- Becoming more social
- Figuring out my own social life
- Notes from the parent advocacy workshop – my goals
- Notes from helping with physics
- What kind of tribe do I want to build around Quantified Self in Toronto?
- What I’m learning about small talk
- Experimenting with spending more time at Hacklab
- To never need to be needed
- What can I do to support friends?
- Thinking about when I enjoy helping people
- Learning from people
- Let’s have a virtual Emacs conference in August – help me make it happen!
- Sometimes – often – I don't feel like making conversation
- Improving my response to oopses
- Sharing cooking adventures
- On Aristotle and talking to people about troubles
- Hacklab open houses and connecting through cooking
- What are people looking for when they talk about their challenges?
- House culture
- Mental hacks for slower speech
- Planning an e-mail-based course for Emacs Lisp
- Small talk tweaks
- Static friction and socializing
- What you're really there to learn in computer science
- From networking with people to networking around ideas: How I stopped worrying about keeping in touch
- Learning from people
- Exploring the idea of advice
- Google Helpouts update: Helping people learn, thinking about business strategies
- Google Helpouts update: Building the community
- Google Helpouts Update: People like it, so how do we scale this up?
- Experience report/invitation: Pick my brain through Google Helpouts
- Thinking out loud about how to help other sketchnoters go professional and how to help people get their ideas sketched
- Decision review: Seven months at HackLab
- Sometimes you don’t know what you know until someone asks; why I like preparing talking points for podcasts and chats
- Thinking about business cards
- Setting e-mail expectations: Roughly once a week
- Virtual hang-out experiments: Notes on AnyMeeting
- Planning a Quantified Self workshop on time tracking
- Thinking about small talk at networking events
- Getting to know people who read this blog–hooray for hangout experiment #1!
- Web experiments this week: Webinar on “How to Improve Your Visual Thinking” and a Google Hangout on blogging; would love to connect with you!
- Time enough for friends
- Hacking my way around networking
- Dealing with presentation block
- Understanding how I’m changing as a speaker
- Networking with notes – and sketchnotes, in particular
- Getting ready for my Hardlines Dealer Conference talk: So You Don’t Have an Army of Online Marketers
- Figuring out how to get better at following up with people in person
- Business card kaizen
- Pub nights and thinking about networking at events
- Learning how to bring people together
- Process: Keeping notes of conversations
- Quantified Awesome: Tracking clothes, groceries, and other everyday things
- “So, what do you do?”
- The Shy Connector: Thinking about the difficulties people encounter
- Tweaking my introduction, focusing on sketchnotes
- Getting ready for my “The Shy Entrepreneur” talk at the Toronto Reference Library tomorrow (Apr 10 Tue, 6 PM)
- Visual book review: Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us about the Art of Persuasion
- Visual book review: Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In
- Visual book review: Critical Inquiry: The Process of Argument
- Sketchnotes: Sal Sloan of Fetching! at the Toronto Public Library: Small Business Networking Event
- Visual book notes: The Start-up of You (Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha)
- Back to school, back to study groups
- Learning new tricks about learning: maps and history
- Thinking about outsourcing transcription or doing it myself
- Session follow-up #1: Discovering Yourself through Blogging
- Meaning and acknowledgement
- Learning from the speeches of grade seven students
- Portal 2 and teachable moments in argument
- Learning from Mr. Collins: Practice, conversation, and what to do when someone says something mean
- Developing a workflow with Autodesk Sketchbook Pro
- Taking a break while working on presentations
- Gardening: Horticultural investments, social dividends
- Presentation draft: Mentoring on the Network
- Study group: Flashcards and the Leitner method
- Giving a presentation using Autodesk Sketchbook Pro and a web conference
- Remote training that rocks
- The enemy of your enemy is your friend: mnemonics and negative integers
- Study group update: negative numbers, exponents, and awesomeness
- Math study group: Positive and negative numbers
- Why we use more than math textbooks and general-purpose resources
- Helping kids learn algebra
- The Busy Person’s Guide to Learning from the Network (a guide for IBMers)
- Helping kids learn about automation
- Filling in the learning gaps
- Continuing experiments with Slideshare’s Zipcast web conferences
- Math and energy
- Quick notes from Emacs Org-mode talk at GTALUG
- Presentation experiment: Shy Connector, Six Steps to Sharing, and other presentations in March!
