This week I feel as if I have gone through a black hole after being in stasis and have arrived at Aladdin’s Cave. The treasure trove of items that I have found this week, has made me blind from the sparkling of the jewels.
The
Jewels
Using
CommonCraft as my starting point ‘to get with’ social
technology has been a great link with introductions to Web 2.0 tools. Gone are my days of Web1.0 – ‘email’, I laugh
in the face of it!
‘My
precious’ has become social networks, content, collaboration and communication tools
like blogs, facebook,, rss, dropbox, google drive and twitter. Some examples
are -
- Blogs – started last week and powering on with my blogging available at Anne’s Blog
- Facebook – joined Facebook to communication and collaborate with QUT unit groups for assignments and idea sharing
- Twitter – created an account and started microblogging and my handle is @aeemckenna.
- Delicious – to manage my Web2.0 tools together
- Blogger and WordPress – to create and design my blog pages
- Dropbox and Google Drive - for unit document storage and collaboration.
Tweet,
Twit, Twot, Twat??
So
now I am microblogging using Twitter.
After only coming to terms with blogging and being verbose, I now need
to be clear and concise with 140 characters.
But like any change there are phases, the ‘5 stages of Twitter
acceptance’ is explained in the presentation on How Twitter
Changed My Life, which are
- Denial
- Presence
- Dumping
- Conversing
- Microblogging
At
the beginning of the week I was at stage 2 but now I think I have moved on to
stage 3 but I am advancing. What stage are you at?
Twitter
reminds me of Seth Godin’s book Tribes (an oldie) which explains Web 2.0 communities
and how not to remain as a “sheepwalker” but to become a leader in your chosen
tribe through being open to change and willing to lead.
I
am finding that microblogging is more related to a conversation with short comments,
questions and rapid responses, more like a one to one. I am currently mimicking other people’s
following but the amount of tweets I am receiving is a wallop to the senses
which is leading to information overload for me
….
Fatigued Neurons?
With my entry to Web2.0, I am finding that there is a tsunami of information which is violating my senses but the wonders of the brain and its elasticity to accommodate and change will recede this onslaught to a babbling brook -
I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.
To help me acclimatise and to do some of
this brain filtering I watched the link on
social bookmarking and I thought ‘great’ there are many applications that can assist with
this problem, like delicious
(and this is not the cooking magazine!) and TweetDeck which
I have joined and this displays and manages my tweets and tweeting.
While
doing some research on information overload I came across an interesting news
article about How
to Cope with Information Overload by neuroscientist Daniel Levitin which I hope
may help others out there as they come to terms with processing the new sets of
information.
Buuuzzzzz - Busy as a Bee …
The
benefits of using Web 2.0 tools in an organisation has been highlighted by
Dawson (2008) with increases in:
- Productivity and efficiency
- Staff Engagement
- Knowledge sharing
- Enhanced reputation of a company
Twitter
does not seem to have taken off as a corporate tool and Yammer seems to be favoured. I believe that this is to do
with some of the risks that Dawson (2008) has pointed out about security, loss
of control and impact on reputation.
With Yammer it can be used as a closed site and not open to the public.
With
Web 2.0 tools, it is giving me the opportunity to access multiple communities
with various interests but at a global level, my village is expanding
rapidly. It will allow me to create networks
so that I can learn and share by ‘following’ or being a ‘follower’.
Fireworks…
All
this has become possible through the use of APIs which the
API
Economy article explains that they are becoming the ‘primary customer interface and
are ‘driving revenue and brand engagement’ not just for companies but also on a
personal level. It speaks about “the
confluence of factors has created a perfect storm of sorts where a vast
constellation of applications meets a massive network of end-users at the
centre is an explosive opportunity to find and mine new customers and
communities that companies can tap into…”
……
I am truly emerged from the black hole, my storm is brewing and my fireworks
are about to exploded!
I have to admit, while reading your post I have had a few giggles.I love your line "I laugh in the face of e-mail" - I never thought that e-mail would look to becoming obsolete so soon.
ReplyDeleteIt is a "whole new world" in Aladdin speak. Personally I have been overwhelmed by the vastness of innovation and the enthusiasm of those who design, integrate and use these technologies to improve processes .
Love the stages of Twittering, it is interesting to define them as such. I am at stage 2, a little hesitant to move on. But your post has motivated me, perhaps I will make an effort to move to stage 3??
Describing your discovery of Enterprise 2 and its applications is captured beautifully and comically in this post. It is very very similar to my current experience. I have been totally overloaded with information and find myself dreaming all things Web 2 at night.
Wonderful read and I look forward to future posts.