Provoke Thought

An informative blog with emphasis on the aspects and elements of life and business that matter! (and some other random stuff)

Monday, February 26, 2007

Set PAGE FLAKES for your RSS feeds

What do you use as your home page?

Are you subscribed to RSS feeds to have content come to you? I was using Netvibes for a while, but it seemed a little slow .... I guess any of these can load slowly if you subscribe to a zillion feeds. But check out PageFlakes.... It seems to load reasonably quickly and they have a nice list of widgets to choose from.

....And if you have no idea what I'm talking about, then all the more reason to check it out. Information is doubling ... If we don't make it come to us.. well...It'll go to somebody else! ;o)

Here's an example of a 'Flake' ..(widget)



Radio Developed By LabPixies

Listen to your favorite radio stations right on your homepage! Select your country or enter your station's URL manually and tune in.

Some examples of the other feed categories: News & Sports Money & Family Entertainment & Tech New Media & Web 2.0

Oh, my feed URL is http://sethponek.com/blog/atom.xml If you add that to your PageFlakes RSS feeds then you can stay up on whatever mindless drivel I may be posting about.

Saturday, February 24, 2007

Tune in! Got "Kaizen" in your Ipod?

If you do anything in sales or negotiations Feed Your Ears! Make use of that "university on wheels" that is your commute.

IMPACT Sales Cast The IMPACT Sales Cast is a weekly Podcast for the professional sales person who is dedicated to improving their position in today's competitive marketplace and increasing their closing rate. It's developed by best selling author, and CEO, Bill Brooks. Bill has taken his experience working with thousands of businesses in hundreds of industries and combined it with foresight, giving the serious sales professional a unique and clear vision of today's new sales environment.

Negotiating Tip of the Week

Elearning podcast from Dr. Josh Weiss, Associate Director of the Global Negotiation Project at the Program on Negotiation at Harvard.

The Otter Group.

Excellent material!

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Omega 3's for me!

When pregnant mom eats fish, kids do better Children of mothers who ate more fish and other seafood while pregnant are smarter and have better developmental skills than kids of women who ate less or none, researchers said on Thursday in findings they called surprising.



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Monday, February 19, 2007

Think for Yourself .. A Math Problem


Amazing, Strange And Unbelievable. Can You Figure This Out? - video powered by Metacafe http://hometutorhelp.com/answer.htm

Tuesday, February 13, 2007

Love That GUI - Best video of the Apple iPhone I've seen

Awesome User interface ... The future generations of iphones will be crazy-cool! ... not sure I'm into Cingular, though .... or any phone company for that matter! ... But that's another blog post ...

Falls under the 2.0 Provoke Thought Category...

... nicely put together techy journey ...If you dare spare 4 1/2 minutes...

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Second Life - The Corporate Training Center of the Future?



I can't stop thinking about this the past few days... This literal world of connectivity that is "Second Life". Not that the experience hasn't been around, in the online Role playing gaming world, for quite some time. My kids have been exploring fantastic worlds and chatting with people from all over the globe for a while now on the PC and on the X-box. But this move from midnight to midday is intriguing... the shift from 18 to 30 or 40 something .... and the ability create a virtual space for business meetings, transactions, promotions....

I still know nothing about this except what I've read in a page or two ...I'm really just off "Orientation Island"... But, the idea of selling virtual real estate!!!!!! Absolute genius!