- Working on the plumbing in a small web community - May 31, 2025 - community, connecting, emacs, blogging
- Through blogging, we discover our thoughts and other people - Jan 30, 2025 - connecting, blogging, writing
- Becoming more social - Jan 3, 2019 - connecting, parenting
- Figuring out my own social life - Apr 14, 2018 - connecting, parenting
- Notes from the parent advocacy workshop – my goals - Apr 3, 2017 - connecting, parenting
- What kind of tribe do I want to build around Quantified Self in Toronto? - May 13, 2015 - connecting, quantified
- What I’m learning about small talk - Apr 20, 2015 - philosophy, stoicism, connecting
- Experimenting with spending more time at Hacklab - Apr 10, 2015 - connecting, geek, time
- To never need to be needed - Apr 9, 2015 - connecting
- What can I do to support friends? - Apr 3, 2015 - connecting
- Learning from people - Feb 17, 2015 - connecting, learning
- Let’s have a virtual Emacs conference in August – help me make it happen! - Feb 9, 2015 - conference, connecting, emacs
- Sometimes – often – I don't feel like making conversation - Oct 17, 2014 - connecting
- Sharing cooking adventures - Aug 4, 2014 - connecting, cooking
- On Aristotle and talking to people about troubles - Jul 28, 2014 - connecting
- Hacklab open houses and connecting through cooking - Jul 18, 2014 - connecting
- What are people looking for when they talk about their challenges? - Jul 14, 2014 - communication, connecting
- House culture - Jul 11, 2014 - connecting
- Small talk tweaks - May 13, 2014 - connecting, kaizen
- Static friction and socializing - Mar 17, 2014 - connecting
- From networking with people to networking around ideas: How I stopped worrying about keeping in touch - Feb 14, 2014 - connecting
- Learning from people - Jan 31, 2014 - connecting, learning, mentoring
- Exploring the idea of advice - Dec 27, 2013 - connecting
- Google Helpouts update: Helping people learn, thinking about business strategies - Nov 27, 2013 - connecting
- Google Helpouts update: Building the community - Nov 20, 2013 - connecting
- Google Helpouts Update: People like it, so how do we scale this up? - Nov 13, 2013 - connecting, teaching
- Experience report/invitation: Pick my brain through Google Helpouts - Nov 6, 2013 - connecting, teaching
- Thinking out loud about how to help other sketchnoters go professional and how to help people get their ideas sketched - Oct 7, 2013 - business, connecting
- Decision review: Seven months at HackLab - Oct 4, 2013 - connecting, decision, review
- Sometimes you don’t know what you know until someone asks; why I like preparing talking points for podcasts and chats - Jul 29, 2013 - connecting, drawing, learning, sketchnotes
- Thinking about business cards - Jul 23, 2013 - business, connecting, decision, experiment
- Setting e-mail expectations: Roughly once a week - Jul 21, 2013 - communication, connecting
- Virtual hang-out experiments: Notes on AnyMeeting - Jul 4, 2013 - connecting
- Thinking about small talk at networking events - Jun 27, 2013 - connecting, kaizen
- Getting to know people who read this blog–hooray for hangout experiment #1! - Jun 20, 2013 - blogging, connecting, learning
- 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 - blogging, connecting, visual
- Time enough for friends - Apr 14, 2013 - connecting, life
- Hacking my way around networking - Mar 18, 2013 - connecting
- Networking with notes – and sketchnotes, in particular - Dec 1, 2012 - connecting
- Figuring out how to get better at following up with people in person - Nov 1, 2012 - connecting
- Business card kaizen - Oct 25, 2012 - business, connecting, kaizen
- Pub nights and thinking about networking at events - Oct 23, 2012 - connecting
- Learning how to bring people together - Oct 5, 2012 - connecting
- Process: Keeping notes of conversations - Aug 29, 2012 - connecting, kaizen, process, sketches
- “So, what do you do?” - Jul 5, 2012 - connecting
- The Shy Connector: Thinking about the difficulties people encounter - Jun 1, 2012 - connecting
- Tweaking my introduction, focusing on sketchnotes - May 7, 2012 - connecting
