My Tab Addiction
*Stands up* Hi, I’m Sarah and I have a tab problem. My computer is slowly becoming laggier and laggier because I can’t help but have 20-30 tabs open in my Firefox browser. It’s like being a virtual packrat. “No! Don’t close that tab! I want to read that sometime.” If I bookmark it in del.icio.us [...]
Motivation
Need some motivation to finish a book? Here’s mine
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It’s about 3′ x 4′ and won’t let me forget that I need to write.
My Facebook Bunny Kicks Ass!
I’m writing a whitepaper on Facebook apps for work (Mediasauce.com) so I have the perfect excuse to poke and prod at many of the more popular Facebook add ons. There I was minding my own business, taking notes on book list apps, quiz apps, photo posting tools etc when I found Pets, a fun app [...]
Web Trend Map
This is amazing! You HAVE to go poke at this web trend map created by the folks over at Information Architects.
Business Adoption of Web 2.0 Tools Part 1
What is Web 2.0 in Business?
We all think of MySpace and Flickr when we hear “Web 2.0” and, of course, these apps can be used in business but only on a limited basis. They don’t necessarily increase productivity, efficiency, or help considerably expand a company’s reach or scope. When Web 2.0 is truly embraced in [...]
Anyone can cook (create knowledge)!: Ratatouille as a Web 2.0 Allegory
All of the hubbub over Andrew Keen’s new book The Cult of the Amateur: How Today’s Internet is Killing our Culture has had me thinking. First, of course, I think he’s dead wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Wrong. Have I mentioned that he’s wrong? Don’t take my word for it. Go listen to this great podcast interview [...]
The Great Condiment War!
Check out the video that Media Sauce, the company I work for, created for Heinz Ketchup’s commercial contest.
Running a company like a game
Why do we like games? It’s not necessarily competition, cool graphics, or even escape. I would suggest that, above all, we like games because, unlike real life, there are set goals with set rewards. We know that if we defeat enemy X we’ll get new armor or a new ability or a sack of gold. [...]
Participatory Radar: Sources and Links on my Radar this week
Thanks to all the great pull technologies installed in my email, my RSS, and my desktop I’m finally starting to get a steady stream of great content delivered right to me on a regular basis. So here’s the best of what came to me this week. All worth a poke.
Happy Fourth of July!
Web 2.0 [...]
Leveraging Internal Social Networks for Business
Sometimes you can’t escape an idea. It comes at you from different directions, different sources, and beats you about the head until you give it some time. Lately, my bothersome idea has been how to make social media really work for internal business. It’s easy to talk about how handy blogs, wikis, instant messaging, forums [...]