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Upcoming webcasts on social networking, Gen Y

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:27:19 +0000

Here are some free upcoming webcasts I'm planning to attend: Brazen Careerist: Capturing the Hearts and Minds of Young Talent through Blogs Presenter: Penelope Trunk, CEO & Founder, Brazen Careerist Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 Time: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM ET Grassroots Networking: The Pros and Cons of Growing Your Social Network Panelists: Shannon Baker, HR Manager, Cisco Systems, Inc. [...]

Preparing presentations: from mindmap to storyboard

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 02:12:11 +0000

The way I prepare presentations has changed quite a lot since I started speaking in public in 2002. (Wow, it's been six years!) I was preparing a presentation for Concordia University students on Web 2.0 at work, and I figured that it's gotten to the point where I can actually explain to other people how [...]

Writing presentation abstracts together

Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:54:27 +0000

When Jennifer Okimoto pinged me about possibly putting together a presentation for Web 2.0 Expo 2009 in San Francisco, I perked up at the possibilities. I had been intimidated by the list of previous sessions (who am I to tell all these experienced techies and businesspeople about Web 2.0), but Jen and I could definitely [...]

Knowledge [shared] is power

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 01:42:32 +0000

Here's an excerpt from Aaron Kim's blog post about meritocracy and social media: Furthermore, Web 2.0 and Social Media are leveling the professional playing field. Two quotes by Pauline Ores (who is the IBM personification of Social Media Marketing) during the O&M event caught my attention: In the Social Media world, the most powerful person is [...]

The Orange Chair » Social networking and innovation in a large company

Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:29:32 +0000

This is more of a work-day topic, but you might be interested in it anyway. Here's an excerpt from my latest post on our team blog: Whether social networks were built using traditional means or by using new social technologies, these networks can make a difference in the success of a project. Without ways to tap [...]

The Road to Me 2.0: How I Was the Chosen One « Personal Branding Blog - Dan Schawbel

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 12:41:24 +0000

In The Road to Me 2.0: How I Was the Chosen One, Dan Schawbel writes about how he got a book deal on Web 2.0 career development for Millennials. This of course makes me slightly envious, because I'm passionate about that topic too, but then I'm supposed to already be working on my Emacs book. [...]

Slidecast: New Media, New Generation

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:47:10 +0000

new media, new generation View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: enterprise2.0 web2.0) I gave a panel presentation entitled "New Media, New Generation" at the Corporate Voices meeting in Washington DC on September 9, 2008. Around 40 director- and partner-level people (many in HR) attended from private corporations and nonprofit organizations. On the panel [...]

New presentation: "New media, New generation"

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 03:43:11 +0000

I'll be in Washington, DC from Monday to Wednesday next week to participate in a panel on new media. It'll also be my first presentation using the nifty new Cintiq! I thought I'd put it up on Slideshare and share it with all you folks… =) The current version's designed for in-person delivery, so some [...]

Canada and Web 2.0 conferences

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:10:04 +0000

A colleague asked me about Web 2.0 and social networking conferences in Canada, so I figured I'd post it here too. Here are the big ones I know about: Mesh Conference (http://meshconference.com) is an annual Web 2.0 conference held in May here in Toronto. They get a good line-up of speakers, and they're always sold out. DemoCamp [...]

Web 2.0 @ Work: Creating a professional profile

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:51:02 +0000

Do you have a professional website, or do you just leave your professional profile up to random Internet search results or sparse corporate directory listings? Although we have a terrific centralized corporate directory at IBM, I've found it very useful to also have a simple professional profile with a short biography, my contact information, and links [...]

IBM Pass It Along - social learning!

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:48:22 +0000

I'm happy to share that one of my favorite Enterprise 2.0 tools within IBM is now available on the Internet. IBM Pass It Along is now available on Alphaworks, a public IBM site for people interested in trying out emerging technologies–all you need is a free ibm.com account. IBM Pass It Along is about sharing [...]

Thinking out loud: Taking it off/online

Mon, 26 May 2008 02:06:11 +0000

| View | Upload your own Do you want to get more people you know to read your blog, connect to you on social networks, and interact with you online? Do you want to build stronger, deeper relationships with your online contacts, maybe even interacting offline? Here are some quick tips on how you can [...]

The Incoming University Student's Guide to Web 2.0

Fri, 16 May 2008 12:57:28 +0000

Read extensively. The university library's an amazing resource. Yours might come with access to online research libraries, too. Combine that with Internet resources such as Wikipedia, blogs, and so on. Speed-reading can help you browse through information quickly so that you can focus on the good stuff. Write. Writing is a great way to remember what [...]