- Sketchnotes: Sal Sloan of Fetching! at the Toronto Public Library: Small Business Networking Event - Mar 13, 2012 - business, connecting, delegation, entrepreneurship, sketchnotes
- Visual book notes: The Start-up of You (Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha) - Mar 5, 2012 - book, career, connecting, sketchnotes, visual-book-notes
- Gardening: Horticultural investments, social dividends - May 23, 2011 - connecting, gardening
- Get More Value from Blogging, part IV: Connecting with People - Feb 28, 2011 - blogging, connecting, tips
- ITSC guide to conference awesomeness - Feb 21, 2011 - conference, connecting, event, presentation, sketches, speaking
- LinkedIn tip: Customize your profile URL - Feb 18, 2011 - connecting, tips, web2.0
- On friendship and becoming more social - Feb 18, 2011 - connecting
- Imagine success for social media - Feb 16, 2011 - blogging, connecting, kaizen, story, web2.0, writing
- Pre-conference networking tips for the Instructional Technology Strategies Conference - Jan 28, 2011 - conference, connecting, sketches, speaking, tips
- Blogging and conference networking tips - Dec 29, 2010 - blogging, conference, connecting, tips
- Conference tips: planning your attendance - Dec 13, 2010 - conference, connecting, tips
- Making the most of the conference hallway track - Dec 9, 2010 - conference, connecting, tips
- Book: Fast Track Networking: Turning Conversations into Contacts - Oct 18, 2010 - book, connecting, reading
- Old notes on staffing a virtual conference booth - Sep 23, 2010 - conference, connecting, event
- It’s okay if you can’t remember or spell my name; being human - Sep 1, 2010 - connecting
- Keeping in touch with diffuse networks - Aug 25, 2010 - connecting
- Note-taking revisited - Aug 17, 2010 - connecting, kaizen, notetaking, productivity
- The delicate dance of status - Aug 14, 2010 - braindump, connecting, reflection
- Reflecting on introductions - Aug 13, 2010 - connecting
- Networking events - Aug 12, 2010 - connecting, reflection
- Finding opportunities in a big company - Jul 30, 2010 - career, connecting, ibm, work
- Reflections from a tweetup - Jul 25, 2010 - connecting
- Risks, personal brands, and findability - Jun 30, 2010 - connecting, social, web2.0
- Braindump: On face-to-face and online social networking (xpost) - May 23, 2010 - braindump, connecting
- The problem with personal branding - Apr 23, 2010 - blogging, connecting, web2.0
- Thinking about indexing and connecting the dots - Feb 25, 2010 - connecting, ibm, kaizen, reflection
- Notes from WITI: The Shy Connector - Feb 9, 2010 - connecting, presentation, speaking, women
- I’d like to build the post-connector workplace - Feb 5, 2010 - connecting, enterprise2.0, ibm, social, web2.0
- Reflecting on introversion and shyness; help me find better words! - Jan 16, 2010 - connecting, reflection
- Upcoming talk: The Shy Connector - Jan 14, 2010 - connecting, presentation, speaking
- Offline and online conversations - Jan 6, 2010 - connecting
- Accessing tacit knowledge and building pathways for two-way learning - Jan 5, 2010 - connecting, web2.0
- After the tea party - Dec 19, 2009 - connecting, life, party
- How I find and learn from mentors - Dec 14, 2009 - connecting, learning
- Thinking about improving the connective tissue of organizations - Dec 10, 2009 - connecting, ibm, kaizen, passion, purpose, work
- Cambridge stories from the past and future - Nov 18, 2009 - connecting
- The shy connector’s schedule: making time to breathe - Nov 15, 2009 - connecting, productivity
- Reflecting on how I can create value - Nov 14, 2009 - blogging, connecting, delegation, presentation, speaking, writing
- Wild success and social networks - Nov 13, 2009 - connecting, ibm, social, web2.0
- Connecting in a large organization - Nov 1, 2009 - connecting
- How I met Jeff Muzzerall - Oct 29, 2009 - connecting
- How do you keep in touch with 500+ contacts? - Oct 5, 2009 - connecting
- Entrepreneurship tips from Sarah Prevette (Sprouter) at the Toronto Girl Geek Dinner - Sep 30, 2009 - connecting, entrepreneurship
- Working around networking weaknesses and playing to strengths - Sep 30, 2009 - connecting
- Expanding on The Shy Connector: What do you want to see next? - Sep 21, 2009 - connecting
