Welcome to Volume 4 of Friday Freebies. This week I found a way for you to attend MIT and Oxford for free…well, sort of. If that doesn’t work for you, try getting some serious inspiration from the Do Lectures. Does the current financial turmoil have your software company looking for new ways to improve your ROI? I found two great Agile webinars that should help you out. Plus, I found webinars on agile requirements, using Facebook for business, and a free live event at Symbian in San Francisco. And if that’s not enough, there’s another free Seth Godin ebook. Have a great Friday and an even better weekend!!!
Learn from the Smart People
MIT Open Courseware: MIT OpenCourseWare is a web-based publication of virtually all MIT course content. They’ve also started a video lecture series and ew courses will be available every week. Join the smart people here.
University of Oxford Lecture Podcasts: Amazing lectures from some of the greatest minds in the world. To hear some incredible speakers, click here.
The Do Lectures: Get some inspiration from incredible speakers and presenters at The Do Lectures. Do something today here.
Webinars
Today, November 21, 9:00 AM PST: How to Use FaceBook for Business
Welcome to a world of conversations and relationships. Facebook is not an evil time-waster, a community just for college students, or something scary or irrelevant for marketers – even you B2B folks. Facebook is a tool (a social utility, as they would say) for connecting people with those around them. And, as with any social media tool, marketers have an opportunity to use Facebook to expand their online footprint and engage with customers directly. Join this free webinar to learn how to get started using Facebook to market your business.
Today, November 21, 10:00 AM PST: Effective Agile Product Management Through Automation
Presented by Christina Noren, Vice President of Product Management at Splunk. Sometimes it seems that agile development is an end run around effective product planning and market analysis. It also can undermine product positioning and roadmapping. Yet the benefits of a more responsive and productive product development team are too significant to ignore. Learn how the Splunk product management team is automating the Pragmatic Marketing Framework to feed continuous market-driven priorities into an agile development process, and then leveraging this automation for continuous communication back to its user community, customers and field organization.
Wednesday, December 10 and December 17, 10:00 AM PST: Agile in Turbulent Times
A Two-Part Webinar Series Learn how to quantify the benefits of Agile practices including faster time to market, increased productivity and higher quality. Find out where to expect significant cost savings and revenue increases, and get a toolkit for making the economic case for Agile adoption. If you’re worried about your company’s viability, your team’s success or your own job security, you won’t want to miss this webinar series.
Thursday, December 11, 8:00 AM PST: Agile Requirements: Not an Oxymoron
Traditional approaches of requirements seem to contradict how agile teams might approach requirements. Misconceptions abound about how agile projects develop requirements and whether they even do analysis. In practice, agile projects use requirements as the basis for planning, development and delivering business value. In this Webinar, requirements expert and agile coach Ellen Gottesdiener will describe how agile and requirements combine to form a sound and sensible union.
Live Symbian Event
Thursday, December 4, The Palace Hotel, San Francisco, California: Innovation in Action
For the first time the Symbian Partner Event (SPE) opens its doors not only to Symbian partners, but also to mobile developers, handset manufacturers, network operators, the Open Source Community and members of the press. Whether you are new to mobile or an experienced Symbian developer, SPE has something for everyone.
And finally, another free Seth Godin ebook…
Download The Tribes Q&A ebook here.
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14 Responses
November 21st, 2008 at 3:30 am
Where did you get your blog layout from? I’d like to get one like it for my blog.
November 21st, 2008 at 5:35 am
Thanks Chris. You did again! Great links this week.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:26 am
Hi Chris,
That is some interesting material you pass along. I am afraid I cannot free the time to listen to Christina Noren, Vice President of Product Management at Splunk. I don’t think that agile development needs to be an end run around effective product planning and market analysis, or undermine product positioning and roadmapping. You can easily manage the benefits of a more responsive and productive product development team with a product-based planning approach that accommodates Agile quite nicely. I would love to let her know about my approach: do you have contact information?
November 21st, 2008 at 9:38 am
Love MIT OpenCourseWare, but didn’t know about Oxford’s podcasts…thanks for the tip!
November 21st, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Thanks for the goodies Chris! This is the first time I’ve seen your blog, but I’ll be sure and return often!
November 21st, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Cool. Thanks.
November 21st, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Hi Chris
Shall review. Thanks for the post
November 22nd, 2008 at 4:48 pm
PINGBACK http://wikipreneurship.blogspot.com/2008/11/some-great-free-stuff-online.html
…This is a great lecture from Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, being 2006, it is slightly old but still well worth watching. I found this on MIT OpenCourseWare which is a great site full of readings, lectures and other materials from one of the worlds leading universities. Courtesy of Chris Spagnuolo’s excellent Edgehopper blog and its regular feature friday freebies, I have found a number of other excellent online educational resources that are well worth checking out…
November 22nd, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Thank YOU!
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:25 pm
hi chris
thank you. appreciate it and treasure it.
November 22nd, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Edgehopper blog is very cool Chris, nice links. For those who love Seth here’s the Seth Video library, enjoy: http://blip.tv/search?q=seth+godin&x=11&y=11
November 23rd, 2008 at 5:29 am
Useful post
November 23rd, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Thanks Chris!
November 25th, 2008 at 7:11 pm
Thank you Chris!!!
The Edgehopper and you, as its developer, is providing an excellent resource. The quality of the free offerings are awsome.
Keep Moving Forward!
Davette Harvey
Entrepreneurial Trainer, Consultant and Coach
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“Committed to training and developing a community of successful entrepreneurs”
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