Email Address/Logons – I changed my email address recently. A month after sending notification to the people in my address book, more than 95% of my email is coming to the new address. Given that most address books and CRM systems I look at are pretty messed-up looking, I’m pleasantly surprised that such a large percentage…
Category: Technology
Where Do People Find the Time…Cognitive Heat Sync
I’m not much for link-blogging but I can’t get Clay Shirky’s speech out of my mind.
Lead-Building on Twitter
I’ve been impressed how several companies have pulled me in after I started “Following” them or after mentioning them on Twitter. For instance, I mentioned a feature of Smartsheets on Twitter, one of their marketing people found that (saved search), and a day later their CEO ended up setting me up a smartsourced task request to help me…
Adjusting to the Flattening of the Country
My consultant friends want to talk about what Elance could do to their career about as much as my single friends want to talk about who will be changing their diapers in 30 years. (No. Paying someone to change your diapers is no way to live or die.) As Elance, Guru, DoMyStuff, oDesk, Mechanical Turk, et…
(I Hate) Blogging…Online ID and Curating
This is the third blog I’ve tried to start over the years. It’s like joining a gym. Every few years someone talks me into joining them at their gym. I end up walking out repeating, “Now, I remember why I didn’t join a gym the last time I went to one.” Going to the gym…
Write-up of a web project recently completed
Below is a piece I did for a newsletter. We did later complete the content management system phase mentioned at the end of the piece. <<DCCA’s Membership Management System A citizen’s association’s core responsibility is to communicate with its members and community. Realizing the Dupont Circle Citizen Association’s (DCCA) membership management system (using Microsoft Access…
Lawrence Lessig Lecture
I had a great day for my interest in the collision of technology and government. I was pumped to listen Lawrence Lessig, meet the Sunlight Foundation staff and an EveryBlock staffer, and to sit next to Joe Trippi. Watch: here
A Start….
This blog got covered by another blog. That may sound like an echo chamber but that’s a positve thing in the (gag me) blogosphere. I was hoping to keep a separation between my intemperate blogging id and my ANC id but this guy links them: http://www.dcblogs.com/2005/07/dc-blogs-noted_28.html …better to go out with a bang than a…