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Gallery: SxSWi 2009

May 23, 2010
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The Twitter Diaries: 2010-01-28 CO

January 28, 2010

(In reverse chron order, sorry!) Jan 28, 2010 @KathySierra a lot of us prefer keyboards, though. I find handwriting painful and screen-touching slow. And I type VERY fast. RT @wanderingitaly: Mmmm. RT: @ContextItaly: Jewish Cuisine in Rome event May 17, led by the wonderful Katie Parla http://bit.ly/9b24Xw @nonstick that is very true. @nonstick I don’t [...]

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Ben Rockwood & Deirdré Straughan: A Conversation at LISA ’09

December 10, 2009

download for iPod A conversation about LISA, conferences in general, open source communities, Solaris, OpenSolaris, Sun culture, Sun personalities, the value of video, social media, the old days on CompuServe, supporting customers online, why video instead of text blogs, measuring online impact, Facebook, Twitter, bit.ly, the next big thing in social media, technical education…

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“I’m Blogging This for Sun”

August 9, 2009

One of my tasks since I first began working for Sun in 2007 has been to help and encourage others (mostly engineers) to communicate in various ways, including blogs. There are many blogs at Sun (check the lower right corner of that link for today’s numbers), but, as I quickly discovered when I began analyzing [...]

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Video Streaming in a Perfect World

July 31, 2009

I’ve done enough social media coverage of conferences now to have some ideas on my ideal set-up for this, although I have not yet achieved that ideal in practice. Here’s how I’d like to do it: 1. Have presentations available online in advance, so that: participants in the video stream can download them and follow [...]

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Community Leadership Summit

July 29, 2009

Several Sun folks attended the Community Leadership Summit in San Jose, just before OSCON. I didn’t get many photos or notes – was too busy listening, talking, and meeting people. I also led a session on videoblogging which 14 people attended.

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-07-19: Brisbane

July 19, 2009

in Brisbane. Spent the weekend offline, which was very, very nice. # ^ during my Brisbane walkabout, saw, enjoyed, and bought the CD from a band called Jambezi social media planning for the Kernel Conference http://bit.ly/2DwHJQ – hope to stream live video for the first view of ZFS De-Dupe! # overhearing James trying to describe [...]

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Social Media Production: What I’m Doing in Brisbane

July 16, 2009

^ photo by thegreeno. This is me with two laptops in one lap, monitoring video, sound, and chat simultaneously. Not as calm as I look. Executive Overview: What You Need to Stream Video with UStream videocamera with FireWire output laptop with FireWire input FireWire cable with the appropriate plugs on each end (mini/4 pin for [...]

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What I Did in Wellington

July 8, 2009

photo by Glynn Foster I was in Wellingon, New Zealand, this week, where my old friend David Earle had arranged for me to give presentations/seminars hosted by the Ministry of Education. These were open to all, and the attendees were a cross-section of government, NGOs, and local community representatives. Monday: Extending Conversations Through Social Media [...]

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-06-21: Chicago, CO

June 21, 2009

@AmberCadabra I’m guessing you’re getting a lot of ROI questions. What’s your answer? in reply to AmberCadabra # @travelocity bait and switch? Twice started looking at flights MIL-AUS at $1217, twice arrived at “We’re sorry, price changed” – by $300! in reply to travelocity # @EnricCirne wd be interesting to know: had you heard of [...]

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Producing Social Media

June 14, 2009

^ me and Alan, hard at work (photo by Lynn) Last week was a big one for Sun conferences, with CommunityOne on June 1st and 2nd, JavaOne starting on the 2nd. Like many other Sun folks, I was very busy with preparations in the weeks leading up to these, and played several different roles throughout [...]

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Speaking in Chicago in June

May 19, 2009

Here’s the marketing blurb, I’ll write something more personalized… umm, when things calm down a little? June 16-17, Chicago: Join us in Chicago when INNOVATING EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT meets EXECUTING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS. Communitelligence presents two full jam-packed conference days on the most essential aspects of employee engagement, HR and social media for internal [...]

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SxSWi: Is Privacy Dead, or Just Very Confused?

May 9, 2009

I attended this session because : danah boyd (one of my heroes) and Judith Donath of MIT Media Lab and Harvard’s Berkman Center (whom I happen to know personally) were speaking. Also on the panel (and interesting in their own right): Siva Vaidyanathan (author of the forthcoming “The Googleization of Everything”), who said (among other [...]

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SxSWi Report – Social Media: Connecting with Customers

May 4, 2009

Note: This was listed in the catalog as “Social Media: If You Liked it, Then You Should Have Put a Digg on It…”, which I wouldn’t have bothered to attend, but when I walked by the room the title had changed to “Social Media: Connecting with Customers”, which was a lot more obviously interesting to [...]

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The First Colorado Front Range Girl Geek Dinner: Jai Ho!

March 7, 2009

The first Colorado Front Range Girl Geek Dinner was held on Thursday, March 5th, on Sun’s Broomfield campus. More than 80 people attended, only one of whom was (a very brave) male. Sun sponsored this first one with food, drink, and venue. There was plenty of interest from other individuals and businesses in helping with [...]

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Blogging Tips

February 20, 2009

I long ago posted a bunch of tips and how-tos for bloggers to Sun’s blogs wiki, including: Tell Your Readers Who You Are Some Links Good, More Links Better Let Roller Do the Formatting Refreshing Old Blog Posts Use Your Signature to Increase Links and Traffic Spell It Right Build Blog Traffic by Serving Your [...]

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Seth Godin at TED: Tribe and Community

February 18, 2009

A very cool perk of working for Sun recently was that we had live streams of TED into the three major US campuses. It has long been a dream of mine to attend TED, though for the moment it’s well out of my price range. I couldn’t break free of meetings to watch during the [...]

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Whose Story is It, Anyway?

July 19, 2008

When I wrote about leaving Italy (but not my husband), a long-time reader expressed concern about my marriage, saying that it was clear that my primary relationship is with my daughter Rossella, whereas my husband Enrico is “merely a footnote.” I appreciate this reader’s concern, but was quick to correct (I hope) his misconception. It’s [...]

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Translating Blogs and Finding New Friends – Worldwide!

June 16, 2008

About a year ago, Dan Maslowski had a simple-but-brilliant idea to increase the reach of some of Sun’s Open Solaris Storage blogs: translate them! Sun’s globalization team was initially cautious: they already had their hands full translating interfaces and documentation, and weren’t sure where this blogging thing fit into their scope of work. But they [...]

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The Evolution of a Technical Writer – Bringing Documentation Into the Web 2.0 Age

November 20, 2007

How has technical writing evolved in the age of the Internet? How have tech writers’ jobs changed, and how should they continue to change, in response to new technologies now available for sharing knowledge with our customers? Prologue: The Dead Tree Society My technical writing career began twenty years ago, with the design and writing [...]

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