The magic, unexpected, unanticipated positive outcomes, connections, that spring from sharing something online.
This one ought to be added to the Amazing Stories of Sharing, all enabled via flickr photosharing. cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by windsordi Back in December, I posted a photo of some really solid oak that had been split for me (it was like iron) cc licensed ( BY ) […]
As you may know, after seeing her speak in 2008 at SXSW and WordCamp, I was rather determined to invite Kathy Sierra to keynote the 2009 NMC Summer Conference. I was a fan long before this as a follower of her blog Creating Passionate Users. I had done a parady of her graphic style in […]
I certainly have little interest in returning to school for more formal Edukashion, but if I did, I think I’d go back to 5th grade over grad school. Following up on a recent connection to Chrissy H’s class in Bangkok, yesterday I had another opportunity to view an active elementary school classroom through my Skype […]
This story is old news if you followed my trail last month through Australia. Being up again in Strawberry, Arizona, and seeing flowers tll blooming in mid November (global warming is hot here) got me thinking again about the most amazing example of web serendipity that happened in Tasmania. It’s one of those thing that […]
“Who is taking a picture of me?” This during my last presentation at UNITEC. This 3+ year old photo was recently discovered by Karen (partially in the left side), and was taken in one of the workshops I did during a visit to New Zealand in November 2004. This workshop, or BlogShop, [link is dead, […]
Actions speak much more clearly than definitions. It was D’Arcy at the UBC Social Software Salon who described it something like being removing or downplaying the “software” portion of online social interaction. Whatever your way of describing what “social software” is how, submitted below is a nice example of the informal way the web, blogs, […]
The CD is here! As the tale told previously goes, a rock band in Germany named The Sealevel somehow found my photo of my 1972 Ford Maverick parked next to a “Sea Level” sign in Death Valley and asked if it could be used on the cover of their CD. I just popped by my […]
Where else but the internet could this happen? More than a year ago, I got an email from someone in Germany working with a music group called “Sea Level”. They had somehow managed to find this photo I had lumped somewhere in an old photo directory: This photo was taken in Death Valley California with […]
