- Checking the balance of my time
- How do I want consulting to fit into my life?
- Sketched Book – So Good They Can’t Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love – Cal Newport
- Sketched Book: Take Charge of Your Talent: Three Keys to Thriving in Your Career, Organization, and Life – Don Maruska, Jay Perry (2013)
- More lessons learned from the recent sprints
- Reflecting on my growth as a programmer
- Thinking about rewards and recognition since I'm on my own
- The power of no: being completely* unhireable until 2017 (and possibly longer)
- Sketchnotes: Conversations About Social Business (Jennifer Okimoto, IBM)
- Sketchnote: Managing Oneself (Peter Drucker)
- Dealing with professional envy
- Thinking about ways to help people who are in between
- Sketchnotes: Dave Ley, Jen Nolan, Leo Marland and me at the University of Toronto Faculty of Information’s career panel
- Adjusting
- Visual book notes: The Start-up of You (Reid Hoffman, Ben Casnocha)
- Analyzing my Lotus Notes sent mail since January 2011
- Estimating the impact of the Community Toolkit, or how the company got an incredibly good deal when they hired me ;)
- Five things I’ve learned from five awesome years at IBM
- Pre-experiment potluck
- Bridging from intrapreneurship
- Notes from my exit interview with IBM
- Squeezing another project in
- Mapping out what I’ve learned at IBM
- My CSS theming setup
- Setting things in motion
- Getting ready for my next experiment!
- Work, extracurriculars, and measuring time: an epiphany
- Things I want to learn more about through work
- Making good progress on theming the site
- Figuring out my CSS workflow
- Getting ready for the next project
- Rails experiences: Things I learned from project O
- Growing as a developer: Automated tests
- Geek tidbits: Postfix configuration for development and testing
- Busy, busy, busy week
- Rails experiences: Building an interactive tutorial
- Ruby on Rails: Extending ActiveRecord::Base to define your own ActiveRecord association methods
- Decision review: Working at IBM
- Learning browser-based testing with Selenium
- Getting better at working at the office
- IBM Comic: Watson on helpdesk duty; variants
- How to set up more frequent merge replications in SQL Server 2000
- “Hello, Monday!” comic series launched on IBM intranet home page; now I’m a comic artist!
- Thinking my way through a tough MS SQL Server 2000 replication problem
- Lessons learned from project M
- Drupal, HTML Purifier, and embedding IFRAMES from YouTube
- Drupal and JQuery 1.5: Fixing the JSON encoding of ampersands
- Software and making pots
- Long weekend ahead
- Dealing with web development and stress
- Context-switching and a four-project day
- Switching back to Linux as my development host
- Managing configuration changes in Drupal
- The flow of opportunities in a large company
- Finding the bright side of business travel
- Condensing requirements into use cases
- On people changing companies
- Negative productivity and learning from oopses
- Remote training that rocks
- Using behavioural economics to motivate yourself when working on risky projects
- On developing a reputation for project work
- Setting up Ruby on Rails on a Redhat Enterprise Linux Rackspace Cloud Server
- The Busy Person’s Guide to Learning from the Network (a guide for IBMers)
- Learning more about Websphere and web service development
- Thinking about a developer setup template
- Get More Value from Blogging, Part VII: Inspiring Yourself and Inspiring Others
- Trying MemoLane (social timeline)
- Leveling up as a developer!
