27/07/06

Carly Fiorina & other podcasts

On holiday I caught up with a load of podcasts, some from BEA, and others culled from elsewhere. One of these was the presentation given by ex Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina.

She’s pretty controversial, mainly among those who either used to work for her (she was unceremoniously fired) or who didn’t like her style. But she does say some interesting things on publishing, and in general on how to manage technologial change in an industry.

What else did I listen to that’s worth catching? The CEO of Thomas Nelson talks about how to use a blog for internal and external communications. It’s not for the wildly experienced, although it does have some clear messages, but as an overview for publishers’, it’s spot on.

I caught another Michael Cader interview, this time from Nigel Beale, who manages to be slightly less self-serving this time. Cader says some smart things about how publishers should use the web. No-brainers, again, but these things need to be said.

There’s a good, old, talk by Jeff Bezos at the O’Reilly web 2.0 conference.

I’ve got cued up the last of the BEA talks, including Amazon’s Greg Greeley, which was the one I was most excited about hearing before I got distracted by the others. I also have a LibraryThing ‘mashup‘ which I have no idea if it will be interesting or not. And another Chris Anderson piece from Instapundit.

Posted by Peter Collingridge in Future of the book, Librarything, Podcasts.