December 2009

Are You Ready?

29 December 2009

“We’ve been bitten by the spider in the social web”, The CEO says.  She’s heard about social networking and social media and social social, and wants to be involved.  She’s not sure how or why, but she hears so much about it, there’s gotta be something there. She asks The Marketing Guy to get smart [...]

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Just Ask

18 December 2009

I helped design a small social network for a collection of students passing through a particular program in graduate school.  The issue was that people inside each graduating cohort networked well within that class, but networking from class to class was a challenge.  So, a few students and I set out to solve that, and [...]

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Hearing vs. Listening

1 December 2009

“Oh, I heard you.  I just wasn’t listening to you.” This is a line my wife and I playfully trade back and forth around the house when talking about who is going to take out the trash, or responding to a favor request, or the response to a polite reminder. It’s all in jest, and [...]

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