If I’m stuck on trouble-shooting an unfamiliar piece of software, can I get someone from Training to walk me through it? There are lots of “learning specialists” in organizations and they work for variously named departments. Learning & working are interconnected in the network era.

Engineers can interact more easily with 3D modeling software. It seems as if the next generation of how we interface with computers may be here. If the announcements and videos from startup Leap Motion accurately indicate the power of the technology, it will greatly accelerate the shift to new and better interfaces. Technology trends

Historically SAP are an enterprise structured data software company: as society evolves unstructured data is ever more important. How are SAP coping with the opportunities and red herrings our increasingly connected world surfaces for them to respond to

Tuesday and Wednesday at the Lean Software & Systems Conference found me full of interesting thinking and ideas. Almost too full. have been happy to run into and chat with people that I have known through their blogs or other online interactions. And a few people who I've met in person previously. Some topics from the day. Communication. Throughout

Recently AppFusions announced a partnership with iRise ® , a provider of enterprise visualization solutions to allow for simulations of Atlassian JIRA and Confluence to speed enterprise software development. have been familiar with the power of software visualizations for some time and have interviewed a number of venders in this space.

Several people have talked about using Kanban in places that aren't software development.    I even done projects with companies that make physical goods and a repair shop.  Man, what a firehose of stuff I heard on Monday. And it's already the end of Tuesday as I write this entry.) Fix what matters to the business. Keep it simple.

Steven J Spear  was the opening keynote speaker at the Lean Software & Systems Conference. He is a well-known part of the larger Lean community and has a new book out, called The High-Velocity Edge: How Market Leaders Leverage Operational Excellence to Beat the Competition. Interesting to see OpEx in the subtitle.

Because the software jockeys worked in one area and the marketing folks worked in another and so forth, he decided to put the bathrooms in a central atrium. Jane Hart asked readers “ how regularly are you “learning” in the workplace? Notice that these are all informal. Email (keeping up to date inside the organization).

I will be staying in Boston (home) this week for the Lean Software & Systems Conference (LSSC). It looks like it will be a great even with many Kanban practitioners and some great thinkers around the ideas of Lean and Kanban and beyond.  . If you happen to be there, I'd love to meet. events lssc lssc12

Clara Shih , Founder of enterprise social media software company Hearsay Social and New York Times bestselling author of The Facebook Era: Tapping Online Social Networks to Market, Sell and Innovate.  The Soho Skylight, awaiting its incarnation as site for the 7th annual CM Summit. Day one’s sponsor spotlight is Luminate.

Although Apps and everything else non-advertising is just a sliver of Google’s overall business, Rochelle said it’s a “significantly big business compared to its peers [in the collaboration and productivity software space].” In Whatever it is, it’s not enterprise IT. Or is it? And then there was Google Wave.

Facebook now lives oblivious to the values of open source software, or free culture. Larry Lessig is an accomplished author, lawyer, and professor, and until recently, was one of the leading active public intellectuals in the Internet space. But as I wrote in my review of his last book ( Is Our Republic Lost ?), It’s worth your time.

Jaron Lanier’s You Are Not A Gadget has been on my reading list for nearly two years, and if nothing else comes of this damn book I’m trying to write , it’ll be satisfying to say that I’ve made my way through any number of important works that for one reason or another, I failed to read up till now. don’t.

“There’s people at the bottom of the market that have products like Do.com , online to-do lists, and they’re useful but they don’t have automation. They don’t have analytics. “Those [tools] are for companies with rigid industrial processes and everything that could possibly happen is built into the system.

Software, Marc Andreessen declared last summer, is eating the world. In the pages of the WSJ, the Netscape co-founder reeled off a list of industries that were once about something else and are now are dominated by software, from Amazon in the bookselling space to Skype in telecoms and Netflix in video. Sign up for a free trial.

This is why when I saw the University of Arizona’s Guide on the Side software I was instantly smitten. So many of us struggle with determining priorities in teaching. Few of us have a workload that would allow us to do everything we would like to do. and we think: wow, I’d love to do that. But can we? Is a deeper (embedded?)

