As I’ve started exploring social media a bit more seriously recently, I’ve taken a fresh look at LinkedIn. Since I first signed up, more and more people I know have started using LinkedIn as well – or at least they’ve signed up. I’ve also reconnected with a few folks from way back, so that’s been [...]
Tagged 2.0, connecting, LinkedIn, Social Media, Social Networking, YouTubeA common misconception about autistic individuals is that they shun social contact, that they are all introverts. But in many cases it is simply the means – not the desire - to be social that eludes them. Face-to-face, real-time conversation can be difficult, but it is not because their there is no interest in communicating. [...]
Tagged autism, FaceBook, Knowledge Management, MySpace, Ning, Second Life, Social MediaAccording to Venkatesh Rao in his Enterprise 2.0 Blog post Social Media vs. Knowledge Management: A Generational War, KM and SM are indeed at war, albeit an undeclared one. Kind of. Following a brief history of events that made him come this conclusion, he provides 5 social and 5 technical dimensions of this war: Social: [...]
Tagged Enterprise 2.0, Knowledge Management, Social MediaStories earlier this week about President-elect Barack Obama and his Blackberry got me thinking about how our elected leaders and their staffs are (or not) using the potential of “stuff 2.0″ (“stuff” = “web”, “enterprise”, “KM”, etc) in the execution of their duties. For example: It used to make sense for Senators and Congressmen to [...]
Tagged 2.0, Government, Politics, SocialNetworkingI, along with several others, was interviewed last summer by Lilia Efimova concerning my experiences as a Knowledge Management blogger using the blog as a networking tool. (The interview came about from my blog No Straight Lines, which started out as a KM blog). You can see a summary of my interview here. The short [...]
Tagged Blogging, KM, Mathemagenic, SocialNetworkingAs a Systems Engineer working on a huge system-of-systems, complexity is a part of my daily life. (I’m not complaining – I love it!). But not everyone involved always recognizes the situation as complex, as opposed to simply complicated. Of course, not everyone is in a position where they see the complexity; it all depends [...]
Tagged Complexity, Systems, SystemsEngineeringI use the 600 page Infinity Journal as my primary day-to-day wastebook, so I don’t have to start a new book very often, maybe once every 12 – 18 months depending on what’s going on. On the other hand, my digital wastebook(s) never run out of “pages” so I could keep using the same one [...]
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