- Exercising my network - Aug 26, 2009 - connecting
- Social media changes real-life conversations - Aug 19, 2009 - connecting, social, web2.0
- The shy connector - Aug 11, 2009 - connecting, presentation, sketches, speaking
- Delegating weaknesses; experimenting with social secretaries - May 9, 2009 - connecting, delegation
- Thinking about those newsletters - Apr 24, 2009 - connecting
- Finding finishers, building a team - Apr 10, 2009 - connecting
- Ethics and egos in virtual assistance and relationships - Apr 1, 2009 - connecting
- LifeCampTO: April 5 (Sun), 10:30am – 1:00pm, LinuxCaffe - Mar 27, 2009 - connecting, event, life
- Networking outside the firewall - Mar 19, 2009 - connecting, speaking
- Making a Name for Yourself - Mar 13, 2009 - career, connecting, presentation, talk
- Making a name for yourself: thinking out loud about my talk - Mar 10, 2009 - career, connecting
- Planning meetings, get-togethers, and interviews with AgreeADate - Feb 9, 2009 - connecting, emacs, geek, life, productivity
- Conversations about networking; scale, structure, and skills - Feb 4, 2009 - connecting
- LifeCampTO social graph - Feb 2, 2009 - connecting, social
- Lessons from LifeCamp - Feb 1, 2009 - braindump, connecting, event
- Scarcity versus abundance in knowledge management - Jan 29, 2009 - connecting, web2.0
- Braindump of conference networking tips - Jan 27, 2009 - conference, connecting, kaizen
- When I grow up, I will have friends and strangers over for dinner - Jan 22, 2009 - connecting, event, social
- GreaterIBM: Turbocharging real-life social networking events - Jan 5, 2009 - connecting, ibm, web2.0
- Annual letter: the numbers - Jan 3, 2009 - connecting
- Ideas for becoming a better networker - Jan 3, 2009 - connecting
- “What are you planning to do in 2009?”, or thoughts about #lifecamptoronto - Jan 2, 2009 - barcamp, connecting
- Let’s talk about passion - Dec 7, 2008 - connecting, passion
- Notes from conversations: Ushnish Sengupta, consulting - Dec 2, 2008 - braindump, connecting, social
- Notes from conversations: Conscious competence - Nov 28, 2008 - blogging, connecting, web2.0
- The Orange Chair ยป Social networking and innovation in a large company - Sep 27, 2008 - connecting, enterprise2.0, web2.0
- Notes from GBS Learning Week - Jul 17, 2008 - conference, connecting, weekly
- Trudge, trudge, trudge - Jun 22, 2008 - connecting, emacs, writing
- Web 2.0 @ Work: Creating a professional profile - Jun 22, 2008 - connecting, web2.0, wordpress
- Networking for new hires - Jun 19, 2008 - connecting, passion, presentation, new-hire
- Trying to get a good head shot - May 28, 2008 - connecting, photography
- Thinking out loud: Taking it off/online - May 25, 2008 - connecting, web2.0
- Notes from "Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way Out of a Job and Into a Career"; the experience of speaking - Feb 29, 2008 - connecting, speaking
- Why DemoCamp is one of my favorite networking events - Feb 29, 2008 - connecting
- Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way out of a Job… and Into a Career - Feb 27, 2008 - blogging, connecting
- Geni – Your family tree online - Feb 17, 2008 - connecting, family, social
- Building relationships: 10 ways to get the most out of social networking sites - Feb 11, 2008 - connecting
- Passed it on! - Jan 30, 2008 - blogging, connecting, social, story
- Blogging works in mysterious ways - Jan 30, 2008 - blogging, connecting, story
- social networking - Jan 17, 2008 - connecting, social
- Planning a talk! =) “”Networking 2.0: Blogging Your Way Out of a Job… and into a Career” - Jan 15, 2008 - connecting
- Story: Connecting through social computing - Dec 12, 2007 - connecting
- Conversations with bookworms - Oct 9, 2007 - connecting
- Categorizing Contacts - Oct 3, 2007 - connecting
- Business cards - Jun 13, 2007 - connecting
- Knowing people - Apr 21, 2007 - connecting
- The magic of connection - Mar 23, 2007 - connecting
- Yes to social networking, no to MLM - Feb 22, 2007 - connecting
- At the social media and public relations event - Feb 20, 2007 - connecting
- Enthusiastic rapport with Emmanuel and Rob: movies that motivate - Dec 14, 2006 - connecting
