The past week I have been on holiday, making my way to Toronto for the Conference.
The sessions here kicked off Sunday afternoon with a workshop – was looking forward to this as an opportunity to meet John Bircham from New Zealand. I have read a lot of his writing on the net, and he has some very interesting insights – the workshop lived up to expectations.
Looking at risks that will never appear on a risk register or a dashboard. An interesting review of systemic risk and how these are invisible to our existing Risk Management processes.
It was fascinating at the Speakers Reception to look around the room and see the various people whose material I have been reading over the years, and here they are on the same faculty. Includes John Vargo from ResOrgs at Uni Canterbury, Geary Sikich, Peter Power and Nathaniel Forbes.
It was also an opportunity to meet up with another person I have been communicating with over the net – Alex Fullick from StoneRoads. Alex is a particular inspiration as he has completed to self-published books and is starting on his third.
You may wonder why there are no hypertext links in this post. Well I have also been catching up on my reading of Nicholas Carr. As part of his thesis about the internet making us dumb, is the distraction and loss of clarity when hypertext links abound in the body of our work. As a result I have linked the relevant pieces at the bottom of the post.
More over the next couple of days from the Conference.
What is your view on this issues of hypertext links in the body of a post? Are they a positive, or do they distract you from the reading and comprehension of the article?
John Bircham – Bircham-Global
Alex Fullick – StoneRoads
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