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Meeting spot for dinner - 7pm - Thursday 31st July 2008 - TALO types and other networked beings

Call it what you will - networking, twittermeet, ungrouping etc.

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Plaxo : The Pulse

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Today, like any other day my email inbox is full of Bacn.

Today, like any other day I received 11 phone calls, 78 emails, 5 IM’s, two text messages and a host of other link spam which I’m not after although some of it makes hilarious reading despite the paradox of the desperateness inherent.

What I would like though is to use services like Plaxo that effectively centralise personal updates, who send me things by MY election, who promise not to share my details without my consent and who like any other business related profiling web 2.0 company show me who’s connecting to whom and why.

Unlike Facebook, Plaxo seems to be centralising service for purpose without all the fanfare, flashing advertisements and entertainment oriented connections. Sure, like anyone I’m keen to connect for positive practical purpose however I like to to be on my terms. I’m inbedding my services elsewhere and hopefully Plaxo will see that they can ‘out’ my profile as I’m still the same person inside as I am on the outside.

So, today like any other day, whilst I was building a website for one client, installing a Learning Management system for another and generally having fun with my youngest son Ethan , partner Jane and doing the housework in between I got to thinking about this once a week Plaxo message which I generally delete. I opened it this time, logged in, updated my profile a bit and then realised that 870 other people on my gmail list are not part of Plaxo and unlikely to know unless I email them what I’ve been up to or no offer as an E-learning & E-Business Marketing Consultant.

Hence the idea of this blog post which I’ll point to via the Plaxo message I’m sending through to those whom I’d like to re-connect with……not because I went to school with them, nor because I fancy them rather because as business goes the broader the access and connections with others the more likelihood of them returning my message and perhaps even commenting on this blog post……when I’ve worked out what code has dropped off to stop this happening.

In the meantime, please drop me a line via my email which you can find in my contact page above. Looking forward to hearing how your careers are going and how we can connect and have a great time otherwise.

Till then….I’m online.

Skype me if you get a moment to say hi !

Goog-411

IP : Your Rights

• I paid Brian Gardner for the privelege of using his code
• I continue to attribute his contributions to the code and have not in anyway removed his construction reference in the source code anywhere only added my only inclusion as a designer and web developer
• I understand the rights of others as my contributions to the web are made under Creative Commons 3.0 or 2.5 which this site is.
• When somebody builds something then I have no issue with the look / feel being emulated….in time we all want to look different and we natuarally make changes over time
• A web site should never be static…anyone that reads my sites knows that I change the look / feel constantly
• I believe in respecting the rights and IP of those brilliant people who build stuff on the web…likewise add your name to the code and use it but ensure that your not locking people out by removing attribution to them…in fact you’ll be embraessed in years to come when people start pointing back via the Internet Archive.

The following is the email I sent back to my friend and work colleague;

Great stuff [edited]

 

Point your son to http://creativecommons.org

 

I have no issue with anyone using anything except my credit card to pretend they are me so the them is of tiny consequence. I am currently in battles with a client who wont honour the IP rights of the designer who spent weeks coding a wikispace only to have her rights dishonoured by someone who wont attribute her IP.

 

It’s all about attribution which would be good to explore with your son….about respecting the rights of the designers and not ignoring the licensing of the code never mind the pictures.

 

I’m going to blog about this today so ask your son to read my latest post.

 

I  hope it will make some sense and when I can get the comments feature fixed he will be able to reply with you in tow

MobilizeThis 2008

A short excerpt from an email I fired off this morning;

Hi,

I consider as both a part time TAFE NSW employee and consultant in the field that Diigo is an invaluable tool for communicating with teams and individual teachers.

I output my Diigo tagging into Twitter so effectively I’m NOT dating only sharing my discoveries of good educational resources or events.

I also emulate my Diigo tags in del.icio.us effectively NOT dating but sharing again and connecting core business potential with my networks there also.

My Diigo and del.icious outputs alert me via email when others have added resources to my groups.

very handy and timely seeing as I’m chained to this p-2-p time waster call email.

I am MARRIED.

The sooner we have a a database of ethically enhanced employee profiling then the sooner we can actually do business as it is being done in the millenium we live in.

ps.  I urge you to consider sending me an email that self-nominates you for a Presenter role at MobilizeThis2008 - http://mobilizethis.wikispaces.com

Your theme - send me it via email.
Your timing - somewhere between 22 - 24 th October
Online - straight from your desktop
Networked - check out the other presenters
Free - as in freedom

Perhaps your theme could be ‘Using Social NETWORKING Tools for Educational Purpose’

CC News

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CC News - A blog site well worth the regular visit…in fact I’ve added to my blogroll and it’s 1.58 AM in the morning.

Time to sleep.

Brave Or Desperate

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Personal Informatics

Another take on personal informatics with more of a robotic perspective.

Microblogging Futures

A really profound slideshow or in their own words - ’social object’.

I like the analogy ; less social networks and more social objects.

Flip Camera

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Could have some interesting possibilities for under resourced educators and tradies in the field