- Working on the plumbing in a small web community - May 31, 2025
- Through blogging, we discover our thoughts and other people - Jan 30, 2025
- Becoming more social - Jan 3, 2019
- Figuring out my own social life - Apr 14, 2018
- Notes from the parent advocacy workshop – my goals - Apr 3, 2017
- What kind of tribe do I want to build around Quantified Self in Toronto? - May 13, 2015
- What I’m learning about small talk - Apr 20, 2015
- Experimenting with spending more time at Hacklab - Apr 10, 2015
- To never need to be needed - Apr 9, 2015
- What can I do to support friends? - Apr 3, 2015
- Learning from people - Feb 17, 2015
- Let’s have a virtual Emacs conference in August – help me make it happen! - Feb 9, 2015
- Sometimes – often – I don't feel like making conversation - Oct 17, 2014
- Sharing cooking adventures - Aug 4, 2014
- On Aristotle and talking to people about troubles - Jul 28, 2014
- Hacklab open houses and connecting through cooking - Jul 18, 2014
- What are people looking for when they talk about their challenges? - Jul 14, 2014
- House culture - Jul 11, 2014
- Small talk tweaks - May 13, 2014
- Static friction and socializing - Mar 17, 2014
- From networking with people to networking around ideas: How I stopped worrying about keeping in touch - Feb 14, 2014
- Learning from people - Jan 31, 2014
- Exploring the idea of advice - Dec 27, 2013
- Google Helpouts update: Helping people learn, thinking about business strategies - Nov 27, 2013
- Google Helpouts update: Building the community - Nov 20, 2013
- Google Helpouts Update: People like it, so how do we scale this up? - Nov 13, 2013
- Experience report/invitation: Pick my brain through Google Helpouts - Nov 6, 2013
- Thinking out loud about how to help other sketchnoters go professional and how to help people get their ideas sketched - Oct 7, 2013
- Decision review: Seven months at HackLab - Oct 4, 2013
- Sometimes you don’t know what you know until someone asks; why I like preparing talking points for podcasts and chats - Jul 29, 2013
- Thinking about business cards - Jul 23, 2013
- Setting e-mail expectations: Roughly once a week - Jul 21, 2013
- Virtual hang-out experiments: Notes on AnyMeeting - Jul 4, 2013
- Thinking about small talk at networking events - Jun 27, 2013
- Getting to know people who read this blog–hooray for hangout experiment #1! - Jun 20, 2013
- Web experiments this week: Webinar on “How to Improve Your Visual Thinking” and a Google Hangout on blogging; would love to connect with you! - Jun 17, 2013
- Time enough for friends - Apr 14, 2013
- Hacking my way around networking - Mar 18, 2013
- Networking with notes – and sketchnotes, in particular - Dec 1, 2012
- Figuring out how to get better at following up with people in person - Nov 1, 2012
- Business card kaizen - Oct 25, 2012
- Pub nights and thinking about networking at events - Oct 23, 2012
- Learning how to bring people together - Oct 5, 2012
- Process: Keeping notes of conversations - Aug 29, 2012
- “So, what do you do?” - Jul 5, 2012
- The Shy Connector: Thinking about the difficulties people encounter - Jun 1, 2012
- Tweaking my introduction, focusing on sketchnotes - May 7, 2012
- Sketchnotes: Sal Sloan of Fetching! at the Toronto Public Library: Small Business Networking Event - Mar 13, 2012
- Visual book notes: The Start-up of You (Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha) - Mar 5, 2012
- Gardening: Horticultural investments, social dividends - May 23, 2011
- Get More Value from Blogging, part IV: Connecting with People - Feb 28, 2011
- ITSC guide to conference awesomeness - Feb 21, 2011
- LinkedIn tip: Customize your profile URL - Feb 18, 2011
- On friendship and becoming more social - Feb 18, 2011
- Imagine success for social media - Feb 16, 2011
- Pre-conference networking tips for the Instructional Technology Strategies Conference - Jan 28, 2011
- Blogging and conference networking tips - Dec 29, 2010
- Conference tips: planning your attendance - Dec 13, 2010
- Making the most of the conference hallway track - Dec 9, 2010