Pay Wu: today it's about Big Data - same developments we saw in the IT and HR areas; we need software developers who think in terms of business intelligence - help the client generate insight. Panel discussion being led by Mark Gorman. Also being streamed live via Corenet Global Connect. will update as the program unfolds. Will it exist?

apps has taken off in the time since I first alerted consumer software entrepreneurs to this huge new opportunity ( “ Enterprise 2.0: The enterprise software incumbents are currently a full generation behind, just now entering the traditional SaaS market through acquisition (for example, Oracle’s $1.5 The market for Enterprise 2.0

It makes its profits by selling hardware – and it’s built a beautiful closed software ecosystem to insure those hardware sales. Clearly Pebble has won – both financially, as well as in the court of public opinion. all sounded reasonable, but not enough. In this environment, there had to be more going on. Here’s why.

And I’ve also tried to advocate for and support the instruction librarians, from getting LibTech to leave the classroom laptops out and tethered, to getting library faculty software and headsets for creating screencasts, to creating a guide on assessment techniques. Yesterday was my one-year anniversary of working at Portland State.

Chris Wanstrath github John Geraci manager Valve SoftwareWhen we spoke to GitHub’s Chris Wanstrath recently about how the company manages its partially remote team, he mentioned something about their setup that had nothing to do with telecommuters. The company has no managers,  though Wanstrath does get the title of CEO.

What Enterprise Software Vendors Could Learn from the Consumer Space Personal tools lead to practical business NewNet Q4: Platform mania and social commerce shakeout. Sundar Pichai, SVP, Chrome and Apps, Google (left) and Scott Johnston, Group Product Manager, Google (right). Do you want to put about 16 terabytes of data online? Go figure!

So then why is enterprise social software all crazy about microblogging…I get it that it’s easier than blogging and more engaging to be in a network, but an unlimited character limit and offering a few editing buttons won’t make it harder or less engaging. Why do I like Google+. Posts and Messages. Related. Follow up/Flag.

The post did mention that context-specific things could be done, and communication, but video can be captured, and software can do context-specific things at your desktop too. Mayra Aixa Avilar  (who I hope to meet someday, maybe at mLearnCon ?)pointed Depends, of course, on what you mean by elearning, to start with. Please. So  not courses.

No one can really make a software program all by themselves (it takes a lot of people to make one), and it is difficult to own software privately (because it is so easily copied and therefore very expensive to “fence in” as private property). The path to productivity is not a new assistant or PM software. Quote via @karlpro.

Clearly there are a number of providers for this functionality, with pretty much all enterprise software platforms now moving to at least the option of cloud-based simultaneous collaboration. I’m at the Melbourne Google Enterprise Atmosphere on Tour event , the first of 25 events around the world. The event included a Google Apps demo.

  So when they turned to social business software connectivity was naturally a sweet spot for them. I have covered TIBCO before (see:  TIBCO Spotfire Brings Self-Service Data Analysis to the Enterprise with a Social Twist ). TIBCO has been a leader in making the digital world connect for quite some time.  had HTML5. 

Is software needed? [Update: fixed Santiago's name!] My friend and fellow continuous improvement knowledge seeker, Santiago Velasquez, has posted a transcript of an interview he did with Bill Waddell at a recent Houston APICS meeting. Special Q&A with Bill Waddell. What kinds of organizations can make it work? Resistance to change.

The New York Times reported in March of 2011 that armies of expensive lawyers, who once did “discovery” work have been replaced by software programs that do the work at a fraction of the cost. Work is changing. The nature of work is changing in our increasingly networked economy. Known Problems and Exceptions. It is now known. Conclusion.

Perhaps every worker would be encouraged and supported to develop a personal knowledge management system not tied to enterprise software. While a certain amount of hierarchy may be necessary to get work done, networks naturally route around hierarchy. Real business value today is in complex and creative work. What would education look like?

MPOW Work about me librarianship social software speaking tech trends tenure trackYou know you’re a real blogger when, no matter how absurdly busy the rest of your life is, the thing you can’t do that you miss the most is blogging. First, I was one of the four libraries taking part in RAILS this year. 30 Iss: 1, pp.82 – 94.

Adobe is partnering with hybris, a provider of multichannel commerce and communication software, to provide digital marketers commerce capabilities as part of Adobe’s solution for powering online customer experiences. These included the following. Adobe Social is a new product within the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite. The new Adobe CQ 5.5

We have been dedicated to empowering your team to innovate from day one as a pioneer in social collaboration software. FMYI | For My Innovation. Pricing. Why FMYI? Company. Username. Password. Or Sign up. Forgot your username or your password? love thy. inbox. Never bother filing emails again. Never worry about where the latest file is again.

