Combining multiple social media services

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:50:46 +0000

If you're new to social media and Web 2.0, you probably feel overwhelmed by all the different tools that are out there. Should you use Twitter? Get on Facebook? Start a blog? Share photos? Share videos? It seems that as soon as you've worked up the courage to try something new, another ten new tools [...]

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Log your accomplishments

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:02:29 +0000

If you've ever wondered where the day went, or where the week went, or where the month or year went, slow down. Take notes. Keep a diary, a journal, a blog, or whatever other way you want to keep track of your accomplishments and celebrate the little things. Notes don't lock you into the past. They [...]

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Social media and education

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:24:31 +0000

There's an insightful 82-page PDF entitled Educating the Net Generation: A Handbook of Findings for Practice and Policy. Support for the original work was provided by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Ltd, an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. (And the report's CC-Attribution-Noncommercial-Sharealike!) Interesting bits: Gen Yers aren't all that [...]

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Twitter brings down walls

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:15:03 +0000

In addition to Twitter, YouTube has been a critical tool to spread videos from Iran when traditional media outlets have had difficulty filming the protests or the ensuing crackdown. One YouTube account, bearing the user name "wwwiranbefreecom," showed disturbing images of police officers beating people in the streets. On Monday, Lara Setrakian, an ABC News [...]

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Notes from the Social Recruiting Summit

Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:30:38 +0000

I love being part of industry conferences outside my field. I learn so much from the sessions and the conversations, and I meet all sorts of amazing people I might not otherwise have come across. Yesterday, I participated in the first Social Recruiting Summit, where recruiters shared questions, ideas and tips on how to use social [...]

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Social Recruiting Summit: Awesomest Job Search Ever

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:16:10 +0000

UPDATE: Here's the recording! =) pre-session notes This is a placeholder for "Awesomest Job Search Ever", the talk I'm giving at the Social Recruiting Summit today at the Googleplex. It'll eventually hold notes from the session, and if we're lucky, a recording and a transcript as well. =) I plan to tell the story about how I got [...]

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Helping people learn about Web 2.0 through stories

Fri, 29 May 2009 01:18:13 +0000

I help people learn about social media and Web 2.0 through stories. Bullet points and screencasts aren't enough, but stories about how real people use these tools to reach out and connect can help inspire others to learn about and try those tools themselves. But I don't just tell stories. I make them, and that's my favourite, [...]

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Enterprise 2.0: The business value of social networks

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:39:50 +0000

Both our internal Social Networks Analysis community and Colleen Haikes (IBM External Relations) tipped me off to some absolutely fascinating research on the quantitative correlation between social networks and performance based on an analysis of IBM consultants. You can read the research summary and view the presentation, or read the research paper for all the [...]

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Feel free to use your laptop or your phone in my talks! I love the backchannel

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:34:23 +0000

If you ever find yourself in any of my face-to-face presentations, please feel free to bring out your computer, your phone, or whatever else you use. It's okay. In fact, it's more than okay. I love it. Some people–particularly presenters–hate it when others have their laptops open and are typing away. They feel it's disrespectful and [...]

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Talking about Enterprise 2.0 and knowledge management

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:57:41 +0000

UPDATE: Fixed Wikipatterns URL UPDATE: Enterprise 2.0 and Knowledge Management View more presentations from Sacha Chua. (tags: km enterprise2.0) I'm giving a lecture on Enterprise 2.0 and knowledge management at the Schulich School of Business (York University). There's so much to talk about, but I'd like students to walk away with: an understanding of how this is personally relevant to [...]

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Scarcity versus abundance in knowledge management

Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:43:51 +0000

If the thought of people stealing your ideas is what's stopping you from thinking out loud on a blog, you're not alone. It's a valid fear. If you're afraid of your ideas being stolen, your mindset is probably that of knowledge scarcity – that you should hoard knowledge because that's what gives you power. That [...]

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Lessons learned from hosting today's IBM Web 2.0 for Business community call with Amy Shuen

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 19:50:26 +0000

Hosting today's Web 2.0 for Business community call was nerve-racking, but I'd love to do it again. At the peak of the call, we had 98 people connected to the Web conference, with maybe three-quarters listening to the webcast. Our speaker was Amy Shuen, author of the Web 2.0 Strategy Guide, and she gave a [...]

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ROI for public speaking and Web 2.0; graph and case study

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 02:58:31 +0000

Amy Shuen inspired me to prepare a spreadsheet for estimating the value created by my talks. (You can open the spreadsheet in OpenOffice.org or Lotus Symphony, both free office suites.) She'll be including some of the numbers in tomorrow's IBM Web 2.0 for Business community call on ROI of Web 2.0 at Work. I thought [...]

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Unfinished Business: Design and New Media in the Obama campaign

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 16:24:50 +0000

Last night's Unfinished Business lecture was about design and new media in the Obama campaign, with insights from Scott Thomas (a designer) and Rahaf Harfoush (a social media strategist). The event was held in the auditorium of the Ontario College of Art and Design, and roughly 300 people attended. My key take-away from the talk [...]

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GreaterIBM: Turbocharging real-life social networking events

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:38:11 +0000

When Todd Waymon connected to me on the Greater IBM Connection, I remembered a story that he and his wife (Lynne Waymon, author of Make Your Contacts Count) would probably find interesting. I was looking for my blog post about it, but I must've forgotten to tell that story then. Well, here it is! It was [...]

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My Enterprise 2.0 blogroll

Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:33:41 +0000

A few weeks ago, Jeff Widman asked me what I do to learn more about Enterprise 2.0. I told him that there aren't that many bloggers looking at how companies can use Web 2.0 internally, and that much of what I learn comes from my day-to-day interactions within IBM and the consulting I do for [...]

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Drupal and return on sharing

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:29:59 +0000

Another IBMer sent me an instant message out of the blue and introduced himself as a fellow Drupal developer. I noticed from the chat window that he was based in Atlanta, where a number of my other Drupal team members are from. He thanked me for sharing so much on the wiki, the peer-to-peer learning [...]

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Twitter, Whuffie, and Amazing Connections

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:03:00 +0000

Thanks to Don Marti's post about a possible business model for Twitter, I came across Tara Hunt's post about Twitter, whuffie (reputation), and the amazing power of connection. In her blog post, she tells the story of how disappointed she was when she was waiting for UPS delivery (which didn't come during the delivery window [...]

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One of Canada's Most Influential Women in Social Media?

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:03:06 +0000

I've been nominated as one of Canada's Most Influential Women in Social Media in a poll run by Dave Forde, whom I know from the Toronto technology scene. It's a little odd thinking about that, because I'm nowhere near the likes of Amber MacArthur (popular geek television / videocasting personality), Leesa Barnes (who made it [...]

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Notes from conversations: Conscious competence

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 16:04:32 +0000

Politeness I'm going to start off with a story about embarrassing myself, because it's something worth thinking about, I learned a lot through it, and it shows you that I'm human and there are many things you can teach me. Jeff invited me to this talk, and I was really looking forward to it. I had [...]

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