tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888Mon, 11 Jan 2010 18:06:05 +0000Where I wax eloquently on all manner of things related to social media, nonprofits, volunteerism, librarianship, information architecture, metadata, and federated search.http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/noreply@blogger.com (Laura)Blogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-5556497319825392643Mon, 11 Jan 2010 17:29:00 +00002010-01-11T10:06:05.889-08:00For several weeks now, I've been thinking a lot about the idea of getting myself a mentor. Not because it's National Mentoring Month (that actually slipped my mind as I was having these thoughts), but probably because it's a new year, and because of where I'm at in my career, and because I feel ready to try something new. I was thinking about it so much that I felt a blog post brewing.Then I got http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2010/01/national-mentoring-month-beth-kanters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1681738511261806879Mon, 20 Jul 2009 00:36:00 +00002009-07-19T20:36:01.767-07:00Back in April I created a slide presentation for an Ignite session at NTC about the Many Uses of Friendfeed that Beth Kanter picked up on, intrigued with the idea of using it as an internal listening tool. I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed, though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ("nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2009/07/why-friendfeed-is-good-nonprofit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-8051915364879175308Sat, 02 May 2009 16:47:00 +00002009-05-02T10:17:48.467-07:00Jumping into the sea of social media over the last nine months I've made many connections in the library and information science world, the social media enthusiasts world, and the nonprofit technology world. In the back of my mind, increasingly over the last three months, has been the knowledge that I need to up my game as far as having a recognizable professional presence on the web beyond http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2009/05/when-ef-hutton-talks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-5178003323319631041Fri, 01 May 2009 03:28:00 +00002009-04-30T20:42:58.378-07:00So I haven't blogged here much, it's true. I've been pretty busy Friendfeeding and Twittering and developing presences in social media land for my organization, the Resource Center of the Corporation for National and Community Service.I did a few posts towards the end of last year on another blog, Swimming in a Sea of Social Media. I thought I should have a separate blog, since I originally http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2009/04/im-not-dead-yet-just-pining.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-2803404948641637997Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:23:00 +00002009-07-17T15:14:04.225-07:00microbloggingfriendfeedtwitterEarlier this week Robert Scoble posted a tongue-in-cheek post, 10 Reasons Why Twitter is for You and Friendfeed is Not in which he suggested that Friendfeed required a bit more of its users because there are a variety of ways to use it, the character limit is much longer, and the search engine is more sophisticated, among other things.In the comments on the blog post several people proclaimed http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2008/12/spare-me-gordian-knot-my-brain-hurts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-4613766379575309135Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:20:00 +00002009-07-17T15:14:04.238-07:00OK, at first this seemed pretty dumb. What does it mean, exactly, to "join" a blog? Isn't it more meaningful to show support by adding the feed to google reader, leaving a comment, or showing up as a visitor in the MyBlogLog (even though the latter is such a tongue twister it always makes me think of Bob Loblaw's Law Blog)?But tonight I caught the first glimpse of some of the value. A Friendfeed http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2008/12/google-friend-connect-might-be-cooler.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-8742804085227514105Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:39:00 +00002009-07-17T15:14:04.269-07:00Apparently I can't stop singing the praises of Friendfeed. The thing about it, and perhaps there are other lifestreaming / microblogging services with this same feature, but the beauty of it is that it combines synchronous and asynchronous modalities so seamlessly. Like a busy Craigslist forum, IRC, or live chat room, the conversation sometimes zips along at a furious pace in real time. But http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2008/12/have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-341084277965485765Thu, 04 Dec 2008 08:15:00 +00002009-07-17T15:14:04.277-07:00orkut friendfeedI think I just figured out why Friendfeed is my new Orkut. It’s young, it’s new, and it’s richly populated with early adopters. I’ll just come right out and be a snob and say, most Silicon Valley types and early adopters are pretty smart. A large percentage of them are also witty, or funny, or nice, or all of those things. They enjoy socializing online. In the beginning, when Orkut was invite http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2008/12/friendfeed-is-my-new-orkut.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1388404438947558483Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:41:00 +00002009-07-17T15:14:04.286-07:00Mike Fruchter did a guest post on Louis Gray's blog that mentioned me. It was the fourth in his series of "10 People to Follow on Friendfeed". The previous three were on his own blog - this one just happened to be the one that was hosted on Louis' blog. Consequently, in the last two days I got 51 new subscribers. Prior to that my rate averaged a little less than one per day.To all my new http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2008/12/when-louis-gray-talks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-2445053825935493407Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:04:00 +00002009-07-17T15:14:04.347-07:00This thread on friendfeed is hilarious. At first I was reading through it and thought I must be missing some private joke. Further down, Lindsey supplied the quote from two comments that had been deleted, and it all came together.The delete function is supposed to provide some measure of protection. Did you suddenly realize that your clever retort is not so clever? Did you make a comment and thenhttp://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2008/11/nothing-was-deleted.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-6933190494910342377Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:34:00 +00002009-07-17T15:14:04.355-07:00nptechsocmedPondering how and whether to integrate or fragment my two selves. As I participate more and more in online social media and networking spaces, I find myself faced with difficult choices. I have so many personas:LibrarianInformation architect / taxonomist / metadata queenCurator of content at the Resource CenterPromoter of social media to nonprofitsSocial media enthusiastMom / family member / http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2008/10/am-i-two-faced-are-you.