a klog apartPhil Wolff's subversions...Bootcamp & Conference: BlogOn Half-Full- July 26, 2004 Ted Shelton: "Frankly I felt that BlogOn was a waste of time and money." I think the BlogOn conference was overproduced. In the name of professionalism the organizing firm turned off potential speakers, oversubscribed sponsors, etc. I would have liked a debatable topic (aside from blogging = journalism. Two people slugging it out. Or a devil's advocate taking challenges from the floor. I would have liked more hard numbers. Facts. Charts. Diagrams. We have the analytic tools to BS-check them;...http://tedshelton.blogspot.com/2004/07/lets-reinvent-conferences.html Hire A. Fish, Bay Area software engineer- July 18, 2004 A smart, funny, articulate problem solver. Great blogger too. Her long time weblog. Her more recent blogging. I love Alison's O.U.! Officially Unemployed! post.http://afish.typepad.com/afish/2004/06/unemployment_tr.html Blogging at work. Work at blogging.- July 18, 2004 This is not a peak hiring season. But there are jobs to be had in blogging. IMN is hiring an inside sales rep to work in Newton, Mass, selling blogging and newsreading tools. Siemens is looking for a contract ActionScript developer to work with Microsoft's Social Computing Group on Wallop-related stuff. Blogs + Social Networks. Amazon.com&146;s Customer Content Team is hiring a senior software engineer. "We are the &147;discover&148; in &147;find, discover and buy.&148; Current...http://monster.typepad.com/monsterblog/ Confab- July 17, 2004 The Social Tools in the Enterprise Symposium had fewer corporate attendees and more academics and consultants than I expected for a business conference. Then again, it's mid-July. Stowe Boyd was a great host, a cross between David Letterman and Columbo. If you've never seen him in person, he has the voice and affect of actor Robert Patrick. (congrats on the brown belt, Stowe.) In the run up to the event, Stowe wrote an piece for Darwin on the convergence of social tools,...http://stes.evectors.com/ |