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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-05-24: Lawrence, KS

Kansas rainbow

^rainbow over Lonestar lake, Kansas

  • @India_Insights can you fix the link to the education report? doesn’t work, and I’d like to read that one in reply to India_Insights #
  • sorry for the storm of auto-tweets – I’m following my own advice on Transitioning Your Online Identity http://bit.ly/D87rx #
  • @darrinschaos see you at the Twitter workshop Tuesday? in reply to darrinschaos #
  • got a poster (on videoblogging) accepted for the Grace Hopper conference in October. #
  • @India_Insights can’t DM you with that because you’re not following me in reply to India_Insights #
  • Traveling makes me happy #
  • on my way to SFO soon. Glad I have the 3:43 flight instead of the 3:30 which is delayed til 7 pm. Even if I do have a middle seat. #
  • I feel for airline ground staff. They put up with so much crap. Including from me, sometimes… #
  • @darrinschaos on my way, in MPK til Thurs noon. prob have some time but will be v busy with dry runs for C1. But I did bring my equipment! in reply to darrinschaos #
  • @SteveEdiger I did? No recoll at all. #
  • @SteveEdiger oh wait that’s what that guy who left sun started #
  • Arrived sfo. Now to make my waynto hotel in palo alto and meet TZ for dinner. There’re always woodstockers to meet! #
  • kid just about wets himself every time the baggage tunnel disgorges. I guess youthful enthusiasm is endearing. #
  • kid just about wets himself every time the baggage tunnel disgorges. I guess youthful enthusiasm is endearing. Or something #
  • @SteveEdiger too busy moving to remember all my shaking! #
  • Isherwood said “I am a camera”. Deirdré says “I am a network”. #
  • Was there an earthquake? Totally didn’t notice #
  • C1 OpenSolaris sessions dress rehearsals begin this morning with OpenSolaris High Availability – Nick Solter, co-author OpenSolaris Bible #
  • NB: This will be one of the FREE deep dives on Tuesday, June 1: http://bit.ly/6kl7N #
  • Italian salaries low… http://bit.ly/ckpsP (and the figures for women are even worse) #
  • Italian salaries low… http://bit.ly/ckpsP (and the figures for women are even worse) #
  • @SteveEdiger share with your educator network – could be useful https://learning.sun.com/sites/stimulus/ in reply to SteveEdiger #
  • @sumaya where do you live?? in reply to sumaya #
  • need some new job skills? Free online learning with the Sun Career Stimulus Initiative http://bit.ly/LMGck #
  • I adore http://bit.ly/ ! Fantastic being able to track click-throughs in real-time, and not just from Twitter #
  • @comay be well, bro – we need you! in reply to comay #
  • @AmandaLorenzani so… you sprogged? in reply to AmandaLorenzani #
  • <sigh> corporate territory marking #
  • @sumaya you’ll do great #
  • @KeithBurtis advice from someone else’s wife: pay attention to the wife – FIRST in reply to KeithBurtis #
  • @ben re. corporate territory marking, I now have visions of that Jack Nicholson scene in “Wolf”… in reply to ben #
  • @missbhavens You forgot “Frankly, Scarlett, I Don’t Give a Jam” in reply to missbhavens #
  • @davidorban your first Pratchett? I envy you. Wish I could start all over again. in reply to davidorban #
  • @carolross it was my daughter who got a speeding ticket, not me. That’s her Italian driving gene showing. in reply to carolross #
  • locating knight costumes and toy crossbows… then have to train engineers to dance & sing “We’re knights of the Round Table…” #
  • @timbray Real to anything else may not be possible; it was designed to be a major PITA, in the name of “protecting content” in reply to timbray #
  • @carolross no biggie, she figured out how to get it expunged or whatever, and will hopefully drive more sedately in future in reply to carolross #
  • @euaccess interesting. Would love to see how you’re going to do the UI on that in reply to euaccess #
  • sitting in Sumaya’s Twitter workshop – impressively full large room! Lots of Tweet hunger here at Sun, I guess. #
  • never fails. My phone rings only when I can’t answer it. #
  • getting started #sunsocialyou #
  • #sunsocial you 200 Facebook communities. But can we measure activity there meaningfully (and easily)? #
  • Shel Israel on Twitter for Business – LIVE at Sun 5/19/2009 – Socially Speaking on Blog Talk Radio http://bit.ly/Wm7Ir #
  • #sunsocialyou Shel Israel is very tanned #
