The Twitter Diaries: 2009-05-24: Lawrence, KS

Kansas rainbow

^rainbow over Lonestar lake, Kansas

  • @India_Insights can you fix the link to the education report? doesn’t work, and I’d like to read that one in reply to India_Insights #
  • sorry for the storm of auto-tweets – I’m following my own advice on Transitioning Your Online Identity http://bit.ly/D87rx #
  • @darrinschaos see you at the Twitter workshop Tuesday? in reply to darrinschaos #
  • got a poster (on videoblogging) accepted for the Grace Hopper conference in October. #
  • @India_Insights can’t DM you with that because you’re not following me in reply to India_Insights #
  • Traveling makes me happy #
  • on my way to SFO soon. Glad I have the 3:43 flight instead of the 3:30 which is delayed til 7 pm. Even if I do have a middle seat. #
  • I feel for airline ground staff. They put up with so much crap. Including from me, sometimes… #
  • @darrinschaos on my way, in MPK til Thurs noon. prob have some time but will be v busy with dry runs for C1. But I did bring my equipment! in reply to darrinschaos #
  • @SteveEdiger I did? No recoll at all. #
  • @SteveEdiger oh wait that’s what that guy who left sun started #
  • Arrived sfo. Now to make my waynto hotel in palo alto and meet TZ for dinner. There’re always woodstockers to meet! #
  • kid just about wets himself every time the baggage tunnel disgorges. I guess youthful enthusiasm is endearing. #
  • kid just about wets himself every time the baggage tunnel disgorges. I guess youthful enthusiasm is endearing. Or something #
  • @SteveEdiger too busy moving to remember all my shaking! #
  • Isherwood said “I am a camera”. Deirdré says “I am a network”. #
  • Was there an earthquake? Totally didn’t notice #
  • C1 OpenSolaris sessions dress rehearsals begin this morning with OpenSolaris High Availability – Nick Solter, co-author OpenSolaris Bible #
  • NB: This will be one of the FREE deep dives on Tuesday, June 1: http://bit.ly/6kl7N #
  • Italian salaries low… http://bit.ly/ckpsP (and the figures for women are even worse) #
  • Italian salaries low… http://bit.ly/ckpsP (and the figures for women are even worse) #
  • @SteveEdiger share with your educator network – could be useful https://learning.sun.com/sites/stimulus/ in reply to SteveEdiger #
  • @sumaya where do you live?? in reply to sumaya #
  • need some new job skills? Free online learning with the Sun Career Stimulus Initiative http://bit.ly/LMGck #
  • I adore http://bit.ly/ ! Fantastic being able to track click-throughs in real-time, and not just from Twitter #
  • @comay be well, bro – we need you! in reply to comay #
  • @AmandaLorenzani so… you sprogged? in reply to AmandaLorenzani #
  • <sigh> corporate territory marking #
  • @sumaya you’ll do great #
  • @KeithBurtis advice from someone else’s wife: pay attention to the wife – FIRST in reply to KeithBurtis #
  • @ben re. corporate territory marking, I now have visions of that Jack Nicholson scene in “Wolf”… in reply to ben #
  • @missbhavens You forgot “Frankly, Scarlett, I Don’t Give a Jam” in reply to missbhavens #
  • @davidorban your first Pratchett? I envy you. Wish I could start all over again. in reply to davidorban #
  • @carolross it was my daughter who got a speeding ticket, not me. That’s her Italian driving gene showing. in reply to carolross #
  • locating knight costumes and toy crossbows… then have to train engineers to dance & sing “We’re knights of the Round Table…” #
  • @timbray Real to anything else may not be possible; it was designed to be a major PITA, in the name of “protecting content” in reply to timbray #
  • @carolross no biggie, she figured out how to get it expunged or whatever, and will hopefully drive more sedately in future in reply to carolross #
  • @euaccess interesting. Would love to see how you’re going to do the UI on that in reply to euaccess #
  • sitting in Sumaya’s Twitter workshop – impressively full large room! Lots of Tweet hunger here at Sun, I guess. #
  • never fails. My phone rings only when I can’t answer it. #