- Get More Value from Blogging, part VI: Let’s Get Down to Business
- Questions and answers from #infoboomSC tweetchat on blogging
- Get More Value from Blogging, part V: Communication Matters
- Dealing with intimidating projects
- Get More Value from Blogging, part II: The Compounding Value of an Archive
- Get More Value from Blogging, part I: The Immediate Benefits of Thought
- LinkedIn tip: Customize your profile URL
- Imagine success for social media
- Working on estimates
- Lotusphere 2011 wrap-up
- Draft Lotusphere BoF on working with the Connections API
- Cross-posting between Lotus Connections blogs and a personal blog
- Wrapping up projects and preparing for the next one
- More reflections on code and consulting
- Drupal, SimpleTest, and the node access API
- How to use Drush to download and install Drupal modules
- Saving team members from RSI
- Drupal Features and Drush: updating our development workflow
- Saving development time through virtual appliances
- Memories of Mandelbrot
- Notes from DrupalCampToronto 2010
- How to be dispensable, and why you should document and automate yourself out of a job
- Tips from remote workers
- Fit for You: Thinking about my priorities
- Book: Leading Outside the Lines
- Limiting my options so that I can focus
- Proactive communication: Five tips for following up
- Six steps to make sharing part of how you work
- On finding a great job
- On passion and luck
- Finding opportunities in a big company
- Getting the hang of leading small things
- Technology evangelists: What we do, how to find and hire one, how to become one
- Troubleshooting my Lotus Notes 8.5.2, Expeditor 6.2, and Eclipse 3.4 setup
- Keeping track of multiple projects
- Sooner or later? Expertise and the new
- Career growth in a large company
- Tools, big companies, and collaboration
- Risks, personal brands, and findability
- Book: Making Peace with Your Office Life
- Editing audio and embedding it into a MS Powerpoint file
- Thank you, David Singer
- Say the steps out loud
- Notes about business communication
- LotusScript: Checking another database for categories that do not contain a document of a particular type
- Travel kaizen and the meaning of life
- Imperfection
- Getting the hang of big companies
- Exponential awesomeness
- Thinking about the path ahead
- Stitching together a semi-rotational program; training is not the limiting factor
- Women and technical leadership
- The problem with personal branding
- New hires, ignorance and innovation
- In my dreams of wild success
- On getting started with collaboration
- From the ground up: Helping our organizations work smarter
- Large team challenges
- Technical leadership
- Happiness at work
- Thinking about travel
- How to brain-dump what you know
- Welcome to IBM! Advice for other newcomers like me
- Book recommendations for new grads
- Steeped in collaboration
- What do I want to learn? Making a map
- Leadership going virtual: how we can help managers
- Thinking about what I want to do with IBM
- What I learned from The Art of Marketing
- Thinking about indexing and connecting the dots
- Wiki organization challenge – thinking out loud
- The sweet spot at work
- Harvesting the backchannel bazaar of insights
- Bug-hunting spreadsheets
- Moving from testing to development
- I’d like to build the post-connector workplace
- Survey responses for TLE: Remote Presentations That Rock
- Learning more about interviewing
- Dogear and Delicious: Cross-posting your enterprise bookmarks (xpost)
- Book: Beyond Booked Solid
- Around the watercooler
- Free Drupal-IBM-Acquia webinar: Integrating Drupal with Enterprise Back-office Systems – Thu Jan 21 2010 1PM EST
- Book: On Becoming a Leader
- Braindump: Social media advice for events
- Lightweight personas for ideation workshops
- Microblogging talk
- Getting started on your web presence
- Facilitation: Thinking about the ends and means
- Information gardening tasks
- Accessing tacit knowledge and building pathways for two-way learning
- Meeting resolutions
- Getting ready for a long trip
- Happy-do, epiphanies, and relentless improvement
- My week starts with Mondays, and other ways perspective influences life
- Informed Judgment, Terrence Hickey
- Thinking about improving the connective tissue of organizations
- Of storytellers and pattern-makers; Book: Solitude: A Return to the Self
- Visual notes – Gary Vaynerchuk and Democamp Toronto 24
- Reflections on passion: Don’t let your job get in the way of your career
- Figuring things out on the fly
- Reflections on the Innovation Discovery workshop in Boston
- Wild success and social networks
- Comedy and self-promotion
- The man who should’ve used Connections
- Thinking in terms of decades
- Happy Bee-Day to me!
- Public speaker worried about losing control? Don’t have lectures – have conversations
- Finding the sweet spot
- Personal connection and a trip to the dentist
- Loyalty and love at work
- Swarming talent and manpower outsourcing
- Thinking about the Smart Work Jam
- Shifting gears
- Brainstorming around Smart Work
- Deeper insights into private versus public
- A teacher’s guide to Web 2.0 at school [illustrated]
- Social media changes real-life conversations
- The influence of trees, webs, and clouds
- How I got my job at IBM
- Reflecting on how to prepare for workshops
- Combining multiple social media services
- Changing hats
- Log your accomplishments
- Leadership and Embracing Challenge
- Social media and education
- Twitter brings down walls
- Notes from the Social Recruiting Summit
- Social Recruiting Summit: Awesomest Job Search Ever
- Helping people learn about Web 2.0 through stories
- Smiling over a distance
- Yes, I work at a big company
- Mapping my work happiness
- Enterprise 2.0: The business value of social networks
- Advice to IT students: Learning to love what you might hate right now
- The innovator’s innovator
- Upcoming Web 2.0 Conferences
- How to do a lot
- Making a Name for Yourself
- Making a name for yourself: thinking out loud about my talk
- Feel free to use your laptop or your phone in my talks! I love the backchannel
- 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
- Scarcity versus abundance in knowledge management
- A tale of a smarter planet
- Lessons learned from hosting today’s IBM Web 2.0 for Business community call with Amy Shuen
- ROI for public speaking and Web 2.0; graph and case study
- Unfinished Business: Design and New Media in the Obama campaign
- Stick figures on campus; IBM at the University of Toronto
- I like Lotus Notes 8.5 =)
- GreaterIBM: Turbocharging real-life social networking events
- Ideas for making my work more effective and efficient, creating value, and rocking my work
- My Enterprise 2.0 blogroll
- Drupal and return on sharing
- Twitter, Whuffie, and Amazing Connections
- One of Canada’s Most Influential Women in Social Media?