- Kudos to Kevin Magee: sales and networking tips - Dec 14, 2006 - connecting
- Personal contact relationship management - Dec 12, 2006 - connecting, emacs
- Christmas letter prioritization - Dec 11, 2006 - connecting
- Don't sell; help people buy - Oct 27, 2006 - connecting
- Business is a contact sport - Oct 25, 2006 - book, connecting
- Now that's how to recruit! - Oct 25, 2006 - connecting
- Alumni networks and business networking sites - Oct 25, 2006 - connecting
- Terrible at remembering names? - Oct 24, 2006 - connecting
- The Constant Connector - Oct 12, 2006 - connecting
- Book: Endless Referrals, by Bob Burg - Oct 10, 2006 - connecting
- Reaching out and being human - Oct 2, 2006 - connecting
- Geek dinners and networking ideas - Sep 29, 2006 - connecting
- Networking is about being memorable; the art of the deep bump - Sep 29, 2006 - connecting
- Networking story: Being in the right place at the right time - Sep 29, 2006 - connecting, story
- Networking: Create value with your business cards - Sep 29, 2006 - connecting
- Emacs BBDB: Filtering tags with the power of lambda expressions - Sep 29, 2006 - bbdb, connecting, emacs
- Conference Commando: Networking with Nametags - Sep 28, 2006 - connecting
- Emacs: Show only people whom I haven't pinged since… - Sep 28, 2006 - bbdb, connecting, emacs, planner
- Emacs + LinkedIn: Another totally idiosyncratic bit of code - Sep 28, 2006 - connecting, emacs
- Linked In: Looking for role models - Sep 19, 2006 - connecting
- Networking party in New York that I really, really want to go to - Sep 16, 2006 - connecting, ibm
- Networking evils: The you're-just-a-student brushoff - Sep 11, 2006 - connecting
- Blogging backlog: Okay, fine, I'm a social butterfly - Sep 11, 2006 - connecting
- Reaching across the ocean: sometimes you just have to make things happen - Sep 8, 2006 - business, connecting, goodkarma, happy
- Sweet! Career Resource Library totally rocks! - Sep 7, 2006 - connecting
- Creating opportunities - Sep 7, 2006 - book, connecting, social
- Raising life by the power of two - Sep 7, 2006 - connecting, life
- Tag team networking - Sep 7, 2006 - book, connecting
- Long stories deserve long responses - Sep 5, 2006 - connecting
- A passion for social systems – clues to my next short-term step? - Sep 2, 2006 - career, connecting, emacs, passion, purpose
- Networking tips: Bring your own nametag - Sep 2, 2006 - connecting, social
- More Emacs goodness: Refresh your memory when you e-mail using notes from BBDB - Sep 2, 2006 - bbdb, connecting, emacs
- How to proactively network - Aug 31, 2006 - connecting, social
- The power of proactively networking - Aug 31, 2006 - connecting, social
- Why I love OpenBC – a new business networking site - Aug 31, 2006 - connecting, social
- Making friends in unusual places - Aug 31, 2006 - connecting
- My Big Brother Database and social networking sites - Aug 30, 2006 - connecting, emacs
- BarCampEarthToronto: Networking for Introverts - Aug 26, 2006 - barcamp, connecting
- Networking for Geeks: Advertise with your laptop! - Aug 22, 2006 - connecting, laptop, marketing
- Creative Thursday: Conference commando! - Jul 27, 2006 - conference, connecting
- Purposeful interaction - Jul 2, 2006 - connecting
- What's the value proposition of a student? - Jun 25, 2006 - connecting, life, reflection
- BBDB pinging code - Jun 3, 2006 - bbdb, connecting, emacs
- Blackberry goodness - Jun 2, 2006 - connecting
- Interesting people, interesting conversations - Jun 1, 2006 - connecting, ibm
- DemoCamp afterparty - May 31, 2006 - connecting, democamp
- Networking with Moleskines - May 30, 2006 - connecting
- Deciding not to Ryze to the occasion - Oct 20, 2005 - -Uncategorized, connecting
- Ryze: business networking with meetups - Oct 18, 2005 - connecting, meetup
- Not joining the Rotary Club - Sep 29, 2005 - connecting
- Networking for Geeks: Finding the Bleeding Edge through del.icio.us - Sep 19, 2005 - connecting, geek
- “Clique Here” - Jul 20, 2004 - -Uncategorized, connecting
- Social networking diagram - Feb 23, 2004 - -Uncategorized, connecting
- Advice for social networking services - Feb 5, 2004 - -Uncategorized, connecting
- Missing people - Jan 5, 2003 - connecting, life
