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I Am An RSS Feed Redux: One Step Closer to Owning Your Entire Web Presence
Back in 2011, I wrote a rant explaining that I want to be an RSS feed. It was a response to the launch for Google+, a reaction to the creation of yet. another. social. networking. platform. Another place among the…
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Social Capital Conference 2013: Wrap-Up and Conference Notes
Social Capital Conference Were you able to make it to Social Capital Conference last weekend? If so, how did you find it? I was pleasantly surprised by the calibre of the presentations in this year’s lineup. I have to (sheepishly)…
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Journalism, Social Media & Ethics: Is It OK To Cite An Observed Tweet As A Direct Quote?
Credit: Microsoft Online ClipArt Here’s a question I’ve been mulling over for some time: Are random tweets fair game for journos? Can they quote you as if you were interviewed, without ever contacting you? That is, should journalists mine other…
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The Biggest Barrier To The Modern Workplace is Us
Credit: Microsoft ClipArt Gallery My career has so far spanned 15 years. In that time, I’ve worked at 12 companies and held a total of 15 different jobs. And you know what? Although tech has been getting faster, smaller and…
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Finding Each Other: 75 TED Talks Featuring Geek Girls
Credit: Microsoft Online Clipart Gallery Last week, I gave a presentation and one of the participants asked about how to find like-minded people in our own community. It’s a comment that I’ve been thinking about a lot over the last…
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Libraries as Seed Banks: An Open Data Opportunity
Source: Neil Palmer via Wikimedia Commons My friend @macjudith posted an article the other day that completely piqued my interest: “How To Save A Public Library: Make It A Seed Bank. Wow. It turns out that Basalt, Colorado has a…
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PSA: A Note To People Working on The Bleeding Edge of Social Media (or Any Industry)
I spent the last week and half in a virtual vigil, keeping watch via Facebook as my extended family members posted updates about another family member’s declining condition and ultimate passing. When I called my Dad and my brother, I…
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Rant: 2 Essential Skills Students Probably Won't Learn at School (But CAN Learn Online)
Success in school comes from learning how to learn and understanding how to deliver within the context of the school structure. Learning how to learn isn’t easy to accomplish, since public schools often seem focused on the output (moving kids up…
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Social Media for Non-Profits: Doing It With Purpose (SoCapOtt presentation slides and script)
[Aside: Hat tip to @thornley for suggesting that I name my presentation: “Doing It With Purpose” in his tweets from my presentation.] This past Saturday, I presented at Social Capital Ottawa (aka SoCapOtt) in the Non-profits stream. My presentation, entitled…
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Rant: Are you using social media to co-operate or collaborate?
On Wednesday, January 25th, I presented a short rant at a conference themed around collaborative management. My talk was about challenging some of the assumptions around collaboration: specifically, that using social media and collaborative tools doesn’t always result in collaboration.…
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