DISQUS

Kudos to you for finding a set of tricks that can keep your career on track while maintaining a balance with your family. Not many folks can find the balance. Most folks fool themselves into believing that the "headphones under the hat, listening to the board room conversation, while your wife is unaware" is actually being present and spending quality time.

Imagine it can be real and it will be. Isn't that the spirit you would hope your budding entrepreneurs would bring to any venture with you?

Hello Andrew, thanks for sharing the comic as well as the detailed analysis. I blogged about your post at http://www.thinking-forward.com/2008/01/facebook-fun.html

I look forward to learning more from you.

Regards,

Joe Bruzzese

Robert, great to hear/see you are keeping the dream of collaboration and connectedness alive. Ignore the naysayers who still try to keep the web closed like a pipe that only serves to connect two people on opposite ends of a line. We already have a system like this it's called the telephone.

I appreciate you for showing the world how the web could be if we were to embrace the connectedness it truly allows for. Keep on keepin on!

Regards,

Joe Bruzzese

Happy Birthday #21 - Great to hear you appreciate the day enough to share it with the world. There's eggplant and then there's what my aunt Rosie made which was a slice of heaven breaded, fried and served with a homemade marinara.

Enjoy the day!

Happy Birthday Patrick and welcome to a new era Robert. Your soon to be teen has a wonderful life planned. From your travels, photos, posts the family unit looks incredible. My best to your family in the new year. Drop by the blog sometime if you want to talk parenting teen lingo.

Regards,

Joe Bruzzese

In response to: Is it to teach commercial skills (like how to run Adobe InDesign) or is it to push people to explore their fields and themselves?

Steve may want to explore what the Harvard law school is doing with Second Life and one of their course offerings called CyberOne. True potential for how people might explore their fields. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/cyberone/

regards,

Joe

Success in typepad! Brilliant addition to the blogging world. Alright maybe not brilliant but worthwhile. I followed the link in your blog, took the "advanced" trail and added the code to the "typelists" section and voila.

Now, challenge someone to create an search bar that is intuitive enough to anticipate what I want and where to find it. Who knows, you may already have seen it.

-- Joe

what do you think about this coversation tool:
http://www.vyew.com/content/

Another observation that furthers our need for conversation: http://www.masternewmedia.org/news/2006/09/29/n...

“The basic idea I had was that there’s a new social movement emerging which is really about extending the realm of participation to the whole of life. We live in a representative democracy, which says you can vote every four years, and choose which people will exercise power on your behalf… now we’re building tools and resources which say everybody needs to be involved, and everybody should have a voice.”

Here's what I notice recently:

Facebook receives an offer of nearly a billion dollars from Yahoo.

Facebook opens its doors to the world

Google video and Youtube spread to users around the world like wildfire. Hell there's a video from Japan on the Youtube home page now.

Not so recently: Ebay purchases Skype for 2.6 billion

Google buys advertising rights for nearly a billion (my numbers might be off, but the dollars were significant)

Starbucks builds their vision around creating a third place


More than conversation we value connection and collaboration both personal and professional. Whether I chat with friends, comment on a blog post or share my third space with a coffee house full of complete strangers and soon to be friends I seek the connection that comes from conversation.

Thanks for encouraging this conversation.
-- Joe Bruzzese

Wondered where you were off to. Thanks for the update and the hook for the scobleshow. Here's to a Friday!

Wonderful to read that someone with the readership you do can step back and rethink the words you use. Taking a moment to pause often gives me the time to think and generate a message with real meaning.

Just finished up with John Chapin and software radios. Where do guys like this come from? Imagine John among a group of his peers communicating/collaborating over is software radio. Heaven I imagine for both him and his group.

Thanks for sharing the wealth. I'm headed back over to catch a few more of the vblogs before calling it a day. Where are you tomorrow? I look forward to catching up.

Pressing towards the 3 to 5 questions may be a model to work from in the development stages of a product or service. "What do we consider to be the 3 to 5 most pressing questions about our product or service?" The connection here for me is that many of the groups we work with wait for the critics to ask the questions and then are left to react rather than proact and anticipate the questions as the design and development process begins and continue to revisit these ideas.

Have you seen this phenomenon recently where groups wait to react?

Ze's stuff is hilarious. I enjoy watching him push the window and having the window continue to flex and allow more of what he has to share penetrate through.

James Governor - let's talk collaboration. From your comment I wonder about the humor in your tone or if indeed collaboration is a topic you enjoy delving into. I will venture over to your blog and take a look. Take a look at thinking-foward when you have a few minutes.

Regards,
Joe

How will you continue to develop the relationship you have with Shai? He shares information about the future and present. Truly a visionary in the world today. Although my background doesn't take me as deep into the tech talk as both you and Shai I place great value in the ability to think forward and expend considerable energy towards ideas that bring us forward in the world. Thanks for sharing the information with the world. Visit us when you have 2 minutes. I think we have something to share. www.thinking-forward.com

Regards,
Joe