Breaking News! Brace Yourselves

First, before you read on, let me assure you that my blog has not been hijacked. This is, in fact, Sarah writing and not the result of someone stealing my login.
That being said, I’ve just spent an hour at the BlackBored booth at Educause and I think I may have drank the preverbial kool-aid. Many [...]

Educause 08 Rawks!

Phew! I’m one tuckered out Intellagirl. Educause 08 in Orlando is a non-stop brain-fest. I haven’t met a single person who I coulnd’t spend hours chatting with. The collective IQ of Florida must have gone up by a few points this week.
Yesterday AJ Kelton and I ran a full day pre-conference workshop to help folks [...]

Educause08

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AoIR 2008 Presentation

These are the slides from my AoIR 2008 talk being presented in Copenhagen tomorrow. The Camtasia file with audio can be found here.
If you have questions or comments please feel free to leave them here. I’m eager to hear what folks think.
AoIR Robbins
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Where do you really work?

I’ve talked to several folks lately about where they’re most productive. In the office? On the train? At home on the couch? Thanks to our ever-connected lifestyle face-to-face meetings are the rarety for many of us. In fact, for me it’s sort of a special occasion now to actually drive/fly to meet someone. If I [...]

Zombie Rising: A social media film project - Anyone want to help?

Here’s the pitch:
There’s a quiet plague breaking out. One by one the number of infected rises around the world. Dismissed as only the stuff of monster movies, real zombies go unnoticed and unreported. Until now!
The site invites and collects witnesses from around the world to submit photos and videos of zombies in their communities. The [...]

Usernamecheck: A handy tool for personal brand management

Flickr. Youtube. Facebook. Kwippy. If you’re like me, a social media fanatic, when you see a new service which might be useful you rush over, sign up, and at least claim your username for later when you’ll have more time to try it out. It easy, though, with the multitudes of new sites popping up [...]

YPO Summit Resources

I recently keynoted the Young Professionals Summit in Cocoa Beach FL. My talk centerd around how YPOs can use social media to reach out to new members and keep existing members engaged.
YPO Summit Talk
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I mentioned several technologies in the talk that I want to be sure [...]

Big Changes in Intella-Land

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
Douglas Adams

Things have been exciting here lately. The semester started and Typewriter is up to his eyeballs in statistics homework and a new book with pressing deadlines. The kids started first-grade with [...]


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