- Notes from conversations: Conscious competence
- Notes from the City of Toronto Web 2.0 Summit
- Upcoming webcasts on social networking, Gen Y
- Preparing presentations: from mindmap to storyboard
- Happy BlueDay to me!
- Writing presentation abstracts together
- Gen Y Perspective: Why Gen Y Won’t Stay at Jobs that Suck
- Dan Pink
- Knowledge [shared] is power
- The Orange Chair » Social networking and innovation in a large company
- The way I work
- The Road to Me 2.0: How I Was the Chosen One « Personal Branding Blog – Dan Schawbel
- Slidecast: New Media, New Generation
- New presentation: “New media, New generation”
- If you can, teach; If you can’t teach, do
- Work that I love: reflecting on the whats and hows
- Reflecting on time and overtime
- GBS Learning Week: First set
- Canada and Web 2.0 conferences
- Sowing seeds: What is technology evangelism, anyway?
- Awesome, I’ve been quoted in Portuguese!
- Enough time: a new hire’s reflections
- Web 2.0 @ Work: Creating a professional profile
- IBM Pass It Along – social learning!
- Thinking out loud: Taking it off/online
- Getting through the plateau of mediocrity; Picking up the idioms
- The Incoming University Student’s Guide to Web 2.0
- The Gen Y Guide to Web 2.0 at Work
- Gen Y Growing Up:
- Juggling; paperwork
- Time management and work boundaries
- Today
- Mike Moran: Writer, Search Marketing Expert, Distinguished Engineer!
- A great workday
- How to talk to execs and clients about social media
- Re-centering
- When you’re new to the job and everyone knows more than you do
- Add joy to your job title
- Career statement: Helping companies help people connect
- Planning my career – first stages
- Business practice maven-wannabe
- Practice evangelist
- My first week of work
- First day of work
- Work like you’re showing off: Be the best you can be
- Notes from Mentors: Technology evangelism
- Happiness evangelist
- Finding ways to IBM
- Reading about Enterprise 2.0
- Meet Enterprise 2.0
- The return on investment of social computing
- Looking at the puzzle pieces
- Collaboration
- Job search? Company search!
- Found my vertical: HR
- Gotta check out wesabe
- Evangelism
- Tom Purves, Enterprise 2.0 overview
- Microsoft evangelism – tempting!
- Looking for a personal board of advisors
- What does a portfolio for a tech evangelist look like?
- Progess report
- Of all the days
- VPN!
- New York, New York!
- WOW!
- Networking party in New York that I really, really want to go to
- More thoughts on what I want to do with my life
- A passion for social systems – clues to my next short-term step?
- Buskerfest and other fun things
- As Web 2.0 moves behind the firewall…
- Three questions for success
- Book: The Renaissance Soul: Life Design for People with Too Many Passions to Pick Just One
- Focus
- IBM CASCON 2006 and conference backchannels
- Enterprise 2.0 definition from Andrew McAfee
- Think! Friday
- Enterprise 2.0 Camp
- Imagining the future
- On programming as a career
- Blah
- On the way home after a late night
- Interesting people, interesting conversations
- Social media for social change
- Telecon
- Blogging is vanity
- Collective ingenuity
- More thoughts about social computing
- Web 2.0 and entrepreneurship
- ARGH!
- Pinoy Web 2.0
- Tagging places, and the power of stories
- Mesh magic: Tara Hunt
- Mesh magic: Fifteen minutes of fame
- Mesh magic: Tara Hunt fangirling
- Mesh magic: Venture capital and Web 2.0
- Mesh magic: The Future of Marketing
- Mesh magic: Volunteering
- Catching up; mesh post coming soon
- Mashing the Vote: Web 2.0 for Social Change
- At mesh conference; Om Malik keynote
- Also not entirely hopeless in a corporate setting
- Connector, Maven, Salesman
- Happy girl
- Backlog: IBM
- Tagging people
- Back in the groove
- Web2.0 goodness
- Squidoo now on public beta
- The Power of the Human Spirit
- Surround yourself with exceptional people
- Notes from software customization talk
- MS interview questions
- Employment stress