Life and Learning are Not Linear: in the digital era life and learning are unexpected, chaotic, and random; be open, and you will be successful at both You Have a Single Persona: the professional and personal are cohesive so don’t waste your time and energy trying to separate them Learning is Doing: don’t […]
Microblog About Microarcheologist
Dry cleaner is a microarcheologist: stains from the week tell a story.
Punctuate This Thought
Social media, in short, changing the culture. Social media: in short-changing the culture. With which side do you side?
The Morning After
Yesterday I attended Potomac Tech Wire/Digital Media Wire’s 5th Annual Digital Media Conference. While the topics were interesting and I DID make a number of valuable connections, I have two observations, one negative, one mixed. First, the negative: I was disappointed to find that the conference was very much of a Web 1.0 event: flat PowerPoint […]
The World’s Next Superpower
What will be the next big company? Will it be MySpace!? Will it be Facebook?! No and no. “The next “big” company” is the wrong model for a social media-enabled world. We need to get out of this Web 1.0 portal mentality. As Chris Anderson hypothesizes in The Long Tail, we are moving from a […]
Social Currency: the Most Valuable Gift We Can Give to Our Children
Before my daughter was born, my husband and I did what all good parents do: set her up for legal, medical and educational security. We had wills drawn up and assigned four levels of guardians should anything ever happen to us. We arranged to have her cord blood banked should her stem cells ever be […]
Retrobuilding
So you’ve joined the social networking craze and now you receive daily requests be “LinkedIn” and to be “friends” on Facebook. You’re finding camp friends from 1982 and being found–stalked?–by girlfriends from 1993. It’s new, it’s exciting, it’s fun…it’s time consuming…it’s eating into your gym time…it’s an excuse to stay in on Friday nights. Hmmm… […]