To use iSimplyConnect you need an always-on Windows machine or server, and once you install the software (which is free for the first 15 days ) on it, you then download the free app from the iOS App Store to each user’s iPad. The service is a monthly subscription, which means you only pay for the months you choose to use it. with No.

Badgeville provides a Mobile Software Development Kit (SDK) for iOS and Android devices. Badgeville provides the Behavior Platform™ a cloud-based gamification platform that allows organizations to build custom gamification programs for their employees, business partners, and customers. Kevin said that he sees four main reasons.

As a result, collaboration tools are one of the hottest sectors in software. Software will continue to make huge strides in terms of helping teams of people turn vision into action more effectively and more efficiently than ever before. Uncategorized cloud collaboration Collaboration Software collaboration solutions

In February 2012, Scribe Software surveyed 300 business leaders and channel partners to uncover opportunities and challenges associated with customer data integration. In summary, Customer data integration can play a critical role in addressing operational challenges in sales, marketing and customer service.    

The organisers advise leaving time to log into the Elluminate webcasting software and "recommend that those participating in the webcast obtain a microphone or headset in order to make use of the VoIP technology that allows conversation between the speakers and participants. When you are asked for the invitation key enter the word blended.

Tibbr put activity streams squarely on the map, by integrating status messages from people with notifications generated by enterprise software including ERP, CRM, and HR systems. Yammer is now playing in the activity stream space, putting itself forward as a horizontal layer that ties together a wide variety of enterprise software systems.

The idea is to match the convenience that we all experience in our email clients…now we can flick a status update, photo, question/poll, task, event, idea…just like we flick an email…social software should be easy. “Many of the things we hated about email will be MULTIPLIED, not solved by stream-overload. The funniest part is “2.0

When it comes building a distributed company, some bosses do it to demonstrate the usefulness or their product , many to get the best talent and some simply because they want to live somewhere they can surf. But that wasn’t why the company got its start as a distributed team. At first, they simply lacked an office. Talent. ” Tools.

This online class uses GoToMeeting software.  Google Analytics is a popular free tool from Google that provides a wealth of information about the visitors to your website. It can take a bit of time to uncover its full use. want to alert you to a useful online workshop offered by my friends at Pioneer Training. Cost: $99.  

The problem was illustrated last year by a case in which a Maryland-based company, TeleBright Software Corp, was ruled to be doing business in New Jersey and liable for state taxes there because the firm employed a single telecommuter in the state. a Maryland-based software developer, to the N.J. Technology moves quickly.

Hanscom explained in an email that, “Podio was born out of the belief that the people who do the work of companies should have the power to choose how they do that work and that software (or any work tool) has an inherent value. the Internet) is empowering more workers to make decisions for themselves. And how about Podio?

I've seen it happen with Critical Chain implementations - the goal is to create behavior change, but people focus on the new (software) tools. This is even stronger for change efforts that are heavily connected to software already. Maybe the tools shouldn't be introduced right away. Change the tools if they don't support the work.

In commons-oriented peer production (first theorised by Yochai Benkler in his The Wealth of Networks, a “p2p” updating of Adam Smith), core value creation occurs through contributors to a shared innovation pool, a commons of knowledge, software or design. oscarberg – enterprise software significantly hampers knowledge work.

The largest software company in the world and the ‘no software’ cloud world are colliding, and in the perceptions battle Sharepoint are shining a lot brighter

As is its habit, Microsoft attacks this market with a “platform” approach (as in why buy plain old instant messaging when you can buy a big hunk of software?) — which puts workplace social interaction in the context of getting your job done. 57 percent are inclined to use a mixture of new and existing social software.

Biz’s partner did software for cabs and you can see the pulse of the city through it.  Here is another in my series on SXSW events. am pleased to be attending SXSW for the first time. am grateful for Adobe Acrobat for enabling me to attend. will be attending some of the Adobe sponsored sessions. Here is the session description.

