My first full month back in Canada this year was packed with goodness. I dove into interesting challenges at work, presented The Shy Connector to an international audience, and wrote a lot about writing and presenting. One of my mentors gave me a fantastic opportunity to learn not only about interviewing skills but also about Smarter Cities by taking me along on his interviews. I learned a lot about life, too, and got back into the swing of preparing lots of stuff ahead so that life runs smoothly.

What’s up for next month? Lots of work involving documenting and organizing assets, connecting the dots, and sparking people’s imaginations. I’ve also got three presentations scheduled: The Shy Presenter (IgniteTO), a presentation on collaboration for a client workshop in the UK, and an internal IBM re-run of Remote Presentations That Rock. I tried to keep it to one presentation a month, but sometimes opportunities are hard to pass up.

Blog posts:

Sharing what you know

• Personal blog? Don’t worry about your strategy
• It’s not what you can’t write, it’s what you need to share
• Writing for love and fun
• The Shy Presenter: braindumping an introvert’s guide to public speaking

Work

• Thinking about indexing and connecting the dots
• Wiki organization challenge – thinking out loud
• Wiki information architecture thoughts
• The sweet spot at work
• Moving from testing to development
• I’d like to build the post-connector workplace
• Learning more about interviewing

Reflections on presentations

• Harvesting the backchannel bazaar of insights
• Lessons learned from microblogging talk
• Survey responses for TLE: Remote Presentations That Rock
• Kaizen: WITI: The Shy Connector

Wedding planning

• On vintage portaits and wedding photography
• Getting ready for a new adventure
• Patternicity, how things come together, and happiness
• How not to propose marriage

Life

• Seeds
• Circuses, pots, and cathedrals: three key stories
• Experiments in awesome
• Visualization of my blog categories

Weekly reviews

• Week ending February 7, 2010
• Week ending February 14, 2010
  Week ending February 21, 2010
• Week ending February 28, 2010

Misc: Winter, Fixing SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132 for Karmic wireless on Asus Eee 1008HA, ACM Hypertext conference in Toronto this June; paper deadline Feb 14, Bug-hunting spreadsheets, Teapot, Always look on the bright side of life

Last month’s highlights: January 2010