A catalog of this year's risks #2010

Risk is something which can be difficult to evaluate for the average person, there is a lot of work which goes in to learning not to do the two things that people usually do when they are confronted with risk:

1. Ignore
2. Overreact

Facebook is the new Portal for Insurers and Banks #social #finance

It looks like every man and his dog needs to have a Facebook page, even banks...

@Google and @FaceBook battle over the back of @FriendFeed? #social #feedburner

It has been almost 1.5 weeks since Google’s FeedBurner removed the Frie...

Prosper allows loans to fund Kiva projects #microfinance

Some days ago I tweeted to Prosper, a personal loan marketplace, whether they...

Social Revolution – Do You Get It?

I don’t really think most people get “it” when it comes to ...

Secret Google campaign against Hyves? #social #networking

Just noticed that Google Translate translates the name of the Dutch social ne...

Company Policy or People #hr

I find a 400 plus page manual of office policies and job descriptions for eac...

Social Media Syndication – Feedback Loop

In the last two days I’ve not been posting so much, and focussing on up...

Google Scribe – Ye Shall Know Them By Their Fruits #google

I started playing with Google Scribe and wanted to see if patterns emerged so...

@Google, please stop with the language! #google

I have my Google account set up with English as the preferred language, my br...

Did The LinkedIn Certificate Expire Again? #linkedin

For the last 2 years LinkedIn has been running a bad poor IT management depar...

Advert: Reserve your Agile/SCRUM Pack #scrum #agile

When I just started I too had trouble with getting all the items I required t...

GMail Quota and Statistics (follow-up) #google #gmail #dashboard

On August 11th 2007 I exceeded my GMail quota, I blogged about it here. At th...

More SMS banking by M&T #sms #bank #risk

Brian Szymanski send a reply to me concerning another bank implementing SMS b...

Solving the URL shortening problem #twitter #tweet

I don’t understand why url expansion after url shortening is such an is...

Is RevTrax violating FaceBook privacy policy? #facebook @RevTrax #privacy

I just read an article Web Coupons Know Lots About You, and They Tell in the ...

China acquires more than China… #hacks

This morning/night China’s networks were sending rerouting messages to ...

Implementation of Security #risk

The lack of trained and experienced computer security people working in small...

ING reveals names using account numbers #bank #risk

Last week I saw an episode of a popular Dutch Ombudsman program Kassa, they r...

Musing: Why can I fly solo?

After seeing a program about a lifecoach trying to find the time to get his p...

Image source Radio Nederland Wereldomroep

The Do's and Don't's Live Blogging an Event

I lived microblogged my second event today, the goodbye too Roel van Duijn. It was quite fun, and I was getting some interesting looks from people as I was typing my commentary into my BlackBerry. I wasn't entirely satisfied with the ease. Both of the events I used Ping.FM, the first using GTalk, which was easy, and the second using Ping.FM Mobile, which is terrible together with the BlackBerry browser.

Firstly I learned I should have read the following two articles, which contain handy tips:

• How to Live Blog a Conference
• How to Get Into Live Event Blogging

I really should have prepared before I went, I didn't know the names of all the guests and didn't know the schedule. I was slightly late, and as I didn't know I was going I didn't really have time to prepare. I really should have used HashTags, I did think about it, but it was all going fast enough that the fleeting thought was discarded.

So I'll know for next time to:

• Do come prepared
• Do know who is speaking
• Do use an easy to use tool
• Do use hashtags
• Do take pictures
• Don't forget the names of the speakers
• Don't attract too much attention
• Don't arrive late

I'll update this list and repost with anything which pops into my mind, and naturally comments are welcome.

Technorati Tags: liveblog, microblogging, blogging, groenlinks, blackberry, crackberry

Scoble and CNN prove me right...

I just saw this exchange from Robert Scoble and Rick Sanchez, so my previous analogy wasn't so far off the mark. :)

@PRsarahevans any PR person on Twitter is one of the good ones. :-) @Bluraven USA media only shows small part of China (and world).
03:28 PM November 12, 2008 from web in reply to PRsarahevans

@Scobleizer ur right, trying to get us all to think beyond the norm. twitter can lead the way. aint going to change overnight though.
03:34 PM November 12, 2008 from web in reply to Scobleizer

@ricksanchezcnn just Twittered me. Now THAT freaks me out! It's like CNN is listening to me. Heheh, got me to switch to CNN from BBC. :-)
03:36 PM November 12, 2008 from web in reply to ricksanchezcnn

technorati tags: blogging

Bloglines Trouble, Historical Musing on "Geek Bloggers"

For some reason Bloglines had some problems yesterday, which lead to me reading historic /. articles. There were a couple which caught my eye, but none more than Geek Blogging is in Decline. You can view the current top 100 list by visiting Technorati.

I don't see it, I believe the statistics, but I just don't see it. These Geek Bloggers, such as Godin and Scoble are seen in many more places now than just on their own blogs. They are to technology what CNN's Christiane Amanpour is to war, they are the roving reporters sent in when the proverbial shit is hitting the proverbial fan.

technorati tags: scoble, /., slashdot, bloglines, blogging, godin

Examining Profilactic

So I've been playing with Profilactic, which is similar to FriendFeed, although I won't call it a clone. One of it's selling points is that it supports 190 sites, as I have many of these sites hooked into my Ping.FM (currently down) like FriendFeed it collates all the messages that I distribute into the microblogosphere.

Thanks to DutchMob for the hint.

Technorati Tags: microblogosphere, microblogging, friendfeed, profilactic