Her main focus is mobile software, augmented reality and data visualization, and reducing the amount of time and space it takes for people to connect. She’s worked with Fortune 500 companies at Wieden+Kennedy and on major applications at Vertigo Software. Here is another in my series on SXSW events. Here is the session description.

scenarioDNA collaborated with Amherst, MA-based Texifter using DiscoverText on the data analytics and Waltham, MA-based Advanced Visual Systems (AVS) using OpenViz software for the data visualization. earlier shared one of his presentations in a post on how the culture of luxury is changing. Culture Networks (SXSW 2012).

Tracky and its investors are no doubt banking on the fast-growing market for social business software and the wide variety of players (Jive, Salesforce.com, Yammer, Basecamp, Microsoft, Google, Socialcast, etc.) CNN cloud services Collaboration Jive Software social media Socialcast SuperNAP Tracky YammerSign up for a free trial.

RT @mfauscette : CIA to software vendors: A revolution is coming | Reuters - [link]. Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information.    Some of these I did to link to things I found useful and others are RTs that I want to save for the same reason. link].

He then spent two years working for KPMG setting up an innovation arm, and is now developing a software venture. I recently spoke at an event organised by Building the Organisation of Tomorrow , a group created by alumni of University of Technology Sydney’s Master of Business in IT Management program. The over-riding theme is freedom.

Halligan is a Facilities Management Analyst with Software Advice , a firm that offers prospective buyers assistance with choosing software applications. With more than 7,000 unique job titles in the facility management sector (according to an IFMA report), to say these positions are in high-demand is an understatement. Analysts.

Early adopters like SAP have seen positive results with as SAP saved more than $6 million in technical support costs when they used a knowledge market to enable a peer-to-peer response system to support enterprise software developers both within and outside the company. So what do Benbya and Van Alstyne bring that is new to the table?

It includes leading enterprise cloud applications for web conferencing (WebEx) , instant messaging (Jabber) and enterprise social software (Quad) but goes much beyond that. Murali began by noting that we have entered the post-PC era. It is not longer a single operating system on a single device. million registered hosts worldwide.

The software, supporting Android 2.1 Android smartphone and tablet owners can collaborate on documents from their devices with the updated version of Google Docs for Android , released on Wednesday. devices and up, adds the same real-time collaboration found in the full web version of Google Docs on a laptop or desktop.

What you should not do is get a CCO with the primary task of implementing some costly  enterprise collaboration software system. Tweet My colleague Jane Hart asks who should be your Chief Collaboration Officer  (CCO)? It’s a good question, given the growing importance of working collaboratively in the 21st century workplace.

To understand the challenges of using collaborative or social software inside business organizations, begin by thinking about the use of similar technologies in your personal life. The software is generic and requires a work-around to do the specific things we would really like to do. Harvard Business Publishing. |. For Educators. |.

The software is generic and requires a work-around to do the specific things we would really like to do. It hardly takes a raft of studies or in-depth research to prove that consumer social media like Facebook and Twitter can be hugely addictive. And that’s a paradox. We have control over who sees our information.

organizing stuff training and developing people mentoring programs information technology (technology to do some of the above) collaboration software (especially). It is ALWAYS in the context of buying software to help people collaborate. I'll bet that doesn't mean "buy some software.". Probably Dead. have seen KM as.

It Takes Two: The Case for IT and Business Involvement in Social Software Rollout. Social software has been around for many years, but we’re still at the beginning of social software use in business. am observing two dead-end scenarios with how social software is being rolled out to an organization. TIBCO Software Inc.

Horses for Sources : Why Oracle’s acquisition of Taleo shifts the innovation onus onto the service providers: Companies buy software because they want standard process that can be automated with as little human intervention as possible. Tweet Here are some of the insights and observations that were shared via Twitter this past week. Adlai E.

Oracle Debuts Analytical Software For 'Big Data' Tasks [link]. Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information.    Some of these I did to link to things I found useful and others are RTs that I want to save for the same reason. link]. link] by @jacobm.

No big screens to buy, no big special Cisco boxes – just plain simple software and you were good to go. As luck would have it, the concept of virtual offices and distributed workforce took off and gave Skype Video a big boost in small and medium sized business. And as such it has become a hotly contested market. Here Tandberg , anyone

Now, online meetings software firm TeamViewer is following in Staples’ footsteps, asking essentially the same question of 2,500 Americans and finding them willing to make even more surprising sacrifices for the chance to telecommute. online meetings software remote work staples-inc TeamViewer telecommuter telecommuting Valentine's Day

The hackers also hid spying software so deeply within some employees’ computers that it took investigators years to realize the pervasiveness of the problem. Somewhat oddly, no one will (seem to) care.” Now, before I trumpet my prognosticative abilities too loudly, let’s see if … anybody cares. At all.

