Being Online Purposeful narration of professional life Crosstalk
Being Online: Purposeful narration of professional life Crosstalk Seminars Jon Udell Microsoft Dec 5, 2007
Doug Engelbart
What is this a picture of?
The blogosophere Messages to spaces Interactive surface area Data finds data, people find people Triangulation Manufactured serendipity SYNDICATION!
Syndication-oriented architecture
Global Research Library 2020
Mashing up GRL 2020 feeds
Reading the combined feed
Feeds Everyone a producer Everyone a consumer Everything can be: Syndicated Filtered Resyndicated
Automatic syndication
In Facebook: No effort required to make you aware: That my birthday is upcoming That I have begun using a new application That I just bought a coffeemaker on Overstock The effects of syndication without the geeky apparatus
The spectrum of self-publishing Social bookmark: almost effortless Twitter “tweet”: lightweight Blog posting: more substantial potential long-term value
Narrating the work To make connections To establish reputation The Hollywood model To educate others Apprenticeship
Aspects of work narration Personal information management becomes social Answering questions with URLs Principle of keystroke conservation “I don’t have time to blog”
Modes of narration Text, obviously But also Audio Video Screencast
Video narration Sean Mc. Cown: I sat down last night and made a video of the restore procedure for one of our ETL processes. It was 10 mins long, and it explained everything someone would need to know to recover the process from a crash.
Transmission of tacit knowledge Wharton School on knowledge transfer Direct contact allows for the transmission of tacit or non-codified knowledge that may be difficult to put in writing Counterexamples from screencasting: Jim Hugunin’s unconscious knowledge of Python Chris Gemignani’s NYTimes infographic in Excel
Case study of a narrator
“every day I experience life in the world of healthcare IT”
Some other narrators Michael Barton gene expression and open notebook science Nicole Caulfield colored pencil drawing techniques Mike Leavitt u. s. secretary of health & human services Thomas Mahon bespoke savile row tailor
Personal vs institutional identity John Halamka’s identities • Harvard: Chief Information Officer and Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School • NEHEN (New England Health Electronic Data Interchange): Chairman HITSP (Chair of the US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel): HITSP • geekdoctor. blogspot. com?
Lifebits
Lifebits as a service A secure lifelong digital archive I control: Namespace Access Syndication to partner services Kind of like Health. Vault…
Objection: Dear Abby
Objection: Univ. of Mich. faculty/grad students Q: Why not use a blog to narrate your work? A: "I wouldn't want to publish a half-baked idea. "
Objection: Cliff Lynch The tyranny of self-promotion “I don’t like the idea that people feel they have to game their online reputations. ”
Objection: Mike Caulfield Self-reinvention is an American tradition I want to be able to reboot my identity
Objection: John Seigenthaler
Objection: Allison Stokke
Your professional life story You can write it yourself Whether or not you do, others will What story do you want to tell? What is the best way to publish it?
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