social networking
Making online collaboration work
In a conversation with the managing director (I will call him ‘Tom’) at a client a few weeks ago I felt I was in a time warp. I remember those conversations around: don’t want to give them PC’s because they’ll spend all day on their pc’s, don’t want them to have internet access because they’ll [...]
What about those not using social networking?
Twice today I was asked by people who are infrequent or non users of social networking solutions (and blogs) – how do you avoid leaving the non users out? Or, when you are looking at a restaurant recommendation ot a wine recommendation – how valuable is the recommendation, given it is only based on information [...]
Ireland – leading the way in eLearning and semantic web
Spent the morning at a workshop run by DERI (Digital Enterprise Research Institute) at Enterprise Ireland. If we spent more time focusing on what we can achieve through the likes of DERI and the Irish Learning Alliance (ILA) we might begin to dig ourselves out of our current difficulties. Excellent presentations by Johnny Parkes, Bill [...]
Social networking – is it what always came naturally to the Irish?
I participate actively as an online ‘social networker’. Seems to me there are many benefits – through linkedin, facebook, twitter, blogging. Interesting piece recently about whether we should blend the personal and the business stuff in social networking activities. There are many reasons to do so – the technology increasingly means people are available to [...]
Moving on from traditional thinking
I guess it’s challenging for all of us who have worked for the last 25 years. In my final year in Trinity College Dublin I was writing Assembler for the Motorola 68000 chip. The Mac was about to burst on the scene. Since then I have worked in a Professional Service Firm, my own IT [...]
Thoughtful piece on social networking and facebook
Interesting piece from Fiona McCann in today’s Irish Times, ”on facebook“. Would agree fully that Facebook has changed (and devalued) meaning of friends. Much of what Fiona says rings true with me – as someone who spends a fair amount of time blogging, twittering and updating facebook. Her comments would also be well received by [...]
…for the day that’s in it
…nicley put… Share on Facebook
Reading the news online
I have restricted myself to reading the news online