“Our view of social software is it’s something you don’t want to force people to use. Cisco Systems Colin Miles Collaboration collaboration tools Elisa Nardi enterprise social tools Keith Griffin Quad social enterprise tools social-software Virgin Media Virgin Media Inc. The benefits. “That served two purposes.

In talking with a social media entrepreneur over beers the other day, he mentioned that one of his barriers in dealing with organizations was that they didn’t have a budget line for social media software. Where does social media fit in the organization? In one instance, it had been the R&D organization that undertook the cost.

However, this usually occurs just after the software vendors have provided the initial training and you are now on your own as an organization. Tweet You are engaging with social media for marketing and customer support. Now the hard work begins. You’re ready to be a social business; everyone is connected but few know what to do.

They found extensive benefits for using social software inside the enterprise (e.g. This is the third of a three part series on IBM Connections , their collaboration platform. recently had an extended conversation with Suzanne Livingston, Senior Product Manager for Connections. The metrics will look at people, participation, and content.

When data is delivered in a physical medium such as a DVD, it requires the continuing availability of equipment and software that can read data in that medium. The digital photos I took 10 years ago are still on Iomega zip drives, and I have neither the hardware nor software to read the disks. Yes, I'm an info-nerd. info industry

The software syncs through Microsoft’s Windows Live SkyDrive and to both OneNote for Microsoft Windows and the OneNote web app. The full software paired well with my tablet because it supported ink notes, which it would then index for search by using optical character recognition. for unlimited usage. Sign up for a free trial.

The logistics of setting up a webmeeting (once you master the software, which takes about three practices) are infinitely easier than trying to get everyone physically in the same place at the same time, book an available conference room, and all the other administrivia. Everyone hates meetings. Image courtesy of Flickr user David Recordon.

Social Business Software as a Platform for the Connected Enterprise. As I mentioned on this blog I am now helping OutStart with their social media efforts as part of the OutStart team. am one of several people contributing to our OutStart Knowledge Solutions Blog (see: My New Role within OutStart’s Social Media Efforts).

I remember one time, the AI architect and the software engineer came in asking me to resolve an issue. I haven’t been put in the place of having ultimate responsibility for driving a complete user experience for over a decade, though I’ve been involved in advising on a lot on many such. And we were a team. So, what do you think?

Only 8 percent actually use social collaboration software once a week. Collaborative software David Sacks Enterprise social software enterprise social tools enterprise-social-networking Forrester Research Inc social tools Tommy Ahlers Web 2.0 What’s the result? So what usually goes wrong? Imagine your team loves change.

Social Business Software as a Platform for the Connected Enterprise. As I mentioned on this blog I am now helping  OutStart  with their social media efforts as part of the OutStart team. will not be repeating my posts for that blog on this blog. However, once a month I will post links to my writing there. welcome your comments.

Facilitating the spread of knowledge and innovation in enterprise software development. 18 agile and lean practices for effective software development governance. We need software architecture to support a looser form of application design that is not just modular, but can be contextualized and adaptive. Close. Password. InfoQ.

The software is pretty simple; you just enter a date on one of the three tabs to track days left, days past, or days until someone’s birthday. Calendar applications are great, but sometimes you need to track how many days until an upcoming event. Today, for example, is my 400th consecutive day of running at least a mile.

Early agile pioneers were working on in-house IT projects (custom software) or enterprise software [ 1 , 2 ]. The economics are different in selling consumer products than when developing software for enterprises—UX matters more for consumer products. Larry makes money even if people can’t use his software.

The web developed over time under an ethos of community development, and most of its core software and protocols are royalty free or open source (or both). And if we lose the web, well, we lose more than funny cat videos and occasionally brilliant blog posts. The short answer is Hell Yes. He makes a good point. The web is decentralized.

big update arrived recently for its PDF Expert software, and now the company is also launching a brand new note-taking and PDF annotation iPad app called Remarks. App developer Readdle has been very busy lately. Here’s a hands on look at what the app offers users. Loading Next Previous Picture 1 of 7. Sign up for a free trial.