- Get More Value from Blogging, part IV: Connecting with People
- Trying out Slideshare’s new Zipcast feature
- Posted revised “Remote Presentations That Rock” presentation
- Kaizen: Thinking about presentations
- ITSC guide to conference awesomeness
- LinkedIn tip: Customize your profile URL
- On friendship and becoming more social
- Imagine success for social media
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Webinar: Energy, Interaction, and ROI
- On presenting, anxiety, and moving forward
- Pre-conference networking tips for the Instructional Technology Strategies Conference
- Draft Lotusphere BoF on working with the Connections API
- Sketches: What index cards are teaching me about drawing
- Blogging and conference networking tips
- Conference tips: planning your attendance
- Making the most of the conference hallway track
- Conversations: Stian Håklev
- Thoughts on speaking
- Speaking: In case of emergency, break glass
- "But what can I talk about?" Toastmaster tactics for tackling topics
- Book: Fast Track Networking: Turning Conversations into Contacts
- Placeholder: The Examined Life: Technology and Experimentation
- Book: Thank You for Arguing
- Book: Getting to Yes
- Old notes on staffing a virtual conference booth
- Rhetoric
- It’s okay if you can’t remember or spell my name; being human
- Proactive communication: Five tips for following up
- Keeping in touch with diffuse networks
- Six steps to make sharing part of how you work
- Note-taking revisited
- The delicate dance of status
- Reflecting on introductions
- Networking events
- Finding opportunities in a big company
- Reflections from a tweetup
- Risks, personal brands, and findability
- Seven Tips for Short Talks
- Notes about business communication
- Exponential awesomeness
- Braindump: On face-to-face and online social networking (xpost)
- Presented Remote Presentations That Rock v2 for the Best of TLE 2009 series
- Quick notes from a conversation about speaking and facilitation
- Remote Presentations That Rock (revised)
- Paper is the new PowerPoint
- The problem with personal branding
- Thoughts on presenting: I love the backchannel
- IgniteToronto video: The Shy Presenter
- Missing something I love about presentations
- Reflections on PresentationCampToronto
- Presentation kaizen: Seven everyday ways to become a better presenter
- Coaching people on how to give better remote presentations – Thinking out loud
- Braindump: Presentation kaizen
- Experiments as a presenter
- An abundance of opportunities
- Presentation lessons from Ignite; deliberate practice
- Thoughts on preparing an Ignite-style presentation
- The Shy Presenter: Why conventional advice on learning public speaking sucks, and how to really get started
- The Shy Presenter: braindumping an introvert’s guide to public speaking
- Thinking about indexing and connecting the dots
- Kaizen: WITI: The Shy Connector
- Harvesting the backchannel bazaar of insights
- Notes from WITI: The Shy Connector
- Lessons learned from microblogging talk
- I’d like to build the post-connector workplace
- Survey responses for TLE: Remote Presentations That Rock
- Every teachable moment
- What I want to talk about in 2010
- Reflecting on introversion and shyness; help me find better words!
- Microblogging talk
- Upcoming talk: The Shy Connector
- Offline and online conversations
- Accessing tacit knowledge and building pathways for two-way learning
- How you know your training sessions are working; Remote Presentations That Rock
- After the tea party
- What can I help you learn? Looking for mentees
- How I find and learn from mentors
- Thinking about improving the connective tissue of organizations
- Behind the scenes: Livin’ la Vida Emacs
- Visual notes from Remote Presentations That Rock
- Book: Leading Out Loud
- Cambridge stories from the past and future
- How I learned to stop worrying and love the webinar: Part 4: Taking the next steps
- The shy connector’s schedule: making time to breathe
- Reflecting on how I can create value
- Thinking about how I can make the most of editing; The world is an amazing candy-store of talent
- Wild success and social networks
- How I learned to stop worrying and love the webinar: Part 3: Reading the room
- My talks in 2009
- How I learned to stop worrying and love the webinar: Part 2: From audience to participants
- How I learned to stop worrying and love the webinar – Part 1: The best seats in the house
- Thoughts from “Remote Presentations That Rock”, changing dynamics
- Connecting in a large organization
- The “Remote Presentations That Rock” reading list
- How I met Jeff Muzzerall
- Thinking about conferences
- Thinking out loud about my presentation
- Check out “7 Tips for Remote Presentations That Rock” – notes posted
- 7 Tips for Remote Presentations That Rock
- Public speaker worried about losing control? Don’t have lectures – have conversations
- How do you keep in touch with 500+ contacts?
- Entrepreneurship tips from Sarah Prevette (Sprouter) at the Toronto Girl Geek Dinner
- Working around networking weaknesses and playing to strengths
- Expanding on The Shy Connector: What do you want to see next?
- Brainstorming around Smart Work
- A teacher’s guide to Web 2.0 at school [illustrated]
- Exercising my network
- Growing as a presenter
- Social media changes real-life conversations
- New presentation: The Shy Connector!
