Author: Nancy White

Oh dear, were we wrong in 2009: Facebook as a Sustainability Pillar

Conspicuous, but not Consuming | GOOD – Why Facebook is more important to the environment than solar panels.

Picture of a yellow sign that reads "slow down!!! You killed my chipmunk!! His name was chip!

Reading back to this post I can only feel sadness for the delusions we had about the Internet in the early days. Even as late as 2009. Here is the quote that breaks my heart.

The growth of social networks indicates a fundamental shift in patterns of human behavior. The unsustainable practice of ever-increasing consumption of physical goods, and expressing oneself through what one purchases and displays, is being replaced by increasing consumption of virtual goods through virtual channels. This is good news for the sustainability of our economy.

Visualizing Our Identity

I saw this post back in 2008 and was blown away by the visualization of a resume by

Greg Dizzia

Let me be transparent. I hate my resume, and I never really found many resumes to be of great value. I thought about making my own visual resume but never got around to it. Still, it is worth pointing out this post. Go to the link and look at the detailed version! The screenshot below does NOT do it justice! And still lively after all these years. Some blog drafts age well. (Not the 30 or so I’ve already deleted!)

Curriculum Vitae -PDF- by =dizzia on deviantART

Screenshot of Greg Dizzia's visual resume which is a grid with his experience, by type, over time.


Curriculum Vitae -PDF- by =dizzia on deviantART

urriculum Vitae – Greg Dizzia

PLEASE DOWNLOAD THE FULL VERSION PDF [link] – THE JPG DOES NOT EVEN COME CLOSE TO SHOWING YOU THESE DESIGNS

Here it is, the old moneymaker. This lists my history in the design world (some lesser clients have been left out) – Designed using univers exclusively. This is an appendage to a traditional resume, to be included as a forward page in my portfolio.

This took me about 15 hours.

Tools of the trade
Adobe Illustrator CS3
Coffee

Final Size
8.5 x 11.5 on extremely thick high grit paper.

Monday Video: exercises for tendonitis and carpal tunnel

Here is an evergreen draft resurrected from obscurity. A long time ago I used to post useful or interesting videos on Mondays. The habit didn’t stick and this one from 2008 is still useful!!

This is what I love about the web. Someone learns something they find useful, then they share it! YouTube – video podcast – exercises for tendonitis and carpal tunnel from David Kuckhermann

The nature of knowledge

Picture of a blueberry field in the autumn when the plants are red, with a blue sky in the background.
harvest time…

Dr. Fuzzy, aka John Bordeaux wrote some really cool blog posts about knowledge management, including this one from 2009. (YES, I’ve reached 2009 in my blog draft compost pile!) It was the last post on the Dr. Fuzzy blog. Alas, his second blog after Dr. Fuzzy ended in 2015. His current site is sparse at jbordeaux.com. Are you still blogging somewhere John? Anyway…

In his 2009 post he wonders about knowledge management, knowledge, assumptions and many other cool things. Worth a read if you are a KM geek. Still applicable.

Dr Fuzzy’s Weblog
In all honesty, while the ensuing discussion may appear “abstract” to some, the nature of knowledge should be at least partially understood if one is to consider themselves a practitioner of knowledge management.  Else, content yourself to the vital and growing field of information management – there is no shame in this whatsoever.

Allegiance as an online community indicator

On Christmas eve, 2009, Josie Fraser (now at http://www.josiefraser.com/) Did a Twitter poll of 100 of her followers to see if, by following her, they had connected to her enough to have some sort of allegiance. I found this humorous AND fascinating, but clearly never got around to blogging about it. I kept the draft because it fit with the tag that I still love, Community Indicators. Community indicators are things that provide evidence of our connection and continuity through community interaction and engagement. What comes of these connections? Just compost, or growth?

Image of two mushrooms amongst compost with an additional mushroom piece fallen over.
The mushrooms and the compost

SocialTech: Twitter allegiance
I invited 100 of my 1,276 current Twitter followers to fill in a quick survey cunningly designed to provide a fairly wonky measure of community allegiance.

Josie’s folks clearly liked her then, back in the good old, kinder, smaller Twitter days. I wonder what would happen if you repeated your poll, Josie? (I’ll have to Tweet a link out with this!)

I often fondly think of the 7-10 people who still regularly read my blog. I would do many of the things Josie asked for you!!!

Happy Holidays