I don’t get asked this often, but it’s happened more than once, and it’s something I want to talk about. Occasionally when someone discovers my blog, and sees how involved I am in on-line communities, they’ll ask “why do you spend so much of your personal time blogging, and reading other blogs about your job?…
I wanted to try and post something yesterday about the presentation after it was done, but we had plans to see Dave Matthews last night and didn’t get home until late, so I wasn’t on-line. It went pretty well. The immediate feedback was pretty positive, but of course, the folks who had feedback for me…
Today was a very good day. I had two training sessions scheduled, back to back, covering two very different topics. One was supposed to be a class, but turned into one attendee, on working with transcripts in Summation. The second one was a scheduled one-on-one training session on using an RSS reader. In both sessions…
Ever since I downloaded the beta of the new Evernote, I’ve thought there was one feature that would really make this more useful. While, I certainly understand the convenience of automatically syncing notes between the offline and online versions of the product (Giving me the best of OneNote and Google Notebook? Maybe..), my professional life…
It’s 2008, yet I’m constantly surprised how much some organizations don’t think about how much we’re all connected to each other, and to information. Seriously, if you feel like it’s important that someone receive news from your organization directly, in a personal phone call, don’t issue a press release, post it on your website, and…
Circumstances pushed me to updating to the latest release candidate of Firefox 3.0. Namely, Firefox becoming completely unstable on my Macbook Pro. As I mentioned, I had started messing with 3.0 RC1 with a mobile version running off my thumb drive, trying to hold off updating any of my machines until it was an official…