Seconds after the note arrived in my emailbox, I gathered the family and played this. We’ve been avoiding the TV and newswire stories for 24 hours, just so we can see what we thought about Mr. Joe Biden. This video helped, at least a little, until tomorrow when we get plugged into the Monday news cycle. Nice use of technology by the Obama campaign!
Wow, Facebook Leapfrogs MySpace in 12 months
Great story in TechCrunch today show how Facebook surpassed population king MySpace and is also the worlds fastest spreading social networking site. Interesting to see hi5 is now where Facebook was last year. Could it surpass MySpace and go neck ‘n neck with Facebook?
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Generosity Triumphs Over Mean-Spirited
This is something I want to explore and build upon.
Today, RichardatDELL left a great comment on Todd Defren’s PR-Squared blog.
Today, RichardatDELL left a great comment on Todd Defren’s PR-Squared blog.
Lots of great shared insights there sprouting from a central theme of how to engage with the good and even bad comments made about you or your company.
We have a general rule at Intel — acknowledge the good, bad and not the ugly. The notion is that the ugly, defined more by the mean-spirited intent of a comment, is something we need to read but not feed. But this discussion on Todd’s blog even brings this rule of thumb into question. Social media really is about a cultural shift to being more open, sharing and engaging with thoughtful, timely and valuable information. This is something we’re all learning, individuals and companies alike.
So even acknoledging the ugly might be a way to build the big picture good karma. After all, we’re in this for the long haul so every engagement counts. But it’s not a karma sum game, it’s a new era of connecting, collecting, sharing, collaborating, learning, growing, making mistakes and correcting them quickly. These all sound like jargon, but at the core is positive energy. And the collective use of this is making the world better. It’s not eliminating bad, ugly or evil, it’s helping us understand it better, quicker so we can recoil and spring to the next enriching shared/sharing experience.
Back to the PR Squared post and my favorite comment by RichardatDELL. There was a link in the comment to a post called Three Dirty Little Blogging Secrets. It’s a great read. Richard strikes a cord that is at the core of what gave birth to social media and why more people are turning to it to open their minds, hearts and new relationships with destiny. Here are the three secrets, but read the whole post.
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Hoop It Real Good
I really needed this — right thing at the right time today. Thanks to EveryWhereGirl.
Actually, it was thanks to someone calling Intel’s IT Community “Open Port” Manager Josh Hilliker the EveryWhereGuy. Good one! And so is the next connection, because Josh can jump through hoops with the greatest of ease…makin’ connections, findin’ answers and on the scene to make things happen.
Now here’s the thing you gotta see. A documentary snippet about the Hula-Hoop called “The Hooping Life.” The hoop can do a mind, spirit and body good!
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The movie trailer site has two more videos showing some cool tricks for us Hoopin’ newbies to try…or teach our kids!
Love the names on the movie bill — Groovehoops, Hoopalicios and Hoopgirl.
Rock-Rock to the Planet Rock
A blast from the past that hit the spot. This was the bomb through my middle school years!
Afrika Bambaataa-Planet Rock Kraftwerk Original Video, which I found on Gearheadgtr’s YouTube site
iJustine Video: No iPhone for You!
iJustine uses a nifty, effective video production technique:
- ask the same questions for every interviews
- edit together everyone’s response in order that the questions were asked
- create a collection cutaways that all have a common theme (in this case, the Talking Heads song that plays while she’s on hold) that help transition from one set of Q&As to the next
- use humor (not rude, or disrespectful)
- leave an unanswered question — i.e. “what is that song that’s playing (Talking Heads)”
Very cool. Wonder how long it took her to produce and edit. It’s a fine finished piece — brava!
I crack up a few times during the video, especially when she asks: “Why is Steve doing this to me?” Listen for the response she gets!
iJustine is an Intel Insider social media adviser, so I hope to get more videomaking newbies to learn from her talent and Tasty Blog Snack blog.
HP in the Groove with Celebs
HP gets lots of kudos for how it works with celebrities to help connect new technology with our personal lifestyles. We like to look good, carry small and live large. And we have to have what we want when we want it…that means a device mainlined to the Internet.
This is a cool HP party video. See if you can spot the Intel inside.
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Researchers Building People Needs Into Future Technology
Since joining Intel in 2000, a few of my favorite things are:
- feeling momemtum grow as teams focus on a colective goal
- marveling at the unfathomable size big and small & economies of scale — everything must scale (will human intelligence scale?)
- getting to talk with researchers who are pulling up the horizon of the future
From Eric Dishman’s real and personal exploration into getting technology to heal the damaged healthcare industry.
Tony Salvador’s passion about people and how things fit purposefully into their lives, no matter what their background or where they live.
Research@Intel Day is second only to the Intel Developer Forum on my favorite Intel Events List. This year, I saw lots of healthcare projects and research into mobile technologies, like the video blog I posted about playing Second Life wirelessly using a small mobile Internet device.
Here is a compilation of some of the fascinating research projects that may somehow, someway help build next best computer chip.
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Move to New Multitasking Tool
Brian Solis shot this — our two computers — during the Intel Insider gathering, where everyone was tuned in…to many live conversations at one time. Twitter broke down often during the early afternoon.
But I don’t think anyone jumped onto their Plurk. Instead, we just kept hitting refresh on Twitter.
Intel Junior Mints
Intel Junior Mints, originally uploaded by ijustine.
I got to meet iJustine last week at Research@Intel Day and again today at the first Intel Insider gathering at Intel headquarters in Santa Clara. She was among a have a half dozen social media savvy people who agreed to help Intel learn how it can become more valuable, useful to people and reasons why more of us are enjoying social media.
iJustine was a multitasking maven making it all look so easy — Twittering, video recording to Seesmic, using her new FlipVideo and sweet dream Nokia N95 video phone…one to the next.
Wow!
Here are a few places I’ll be tuning into:
Movin' Ahead 