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They say the busier you are, the less you get done! Novem­ber has proved to be a busy month with loads of announce­ments from the likes of Sam­sung, Apple, Face­book, Sony, Google… the list goes on. This week’s DC is all about pro­duc­tiv­ity (at work and home), so don your specs, and read on.

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First a Hol­ly­wood block­buster, then the world! Face­book has stepped up to chal­lenge Google and Yahoo with it’s ‘not an email client’ email client. Face­book is giv­ing its 0.5 bil­lion users an ‘@facebook.com’ not-an-email-address address, and launched a sin­gle por­tal for SMS-ing, tweet­ing and email­ing through the Face­book frame­work.

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The ever-excellent Slideshare is run­ning its annual World’s Best Pre­sen­ta­tion con­test. Brows­ing through, there are some really nice decks with inter­est­ing con­tent. You can eas­ily see the influ­ence Pre­sen­ta­tion Zen and Duarte Design have had (all for the bet­ter) in the war against death by Pow­er­Point. I par­tic­u­larly like the following:

But…

The thing that strikes me look­ing through most of the entries is that the pre­sen­ter is almost entirely super­flu­ous. Surely pre­sen­ta­tions, at their best, are about pre­sen­ters mak­ing a con­nec­tion with an audi­ence – not sim­ply a set of slides that can be read through (how­ever pretty they are).

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After hav­ing it on back order for what seems for­ever, I’ve recently got Adap­tive Path’s new book, Sub­ject to Change. And so far, so good.

Broadly speak­ing the thrust of it is that you can’t stop things chang­ing but if you start from the per­spec­tive of deliv­er­ing a great cus­tomer expe­ri­ence you will stand a bet­ter chance over time. Of course, work­ing out what ‘great’ means for your cus­tomers is not always sim­ple. And then the real trick is actu­ally doing it. The focus of the book is pri­mar­ily on prod­uct design but the prin­ci­ples go fur­ther.

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