The Gen Y Guide to Web 2.0 at Work

Fri, 09 May 2008 20:32:12 +0000

An IBM colleague asked me to put together a few tips for Web 2.0 at Work. Here's something I had fun putting together, sketching it on my Nintendo DS: | View | Upload your own

Gotta check out wesabe

Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:55:00 +0000

No one in Web 2.0 can spell. But Wesabe looks interesting. It's a Web 2.0 budget tracking thing with tips. It rocks. Tagging is an interesting idea.

I should also put getrichslowly on my more-frequently-read blog list...

On Technorati: web2.0, finance

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IBM CASCON 2006 and conference backchannels

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 21:08:00 +0000

I got so carried away making lunch that I nearly missed the planning conference call for IBM CASCON 2006's social computing workshops. I dropped in just in time to hear Stephen Perelgut and Steve Easterbrook talk about real-time collaborative note-taking, and I chimed in with my two cents about how wonderful it is to have backchannels during the conference.

A backchannel is an informal way for participants to talk to each other in the background while the speakers are talking. Backchannel chat is a great way to find out about other interesting sessions and meet other people who are into similar things. We've also used the backchannel to coordinate our attendance at sessions. ("I'm heading over to session A." "If you're blogging that, then I can go to session B...")

If the backchannels are logged, they can be the start of collaborative notetaking. We tried backchannel transcription at one session during Mesh. People were distracted because the backchannel was projected onto the main screen behind the panelists. Most people have a hard time keeping track of two or more streams of information, particularly as they were both verbal. In addition, the IRC channel used for the backchannel chat also included people in other sessions, which made it hard for many people to separate the messages that were related to the current session. Still, it was a good experiment, and that resulted in a number of side-conversations during the session.

I think one of the things that would be great to have for IBM CASCON 2006 is a backchannel that people can get to through IRC and the Web. I'd love to set up one of those, but it needs to be promoted somewhere so that everyone with wireless can hear about it.

An alternative would be to encourage everyone to liveblog it and to use Technorati or a similar web service to aggregate all the posts tagged, say, cascon2006 and the session's tag.

HEY! There's an idea! If we suggest tags for each session and a tag for the entire conference, then we make it easy for external bloggers to make their posts discoverable. And I can so totally modify the CASCON blog to make it easier for people to "BLOG THIS SESSION" - they can post their content on the session blog and then retrieve it for crossposting onto their blog... That _would_ be totally sweet.

Think!Friday's tomorrow. Let's make it happen!

On Technorati: backchannel, conference2.0, web2.0, blogging, cascon, cascon2006

E-Mail from Aaron Kim

Social media for social change

Thu, 01 Jun 2006 04:34:00 +0000

This is one of the reasons I love technology.

On Technorati: social, web2.0

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Web 2.0 and entrepreneurship

Wed, 24 May 2006 05:47:00 +0000

From the Kagay-anon Linux Users' Group mailing list:

sa mga hilig ug web/2 one page lang na guide; gamit kaayo.. http://www.vipedio.com/roman/blog/20culture_full.html

sa mga hackers ug novell fans http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1003

The first link is a quick guide to typical Web 2.0 interface stuff. http://msippey.tadalist.com/lists/public/155420 is an even shorter list. ;) (Heh. Also read http://blog.unitedheroes.net/archives/p/2051/ )

I read KLUG every so often even though I can't understand Bisaya... =) It's fun, and I've found a number of interesting people that way. For example, Botp Peña (who posted these links) conducts free Ruby on Rails training, and it looks like Botp Peña is also interested in entrepreneurship...

On Technorati: web2.0, entrepreneurship, philippines

E-Mail from Botp Peña

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ARGH!

Tue, 23 May 2006 00:13:00 +0000

It's a good thing that I've been cramming my paper all day, or I would've felt seriously upset about missing web 2.0 for good, an unconference on social software for social change. Mumble! Actually, no, I still feel annoyed because it hadn't been on my radar at all. That's what I get for not watching Upcoming.org as often as I should. Blast blast blast blast blast. Next time...

On Technorati: web2.0, toronto

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Pinoy Web 2.0

Sun, 21 May 2006 21:12:00 +0000

Check out pinoyweb2.com for Web 2.0 geeks in the Philippines. =) Luis Buenaventura is teh cool.

On Technorati: web2.0, philippines

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