Yahoo, powerpoints, and presentations on slideshare

I’ve been finding Yahoo is a very ppt deck centric company.  People will say “send me the report” and what they really mean is “send me the slide deck”, because, well, that is the report.  I have mixed feelings about the impact the paperless office is having on how we share information.  It is certainly the [...]

Shelly’s Working at Yahoo!

Well, the big news is I have taken a job at Yahoo as a senior researcher in social media (sitting with applications teams).  It was a really tough decision, but with the recession independent consulting projects were hard to find, so I decided it was time to find a get a “real” job. 
My new buddies are all the Yahoo [...]

Social Networking at StartupDay

Marcelo of Seattle 2.0 asked me to speak at an upcoming one day conference he’s organizing:  StartupDay, an event for people considering taking the leap into the startup world.  Looks like a good speaker line up!  I’m giving a talk on the importance of networking, and  I was looking at the other speaker list, thinking “ayep” I guess [...]

Pics from Frayed Wire

Frayed Wire went great!  I had so much fun, even though I was running around like a chicken with it’s head cut off (I was producing the event…).  It’s an amazing experience, to be in a room FULL of technologists who are also artists and vice versa.
I posted some frayed wire pictures on flickr here.
Introductory slides [...]

Communities and Technologies 2009

I gave a talk at Communities and Technologies 2009 on June 25.  Just got around to getting my slides online, Pathable:  Leveraging Social Software for Social Networking and Community Development at Events. 
Here’s the abstract of the paper described in the talk:
Professional networking is a primary goal of people attending conferences and events. Over the past [...]

Community Genius: Tips for Leveraging Community to Increase your Creative Powers

I gave a talk at Seattle’s sixth Ignite: Community Genius: Leveraging Community to Increase your Creative Powers. The text for the talk is below. A few folks were asking about the slides so I put them up on SlideShare here.
I read a book a while ago by Scott Berkun, Myths of [...]

CHI vs E-tech

I am at CHI this week, and last night I found myself in a conversation about the differences between CHI and e-tech (O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology). These two events have very different crowds, but they tend to focus on the same topics – innovative “human-computer-interaction” technologies. The comparison between CHI and E-tech has been very much [...]

Frayed Wire, July 11th

Yay! Today I sent around emails to interested parties announcing our “Frayed Wire” event this summer. I’ve been wanting to organize this event for a while, but all the stars aligned to have it this summer. It’s a one day event bringing together people at the intersection of art and technology, with [...]

Step by Step Instructions for Brainstorming your Innovation Team’s Next Project

Step by Step Instructions for Brainstorming your Innovation Team’s Next Project:  AKA S.L.A.P. Brainstorming (I just made that up.  SLAP.)

Background:
You have an innovation team that is 5-9 people, a mix of people with design, research, and development background, but all on the team because they are innovators.  You have just wrapped up on your last [...]

BarCamp study results are IN!

So here’s the question: if everyone can get all the information they need online with the proliferation of blogs, Wikipedia, online books, etc., why do they still go to conferences?
Based on our study results of BarCamp Seattle (only just now posted on resources.pathable.com), here’s my answer in seven words: professional friends and a feeling of [...]