June 2008 - Posts

• my excellent air force adventure

  Way way back in 1995, I gave a talk at the national Computer Training & Support Conference on the topic of “Training the Internet Trainer.” This was back when the Internet was still pretty new, and Internet trainers were very hard to come... Posted Jun 26 2008, 07:50 PM by mamamusings

• best n95 software EVER

  I’ve had a Nokia n95 phone for nearly a year now, and for the most part I’ve been indifferent about it. I like that it has a high quality camera, and I’ve used the GPS functionality for walking directions in unfamiliar cities. The RoadSync... Posted Jun 26 2008, 10:31 AM by mamamusings

• how (not?) to get paid by the government

  My trip to Boston is to do some training on social media at Hanscom AFB. It’s been ten years since I last did any training for a base, and boy have things changed. Back then, when I completed a training job I’d mail them an invoice, and then... Posted Jun 25 2008, 12:14 AM by mamamusings

• travel woes

  travel fatigue I arrived back home yesterday at 5pm eastern time, which required me to get out of bed at 3am pacific time. My travel home was remarkably snag-free, which I should have known would be short-lived. Tonight my flight to Boston was delayed... Posted Jun 24 2008, 11:13 PM by mamamusings

• selective sharing and access

  I’m narrowing in on my MSR research topic for this summer. It looks as though I’m going to focus on assessing issues of selective sharing and access in social software systems. This would focus on boundary issues in many ways…who has... Posted Jun 12 2008, 11:17 AM by mamamusings

• summertime, worktime

  What started out as a wide-open, unplanned summer is filling up quite quickly. Turns out I will be working for MSR again this summer, but as a contractor rather than a visiting researcher—which means for the first time in three years I get to spend... Posted Jun 10 2008, 10:32 AM by mamamusings