It has been a little more than a month since my first post on Viral Professional Development (VPD) and I thought it would be nice to update my progress. I went back to the original post to see if anything has changed from my initial thoughts. I still believe in the basic characteristics [...]
I have seen and heard people describe Northern Voice as transformative. My personal experience was that it was validating, and not in an, “I’m OK, you’re OK,” kind of way. I don’t feel I changed any fundamental beliefs or learned anything that is going to have a major effect on how I [...]
D’Arcy Norman captured a moment at the Northern Voice Tiki Party that, when combined with the knowledge I received during the conference, changed the way I think about photography and storytelling. I have always considered my photos a small capture of a moment, usually the moment after something happens, but never considered the bigger [...]
I have reached the mythical 500.
Following 312
Followers 504
This weekend I attended a session at Northern Voice hosted by Chris Lott, during which many participants expressed distaste at the desire some Twitter folks have to grow their Follower base. The mythical number “500″ was batted around as if people who attain it were guilty of some [...]
I have not yet wrapped my mind fully around the experiences of this past week. There are moments that touched on thoughts from multiple blog posts I’ve had in the past about social networking and Twitter. I would love to take time to go back through my posts and see if I still feel the [...]
I am so sheltered. I have never seen anything like this city. I have been to most major US cities, but I must have been on the “sheltered white American” tour. In Vancouver, I can sit in a nice hotel on my wireless laptop while a few blocks away, there are prostitutes shooting [...]
As someone who does not usually enjoy face to face social events, I have discovered a new side of me at Northern Voice. Can a person fall in love with a conference? Obviously, it isn’t just the event, but the people who make it so amazing. From the moment I began meeting [...]
I have a confession to make. I am guilty of encouraging instructors to avoid synchronous communications in online courses and focus on asynchronous discussion boards and other means of communication. I think this started when I was a WebCT administrator and the synchronous tools never worked. It continued as I moved to another institution and [...]
I have been using Utterz for several months now, but recently received my invite to Seesmic and thought I would compare the two. I am not a technical expert, so I won’t go into details about the inner-workings of the tools, but I can speak to their use as tools for learning. As @courosa [...]
I confess; I have an aversion to monetized blogs. When I first discovered Google Adsense, and Amazon Associates, I put ads on my blog, because everyone else had them. I thought it must be an easy way to make a supplemental income, right? Not so. It takes time and effort and it is just ugly [...]