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Re: Don’t count us out because we’re old

timbauer — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:47:00 -0000

Too good. I read a comment once that "before you change the world, you have to live in it" ... this rings true to me. How many of the shiny widgets talked about on friendfeed are really redefining business? I am talking about ones that have the potential to displace or notably impact some company on the Russel 2000 (for example). Not many. Not many at all. Because to disrupt ... you have to understand. And understanding at that level of detail takes time.

Re: Can Tasktop bring order to chaos?

timbauer — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:14:38 -0000

I am running a similar team using Mylyn. The business side of the house has had some success w/ it + JIRA to do task tracking (similar to TaskTop it sounds) coupled with the beauty of context ala Mylyn but on non-code artifacts (docs, pdfs, etc). I am going to write up our experiences on my blog @ some point. If you are curious here is the link:

http://timbauer.bauerfive.com

Re: Cognitive surplus and new incentives for engagement

timbauer — Sun, 18 May 2008 06:29:20 -0000

I have been tracking Clay Shirky myself and, as part of my daily study of various leaders (peoples & companies), I recently did a cliff notes writeup of his presentation @ TechExpo 2.0 around the topic here:

http://timbauer.bauerfive.com/2008/05/07/clay-s...

So if you want another man's opinion on what he emphasized (like how Gin drove the Industrial revolution and how TV is our Gin today) might be worth a gander. Either way ... good stuff.

Hope it helps

Re: The Crossloop Community

timbauer — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:39:29 -0000

Interesting model. Has similarities to the business I am forming in that (to a lesser degree) the key hurdle to adoption will be the ability of the system to communicate / expedite the 'consumer' to 'helper' trust. Otherwise people will fret over not only the $ charge ... but the lost time risk (who ponders not calling vendor support due to the 50% of the time where they don't fix it and you then find a fix in some remote forum? [tim raises hand]

Re: louisgray.com: My Social Media Consumption Workflow

timbauer — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 08:53:45 -0000

My consumption process is similar to yours (tagging research materials of note as I hit them, friendfeed at the end) but the research step has a focus around presentations. Theory being that presentations are more developed thoughts due to by (1) the conference screening and (2) the person themselves. Makes it a more probably source of insight and I enjoy the format (getting a sense of the interaction style of the person versus just words on a page via a blog post).

So, outside of reading around 200 feeds in Google reader, and tracking friendfeed I typically troll around for who is speaking where, on what, in what format and then comparing that to what seems to be of interest to clients. Then I queue those up for review as i have time.