Category Archives: social networking

Lifelet: He made me think!

Posted on October 19, 2013 by

While writing my blog post today on “Epistemology of Software,” I credited Drew Paine with “making me think.” In 1981, I worked for an executive vice president at Digital Equipment Corporation, Don Busiek. Whenever Don would introduce me to someone, … Continue reading →

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What could an old fart possibly know about technology?

Posted on September 19, 2013 by

The day started with my wonderful son-in-law sending me a reminder of how ancient a technology mariner I am. He’d found this “What if?” answer from XKCD on “If all digital data were stored on punch cards, how big would … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data, Design, Entrepreneuring, Humor, social networking, Wine | 3 Comments

Integrity – Easily Lost, Hard to Regain

Posted on February 11, 2012 by

In writing the blog post on “Succumbing to the Ultimate Power Trip,” I was reminded of a bookend to this experience. One of the more interesting players in the Watergate affair was Egil “Bud” Krogh. Bud was the 32 year … Continue reading →

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Organizations Don’t Tweet, People Do – Euan Semple

Posted on February 4, 2012 by

Once you figure out how to dip your “knowledge net” into the stream of search engines, blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, the world just shows up at your doorstep (oops, I mean browser window).  Well, sort of.  It helps a … Continue reading →

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Is the university experience wasted on the young?

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

Every now and again, the universe conspires to free up some time to do some face to face learning with terrific resources in the academic world.  After a whirlwind set of face to face meetings with professors at UW Seattle … Continue reading →

Posted in Big Data, Content with Context, Knowledge Management, Learning, organizing, Relationship Capital, social networking, University, User Experience, Working in teams | 4 Comments

A Little Strategic Networking to Finish the Week

Posted on January 28, 2012 by

Not often enough my schedule conspires to present a strategic networking day.  An excellent article in the Harvard Business Review “How Leaders Create and Use Networks” makes the distinction between Operational Networks, Personal Networks and Strategic Networks. Most of our … Continue reading →

Posted in Intellectual Capital, organizing, Relationship Capital, social networking | 1 Comment

Too Much to Know – The Death of the Long Form Book?

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

At dinner the other evening at Crush with my valued all things marketing and branding colleague, Katherine James Schuitemaker, I shared with her that I finally produced a draft of the book on Attenex Patterns I’ve wanted to write for … Continue reading →

Posted in Content with Context, ebook, Human Centered Design, Intellectual Capital, Knowledge Management, Learning, social networking, WUKID | 13 Comments