I help clients plan and manage technology related research, system development, strategy, and system consolidation projects. Since 2005 I’ve also been active with collaboration, web publishing, social media, blogging, and social networking tools and processes. Listed below are recent entries in the “managing technology” section of this website:
Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 01:54PM Does increasing government transparency help or hurt professional and trade associations? Here are two answers:
Friday, August 8, 2008 at 10:45AM In my blog post Can Social Media Help Change the Public’s Perception of the Engineering Profession? I commented on the National Academy of Engineering’s report Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering. In my original post I lauded the NAE report but suggested that any implementation program designed to change the public’s perception of the engineering profession should incorporate social media and social networking elements. In this post I discuss some of these elements.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008 at 01:25AM Ben Martin’s provocatively titled blog post As long as people don’t really care associations will survive addresses the common (these days) idea that social media and social networking somehow “compete” with the traditional idea of a professional association. After all, if anyone can throw together an online group of like-minded individuals at the drop of a hat, won’t professional associations inevitably lose members to such grassroots movements?
Monday, July 7, 2008 at 08:31AM Partly in response to the volunteer work my wife has been doing here in Alexandria, Virginia, I’ve been researching the availability of banners and widgets published by nonprofits and volunteer organizations.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008 at 12:45PM I received an email commenting on Social Networking and Elsevier’s “Grand Challenge” for Knowledge Enhancement in the Life Sciences. I had suggested that networked access to published health science authors would be useful in emergency situations where there is the need for rapid access to high quality health information from many different sources.
Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 08:54PM I recently helped an association client with an “online focus group.” In this approach to exploratory research a series of questions is asked of a recruited group of geographically distributed members via a series of interactive web-delivered question-and-answer sessions.
Sunday, March 16, 2008 at 07:09AM It’s interesting to see how the mechanics of market research have been impacted by the web based and online tools now available for gathering and reporting information about personal preferences and behavior.
Thursday, March 6, 2008 at 01:37PM In Three effective uses of a blog for association magazines Ben Martin lists a fourth item from a conference he attended recently:
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 at 12:24AM Jamie Notter’s post Web 2.0: Participation, Trust, and Beta comments on an earlier post by Virgil Carter titled Web 2.0: Culture, Belief System, or Tool-Kit?
Wednesday, September 26, 2007 at 12:09PM Professional networking guru Scott Allen left a thoughtful comment on my blog post Network Unto Others As You Would Have Others Network Unto You a couple of days ago. He noted that people don’t share the same personal and professional networking priorities.