I rarely check my personal email anymore... in fact sometimes I go a few days without looking at it. Most of my friends are on facebook (so I "see" them daily) and my colleagues are on twitter or email me at work.
My workflow changed subtly... I used to check email at least three times a day... but now I need to set a tickler so I don't miss school stuff or emails from my folks. I much prefer the flow of info from the new social media channels.
The other major change is how I can avoid ads... at least a lot of the time. I've stopped turning on my radio in my car (mind you my commute is only 8 minutes now, but still) and we "tape" everything we watch so we can skip the commercials as we watch a show. Yesterday my youngest and I were looking at bird cams and were both annoyed by a "required" ad to see a nest. He dumped it from his list of cams to check.
How has your workflow/entertainment flow changed in the past year? Five years? Decade?
Friday, June 3, 2011
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Empire Avenue
Well, empire avenue... a new "game" around "social media" where you trade your friends to boost influence. A lot of highered folks are joining, so this might become a useful tool for work for chatting about topics and "meeting" like minded individuals. It also combines information from other SM accounts (like twitter and facebook) to give scores (like Klout). What I can't tell is if this will be a turn off to people who join later (when it gets more expensive to connect to people in your portfolio) or who don't want to connect their personal accounts to a business account, or who find it distasteful to be "trading" peers.
It also feels a bit like a pyramid scheme... once you connect and get all the connection "eaves" then the only easy way to get more capital is to bring your friends into it... and again, people get more expensive as more people buy them... not entirely sure how this model will scale up.
It has been fun to collect the badges :) I never was a girl scout so that part is new to me... and safer than foursquare. But more invasive than any zynga game, so I'm unsure how long I'll play this one. It will all depend on if the work component stays fresh and current.
It also feels a bit like a pyramid scheme... once you connect and get all the connection "eaves" then the only easy way to get more capital is to bring your friends into it... and again, people get more expensive as more people buy them... not entirely sure how this model will scale up.
It has been fun to collect the badges :) I never was a girl scout so that part is new to me... and safer than foursquare. But more invasive than any zynga game, so I'm unsure how long I'll play this one. It will all depend on if the work component stays fresh and current.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Changes
So, I'm sitting at my desk today monitoring the PSEWeb conference in Toronto... lots of good information coming from twitter (#pseweb).
What suddenly hit me was how I'm chatting and "listening" to people from all around the world on topics that are important to all of us. We're not in a vacuum, we're having a "global meeting."
I'll be honest, when I went to college, no internet - no web - no cell phones. That all changed at my first job where I got a cell phone, email and used a collegiate intranet.
So, how much more will the world change for my kids? If the past 20 years is any indication, the world will shrink further... how will we distinguish between work/family time? Will that matter? If everything is out on the web, how do we compensate people? For what tasks? Time will tell, but the only constant is change
What suddenly hit me was how I'm chatting and "listening" to people from all around the world on topics that are important to all of us. We're not in a vacuum, we're having a "global meeting."
I'll be honest, when I went to college, no internet - no web - no cell phones. That all changed at my first job where I got a cell phone, email and used a collegiate intranet.
So, how much more will the world change for my kids? If the past 20 years is any indication, the world will shrink further... how will we distinguish between work/family time? Will that matter? If everything is out on the web, how do we compensate people? For what tasks? Time will tell, but the only constant is change
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