Social Networking
In my job I need to do a lot of thinking about the ways in which business operates and how best to size our products within disparate organizational structures and needs and a host of other things. Social Networking has been a buzz word for quite some time... and I've dabbled on the edges of really understanding it's capabilities. The more time, however, I spend on Facebook the more I realize that social networking is changing the way we do business and the way we do life. It's amazing really. If each of you just stop and think of the various "circles" of your life that have merged into Facebook. Your friends, your high school friends, your co-workers, the co-workers of co-workers you met at a conference or something, your *insert favorite past time here, in my case yoga" friends... and at the edges of this social network are the frays of our experiences. Like little worlds that collide.
No yoga yet.. but enjoying food. My muscles feel like they are weights... tomorrow would be a good day to go to asana.


Comments
I'm being Twitted to death since that article came out!
Posted by: ciodude | January 13, 2009 6:41 PM
my work is SO different. most of my time is spent alone, with instruments.
Humans are just the Information Liasons.
Posted by: the3dstickman | January 14, 2009 5:12 PM
What exactly do you do 3dstickman?
Posted by: ciodude | January 14, 2009 8:36 PM
field support engineer for a large scientific instrument manufacturer(Agilent). I fix, install, and repair scientific analytical instruments. Nothing more than a glorified mechanic in slacks and a shirt, really. But I love it to no end. The autonomy is off the scale!
Posted by: the3dstickman | January 15, 2009 12:05 AM
Cool. I can see where that would be totally different!
Posted by: ciodude | January 15, 2009 5:03 AM
Social networking and "seeing circles". You might give this application a whirl - http://www.facebook.com/ext/share.php?sid=77640363399&h=nt4WK&u=0HjxQ&ref=mf
It draws very nice topology diagrams of your facebook friends networks.
Cheers,
Jeff C
Posted by: Jeff C | May 9, 2009 8:11 PM