This is Eric Long's Typepad Profile.
Join Typepad and start following Eric Long's activity
Eric Long
Digital product management & development strategist focusing on omni-channel, mass customization (product configurators), and considered-purchase e-commerce.
Recent Activity
Having a Gmail account is definitely a key enabler to making hangouts go smoothly, in my opinion. Our team uses hangouts daily (amongst ourselves) and we're all Gmail users (personal accounts).
To cross over to sending invites to colleagues at their work email address instead of the Gmail address is where the problems definitely arise, and then it is further exacerbated by first-time users who don't have Google+ profiles activated.
It's an acquired taste but a wonderful tool for geographically distributed teams that rely on video communication on a daily basis. I can't say enough about how effective it is at making it feel like you're having a face-to-face meeting with multiple people across locations...provided they can all login successfully.
Why I Totally Hate Google Hangouts!
Google Hangouts on Air make me feel stupid. I’ve agreed to do about 20 interviews via Google Hangouts on Air and every time I’ve tried to log onto one, there has been a problem. My technology failure makes me look dim-witted I don’t like that feeling one bit. In most cases, the problem is proba...
This is definitely the "checking the box" syndrome -- my personal favorite is when the hotel "gym" is a regular hotel room with the door removed from the hinges, a couple treadmills placed in the center of the room, and a TV mounted on the wall. Maybe a little water cooler for an added bonus.
It's interesting how the gym experience varies across the same hotel brands (but in different cities), too. Makes it feel like it's a case-by-case decision and whether or not the local budget can afford bikes, treadmills, dumbbells, AND loud music. Unfortunately bikes and loud music are top on the list...probably because they are the cheapest and the more expensive equipment is for "Phase 2."
Three out of four customers annoyed
I have exercised in over 100 hotel gyms. Some are great, fully outfitted with the latest gear. Some are tired and broken down. Today as I was doing my morning workout, I was thinking about how these rooms get put together. Does any hotel developer actually interview potential guests before they ...
Agree with comments above - while these questions are more on principles of statistics than actual analysis of data, when talking stats-type questions with marketers to measure aptitude, I prefer a live discussion around questions to evaluate HOW someone thinks about data and analysis. Since the job isn't always black and white, unilaterally declaring incompetence over 5 questions is a bit dangerous.
-Eric
Should marketers be able to answer these 5 stats questions?
Last week, I gently ribbed the Marketing Leadership Council of the CEB over their HBR post, Marketers Flunk the Big Data Test. I felt the statistics they were sharing about marketers not being very statistically savvy were themselves a little questionable. In response, one of the authors of tha...
Perfect analogy at the end of the article, Scott! How dare these users bring in tools that make their day-to-day work more efficient.
Although I see this thinking even outside of IT with other areas of the business who are totally unwilling to accept change.
But like you said, as a technology professional, you have to imagine you'd be open to new technologies, no matter what the source. However sometimes I think IT has a tendency to shun ideas if they are not their own.
-Eric
The tyranny of consumerization. Really?
A headline on Computerworld this morning caught my eye: Apple's iPad 2 provokes IT anxiety. I can imagine the iPad stirring up a lot of reactions — including mere indifference — but anxiety? That seems incongruous. Unless maybe you're HP, Motorola or Samsung. But the article starts off with, "A...
Eric Long is now following The Typepad Team
Mar 6, 2011
Subscribe to Eric Long’s Recent Activity