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10.29.08AoC2 - Let’s call it ShirleyThat title is an obscure Sesame Street reference to the sketch in the video below. It's always been one of my favorites. And the message holds true today. In work and in life, we need to turn to experts or those skilled where we are not in order to achieve our best possible outcomes. It's about having a conversation, collaborating and forming a community. Which is the very message I have sought to drive in my contribution to Age of Conversation 2: Why don't they get it? There's no better time than now to take up the challenge of being the evangelist ...
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10.28.08Travel light - Eee PC 1000H HackBookI've been wanting a lightweight travel machine for ages. I've been looking longingly at the MacBook Air as several folks I know own one, but the price has always been too high for me to easily justify to myself. And with the recent price increase in Australia to AU$2899 base, I just couldn't do it. I also know several people with Asus Eee PCs. They swear by them. Most of them are running one form of Linux or another. I could cope with that, but am so comfortable in OS X that I dislike using anything else. Not that the OS ...
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10.27.08The inside the wall option with TwitterMy friend and colleague, Matthew Hodgson, has suggested I was being timid in my last post for not delving into the business alternatives to Twitter for those times public conversation may not be appropriate. Not at all, my friend. Simply something I wasn't delving into in that post. I think Matthew's being deliberately challenging. That's good. I'll be interested to see the outcomes for the client work he's doing where risk assessments along these lines are being conducted.. I think for a number of business conversations, Twitter isn't appropriate. I'd be delighted if lots of businesses jumped on the Cluetrain and ...
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10.27.08Adventures in connectedness - TwitterSome time over the weekend, I hit a significant milestone in my use of social networks. I sent my 12000th public tweet on Twitter! This marks a pretty significant point. My 18 months of steady Twitter use, and nearly two years of membership (I joined in November '06) accompanies the birth and emergence of this site in its current incarnation and of acidlabs as a business entity in its own right. So, as a logical next step (at least in my mind), let's look at how I'm deriving value from Twitter. It must be fulfilling some need, as I've obviously ...
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10.24.08What inspires me to blog (and a short rant)Laurel's pressured me and now Lee has too! What is it with you people? There are a number of triggers, I guess, that will get me to make those particular mouse clicks and keyboard strokes. I've never really thought about them clearly before now. Like Laurel and Lee, I'm pretty much on a theme here. There are occasions I drift off topic, or am tempted to put something more personal in a post, but they are very much that - occasional. So what are my motivators? Let's see: business value for problem solving using social tools as a supporting technology - it's about ...
