True skills are learned, not inhaled.

One of my favorite Silicon Valley blogs is "Life Beyond Code", from my friend Rajesh Setty. It's always inspiring and gives me a kick in the pants when needed. Imagine my surprise then, when he wanted to interview me for his site.

Web conferencing provider Dimdim has asked me to present a webinar to kick off their "Freedom" Webinar series. It's called "The Freedom to Manage- Guerilla Managing Your Remote Team Your Way".

June 26th, 2008 11am Eastern Time

To register, just go to www.dimdim.com and look for their "Featured Meetings". You'll receive your invite by mail.

I was playing with an idea the other day and this is the result, a 7-minute overview of Why Web Demos Suck- And What You Can Do About It.

Check it out. If you think we're saying something your team needs to hear, drop us a line.

You can see our YouTube debut by clicking here.

I am a frequent user of LinkedIn (my profile is here... go ahead, link in.. I'd be honored) and recently asked folks there this question:

Have you ever been on the receiving end of a bad software demo, especially on the web? What has the presenter done to lose the business?

I spent some time recently talking to Cameron Reilly, host of the top-rated podcast in Australia- G'day World. We chat about the creation of Greatwebmeetings, why Second Life will probably never catch on in business (my opinion not his, but he's an uber-geek)

In the first 30 minutes, you'll learn a lot about our approach to web meetings, some research that supports our approach and have some laughs.

Take a listen 

Lisa Haneberg interviewed me recently and we talked Web Meetings among other things.

If you haven't read Lisa Haneberg's Management Craft blog, you've really missed out on something. She's a terrific and thoughtful writer. I have been lucky to have her on my podcast, The Cranky Middle Manager, on several occasions but this time she turned the tables and interviewed me!

Here at Greatwebmeetings.com, we're pretty neutral on which platform you might want to use. Let the different platforms beat the heck out of each other, we're about using whichever tools you choose better.

Adobe in the UK recently released the results of their "Meeting Fatigue Survey". I didn't even know there was one but it had some good stuff including:

Some of you may not know, but I host a podcast called, "The Cranky Middle Manager Show". It has a worldwide listenership of tens of thousands of oppressed middle managers. Well we will be holding our second webinar- "Managing Remote Employees-Using Webmeetings To Keep Them Engaged" (Read more about it here)

The webinar will be:

Tuesday, January 29th 9 PM Central time (US)

At Greatwebmeetings we try to offer resources to anyone who needs help making better use of their web presentation tools. Now some of these, like our free downloads, are ours and we're proud of them.

Others are out there, and we'll help you find them. We don't care who they belong to, we just want to help. One such tool is Webinar Wire. This site, run by Ken Molay, It's good stuff and you'll find isight from Ken and other experts in the field.