Kicking off social software in Sara’s elementary school Jan05

Kicking off social s...

Emerging Early Adopters: With only 10 min demo, 11 & 12 year-olds pounce on social software in their elementary school. Social media tools enable them to be connected, extend their outreach, and ensure that all members can have a voice within the tribe. – Seth Godin, Tribes...

The Start-Up Chronic...

My Idea’s Unhidden Agenda, also known as, Work-For-Attribution, and how I hope it will attract community members and contributors – the Who. Imagination: Albert Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” Leaders create things that didn’t exist...

My $0.02 to DirkR...

More on how to infuse Social Content 2.0 into your social software lifecycle One of Twitter’s endearing qualities is simplicity. After it’s “@” (Reply), or, “D” (Direct message), you have the remaining 140 characters to get your message across. Another...

It was a good Dip – but a Dip nonetheless

I started off writing my farewell email to my IBM social network but then thought it would make a better post and help drive traffic at the same time I’m fascinated by social software and the content that runs through it. This is where I want to immerse the next chapter of my career. To all the IBMers I socialized with … On the very first page of Seth Godin‘s “The Dip”, he writes: Most of the time, we deal with obstacles by persevering. Sometimes we get get discouraged and turn to inspirational writing, like stuff from Vince Lombardi: “Quitters never win and winners never quit.” Bad advice. ...

No one could accuse ...

The rumors were true. There are layoffs & I’m among them. I have until 6 Feb 2009 to find a new job within IBM, or, yada yada yada. This is the second of two posts I’d like to share with you about my experience inside Big Blue. It’s all good. Here is a cleansed...