Comments on: Thinking Thursday http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/3005 microsoft, munging and on being a mercurial iconoclastic professional geek. Thu, 14 Jul 2011 19:42:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael Kordahi http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/3005/comment-page-1#comment-145179 Michael Kordahi Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:23:40 +0000 http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/3005#comment-145179 ia there some post going on with your voice? you sound more . . . manly :-) ia there some post going on with your voice? you sound more … manly :-)

]]> By: Rai http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/3005/comment-page-1#comment-145111 Rai Fri, 13 Mar 2009 05:35:18 +0000 http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/3005#comment-145111 I thought it was great! Lots of fun. One suggestion - the chat gets pretty busy. It's hard for me to keep up with it, and I ain't presenting. What about getting an 'assistant' to pull out the relevant bits to your discussion and setting that aside for you? Any one could do this remotely, via IM me thinks. Looking forward to next week's! I thought it was great! Lots of fun.

One suggestion — the chat gets pretty busy. It’s hard for me to keep up with it, and I ain’t presenting. What about getting an ‘assistant’ to pull out the relevant bits to your discussion and setting that aside for you? Any one could do this remotely, via IM me thinks.

Looking forward to next week’s!

]]> By: Stilgherrian http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/3005/comment-page-1#comment-145073 Stilgherrian Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:55:36 +0000 http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/archives/3005#comment-145073 I thought you did very well. While you've identified some scope for improvement there, you may be being a little harsh on yourself. ;) I reckon you're also discovering that it's hard to find the balance between "sticking to the script" and interacting with the people in the text chat. I'm still finding that myself. I reckon the trick is to have it planned, at least in the sense of choosing to finish a particular "short arc" before going to a burst of interaction, and then getting into the next arc. That is, resist the temptation to look at and respond to the chat until you've finished the one thought you started. I thought you did very well. While you’ve identified some scope for improvement there, you may be being a little harsh on yourself. ;)

I reckon you’re also discovering that it’s hard to find the balance between “sticking to the script” and interacting with the people in the text chat. I’m still finding that myself.

I reckon the trick is to have it planned, at least in the sense of choosing to finish a particular “short arc” before going to a burst of interaction, and then getting into the next arc. That is, resist the temptation to look at and respond to the chat until you’ve finished the one thought you started.

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