Is there such a thing as "social networking fatigue"?
Luis Suarez thinks so. He wrote about it recently in Your Single Social Network - ClaimID and Identity 2.0 to the Rescue?. Here's an extract of what he said:
How Involved Should Customers Be in Managing Their Own Technical Support?
Last week I wrote about my experiences when my main laptop computer died. The bright spot was that I learned about the value of remotely-sourced database access through my use of DabbleDB. The dark side: my experience with my computer vendor’s Gold service plan.
Looking back, I can see advantages and disadvantages of using social media and social networking technologies as components in overall customer and technical support situations.
Rummaging through Google Analytics I've captured some more information about visits to this blog, All Kind Food, during 2006.
Abraham Lincoln and the Telegraph
If you are a fan of the history of technology, this new book might interest you. Bob Willard has been kind enough to forward to me information about Tom Wheeler's book Mr. Lincoln's T-Mails: The Untold Story of How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War.
I used Google Analytics to generate this graphic which displays, as far as I can tell, the network locations of visitors to All Kind Food during 2006. One major disappointment: Antarctica is not here.
Who Is Writing and Reading Online Tech Magazines?
Dian Schaffhauser’s post If I Were Editor… in Sourcingmag.com’s Blogosphere takes online magazines (such as eWeek, InformationWeek, InfoWorld, and CIO) to task for an interesting reason:
When a Laptop Dies: A True Tale of Business Continuity, DabbleDB, and Apple iTunes
Sometimes it's good to have everything in one place. Sometimes it's a good idea to have everything spread around. And sometimes having all your eggs in one basket will bite you.
I was reminded of this earlier this week when my main laptop died. I was able to rapidly switch to two backup machines for most of what I needed to do while waiting for the Dell technician. In the process I observed a few things that are worth noting.
Overlapping and Evolving Online Communities are becoming the Rule, Not the Exception
I received an email last night from a reader of this blog asking me to comment on cost estimates he had received for the development of a new social networking service. He wants to offer targeted services to a specific but large population segment.
His thinking corresponds with a lot of interest people have these days for applying social networking techniques in a profitable or meaningful way to different population groups — young people, old people, professionals, managers, sports enthusiasts, podcasters, jobseekers, lonely hearts — you name it. If there isn’t already a MySpace/YouTube/Linkedin clone targeting any group that can write a check or reach a keyboard, there soon will be.
Steve Rubel's The Imminent Demise of the Page View is yet another warning of the eventual demise of the "page view" as a way for measuring ... what?
For my first weekly podcast I’ve recorded a twelve-minute commentary on All Kind Food’s “weekly top ten posts” as of November 29, 2006. To download the podcast, click the microphone:
Something happened today that made me realize I may be reaching my personal "tipping point" between the old world of desktop-centric applications and the brave new world of network-centric applications.
Without thinking, I scrolled down to the bottom of my laptop's screen, double clicked on the "always on top" Windows XP toolbar, and waited.
Dow Chemical CEO's Speech on National Manufacturing Policy
On C-SPAN Radio over the weekend I heard an interesting speech given by the CEO of Dow Chemical titled Energy, Manufacturing and the Future of the American Economy.
Is Innovation Management a Process or a Project?
I've been thinking about innovation management recently in connection with some consulting projects. The question I've been considering is how to best manage the innovation process that surrounds adopting various social networking and collaboration tools.
One can view the adoption of such tools as an innovation.
Washington Technology has an interesting report called Open-source info may help establish integrated intelligence community that discusses how publicly available information from any source is being mined by the U.S intelligence community for useful information. The article describes a CIA department called the “Open Source Center”:
Here is a draft presentation that addresses some of the ways that social networking and social media can be used by professional membership associations to improve member services:
EirePreneur has a real interesting use of OPML files and GRAZR -- a personal list of experts that is shareable. Now, I've just gotten through with updating my own feeds-on-web-page so I have some questions about the cumbersome nature of this process, but I like the idea. Check it out; it generates discussion about a variety of interrelated topics including tagging, taxonomy, what is an expert, and sexual discrimination (I kid you not).
More Comparisons of Journal Peer Review and Blogging
My earlier blog post A Comparison of Blogging and Journal Peer Review compared and contrasted blogging with peer reviewed journals. Here I extend this comparison and suggest some additional examples of possible crossover between the two.
If you have not been following this story, the BBC has a good overview: Microsoft's iPod killer, the soon to be released Zune, uses DRM (digital rights management) technology that is not compatible with Microsoft's own PlayForSure technology.