- Book: Fast Track Networking: Turning Conversations into Contacts - Oct 18, 2010
- Old notes on staffing a virtual conference booth - Sep 23, 2010
- It’s okay if you can’t remember or spell my name; being human - Sep 1, 2010
- Keeping in touch with diffuse networks - Aug 25, 2010
- Note-taking revisited - Aug 17, 2010
- The delicate dance of status - Aug 14, 2010
- Reflecting on introductions - Aug 13, 2010
- Networking events - Aug 12, 2010
- Finding opportunities in a big company - Jul 30, 2010
- Reflections from a tweetup - Jul 25, 2010
- Risks, personal brands, and findability - Jun 30, 2010
- Braindump: On face-to-face and online social networking (xpost) - May 23, 2010
- The problem with personal branding - Apr 23, 2010
- Thinking about indexing and connecting the dots - Feb 25, 2010
- Notes from WITI: The Shy Connector - Feb 9, 2010
- I’d like to build the post-connector workplace - Feb 5, 2010
- Reflecting on introversion and shyness; help me find better words! - Jan 16, 2010
- Upcoming talk: The Shy Connector - Jan 14, 2010
- Offline and online conversations - Jan 6, 2010
- Accessing tacit knowledge and building pathways for two-way learning - Jan 5, 2010
- After the tea party - Dec 19, 2009
- How I find and learn from mentors - Dec 14, 2009
- Thinking about improving the connective tissue of organizations - Dec 10, 2009
- Cambridge stories from the past and future - Nov 18, 2009
- The shy connector’s schedule: making time to breathe - Nov 15, 2009
- Reflecting on how I can create value - Nov 14, 2009
- Wild success and social networks - Nov 13, 2009
- Connecting in a large organization - Nov 1, 2009
- How I met Jeff Muzzerall - Oct 29, 2009
- How do you keep in touch with 500+ contacts? - Oct 5, 2009
- Entrepreneurship tips from Sarah Prevette (Sprouter) at the Toronto Girl Geek Dinner - Sep 30, 2009
- Working around networking weaknesses and playing to strengths - Sep 30, 2009
- Expanding on The Shy Connector: What do you want to see next? - Sep 21, 2009
- Exercising my network - Aug 26, 2009
- Social media changes real-life conversations - Aug 19, 2009
- The shy connector - Aug 11, 2009
- Delegating weaknesses; experimenting with social secretaries - May 9, 2009
- Thinking about those newsletters - Apr 24, 2009
- Finding finishers, building a team - Apr 10, 2009
- Ethics and egos in virtual assistance and relationships - Apr 1, 2009
- LifeCampTO: April 5 (Sun), 10:30am – 1:00pm, LinuxCaffe - Mar 27, 2009
- Networking outside the firewall - Mar 19, 2009
- Making a Name for Yourself - Mar 13, 2009
- Making a name for yourself: thinking out loud about my talk - Mar 10, 2009
- Planning meetings, get-togethers, and interviews with AgreeADate - Feb 9, 2009
- Conversations about networking; scale, structure, and skills - Feb 4, 2009
- LifeCampTO social graph - Feb 2, 2009
- Lessons from LifeCamp - Feb 1, 2009
- Scarcity versus abundance in knowledge management - Jan 29, 2009
- Braindump of conference networking tips - Jan 27, 2009
- When I grow up, I will have friends and strangers over for dinner - Jan 22, 2009
- GreaterIBM: Turbocharging real-life social networking events - Jan 5, 2009
- Annual letter: the numbers - Jan 3, 2009
- Ideas for becoming a better networker - Jan 3, 2009
- “What are you planning to do in 2009?”, or thoughts about #lifecamptoronto - Jan 2, 2009
- Let’s talk about passion - Dec 7, 2008
- Notes from conversations: Ushnish Sengupta, consulting - Dec 2, 2008
- Notes from conversations: Conscious competence - Nov 28, 2008
- The Orange Chair ยป Social networking and innovation in a large company - Sep 27, 2008
- Notes from GBS Learning Week - Jul 17, 2008
- Trudge, trudge, trudge - Jun 22, 2008
- Web 2.0 @ Work: Creating a professional profile - Jun 22, 2008
- Networking for new hires - Jun 19, 2008
- Trying to get a good head shot - May 28, 2008
- Thinking out loud: Taking it off/online - May 25, 2008
- Notes from "Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way Out of a Job and Into a Career"; the experience of speaking - Feb 29, 2008
- Why DemoCamp is one of my favorite networking events - Feb 29, 2008
- Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way out of a Job… and Into a Career - Feb 27, 2008
- Geni – Your family tree online - Feb 17, 2008
- Building relationships: 10 ways to get the most out of social networking sites - Feb 11, 2008
- Passed it on! - Jan 30, 2008
- Blogging works in mysterious ways - Jan 30, 2008
- social networking - Jan 17, 2008
- Planning a talk! =) “”Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way Out of a Job… and into a Career” - Jan 15, 2008
- Story: Connecting through social computing - Dec 12, 2007
- Conversations with bookworms - Oct 9, 2007
- Categorizing Contacts - Oct 3, 2007
- Business cards - Jun 13, 2007
- Knowing people - Apr 21, 2007
- The magic of connection - Mar 23, 2007
- Yes to social networking, no to MLM - Feb 22, 2007
- At the social media and public relations event - Feb 20, 2007
- Enthusiastic rapport with Emmanuel and Rob: movies that motivate - Dec 14, 2006
- Kudos to Kevin Magee: sales and networking tips - Dec 14, 2006
- Personal contact relationship management - Dec 12, 2006
- Christmas letter prioritization - Dec 11, 2006
- Don't sell; help people buy - Oct 27, 2006
- Business is a contact sport - Oct 25, 2006
- Now that's how to recruit! - Oct 25, 2006
- Alumni networks and business networking sites - Oct 25, 2006
- Terrible at remembering names? - Oct 24, 2006
- The Constant Connector - Oct 12, 2006
- Book: Endless Referrals, by Bob Burg - Oct 10, 2006
- Reaching out and being human - Oct 2, 2006
- Geek dinners and networking ideas - Sep 29, 2006
- Networking is about being memorable; the art of the deep bump - Sep 29, 2006
- Networking story: Being in the right place at the right time - Sep 29, 2006
- Networking: Create value with your business cards - Sep 29, 2006
- Emacs BBDB: Filtering tags with the power of lambda expressions - Sep 29, 2006
- Conference Commando: Networking with Nametags - Sep 28, 2006
- Emacs: Show only people whom I haven't pinged since… - Sep 28, 2006
- Emacs + LinkedIn: Another totally idiosyncratic bit of code - Sep 28, 2006
- Linked In: Looking for role models - Sep 19, 2006
- Networking party in New York that I really, really want to go to - Sep 16, 2006
- Networking evils: The you're-just-a-student brushoff - Sep 11, 2006
- Blogging backlog: Okay, fine, I'm a social butterfly - Sep 11, 2006
- Reaching across the ocean: sometimes you just have to make things happen - Sep 8, 2006
- Sweet! Career Resource Library totally rocks! - Sep 7, 2006
- Creating opportunities - Sep 7, 2006
- Raising life by the power of two - Sep 7, 2006
- Tag team networking - Sep 7, 2006
- Long stories deserve long responses - Sep 5, 2006
- A passion for social systems – clues to my next short-term step? - Sep 2, 2006
- Networking tips: Bring your own nametag - Sep 2, 2006
- More Emacs goodness: Refresh your memory when you e-mail using notes from BBDB - Sep 2, 2006
- How to proactively network - Aug 31, 2006
- The power of proactively networking - Aug 31, 2006
- Why I love OpenBC – a new business networking site - Aug 31, 2006
- Making friends in unusual places - Aug 31, 2006
- My Big Brother Database and social networking sites - Aug 30, 2006
- BarCampEarthToronto: Networking for Introverts - Aug 26, 2006
- Networking for Geeks: Advertise with your laptop! - Aug 22, 2006
- Creative Thursday: Conference commando! - Jul 27, 2006
- Purposeful interaction - Jul 2, 2006
- What's the value proposition of a student? - Jun 25, 2006
- BBDB pinging code - Jun 3, 2006
- Blackberry goodness - Jun 2, 2006
- Interesting people, interesting conversations - Jun 1, 2006
- DemoCamp afterparty - May 31, 2006
- Networking with Moleskines - May 30, 2006
- Deciding not to Ryze to the occasion - Oct 20, 2005
- Ryze: business networking with meetups - Oct 18, 2005
- Not joining the Rotary Club - Sep 29, 2005
- Networking for Geeks: Finding the Bleeding Edge through del.icio.us - Sep 19, 2005
- “Clique Here” - Jul 20, 2004
- Social networking diagram - Feb 23, 2004
- Advice for social networking services - Feb 5, 2004
- Missing people - Jan 5, 2003
