IBM ShortCuts Podcast - Podcasts for IT Management by IBM.

    An interesting company is IBM - it has a lot of initiatives and internal projects, which can be devoted to half life only by studying the results of work and research of various departments. It is rarely true that something comes out and loudly declaring itself - most of the developments integrate with current products and services so that after a while already try the calculations as a separate part. But in this case we are talking about a separate product, or rather, a service that IBM promotes for IT management and other people who are more responsible for management and prospects, analytics, and not directly the development itself (it means that the developers are “geeks” , that is, and so in the course of all, all the most new-fangled stuff).



    The project was carried out in the theme of the modern Web2.0 direction and is a podcast service that IBM decided to rename ShortCuts - that is, very short issues devoted to the analysis of some narrow specific topic or issue. They are really short - the average length is about 5 minutes, although there are longer - for example, a podcast on the Lotusphere 2007 conferencetook almost 8 minutes. But unlike typical podcasts, they are still short for half an hour or an hour of pure time. After all, it is precisely the audience to which they are intended that does not have so much idle time to listen to watch programs. But to find about 5 minutes in order to find out over a cup of coffee the answers to questions of current interest to the Internet sphere, such as “what is microblogging”, or “how to structure a wiki”. Of course, it was not without the co-theme “What is this Web 2.0,” the discussion of which fit in exactly 5 minutes and 2 seconds. And you say - do not understand :)


    In my opinion, the project is very successful, and its positioning is just perfect. In reality, busy people, who are managers of all levels, have neither the time nor the opportunity to re-read tons of simply articles written mostly technically very seriously by developers for developers (and often for IT maniacs in general) - for them it’s all a dense forest and weak perceived concepts. But you just can’t dismiss it - there is a trend on the scale of the entire Internet and is not disappearing anywhere. So you need to all the same somehow understand and saddle him. And here is just what you need - serious specialists quite qualitatively (in all terms of the word, from the choice and construction of phrases to the technical quality of the recording) convey to all those who are busy and in a hurry to catch a “party in life” exactly what everyone around is talking about , but no one knows exactly and is afraid to ask ... At the same time, you can train your English - after all, all shortcasts are in English. As long as there are only 32 podcasts in the collection (although I still haven’t found other ones except those on the first page of the service) , and strangely enough, the link to the archive leads nowhere), but the releases are followed regularly, and the RSS feed will not let you miss a topic of interest to you. Each issue is accompanied by both streaming and a download file, as well as a (very nice and useful feature) transcription in PDF format. Of course, you can comment on the issues and ask your questions - it is quite possible to hear an exhaustive answer from the mouths of the experts of the blue giant in one morning. except for those that are placed on the first page of the service, I never found, and strangely enough, the link to the archive leads nowhere), but the releases are followed regularly, and the RSS feed will not let you miss the topic you are interested in. Each issue is accompanied by both streaming and a download file, as well as a (very nice and useful feature) transcription in PDF format. Of course, you can comment on the issues and ask your questions - it is quite possible to hear an exhaustive answer from the mouths of the experts of the blue giant in one morning. except for those that are placed on the first page of the service, I never found, and strangely enough, the link to the archive leads nowhere), but the releases are followed regularly, and the RSS feed will not let you miss the topic you are interested in. Each issue is accompanied by both streaming and a download file, as well as a (very nice and useful feature) transcription in PDF format. Of course, you can comment on the issues and ask your questions - it is quite possible to hear an exhaustive answer from the mouths of the experts of the blue giant in one morning. as well as a (very nice and useful feature) transcription in PDF format. Of course, you can comment on the issues and ask your questions - it is quite possible to hear an exhaustive answer from the mouths of the experts of the blue giant in one morning. as well as a (very nice and useful feature) transcription in PDF format. Of course, you can comment on the issues and ask your questions - it is quite possible to hear an exhaustive answer from the mouths of the experts of the blue giant in one morning.

    It is highly recommended to everyone who wants to learn about the most interesting trends in the IT world, or just get a short clear answer to the global questions of "Internet being." The original is published on the author’s personal blog - abrdev.com

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