  • #sunsocialyou comforting to know I’m not the only one who suffers from really poor timing #
  • Scoble was Shel’s 4th choice as co-author on “Naked Conversations”. #
  • damn. I guess I’ve been recreating Scoble’s Channel 9 at Sun. http://blogs.sun.com/video/ #
  • #sunsocialyou book as means to protect/extend personal brand. Yup. You sure don’t make money at it. #
  • #sunsocialyou Fundamental shift: moving customers to the center of the conversation. #
  • @templedf make sure it gets filmed. #CommunityOne #Hadoop #GridEngine in reply to templedf #
  • #sunsocialyou “Twitter lets you behave online more like you behave in real life.” No one starts a conversation with a sales pitch. #
  • #sunsocialyou well, almost no one. #
  • #sunsocialyou “Twitter is broad and shallow.” #
  • pondering how my job is different from Sumaya’s. For one, I am not professionally obliged to follow Scoble. #sunsocialyou #
  • @davewiner so create it. I’d join. in reply to davewiner #
  • Twitter as hybrid of IM and forums #sunsocialyou – yes, but Twitter’s not anonymous #
  • Shel: I don’t have to listen to anybody I don’t want to #sunsocialyou #
  • uh oh, kiss of death: Sumaya called Shel a “social media guru”! #sunsocialyou #
  • Shel: “I talk to a lot of people, share what I learned. A guru is supposed to make no mistakes, I make a lot.” #sunsocialyou #
  • huh. Twitter spam almost never happens to me. #sunsocialyou #
  • #sunsocialyou question from my bud Yvette: are Twitter et al replacing real-life relationships? [Not for me – I have made many new friends] #
  • announcing today: for 1st time, Comcast customer support is no longer in the worst 10 list. Because of Eliason on Twitter. #sunsocialyou #
  • Leverage social media to share support info to a larger audience – been there, done that: http://bit.ly/N621e #sunsocialyou #
  • learning from your customers online – yup. I never had a great idea that didn’t come from a customer. Okay, rarely. #
  • using Twitter to broadcast to customers. DellOutlet has 200k followers. But Shel recommends using Tw more for marketing than sales #
  • me reacting: the fallacy of non-techie older users. the most enthusiastic & adventurous users of CD-R software were retirees. #sunsocialyou #
  • IBM has 1000 people Tweeting, bcuz: 1. 30-35% of employees telecommute, using Tw to communicate (public) 2. IBM sees itslf as tech consult #
  • 3. enormous cultural problem due to diversity, using Tw as unifier of Blue culture 4. have own hacked version inside firewall #sunsocialyou #
  • Twitter for newbies. Useful, if not for me. #sunsocialyou #
  • tweetbacks.com possibly useful – must look into it. But how many people use Tw clients instead of website? #sunsocialyou #
  • @Dereks what is Blue culture? whatever IBM thinks it is, I guess #sunsocialyou in reply to Dereks #
  • @lchoquel #Dollhouse is very cool. Not perfect, but I’m glad it will have time to develop. in reply to lchoquel #
  • Maybe we need an association of people who do social media and community for enterprise. It’s a whole different ballgame. #sunsocialyou #
  • @reiger internal workshop on social media, this first one is about Twitter. Check out the blogtalk radio with Shel Israel #sunsocialyou in reply to reiger #
  • @sunsocialyou hello the room! #
  • @Britopian Maybe we need an association of people who do social media and community for enterprise. It’s a whole different ballgame. in reply to Britopian #
  • @darrinschaos Check
    out my TweetStats! http://tweetstats.com/graphs/DeirdreS #
  • @JoyceSolano re http://blogcouncil.org/ – I’m not an executive. Yet. ; ) #sunsocialyou in reply to JoyceSolano #
  • @Britopian OTOH I’ve probably doing social media longer than most… in reply to Britopian #
  • Just added myself to the http://wefollow.com twitter directory under: #communitymedia #videoblogger #traveler #
  • I feel as if I’m trying to run very fast while juggling Ginsu knives… sooner or later, something’s bound to get dropped. #
  • reflecting on this morning’s workshop & measuring reach: in Adaptec/Roxio days, I had 150k newsletter subscribers. THAT was reach. #
  • very exciting speakers lined up for Open HA Cluster Summit – http://bit.ly/k8K1A Will we see you there? #
  • WANT!!!!! RT @monkchips: omg. Frank Lloyd Wright Lego sets. http://bit.ly/sfSuf via @moleitau @hostler #
  • Could use help getting the word out about the FREE OpenSolaris deep dive tracks at OpenSolaris at C1 West. Schedule on http://bit.ly/6kl7N #