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-5590188461490645068Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:24:00 +00002009-07-17T15:14:04.403-07:00A weird thing happened on FriendFeed tonight. OK, two things. First was an earthquake and I got to see everyone posting about it in real time. Not that weird, but a true expression of the power of social media/networking/microblogging - whatever you want to call it. A few hours later FriendFeed had its own earthquake. As Paul Bucheit posted: “Vimeo changed the ids and urls used in their feeds, sohttp://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2008/09/one-night-two-earthquakes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-489515740482729165Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:25:00 +00002008-08-15T16:37:13.144-07:00rantsApparently I say that a lot, as my three-year-old has incorporated it into his repertoire. I don’t have time to fiddle with Blogger (wish it was still in @ev’s capable hands …). Tried to port my dusty, rusty old blog from old place to new , but my template options are either drag and drop with no control or full on HTML and CSS. Nope, “I don’t have time for this.”On a related note, the Office http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2008/08/i-dont-have-time-for-this.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-5424057143482040870Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:45:00 +00002009-07-17T15:14:04.363-07:00Once I immersed myself in the ocean, I decided to go for socialmedian, too. My initial reaction is this: I don't like being scattered. I've committed to Delicious. I've been drinking the friendfeed kool-aid because I like the way it facilitates conversations. If a link is worth saving, I'm going to save it to Delicious. Thus, I see no point in "clipping" something on socialmedian. I click throughhttp://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2008/08/how-i-use-socialmedian.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1023427510172440060Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:44:00 +00002009-07-17T15:14:04.375-07:00Although I diligently added the social media and tech a-listers on Twitter, I oh-so-quickly became disillusioned with it. The lack of threading just made it downright annoying.OTOH, once I used a few a-listers as a jumping off point (not blindly adding people, but rather stopping to evaluate their blogs, friendfeed posts, comments, and "likes") on friendfeed I oh-so-quickly became addicted to it.http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2008/08/diving-in-little-deeper.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-5813436758119718553Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:10:00 +00002008-08-14T09:22:10.065-07:00Can't get the comments to work - maybe my template is too old? I'm not understanding how to enable comments, although the settings seem clear. And I already deleted the haloscan code.I've been thinking about how I always have the greatest intuition about trends before they start, I begin to get involved, then I drop the ball. Maybe everyone thinks this.Case One: When I was working for the small http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2008/08/early-adopter-early-giver-upper.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-6512428018015062602Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:01:00 +00002008-08-07T14:04:07.910-07:00I've barely touched this blog in the last three years (and I have a three year old, so, hmm, go figure) but today I decided to remove the ancient hit counter that was slowing down load time, and the third party comment app, and see if I can get Blogger's comment feature to work. Here goes.http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2008/08/housekeeping.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-8470342331203990595Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:19:00 +00002008-07-29T16:22:51.437-07:00So I'm back to stalking the digerati, it seems. Yesterday I finally succumbed to signing up for twitter, but only by way of friendfeed. Which is to say, after checking out how friendfeed works, it became apparent that most of the cool kids have a twitter account, whether or not they use it to tweet. So, I've been spending the last few days seeing who follows who, and updating my social inventory http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2008/07/digerati-again.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-6598939240154702683Mon, 28 Jul 2008 16:31:00 +00002009-07-17T15:14:04.390-07:00The great experiment began on July 28th, 2008. I joined Twitter and Friendfeed.Although I wouldn't call myself a noob (just last night I found myself quite articulately explaining 2.0 to someone who actually thought it was a new infrastructure for the web), I don't exactly stand with the giants, either.I've had a Blogger account since 2002 (BGA - before Google acquisition).I've had a Delicious http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2008/07/getting-my-feet-wet.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-1056751530708537719Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:03:00 +00002007-11-09T12:11:24.967-08:00Can I just say, I am very excited about our impending move to Drupal as our website CMS. I'm here at taxonomy bootcamp, where tagging is the new black, and so last night I reluctantly revisited my three and a half year old delicious page, only to discover a few new bells and whistles, such as networks and bundles, that make delicious more of a social networking tool and a little bit more of a http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2007/11/drupal.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-115316068854543653Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:15:00 +00002006-07-17T11:24:48.546-07:00I just can't get the hang of Gmail. I'm the kind of person who doesn't keep their inbox very clean, even though I create lots of folders that help me file away emails for future perusal (for example, at work I use Eudora. I have 369 emails in my inbox, 26 folders [i.e. mailboxes], and about 86 sub-folders).So, yeah, Gmail is all about search, not filing. But I can't help myself. If they didn't http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2006/07/whats-with-gmail.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-115316007455551684Mon, 17 Jul 2006 18:12:00 +00002006-07-17T11:15:41.163-07:00This is kind of cool.create your own visited countries maphttp://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2006/07/countries-ive-visited.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-113149452082537850Tue, 08 Nov 2005 23:59:00 +00002005-11-08T16:02:00.826-08:00I had no idea. All of the basic beautiful people from Orkut are over on Flickr. I found this out from Henrik, who committed Orkutcide. Then I found Adam Rifkin's contacts and browsed them and so many of the old gang are there, and are kindly using their same old handles. Flickr is good for photos, but not so good for Social Networking though. I can't figure out stuff like where to write people http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2005/11/orkutians-on-flickr.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-113091329510236766Wed, 02 Nov 2005 06:32:00 +00002005-11-09T09:39:49.406-08:00I post my photos on Flickr. Like del.icio.us, there's the tag thing. And you can view the "most common tags". And this just strikes me as a very good way to suss out the best keywords for search within a given user environment. I mean, on Flickr, it becomes very clear that beach, wedding, family, and friends are going to work for people as tags. Of course there are authority problems. Some peoplehttp://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2005/11/tags-of-commons.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6031888.post-111843470393981284Fri, 10 Jun 2005 20:16:00 +00002005-06-10T13:18:23.943-07:00Apparently my hit counter got re-set somehow. Maybe I should use a different one.http://www.intelligenthumanagent.com/2005/06/lost-hit-counter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Laura)0