Social Nation and Social Quotient

January 15, 2011

I love books and am a complete sucker for tests that allow me to measure myself and gain insights into how I might be more effective and happier at work. I’ve taken the Strengthsfinder, Myers-Briggs, DISC, and more. I received an advance copy of Barry Libert’s Social Nation: How to Harness the power of Social [...]

Facebook – I’m staying, for now

May 23, 2010

Subtitle: I really do get comments on this blog, just not on this blog. I heavily use a handful of social media sites: Twitter, Google Buzz, Facebook, Ravelry (knitting community), and Flickr. I value each for different things, and Facebook is my least favorite. Especially since now they’re trying to take over the Internet. Yet, [...]

The tension in public storage of personal memories

April 25, 2010

I’m pretty much unable to draw, though I doodle a lot when I’m thinking. Photography has been my visual outlet, and I’ve long loved taking photographs and sharing photographs with friends and family. It took me a long time to give up my film camera, but when I converted to digital, it was permanent and [...]

Surfing the web, not surfing the waves, in Hawaii

April 16, 2010

We had a lovely, wonderful, amazing, restful trip to Hawaii in March. The one thing I noticed, though, was that wireless internet was ubiquitous. Even at our sweet secluded little B&B near Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (Hale Ohia). I suppose the problem isn’t that there was wireless internet, the problem was that I was using [...]

Ada Lovelace Day: celebrating women in technology

March 24, 2009

To celebrate Ada Lovelace day, today, March 24, bloggers around the globe are celebrating by publishing posts about women in technology they admire.  I mulled this over for a long time, and I just couldn’t choose. So, I’m going to list off several women and how they have inspired me. Jennifer Baird of Accuri Cytometers [...]

Going to Podcamp Michigan!

October 7, 2008

So, just the other day, with some of my Michigan Usability Professionals Folks, I was wondering about local social media folks that I hadn’t yet met. You know, wondering about who might be good speakers to invite to talk to us, that kind of thing. I didn’t even tweet it, though I should have. But, [...]

Add to calendar “apologies”

August 31, 2008

I really do like how Google Calendar works, and I like the fact that it tries to interact smartly with my gmail. I’ve been amused at some of the entries it has tried to make. This might be my best yet. The funny thing is, it wasn’t a particularly abject or obsequious email thread, but [...]

Beeping mac – why I love time machine and the genius bar (gratitude #35)

August 16, 2008

So my macbook was beeping, constantly for a day and a half, like this. Besides my sanity, I was afraid, after hearing the same sound from YouTube videos of pre-hard-drive crash Macs, it was going to take out my hard drive. So, i moseyed on down to the Genius Bar at Briarwood Mall, with an [...]

How social networking sites gave me a very happy birthday (gratitude #30)

July 16, 2008

I have to hand it to the constellation of social sites to which I belong. All combined to give me a very happy birthday today! I turned 38 today, and I didn’t get the iPhone I was seriously hinting for because of local shortages, and my husband has a summer cold, so has been prone on [...]

Word clouds from my last 10 blog posts and my del.icio.us links

July 9, 2008

I’d love it to go the whole way back, but this one shows what I’ve written recently (via Wordle). Here’s one from my del.icio.us account. Seems a bit more representative because it has accumulated over a longer time.