  • in dry run for Scott Tracy’s C1 talk on Open Storage with the Solaris ZFS
    File System and COMSTAR iSCSI http://bit.ly/6kl7N – much coolness #
  • btw, if you want a preview, draft presos mostly available now on http://bit.ly/6kl7N #
  • someone gave Bill F an energy drink. Making this dry run on Built-in Virtualization for OpenSolaris highly entertaining. #
  • registration for the FREE OpenSolaris Deep Dives got easier: sign up here http://bit.ly/ZiNHa (1st register for C1 http://bit.ly/kRhgu ) #
  • watching the operators operate. Kind of awe-inspiring. #
  • cultures coliding – and complementingl http://bit.ly/wEM58 #
  • @JulieScardina looks like a young emu to me in reply to JulieScardina #
  • guess I should go to sleep soon so I’ll wake up for 6 am walk with Lynn, breakfast, all hands mtg (JJ), last dry run, plane, plane, Sue! #
  • @darrinschaos been busy: walk w Lynn, breakfast, packing, repacking (what can I leave here so I can get thru the wkd with only a backpack?) in reply to darrinschaos #
  • @tara_kelly is this the same event my colleague @DaniloP is going to? You two should meet. in reply to tara_kelly #
  • @JulieScardina here’s how I knew it was an emu: Shotgun Wedding – Part 2: Coca-Cola, and an Ostrich http://bit.ly/aBOTo in reply to JulieScardina #
  • Oh right, it’s a holiday. Traveling with all the amateurs #
  • A 4 yr old named Luella. Her folks get an unusual baby name prize #
  • @nonstick depends. Is their last name ziegler? #
  • team accomplishment for the day: persuading an exec to be very, very silly at C1. No, I’m not going to tell you how. I sure love my job… #
  • @glynnfoster you need to be resting up for the post-launch festivities! in reply to glynnfoster #
  • flying to Kansas City to see a very dear friend, then Enrico will join us. Looking forward to an offline weekend #
  • @trine my highlights are platinum and pink. It almost looks natural, right? in reply to trine #
  • RT @Roland_Hedley: Before I open my eyes in a.m., I like to guess where I am. I usually get it wrong, but it’s a little game I like to play. #
  • @robbogio the fact that you think of them as “your” customers & “your” products is a v important first step in reply to robbogio #
  • @trine natural dishwater blonde with natural highlights, but my hair is darkening as I get older. Want to go all pink, but maintenance… in reply to trine #
  • @baratunde aaannd… bingo! someone’s figured out how to monetize Twitter in reply to baratunde #
  • @trine your new haircut looks rather like mine! Also bored. Need to go back to Hairy Situations in Austin to get something more radical in reply to trine #
  • CommunityOne West – a preview: Sun Video http://bit.ly/dkJDT #
  • working from the offices of a mental health org in KC which my friend happens to be CEO of. Gives me a very different perspective. #
  • @alecmuffett okay, so what’s the good news? in reply to alecmuffett #
  • in all modesty, gotta say: CommunityOne is gonna be great! Lots of very smart people putting a lot of work into it. #
  • Marketing thought: building traffic/followers is expensive and slow. Employees should valued for the networks they already have. #
  • Bought new jeans, one size smaller than last time – yay! #
  • @lskrocki happy holiday , dear! #

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St. Patrick’s Day Parade, NYC

Ross and I arrived in New York the morning of St. Patrick’s Day – a mistake I will never make again. Our taxi had to drop us two blocks from the Roosevelt hotel because the streets were already blocked off. We then had to fight our way through the crowds (with our suitcases) to reach the hotel, only to find that it was too early to check in. So we left our suitcases with the bell desk and, despite exhaustion (we had woken up at 4:30 am to get our flight from Austin), went out to take pictures.

The Twitter Diaries: 2009-03-29: NYC, NJ

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Chelsea Bluegrass

On our way to St. Barth’s, Ross and I stayed overnight with my classmate Sarah and her husband Dave, who met playing music. They treated us to a mini bluegrass concert in their Chelsea home, which Ross captured on my digital still camera.

You can see Sarah and Dave at the Bluegrass and Beyond Jam, held on the 1st, 3rd and the occasional 5th Monday of each month at Paddy Reilly’s Pub (519 2nd Ave, New York, NY 10016 — SW corner of 2nd Ave and 29th street) in Manhattan.