Our efforts to protect the information that our users have chosen to share using Facebook may be unsuccessful due to the actions of third parties, software bugs or other technical malfunctions, employee error or malfeasance, or other factors. My favorite part of reading S-1 IPO filings is always the risk factors.

The advent of new software even allows companies to measure the performance of remote call center agents and customer service reps, so staffing firms need to start gearing their services toward the needs of distributed workforces.”. " Short-Term Growth, Long-Term Hiccups ". Staffing Industry Analyst. SI Review, January 2012.

In fact the total for the Information Literacy Weblog is more than this, as it ran in a similar form under different software from April 2003, until the server it was on got hacked into in 2005. This is the 2000th post on this weblog , which started in September 2005. It is only 40 seconds long. Weblogs My teaching

Worklight will be moved into IBM’s Software Group. In that same vein, IBM also unveiled a new software system called IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices. The software will help IT teams manage their exploding fleet of mobile devices, which are growing thanks to bring-your-own-device policies. Sign up for a free trial.

And even software / hardware that doesn't have the capability built in can be enhanced with activity feeds. Activity Streams seem to be everywhere. Even business tools are starting to publish them. I wonder if this has implications for how we consume streams? Only want activities from people on a specific topic? Bundle them.

Software development managers have long used “lines of finished code per day” as a surrogate for staff productivity; call center and tech support staff have typically been measured on “calls completed per hour” and “average time to respond to a call.”. Jim Ware. There really isn’t any deep, dark secret to managing remote workers.

The other place that Jay found is the corporate offices of Vocus , a software development company located in Beltsville, Maryland. Pushing the Limits on Workplace Design. Jay Momet of Leapfrog recently sent me a couple of links to some very “far out” workplaces. One area, called “Inventalot” is a medieval castle. But it’s mighty interesting!

This Fall, I did a pilot project with some colleagues to provide synchronous online workshops for students using web conferencing software. There are a lot of popular assumptions people make in this profession that lead us to make classic blunders. And those failures truly can be avoided. Here’s the first. Tweet This!

Consider ERP systems, where the purpose was to eliminate people as much as possible, you could eliminate people and tell the remaining to use the software.  They were interested in social software, and so they were thinking about creating a FaceBook page, and wanted advice on how to best leverage this.  social software. Reply.

So support this new wave of business intelligence software needs new capabilities. What originally started as an enterprise mashup platform has now evolved into a real-time business intelligence platform that connects directly to live data sources and delivers information through Enterprise Apps and Dashboards as needed by business users.

Finally, if power is held by one group, let’s say Purchasing & IT, for all software acquisitions, then the end-users won’t even try to get involved in the process. have seen many such departments resigned to the fact they will have to deal with another enterprise software implementation having had no say in the matter.

Software maintenance people. ( image is a shot of my copy of the first Wired magazine, signed by our founding team ). just read this NYT piece on the United States’ approach to unmanned warfare:  Do Drones Undermine Democracy? In 2011, unmanned systems carried out strikes from Afghanistan to Yemen. Read the whole piece. Really, read it.

CNN Android Dolphin Browser Evernote Google Mobile Apps mobile browser mobile-software productivity skitchDolphin Browser , a popular third-party web client for Android devices, is set to get even more popular. On Tuesday, the browser gained two new add-ons, supporting both Skitch and Evernote. Sign up for a free trial.

think this both adds substantial efficiency and draws many more uses into the social software usage. harmon.ie provides a cross-platform suite of enterprise collaboration products designed to boost user adoption of dominant enterprise collaboration tools. covered hamon.ie earlier this year (see: harmon.ie This has been their experience.

Then your organization must decide what type of approach it wants to take: Do you still want to provide and retain control of all devices, software and apps? I wrote recently about the  apps that feed our mobile addiction. Whether on smartphone or tablet, business leaders now demand access to corporate email and documents 24/7.

Apple, in this EULA [end user license agreement], is claiming a right not just to its software, but to its software’s  output. As far as I know, in the consumer software industry, this practice is unprecedented. Tweet Here are some of the insights and observations that were shared via Twitter this past week. Aloud. Oopsie!