Command Line continues a tradition of intelligent, literate, and thoughtful interviews with his October 1, 2008 interview with Evan Prodromou of Control Yourself. The interview provides insight into the related topics of open source software commercialization, and the possible “federated” nature of post-Twitter micro-blogging.
How Can Community Based Social Media Support the Next Census
A recent AP article titled Census: Big Brother anxieties could hurt count reports official concern that the next US census is threatened by public anxiety about government activities such as immigration control and anti-terrorism measures. This made me wonder how the Census Bureau will be training its employees to overcome this public concern, and how collaborative technologies such as social networks might be used to share “best practices” among Census staff with community relations responsibilities.
Why Books Will Survive
These days there is no shortage of ways to express ideas in a variety of media, ranging from less-than-140-character Twitter messages to self-produced Flip camera snippets complete with sound.
Using the FeedBurner service I have added an email subscription feature to this blog.
Readers of this blog may have noticed that I have posted a link to a brief (one-minute) questionnaire survey; the survey link appears near the top of the left hand column of this page.
I posted Painful Lessons Learned from Using Google Docs last week when I discovered a spreadsheet, a spreadsheet form questionnaire, and a series of documents missing. That post was a followup to a very positive earlier post, Lessons Learned from Using Google Docs.
Here are five more podcasts I’ve been subscribing and listening to lately:
In How Microsoft Can Win The PC/Mac Campaign my friend Jeremiah Owyang asked for comments about the new Microsoft “I’m a PC” advertising campaign.
Six Ways Local Governments Can Use Social Media to Promote Energy Conservation
Here are six ways local governments can use social media to help promote energy conservation. If you think of more please comment below this post or send an email to ddmcd@yahoo.com:
In Lessons Learned from Using Google Docs I described my recent use of Google Docs to support collaborative development of a consulting services proposal. The experience I described then was very positive.
The Knowledge Management Section of the U.S. Army’s Field Manual FM 6-01.1 is a classic example of the formal structure and organization one can apply to just about any organizational process that requires management.
This has to be one of the most amazing examples of news-stream integration I’ve seen, a plugin based on Sprout technology:
Below is a display of the words I’ve used to describe my own professional experience, going back to my initial involvement on contract research, then database publishing:
The page on this blog My Comments Elsewhere displays a list of links to bookmarks from my del.icio.us account I have tagged using the term “comments.” Recently Kathie Thomas, a member of the Linkedin Bloggers group on Yahoo! Groups that I co-moderate, asked how I generated this page. Here’s how.
Questions of control and responsibility inevitably arise when strategizing about the role of social media and social networking in the enterprise.
I’ve been a fan of remotely hosted web based applications ever since I used a sales tracking system called Salesmetrics. Applications I use regularly include:
As an experiment I uploaded 50 pictures I’ve taken over the past several weeks while walking my dog through the park near our house. On its own, Microsoft’s Photosynth located the two photos that were actually taken of the same log; I think that’s pretty neat.
You have 10 seconds to match the group with the slogan:
In Marketing middleware socially Paul Gillin discussed why social software is already used in connection with the marketing of middleware:
Using Grassroots "Collaboration" to Promote Local Energy Conservation
This post discusses how social networking can be used to help promote local energy conservation.