The View from Behind the Podium

Griff, my colleague Garnor, and I just got finished teaching a class on how to stay on top of the eBay news (basically how to find out about what's going on around eBay). We went over the Announcement Board - eBay's official vehicle for delivering news, this blog, the eBay Ink blog, eBay Radio, and the eBay Announcements Group - which you can join to receive an email with that day's announcements. We also talked about how to use RSS aggregators and tools so you can get the news without having to visit other pages - it comes straight to you! One of my favorites is netvibes.com, but there are tons out there, and even your Yahoo and Google pages can be used with RSS.

So the big lesson from the class for me? It's very difficult to take a good picture of the crowd while  you're talking.