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Website copyright © 2002-2025 by Dennis D. McDonald. From Alexandria, Virginia I support proposal writing & management, content and business development, market research, and strategic planning. I also practice and support cursive handwriting. My email: ddmcd@ddmcd.com. My bio: here.

Why Books Will Survive

Sep 30

Sep 30 Why Books Will Survive

Dennis D. McDonald

Books, Future, Media, Publishing, Writing

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.

Sep 30
Sep 30 Email Subscription Feature Added To This Blog

Dennis D. McDonald

Using the FeedBurner service I have added an email subscription feature to this blog.

Sep 25
Sep 25 Google Gadget Tracks Relative Frequency of Survey Text Responses

Dennis D. McDonald

Blogging, Google, Metrics, Surveys, Tag Clouds

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.

Sep 25
Sep 25 I Was Wrong about Google Docs

Dennis D. McDonald

Google, Metrics, Surveys

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.

Sep 23
Sep 23 Podcasts I'm Listening To Now - September, 2008

Dennis D. McDonald

Here are five more podcasts I’ve been subscribing and listening to lately:

Sep 19
Sep 19 A Wordle Analysis of Jeremiah Owyang's "I'm A PC" Blog Comments

Dennis D. McDonald

Advertising, Blogging, Semantic Web, Wordle

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

Sep 16

Sep 16 Six Ways Local Governments Can Use Social Media to Promote Energy Conservation

Dennis D. McDonald

Conservation, Energy, Expertise Management, Governance, Local, , eGovernment

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:

Sep 15
Sep 15 Painful Lessons Learned from Using Google Docs

Dennis D. McDonald

Collaboration, Google, Web Office

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.

Sep 11
Sep 11 U.S. Army Field Manual Embraces Knowledge Management and Collaboration

Dennis D. McDonald

Best Practices, Blogging, Collaboration, Content Management, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Transfer, Project Management, ,

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.

Sep 10
Sep 10 A Home Run: American Red Cross Sprout Widget

Dennis D. McDonald

News, Publishing, Red Cross, Sprout

This has to be one of the most amazing examples of news-stream integration I’ve seen, a plugin based on Sprout technology:

Sep 8
Sep 8 A Wordle Display of Dennis McDonald's Professional Experience

Dennis D. McDonald

Tag Clouds, Tagging, Wordle

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:

Sep 7
Sep 7 How I Keep Track of My Comments on Other Web Sites and Blogs

Dennis D. McDonald

Bookmarks, Comments, Grazr, How To, RSS, Tagging

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.

Sep 5
Sep 5 Control, Responsibility, and the Evolving Role of Community Management

Dennis D. McDonald

Best Practices, Change, Collaboration, Corruption, Enterprise 2.0, Management, Policy, Process, , , Strategy

Questions of control and responsibility inevitably arise when strategizing about the role of social media and social networking in the enterprise.

Aug 30
Aug 30 Lessons Learned from Using Google Docs

Dennis D. McDonald

Google, Remote Hosting, Software

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:

Aug 27
Aug 27 Photosynth Goes to the Park

Dennis D. McDonald

Photographs, Photosynth

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.

Aug 26
Aug 26 Pop Quiz: Web 2.0 Adoption Stereotypes

Dennis D. McDonald

Adoption, Change, Enterprise 2.0, Web 2.0

You have 10 seconds to match the group with the slogan:

Aug 21
Aug 21 Marketing Software the Social Media Way

Dennis D. McDonald

Change, Collaboration, Governance, Project Management, , , Software

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

Aug 18

Aug 18 Using Grassroots "Collaboration" to Promote Local Energy Conservation

Dennis D. McDonald

Collaboration, Conservation, Energy, Politics, ,

This post discusses how social networking can be used to help promote local energy conservation.

Higher Education Act Reauthorization Requires Colleges to Subsidize Copyright Anti-Piracy Efforts

Aug 14

Aug 14 Higher Education Act Reauthorization Requires Colleges to Subsidize Copyright Anti-Piracy Efforts

Dennis D. McDonald

Copyright, Corruption, DRM, Disaster Response, Education, Emergency

If you have recently written a check to pay college tuition for the coming semester, you will be interested to know that, if Congress has its way, part of the money you spend on your child’s college education will now be going to subsidize college-based copyright enforcement and anti-piracy efforts.