EUI Summit – Day 1 PM
After another delicious lunch on the deck at the Sky Hotel (a view from our lunch spot is at left), Laura Fitton of Pistachio Consulting then spoke about Microblogging Re-Imagined OR Microsharing in the Enterprise. The term blogging itself can be a barrier, but the biggest issue is why people should use it in the enterprise context. The concerns are why they should do it, and who they are telling. She believes that an enteprise solution needs to ask a different question: What has your attention? (Twitter asks the question: What are you doing?) That revised approach leads to use...
Read MoreGoogled
I enjoy working with all kinds of technology and being online. I am ‘hyper-connected’ in part because my work demands it – so much of what I do involves a computer and internet technologies (and more recently, social media). However, when it comes to an online presence, I have always struggled between my high-tech work life and the desire for privacy in my personal life. When I first started learning how to build pages for the web in 1994, I was using pico (a UNIX-based text editor associated with the mail application pine) or VI to write web pages. The first graphical...
Read MoreExploring social media
Before my maternity leave (early summer last year), I met with one of the guys in SAP’s Emerging Solutions development organization. He told me that they had spoken with some young students and received some use cases for different technologies. One of the uses cases for email? Sending a thank-you to parents of a friend. Note to self: email is for old people! I created and have been managing a listserv called anthrodesign for a number of years. I really enjoy the dialogue and the community that has been formed, and I don’t really mind the administration because I spend...
Read MoreI thought IM was hip
This week at work I sent an email announcing that I was stepping down from the intranet governing body. It was a big deal (at least for me) as I have been working in that space since early 2004. But it was really time for something new, and I am looking forward to the change. The main thing it’s doing for me at the moment is that it’s allowing me to step away from all the standard corporate technologies (the portal, enterprise content management) and really start figuring out what’s going on in the high-tech industry. I have been out of touch, people! And...
Read MoreTaking the plunge
For a long while now, I’ve been meaning to get my act together with a web site and an online presence in general. But now understanding all the new technologies is integral to my work, so I’m deep into it trying to figure it out. I’m on Facebook now, and finding some long-lost friends from high school, and from former jobs. I’m Twittering (you can request to follow me here), and I’m even set up to tweet from my cell phone. There are other areas where I’ve made less headway – and not for lack of trying in some cases! I’ve uploaded my...
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