{"id":367,"date":"2008-05-23T10:26:09","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T04:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/blog\/?p=367"},"modified":"2008-05-23T10:26:09","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T04:56:09","slug":"q-tube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/2008\/05\/q-tube\/","title":{"rendered":"Q Tube!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who manages a team of Black Belts and Green Belts in Six Sigma, I am often asked to help clarify concepts in the methodology, by my team members.\u00a0 While the original Training material does help, I often Google the web for easier, simpler explanations of fundamentals, for the benefit of the team as well as my self.<\/p>\n<p>Articles and posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isixsigma.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">iSixSigma.com<\/a> have helped a great deal in that pursuit.\u00a0 As have other sources of information like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.minitab.com\/resources\/tutorials\/AccessingthePower\/default.aspx?ad=APM\" target=\"_blank\">Minitab.com<\/a>.\u00a0 But, more recently, I was pleasantly suprised to find two new applications of Technology that have opened up fresh new avenues of information on this subject!<\/p>\n<p>One of them &#8211; YouTube &#8211; is a name we may all be familiar with.\u00a0 As much as I&#8217;ve enjoyed watching entertaining videos and speeches on YouTube, I did not easily make the connection that this piece of technology can just as easily be applied to providing instructional videos on the fundamentals of Six Sigma!\u00a0 Keith Bower does just that on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithbower.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">KeithBower.com<\/a>.\u00a0 From his website, you can access a wide variety of video and audio <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithbower.com\/datasets\/Audio%20Recordings.htm\" target=\"_blank\">podcasts<\/a> on topics ranging from &#8220;Moving Range Charts&#8221; to &#8220;Practical Advice for DoE&#8221;.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve gone through some of the podcasts and can vouch for their brilliant coverage of concepts in a manner that can be understood by almost any one.<\/p>\n<p>Another recent discovery, thanks to a BPM newsletter of Steve Towers, was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">SlideShare.net<\/a>.\u00a0 Here, I found a way for authors (content creators, really) to share their powerpoint slides (embedded with audio\/video) with an audience across the world, in an effortless manner!\u00a0 In fact, you can create your own webinar in just a few clicks.\u00a0 The site offers a rich repository of content on all kinds of subjects from Obama to Six Sigma, with an option to download the content, if the author chose to offer that option to you.<\/p>\n<p>Head to these sources today, and you may just find yourself spending more time than you&#8217;d planned to!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:right\">Links:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.keithbower.com\/datasets\/Audio%20Recordings.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Bower&#8217;s podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/search\/slideshow?q=quality&amp;submit=post\" target=\"_blank\">Quality on SlideShare.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As someone who manages a team of Black Belts and Green Belts in Six Sigma, I am often asked to help clarify concepts in the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,11],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-quality","tag-technology"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naveen.bachwani.com\/greymatter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}