  • getting started #sunsocialyou #
  • #sunsocial you 200 Facebook communities. But can we measure activity there meaningfully (and easily)? #
  • Shel Israel on Twitter for Business – LIVE at Sun 5/19/2009 – Socially Speaking on Blog Talk Radio http://bit.ly/Wm7Ir #
  • #sunsocialyou Shel Israel is very tanned #
  • #sunsocialyou comforting to know I’m not the only one who suffers from really poor timing #
  • Scoble was Shel’s 4th choice as co-author on “Naked Conversations”. #
  • damn. I guess I’ve been recreating Scoble’s Channel 9 at Sun. http://blogs.sun.com/video/ #
  • #sunsocialyou book as means to protect/extend personal brand. Yup. You sure don’t make money at it. #
  • #sunsocialyou Fundamental shift: moving customers to the center of the conversation. #
  • @templedf make sure it gets filmed. #CommunityOne #Hadoop #GridEngine in reply to templedf #
  • #sunsocialyou “Twitter lets you behave online more like you behave in real life.” No one starts a conversation with a sales pitch. #
  • #sunsocialyou well, almost no one. #
  • #sunsocialyou “Twitter is broad and shallow.” #
  • pondering how my job is different from Sumaya’s. For one, I am not professionally obliged to follow Scoble. #sunsocialyou #
  • @davewiner so create it. I’d join. in reply to davewiner #
  • Twitter as hybrid of IM and forums #sunsocialyou – yes, but Twitter’s not anonymous #
  • Shel: I don’t have to listen to anybody I don’t want to #sunsocialyou #
  • uh oh, kiss of death: Sumaya called Shel a “social media guru”! #sunsocialyou #
  • Shel: “I talk to a lot of people, share what I learned. A guru is supposed to make no mistakes, I make a lot.” #sunsocialyou #
  • huh. Twitter spam almost never happens to me. #sunsocialyou #
  • #sunsocialyou question from my bud Yvette: are Twitter et al replacing real-life relationships? [Not for me – I have made many new friends] #
  • announcing today: for 1st time, Comcast customer support is no longer in the worst 10 list. Because of Eliason on Twitter. #sunsocialyou #
  • Leverage social media to share support info to a larger audience – been there, done that: http://bit.ly/N621e #sunsocialyou #
  • learning from your customers online – yup. I never had a great idea that didn’t come from a customer. Okay, rarely. #
  • using Twitter to broadcast to customers. DellOutlet has 200k followers. But Shel recommends using Tw more for marketing than sales #
  • me reacting: the fallacy of non-techie older users. the most enthusiastic & adventurous users of CD-R software were retirees. #sunsocialyou #
  • IBM has 1000 people Tweeting, bcuz: 1. 30-35% of employees telecommute, using Tw to communicate (public) 2. IBM sees itslf as tech consult #
  • 3. enormous cultural problem due to diversity, using Tw as unifier of Blue culture 4. have own hacked version inside firewall #sunsocialyou #
  • Twitter for newbies. Useful, if not for me. #sunsocialyou #
  • tweetbacks.com possibly useful – must look into it. But how many people use Tw clients instead of website? #sunsocialyou #
  • @Dereks what is Blue culture? whatever IBM thinks it is, I guess #sunsocialyou in reply to Dereks #
  • @lchoquel #Dollhouse is very cool. Not perfect, but I’m glad it will have time to develop. in reply to lchoquel #
  • Maybe we need an association of people who do social media and community for enterprise. It’s a whole different ballgame. #sunsocialyou #
  • @reiger internal workshop on social media, this first one is about Twitter. Check out the blogtalk radio with Shel Israel #sunsocialyou in reply to reiger #
  • @sunsocialyou hello the room! #
  • @Britopian Maybe we need an association of people who do social media and community for enterprise. It’s a whole different ballgame. in reply to Britopian #
  • @darrinschaos Check
    out my TweetStats! http://tweetstats.com/graphs/DeirdreS #
  • @JoyceSolano re http://blogcouncil.org/ – I’m not an executive. Yet. ; ) #sunsocialyou in reply to JoyceSolano #
  • @Britopian OTOH I’ve probably doing social media longer than most… in reply to Britopian #
  • Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #communitymedia #videoblogger #traveler #
  • I feel as if I’m trying to run very fast while juggling Ginsu knives… sooner or later, something’s bound to get dropped. #
  • reflecting on this morning’s workshop & measuring reach: in Adaptec/Roxio days, I had 150k newsletter subscribers. THAT was reach. #
  • very exciting speakers lined up for Open HA Cluster Summit – http://bit.ly/k8K1A Will we see you there? #
  • WANT!!!!! RT @monkchips: omg. Frank Lloyd Wright Lego sets. http://bit.ly/sfSuf via @moleitau @hostler #
  • Could use help getting the word out about the FREE OpenSolaris deep dive tracks at OpenSolaris at C1 West. Schedule on http://bit.ly/6kl7N #
  • in dry run for Scott Tracy’s C1 talk on Open Storage with the Solaris ZFS
    File System and COMSTAR iSCSI http://bit.ly/6kl7N – much coolness #
  • btw, if you want a preview, draft presos mostly available now on http://bit.ly/6kl7N #
  • someone gave Bill F an energy drink. Making this dry run on Built-in Virtualization for OpenSolaris highly entertaining. #
  • registration for the FREE OpenSolaris Deep Dives got easier: sign up here http://bit.ly/ZiNHa (1st register for C1 http://bit.ly/kRhgu ) #
  • watching the operators operate. Kind of awe-inspiring. #
  • cultures coliding – and complementingl http://bit.ly/wEM58 #
  • @JulieScardina looks like a young emu to me in reply to JulieScardina #
  • guess I should go to sleep soon so I’ll wake up for 6 am walk with Lynn, breakfast, all hands mtg (JJ), last dry run, plane, plane, Sue! #
  • @darrinschaos been busy: walk w Lynn, breakfast, packing, repacking (what can I leave here so I can get thru the wkd with only a backpack?) in reply to darrinschaos #
  • @tara_kelly is this the same event my colleague @DaniloP is going to? You two should meet. in reply to tara_kelly #
  • @JulieScardina here’s how I knew it was an emu: Shotgun Wedding – Part 2: Coca-Cola, and an Ostrich http://bit.ly/aBOTo in reply to JulieScardina #
  • Oh right, it’s a holiday. Traveling with all the amateurs #
  • A 4 yr old named Luella. Her folks get an unusual baby name prize #
  • @nonstick depends. Is their last name ziegler? #
  • team accomplishment for the day: persuading an exec to be very, very silly at C1. No, I’m not going to tell you how. I sure love my job… #
  • @glynnfoster you need to be resting up for the post-launch festivities! in reply to glynnfoster #
  • flying to Kansas City to see a very dear friend, then Enrico will join us. Looking forward to an offline weekend #
  • @trine my highlights are platinum and pink. It almost looks natural, right? in reply to trine #
  • RT @Roland_Hedley: Before I open my eyes in a.m., I like to guess where I am. I usually get it wrong, but it’s a little game I like to play. #
  • @robbogio the fact that you think of them as “your” customers & “your” products is a v important first step in reply to robbogio #
  • @trine natural dishwater blonde with natural highlights, but my hair is darkening as I get older. Want to go all pink, but maintenance… in reply to trine #
  • @baratunde aaannd… bingo! someone’s figured out how to monetize Twitter in reply to baratunde #
  • @trine your new haircut looks rather like mine! Also bored. Need to go back to Hairy Situations in Austin to get something more radical in reply to trine #
  • CommunityOne West – a preview: Sun Video http://bit.ly/dkJDT #
  • working from the offices of a mental health org in KC which my friend happens to be CEO of. Gives me a very different perspective. #
  • @alecmuffett okay, so what’s the good news? in reply to alecmuffett #
  • in all modesty, gotta say: CommunityOne is gonna be great! Lots of very smart people putting a lot of work into it. #
  • Marketing thought: building traffic/followers is expensive and slow. Employees should valued for the networks they already have. #
  • Bought new jeans, one size smaller than last time – yay! #
  • @lskrocki happy holiday , dear! #

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