In Boston - Whipple Hill Users Conference - 09

I am in Boston.  Home.  It’s pretty great to be home.  It’s even better that work paid for me to come home this summer.  I will have to see if I can make that work out again in the future.  I am here because we use Podium from Whipple Hill to generate our web content and to manage our student information system.  It’s OK.  It has it’s quirks.  The conference is designed around orienting us to Podium and learning the tricks to make it do what we need it to do.

One of the most exciting things I will take home with me, (home on the West coast, not in Boston) is the idea that Social Media is something we, (the school) have absolutely no control over.  Run a Google query similar to this: “My Company Name” -mycompany.com and tell me what you find.  The query, for those of you who don’t use the advanced features of Google, will provide you with all the Google indexed content that mentions your company by name, yet doesn’t come from your company’s website.  See… people are talking about you in ways you have zero control over.  Well… the only way in which you can control this type of interaction is to behave ethically as an organization.  If you do this, people will talk positively about you.  If not… not so much.

You can check out what people are saying about the conference on Twitter.

Posted on Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:41:32 -0700 in
AWS • Geek • Social Media Networks
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Subway

It has been years since I last rode the subway. Seattle doesn't exactly have one, and neither does Tacoma. Last time I did this, people either read a book or listened to their walkman. I look around today and see that nearly everybody is listening to an iPod, phone, and tapping away on a phone of some sort. I guess that puts me in sync with everybody else around me. Media has taken over our lives. It occupies our work lives, our personal lives, and even the spare cycles in between.

Posted on Tue, 30 Jun 2009 15:40:44 -0700 in
Mobile • Social Media Networks • Technology • Apple Computer • iPod • Blackberry - RIM
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Weekend in Jersey

My weekend in New Jersey was pretty great. Hanging out with friends and the spawn of friends is the stuff that dreams are made of. Right? Anyway, I had a great time just chilling out, drinking a few cold ones, and having some good laughs. All on the cheap too. Heading back to Boston on the Acela now. Hanging out in the quiet car, tapping out this entry.

Posted on Sun, 28 Jun 2009 13:32:20 -0700 in
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Michael Jackson - Dead

Several stars have passed away in the past few days..... But Michael Jackson takes the cake on all of the monitors at SEA-TAC. The sensationalism of the media follows him to the grave.

Posted on Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:39:23 -0700 in
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Pandora for Blackberry Updates

YAY!!  Pandora is now working on both my Storm and on my wife’s Curve.

Back when I made my first post about not getting Pandora for the Storm, I downloaded it for the Curve and couldn’t get it working.

I got this error everytime I tried to get it working.
“The application pandora$2dradio has attempted to open a connection to a location inside the firewall and outside the firewall which is not allowed by your IT policy”

Strange, since the Curve is not connected to a BES.  It turns out that the Firewall needs to be disabled on the Curve in order to get Pandora working.  Annoying…  Lots.

I am not sure why my Storm is not subject to this same issue, except that the Storm is connected to my BES at work.  Perhaps I set the IT Policy on my Storm to allow split pipe connections. 

Posted on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 20:52:36 -0700 in
Technology • Blackberry - RIM
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