We are having some fun with this week’s Elephant Post, so you’ll need to follow along with my thinking on this.
In the movie The Princess Bride, there is an exchange between Vizzini and Inigo Montoya. Vizzini keeps saying “INCONCEIVABLE!!” and
Montoya calls him on it:
I remember the birth of the web. Programmers were excited about the new opportunities. HTML was in its infancy – it was simple to understand and easy to implement. The idea of linking information together, making it easier to locate and share, seemed revolutionary and created a platform on which just about anyone could contribute
I was having a discussion with some attorneys recently about making everything accessible from within Outlook. Their collective spin was that they spend all of their time in Outlook, so IT needs to make everything work from within Outlook. My response to this was, “We need to get rid of Outlook. Email clients like Outlook
Technologists often get approached with opportunities to solve problems using technology. We sit down and talk about the user’s desires. This happened to me last week – Billy called asking for help solving a problem, but once we sat down, Billy said “I read this article about this software product that firm x is using