Hit the Road, Jacque
Imagine this: An expectant mother decides she will go to the hospital because it seems that the baby is coming, no time to wait. Her sister carries the bags to the car, helps her sibling get in and they leave for the medical center.
So it was with Rose Mirielle Exumé and her sister Alta Grace Garcon who one Monday afternoon left their home in Deerfield Beach, Florida to travel the 15 miles or so to Broward General.
What is normally a routine journey on I-95 was for this family anything but and Olivier Jean Paul Exumé was born in the fast lane in the back seat of his auntie’s SUV.
Hey, Facebook is a Country, Y’all…
I remember watching Web 2.0 … The Machine is Us/ing Us and feeling at the end that something profound had just happened. That was in 2007, not that long ago really. Around the same time I watched Shift Happens and was left similarly inspired by the rate at which my world was changing.
Time, Time, Time, See What’s Become of Me
I could not let the one millisecond anniversary of my not posting here — or the one year mark of my posting last, as you like it — pass without some remark. Call me sentimental, I don’t care.
Since my last writing I have started, stopped and abandoned one post too many. Among my tomes of “unpublished rhyme” I have a fair bit that reflect on time and such things. For example…
All Social Media is Local in the Global Village
An interesting panel of pundits from across the globe chinwag on digital media. This takes an hour to watch regardless of what time zone you’re in.
20 Free eBooks About Social Media
The Global Village Gets Social
Interesting stuff from Universal McCann and their recently released report: Social Media Research Wave 3 [PDF]:
The Secret Underground A Guide to Social Media for Organizations
When I started reading The Secret Underground A Guide to Social Media for Organizations by Colin McKay it reminded me of two things:
First thing: An earlier reading of Gifford Pinchot’s book Intrapreneuring, a topic worth revisiting I think;
Second thing: Recent conversations with all sorts of people who lament the problems they have implementing things 2.0 in their organizations’ thinking and practice.
WorkFast TV: The Future of Work is as Boring as Hell
Just posted on Social Disorders: Do Not Adjust Your Set on my Recruitomatic blog…