- Teaching energy
- From presentations to conversations
- The shy connector
- Notes from the road
- Notes from Totally Rocking Presentations at IBM
- Social media and education
- Taking the Stage: The Power of Voice
- Social Recruiting Summit: Awesomest Job Search Ever
- Stage fright, visualization and improvization
- My Charity Connects: The A, B, Cs, of Boomers, X, Ys, Zs: Reaching Different Generations Through Social Media
- Conversations with the students at Sir Wilfrid Laurier
- Finally figured out what to do with presentation templates! =)
- The Read/Write Internet: Advice to students
- Delegating weaknesses; experimenting with social secretaries
- Thinking about those newsletters
- Reflecting on public speaking and my talk management system
- How to extract just the audio from Sametime Unyte recordings, on Linux
- Seven tips for making better presentations
- Finding finishers, building a team
- Managing virtual assistants: the surprising benefits of transcription
- Remote presentations that rock: Challenges and opportunities of remote presentations
- Ethics and egos in virtual assistance and relationships
- Quick tips for making the most of Sametime Unyte
- Virtual conferences change the game
- LifeCampTO: April 5 (Sun), 10:30am – 1:00pm, LinuxCaffe
- Networking outside the firewall
- Improving my talk management process
- Making a Name for Yourself
- Making a name for yourself: thinking out loud about my talk
- Presentation Zen: Visualization of the credit crisis
- Want to grow as a speaker? Look for inspiration!
- 25 Tips for Totally Rocking Your Drupal Development Environment: pre-session notes
- Feel free to use your laptop or your phone in my talks! I love the backchannel
- Reflections on presentation; looking for a coach
- Recording of Enterprise 2.0 and Knowledge Management lecture
- Notes from Enterprise 2.0 and knowledge management talk at Schulich
- Talking about Enterprise 2.0 and knowledge management
- Planning meetings, get-togethers, and interviews with AgreeADate
- Conversations about networking; scale, structure, and skills
- LifeCampTO social graph
- Lessons from LifeCamp
- Scarcity versus abundance in knowledge management
- Braindump of conference networking tips
- When I grow up, I will have friends and strangers over for dinner
- Upcoming talk: Totally Rocking Your Drupal Development Environment
- ROI for public speaking and Web 2.0; graph and case study
- Stick figures on campus; IBM at the University of Toronto
- GreaterIBM: Turbocharging real-life social networking events
- Annual letter: the numbers
- Ideas for becoming a better networker
- “What are you planning to do in 2009?”, or thoughts about #lifecamptoronto
- Web 2.0 Inside and Outside the Enterprise: York University MBA
- Let’s talk about passion
- Notes from conversations: Ushnish Sengupta, consulting
- Notes from conversations: Conscious competence
- Notes from the City of Toronto Web 2.0 Summit
- Stock image series
- Preparing presentations: from mindmap to storyboard
- Oooh, pretty presentation!
- Writing presentation abstracts together
- The Orange Chair » Social networking and innovation in a large company
- Bio: “IBM: The Next Generation”
- Slidecast: New Media, New Generation
- New presentation: “New media, New generation”
- Squee! Won Slideshare’s Best Presentation Contest!
- Finding something worth talking about
- Keeping things fresh; Analyzing session feedback
- What teachers make
- Notes from GBS Learning Week
- GBS Learning Week: First set
- Trudge, trudge, trudge
- Web 2.0 @ Work: Creating a professional profile
- Networking for new hires
- How to scale presentations up or down – the art of timing
- Storytelling in presentations
- Teaching passion
- Two presentation stories for today: Oooh, shiny; Reaching the back row
- Trying to get a good head shot
- Dealing with stage fright
- Thinking out loud: Taking it off/online
- Kaizen Presentations: Web 2.0 and the University
- Restructuring Presentations: The Leadership Journey
- When I grow up, I’m going to present like Steve Jobs
- blue horizon 2008: My first IBM keynote!
- TLE 2008: I.B.Millennials: The Net Generation and Those Who Recruit, Hire, Work With, Manage, and Sell to Us
- Notes from "Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way Out of a Job and Into a Career"; the experience of speaking
- Why DemoCamp is one of my favorite networking events
- Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way out of a Job… and Into a Career
- Geni – Your family tree online
- Building relationships: 10 ways to get the most out of social networking sites
- Upcoming events
- Passed it on!
