days, but we also have habits of the past. I do a lot of meetings and a lot of them are with folk that are not in the same location (or time zone as me) & therefore I use Skype for Business meetings a lot. Well in fact Delve tells me that I do a lot of meetings!
I feel that some people make it harder for others to join meetings than they need to, I’ll step you through my view of the world and please let me know what you think. Am I on cr$#k or not?
The situation
You are meeting with an internal person or two but also require an external person to join the meeting. Because you have an external person joining you cannot really rely on them having S4B (Skype for Business) or knowing how to use it (unless you have done calls with them in the past, but even then they could still have issues).
Approach 1. Book the meeting and say you will dial me in
Approach 2. Book the meeting every time with a Skype for Business invite and dial in the external.
Summary
I see why people do option one as getting externals to use sb4 can be an issue. A simple solution would be to book two meetings or add a comment to the email when inviting the external person explaining their options
If they come back to you with questions do a test call before the big meeting, also ask your IT team to provide a cheat sheet PDF that you can send to an external to help them join the call. Simple things make life simple, a couple of goals for this new year could be
