Show Thirty Nine features an

interview with Andrew “Roo” Reynolds. 

Roo was a Metaverse Evangelist at IBM when we did the interview but now

is Portfolio Executive, Social Media at BBC Vision.  In show 38 I said that this interview will describe

the future of teaming and collaboration. 

You will not be disappointed.  

From Roo’s

website (and not what is on the cast . . .):

I’ve

accepted the position of Portfolio Executive, Social Media at BBC Vision. What

that means is that I’ll be helping to define, develop and execute BBC

Vision’s strategy in relation to . Simon Nelson

gave a

speech in September 2007 about some of the progress made (and challenges

faced) by the BBC in regard to multiplatform (more discussion

about that here). That’s the backdrop to what I’m going there to help with.

No doubt I’ll talk more about the specifics in the coming weeks and months. Oh,

and I get to work with such cool people as and . 

Contact

information: You can

read his blog at Email:  Another place

to look:  http://eightbar.co.uk/ 

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In the essay

segment in this cast we have three short pieces.  The first is a book review of Subliminal

Persuasion by Dave Lakhani.  The second

piece is a promo Pam Morris’s talk at the ISMA conference and finally we have a

promo for Mur Lafferty’s novel Playing for Keeps.  We will conclude with information on a few

upcoming conferences, comments from listeners and notes on upcoming casts. 

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Future

Events and the next Cast. . .

I

will be speaking at IFPUG’s 3rd Annual ISMA Conference and Fall Workshops

Sunday, September 14 – Friday, September 19, 2008 at the Westin Arlington

Gateway Hotel information at .  The presentation is call “Counting Facebook”

and will be on Friday September 19, 2008 at 10:25 AM - 11:25 AM.

I

am speaking at Quest Toronto 2008 Conference, September 22- 26, 2008, at the

Hilton Hotel in Toronto, Canada.  I will

be presenting “Good Numbers Go Bad” on Wed Sept 24th from 1:30 - 2:30 pm and

also joining in as a subject matter expert in the end of day solutions

workshop.  Information can be found at

http://www.qaiquest.org/toronto/

Finally

I will be speaking at the Northeast Quality Council 57th Conference.  The conference is scheduled for October 14 –

15 , 2008 in Marlborough, Massachusetts at Best Western Royal Plaza.   The presentation is titled “One Size Fits .

. .Someone Other Than Me”.  Information

can be found at .

Next

Software Process and Measurement Cast:

The next Software

Process and Measurement Cast will feature an interview with Barbara Blake of

Longview Associates.  We discussed of

how, when and whether coaching can be used to improve efficiency.  Is there a coach in your future?  Maybe there should be!