- Blogging works in mysterious ways
- social networking
- Planning a talk! =) “”Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way Out of a Job… and into a Career”
- Teaching the attitude
- Story: Connecting through social computing
- Conversations with bookworms
- Categorizing Contacts
- Can’t help but teach
- Business cards
- Knowing people
- The magic of connection
- Yes to social networking, no to MLM
- At the social media and public relations event
- Enthusiastic rapport with Emmanuel and Rob: movies that motivate
- Kudos to Kevin Magee: sales and networking tips
- Personal contact relationship management
- Christmas letter prioritization
- Don't sell; help people buy
- Business is a contact sport
- Now that's how to recruit!
- Alumni networks and business networking sites
- Terrible at remembering names?
- The Constant Connector
- Book: Endless Referrals, by Bob Burg
- Reaching out and being human
- Geek dinners and networking ideas
- Networking is about being memorable; the art of the deep bump
- Networking story: Being in the right place at the right time
- Networking: Create value with your business cards
- Emacs BBDB: Filtering tags with the power of lambda expressions
- Taking the Terror out of Talk
- Conference Commando: Networking with Nametags
- Emacs: Show only people whom I haven't pinged since…
- Emacs + LinkedIn: Another totally idiosyncratic bit of code
- Linked In: Looking for role models
- Always write to your favorite authors
- Networking party in New York that I really, really want to go to
- Networking evils: The you're-just-a-student brushoff
- Backlog: Viz workshop last Friday
- Blogging backlog: Okay, fine, I'm a social butterfly
- Reaching across the ocean: sometimes you just have to make things happen
- Sweet! Career Resource Library totally rocks!
- Creating opportunities
- Raising life by the power of two
- Tag team networking
- Long stories deserve long responses
- A passion for social systems – clues to my next short-term step?
- Networking tips: Bring your own nametag
- More Emacs goodness: Refresh your memory when you e-mail using notes from BBDB
- How to proactively network
- The power of proactively networking
- Why I love OpenBC – a new business networking site
- Making friends in unusual places
- My Big Brother Database and social networking sites
- BarCampEarthToronto: Networking for Introverts
- Networking for Geeks: Advertise with your laptop!
- An alien experience
- Creative Thursday: Conference commando!
- EXITE and the quest for hot chocolate
- Excited about EXITE
- Purposeful interaction
- Hey! Toastmasters! =D
- What's the value proposition of a student?
- Next slide, please
- Toastmasters: Persuasion project 1
- BBDB pinging code
- Blackberry goodness
- Interesting people, interesting conversations
- Programming for kids
- DemoCamp afterparty
- Toastmasters
- Networking with Moleskines
- Microsoft Word in schools
- Toastmasters
- On tutoring
- Helping people find their voice
- Toastmasters
- When it rains, it pours
- Finished my tenth speech!
- Toastmasters
- Toastmasters
- Taming the TODO
- Teaching assistant for Praxis II! =)
- Education brainstorming
- The Power of the Human Spirit
- Reflections on the lab
- More about teaching
- I hate teaching
- Deciding not to Ryze to the occasion
- Ryze: business networking with meetups
- Toastmasters and speaking at technical conferences
- Toastmasters Humorous Speech contest tomorrow
- Not joining the Rotary Club
- Networking for Geeks: Finding the Bleeding Edge through del.icio.us
- Presentation insights from science competitions
- Teaching assistantship
- Survived my first Toastmasters speech!
- Toastmasters is fun
- Toast IT
- Public speaking and mentoring
- Information Design
- Good presentation tips
- The conference was so much fun!
- Presentations up
- University of Asia and the Pacific: Business talks
- Business Writing Seminar
- “Clique Here”
- Teaching reflections
- Words to review for the GRE
- Interesting notes from the best practices
- Reflections from 2nd sem 2003-2004
- Template for CS21A project defense
- Common networking errors
- Social networking diagram
- Advice for social networking services
- Second sem thoughts
- First day of classes
- Alphabet blocks — education, fixme
- CS21A today and Monday
- On the introductory sequence
- CS21A today
- OnTutoring
- 1. PAASCU reaccreditation: Pretty much finished.
- More Java resources — education
- Notes about today — education
- Up the Down Staircase — education
- Teaching was so much fun! — education
- Moodle
- Moodle.org and LANG
- Free software in education — education
- Curriculum Review
- Computer science – is it an exact science? — education
- Faculty R&R postponed
- I’ll be teaching this summer!
- Open source and CS education — education
- Some computer science education links — education
- Computer science education research processes — education
- Paper: A Mentor Program in CS1 — education
- Paper: Laptops in the Classroom — education
- Paper: Engaging Students with Theory through ACM Collegiate Programming Contests — education
- Computer Science Unplugged — education
- Embedded talk
- Missing people
- Head TAs?
- Hello world, school, teaching, games ()
