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So I continue to get amazed with the valuable information I receive from stumbling around folks links, browsing my network on Del.icio.us or just digging around. But then I realized that a great deal of folks don’t actually share their links, they more so browse. Why is that? Just in case you get the urge to share, he’s a reminder of why you have an account on mixx or propeller.

Thanks for the video Lee! Odd question have we all replaced social bookmarking with Twitter?

I haven’t spent much time doing pure play product management posting in a while, so I thought I would today. I’ve been doing a bunch of leisure surfing and looking at a bunch of great stuff online and challenged myself to think about what it takes to transition a technology into a product. While I didn’t come to a great deal of conclusions, I think I’ve come up with some reasonable litmus tests for consideration:

• Does your product have more defects than enhancement requests?
• Can the users manage their own product experience?
• Does everyone tell the same story about the product inside your organization?
• Do customer users out number the support staff?
• Can your product be contracted the same from sale to sale?
• Are your training materials for the organization more lengthy than the prospect presentation?
• Do you use the words scripting and framework more than configurable?
• Does a product error message require research from development or is it in the knowledge base?
• Are there more sales tools for the product than product managers?

What questions do you ask about your product?

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