Blogging, microblogging, Yammer and Facebook

Feb 14

posted by Mark Christie in Adobe Connect, Web 2.0, blog, RSS, Yammer, SharePoint | 0 Comments Bookmark and Share

My dilemma with communicating to folks is not that I don't like communicating - actually the opposite is true.

But I do like efficiency and relevance. When our son was born in 2001 I would add news articles to our website with simple categories. I discovered blogs in 2005 and thought that they were a better way to capture chronological and category based media pieces.

Blogging came with easy ways to tag entries and easy ways for people to follow the topics they were interested in by using RSSfeeds and Google loves blogs from a search point of view as they are filled with changing content, that is indexed (tagged) and appears chronologically by groups or sub groups. The move to blogs for me occurred in 2006 and as recently as mid 2010 I was still questioning the validity of twitter as a tool I could use.

I have three blogs because family, work and aviation are three major parts of my life where sharing information is something I want to do. Because they have very different audiences and subscribers to a flying club blog didn't want to receive emails about my son's last basketball game, I have kept these three separate.

I write blogs not to be contentious, but to record events in the case of family, to share in the case of this blog and to communicate and promote in the case of the flying club. Because bloggers do make the effort to write, of course they would like as big an audience as possible. This is the thrust of this article...

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Cooliris - visual 3D RSS displayer

Oct 4

posted by Mark Christie in RSS, Picasa, eLearning | 1 Comments Bookmark and Share

Adam pointed out this impressive object that allows you to create a stunning visual wall on your blog or on your website (and it is free).

In the sample I added a search term unique to my photo albums in Picasa and Cooliris did the rest and gave me back the code that I needed to paste into this blog entry. There is a version that works for iPad and iPhones as well. From the album, you will see that I have a thing for aircraft.

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