Category Archives: Administrivia

Administrative posts – related to announcing new functionality on the blog, or other announcements.

Tyner Blain – Five Years and Going Strong!

Hooray!

Tyner Blain is well into its fifth year, and I’m thrilled to say, going strong.  The Tyner Blain blog turns 5 tomorrow – on Nov 24th 2010!  Thanks so much to everyone who comes here to share, learn, teach, critique, and read!

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Most Engaging Articles of 2009

Engagement – that’s what this whole product management blogging thing is about.  Check out what Tyner Blain readers found to be the most engaging articles in 2009.

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The Art of Product Management – Conversation Contest

My friend Rich Mironov, chief marketing officer at Enthiosys, recently published The Art of Product Management, and was kind enough to send me a free copy.  The essays he shares in the book make great conversation starters for product managers.  Tyner Blain is giving away a free copy to someone who participates in the product management conversations.  Read on to see how you can win.

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Tyner Blain Supports Gravatars!

Gravatars Make Your Comments Stand Out!

A GR avatar is a globally recognized avatar. This is an image that you’ve associated with one or more email addresses – and when you make a comment on a blog or in a forum that supports gravatars, your comment will appear like this:

When you don’t have a gravatar, your comment looks like this:

And even though you may say something brilliant, it loses a little something, so set up your gravatar today – it’s free and easy!

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Testing – Sorry for the Interruption

Testing the functionality of Tyner Blain after a major infrastructure overhaul. Sorry for the interruption.

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Recycling An Active Listening Article

We’re dedicating our “blogging time” this week to doing some infrastructure upgrades – we have to address some security issues on the site. Until we get through these changes, we’ll be recycling some of our existing content. For our recent readers, it will be “new to you” and for our long time readers, we appreciate your patience. Today we look at one of our better received articles on active listening.

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Happy Birthday Tyner Blain Readers

Hooray Us

We’re taking the day off to tip back a couple cold ones and celebrate a great year as a community! Tip a glass or two with us, and thanks for being here! Technically, we’re cheating – we don’t turn two for two more days. But here we are just the same.

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Agile Project: Ratings – Administrivia

This is an administrative post, to help organize the articles in our agile software development experiment. The feedback has been positive so far, so here we go…

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Updated Theme With More For You

In lieu of an article today, we’re updating our theme. There are a bunch of minor improvements, and two major ones. New visitors and regular members of the community should both benefit from the changes.

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Holiday Semi-Vacation

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