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Social Media Panel in Charleston

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a panel on web.20 in Charleston. The event was hosted by the Charleston Area Alliance for the Generation Charleston group. It was a great experience for me to be a panel presenter with a great group of knowledgeable peers. The event focused on web2.0 and use social media for professional networking. The panel details are here.

There was a nice group of participants and when asked about 80%+ were on Facebook and LinkedIn. Here is the Facebook page for the event. The panelists seemed to compliment each other well. I talked a little about marketing yourself online. With only five minutes to talk, I didn’t really go very deep, but hopefully shared a few nuggets along the way.

I just wanted to be sure that I said Thank You to those who invited me and participated.

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New Communication on the Web – Google Chat Video

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I just tried video chat on Google and it was easy and cool. It worked really well. I think this is another important step to improved communication on the web. I really need to get a laptop with an integrated camera and mic. I wonder if this is enough justification to get a new Mac laptop? It will also be interesting to see if you can embed a chat module into other pages like Blogger and Google Sites. Time to experiment.

Official Gmail Blog: Spice up your inbox with colors and themes

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Official Gmail Blog: Spice up your inbox with colors and themes

I am not a theme kind of guy, but if you like to jazz up your gmail account here you go. I guess you might get used to a theme over time, but I find it really hard to have a page that you spend a lot of time on, to be color intensive. I have gmail on all the time, so I just don’t want that much glare during my work day. I might be interested in a tailored them that adds a few logos from my favorite teams, but nothing over the top.

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Key Ideas of Learning Trends 2008

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I was trying to create an opportunity to share the main ideas presented in an online conference last month, but the hyperlink to the map doesn’t give access. I am going to post it here to see if the community can link through this embedded map to access the content. I also included a couple of other conferences, hoping that maybe someone would share other presentations and key ideas. Be warned, I really didn’t capture a lot personally, I was hoping to get others involved.

If anyone knows other places on the web where this information lives, post it here or let me know and I will post it.

Update: It didn’t work, the map didn’t click through.

Hyperlink: http://www.mindmeister.com/12384408

Embedded link: Learning Trends November 2008

The option that does seem to work is browsing to it by search for Trends on the mindmeister.com site.

Nokia N97

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This is a very interesting gadget. The Nokia N97 has a nice wide screen and a full keyboard. The video makes it look to operate smoothly, but that is very hard to tell.

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Collaboration at Cisco via John Chambers

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

Here is an interesting video of John Chambers, fellow WVU grad, discussing command and control versus collaboration style management. It is very clear that Cisco applies a very sophisticated management style to production and operations. They are now focused on leveraging the power of social networking and collaboration to empower company decisions and planning.

Via: Mohamed Amine Chatti

A Big Year in 2009: A Physical Challenge

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

So I am setting myself up for a big year. I am finalizing a transition to a new job and getting myself organized around the goals that I have set out for myself in 2009. On the personal side I am seeking to find balance in my spiritual, mental, social, and physical components of my life. While, I have some specific things in each of the four areas, in this post I want to share my goals for my focus on the physical component. I am looking to improve my health as a key step to improving my overall quality of life, mental clarity, and attitude.

For me it is important to set goals that I can see and obtain. The goal that I am focused on this year is to participate in the 2010 Disney Marathon next January. This will be my second marathon. I completed the first marathon in 2006, also at Disney. I was so excited about just finishing the race, it was incredible. However, being goal oriented, I decided that this year I want to step it up in a big way and will focus on competing the Goofy Challenge. This consists of completing a half marathon on Saturday morning and then a full marathon on Sunday morning of the same weekend. The additional miles will mean that I have to really step up my ability to get in long runs and recover quickly. I have set some key milestones for myself and hope that I can build the necessary strength and endurance necessary to finish.

The focus for me will be on endurance (heart rate), body tone (strength), and monitoring my knees that ofter give me trouble. The technology support that I am using includes the GPS through my iPhone. I have started using an app called RunKeeper. It keeps my location, times, and min/miles data as I run. I am currently using the free edition, but will most likely upgrade when am convinved it is realiable enough to use for the entire training program. One great feature is that it uploads the data to the web immediately following a run and provides me access to it. Any great benefit of running with a GPS-enabled device is the ability to just take off in any direction and log know who far you have run.

