Archive for the ‘Social’ Category

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I believe there is value in the identification of ones beliefs. Knowing what you believe helps you find others that share your beliefs and it helps you crystalize what’s important to you in life. So here is portion of beliefs that have been cruising around my head lately. Trends swing like a pendulum that slowly [...]

It’s been well over a year since I joined Telligent as a Remote employee.  I wasn’t sure I’d last six months working outside of the main office.  I’m sure these aren’t the only tips, but they are the ones that work for me. Maybe some of the other remote peeps at Telligent can offer their [...]

06/26/2008

I don’t usually go out and create a 1 per post “mindless link”, but I tend to agree completely with what Dare said in this post and it wouldn’t have been long before I wrote up something similar… so I’ll just let Dare say it for me.  Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life – The “Popularity” of [...]

If you tune into This Week in C9 you may have caught some stumbling over my name. It starts around the 7:30 mark.  But the best part is hearing Gretchen referred to as "Josh Ledgard’s wife."  I know this won’t make much sense to many of you, but I’ve been "Mr. Gretchen" for a long [...]

I don’t know what we’ll do when we have over 6 people per virtual team, but I have to agree with Dave. I’ve really enjoyed seeing the faces of the people I work with virtually.  If you work with remote teams I highly recommend checking out ooVoo!  We use it every day for our stand-up. [...]

Sure, it’s a petty thing, but I’ve been Mr Gretchen for a long time in some circles.  I’d like to prevent that from happening in the Twitter-Verse.  You can help prevent this by heading my shameless call to follow me on twitter via http://twitter.com/evolvingwe. With blogging I started first, Gretchen called me a nerd, and [...]

On the Freakonomics blog they link to a comparison between recent YouTube and MetaFilter user commentary.  The question is asked if $5 can improve the quality of the comments.  You can guess what this looks like, but its worth checking out the difference in comments for yourself. On the Web site thatsaspicymeatball, you can view [...]

I probably just noticed something that’s been going on for a while. I thought I’d check out the Seattle group on FB. It’s a 200k audience being fed daily spam like this: Facebook needs to find a way to deal with this problem because it’s only going to keep getting worse. 

Good products tend to pay attention to the little details. Not all the details, but enough to make you notice. Lately I’ve noticed that the list of supporters or fans or whatever you want to call them on Facebook pages seems to always show a few people that are in your social circle, or friends [...]