I am also looking into purchasing a heart monitor. This is going to be critical for me to build the endurance that I will need for strength and recovery. I haven’t really made up my mind, but I know that I want a device with an audible alert to let me know when I am out of my key range.

Finally, something that I haven’t structured at all is body toning. I don’t know why, you think it would be easy to do push-ups and set-ups each day or lift weights, but I can’t seem to get myself into the pattern. I will focus on getting it into my schedule so that I can hold myself accountable.

In the end I hope that it is helpful to others beyond what I know it will do for me. I hope to organize a fund raiser around the event and bring in some money for the WVU Children’s Hospital Pediatric Cardiology Department.

I hope to share more throughout the year about my adventures and goals, there will be many highs and lows I am sure. If you are a big time runner you won’t be impressed with my ability, but if you are someone who is interested in setting goals, improving your health, and trying to improve all aspects of your life through improved physical conditioning then you might be interested in following along.

Here’s to 2009 and setting big goals!

Joomla Installation For an Beginner

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

So I have a couple of websites that I am trying to get live on the web. One is a community site the other a prototype of a concept that I have in mind. I have a hosting package on DreamHost and was able to use the “One-Click Installs” to load Joomla. You have to setup a database and a user account for the database. But really that was it.

If you don’t know Joomla is an open source content management system that allows you to create websites without programming. I would much rather learn to program my own site, but “Learn to Program” has been on my todo list for years. So something like this is my alternative.

Once it is installed, they send you an email with some additional instructions. I followed them as close as possible and I have the site up and working. I did forget what I had set as a username, so it took me a couple of tries to get in, my mistake not theirs. Now, I really need to learn how to use Joomla.

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This Week in Tech Reminds Me of Home

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

I listened to most of this weeks episode of TWIT on the way down to the office today on my iPhone. I didn’t listen to it all because I wanted to hear some of the coverage of the President’s speech last night.

The panel on the podcast talked about the conversion of television signals from analog to digital that has been the center of national attention for awhile now. Doesn’t effect my family directly, we are on satellite TV that now offers local channels, but we are watching local commercials again after probably 10 years. The quality really hasn’t changed much over that time.

The conversation did however take me back to when I was a kid living in rural West Virginia. (Those of you who know me, probably are saying, “You are still a kid living in rural WV.”) Anyway, my dad put a tall television antenna at the top of the hill behind our house. My guess is that is was over a quarter mile from the house to the top of the hill, so we had to run two wires back to the house and connect them to the TV to get a signal.

I don’t remember the actual creation of the wiring system, but what I do remember was that sometimes, probably due to weather, the antenna would get moved and the signal to the TV would turn poor or even go out. This meant that the antenna needed to be adjusted to once again get a clear signal. In order to make such a fine adjustment it required that my two siblings and I be strategically placed at points along the path, so when someone at the top of the hill adjusted the antenna, someone at the TV could tell if it was an improvement or made it worse. The two people located somewhere on the hill in between the two key locations just need to relay the message accurately. As a dad today, I can only imagine how my Dad must have laughed through such a family activity.

It was quite an event to tune the TV. And what did this gain the Kraus House in terms of high quality entertainment in the later 1970’s and early 1980’s? Usually the ability to see the picture on channel 5 and hear the sound on Channel 12. We thought it was great.

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A New Learning Tool: siftables

admin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

This MIT student is working on new human to computer interfaces. It is a great presentation.

I think that the impact of how people interact with this type of technology is so interesting. I wonder if you could add the same kind of interactivity between consenting iphones or other devices such as your television. Pour your playlist from your iphone into your friends? Or the photos from your camera into your laptop. That would be cool.

From a learning perspective, it is interesting to consider a learning activity that allowed you to build fluency, like the ones in the examples, but also a lot of other learning applications. You could most likely create a lot of simulations where the block represents an real world object or condition and displays a color graphic or plays a sound based on many different factors of proximity.

Cool stuff.

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