Archive for the ‘Community Engagement’ Category

Highlands Marching Band Best of 4th of July Parade :-)

Sunday, July 12th, 2009

I am still stunned, that within a month I with the help of some friendly neighbors was able to bring 20+ musicians and helpers together to rehearse three times and then march and play in the 4th of July Highlands parade. Sweet proof of how the internet can bring us ...

Putting a Band together

Friday, June 5th, 2009

San Mateo Highlands, my hometown has it's own 4th of July parade plus Fireworks already on the night before. It's like a small town in the middle of the Bay Area. I love it I am on a mission, not from God, but for maximum fun for the most people involved. ...

SlideShare Karaoke Toastmaster Table Tobics Mashup

Friday, June 5th, 2009

The YouTube for slides: SlideShare has a nifty little game they call SlideShare Karaoke. You put in a keyword and it randomly selects one deck of slides for you to present. If you want to improve your presentation skills, there is no better way than going to weekly Toastmasters meetings. I ...

Craigslist please open up like Twitter

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Twitter's attitude to other companies using their data is a very agnostic one. It can almost be summed up in: If what you are doing increases Twitter adoption, and is not taxing our systems too much, we are fine. They are only a bit over two years old and it ...

Phone Volunteering for Obama: Racism + Hope

Saturday, October 18th, 2008

Ever since I read The Amazing Money Machine article in the Atlantic I was intrigued about how his campaign is using social software functionality to create that machine. This machine has the potential to stay engaged after the election and bring real democracy to America. How cool would that be? As ...

Gladiator versus Barn Raising InnoCentive versus ESME style Innovation

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

With InnoCentive we at he SAP Community Network have introduced a new way to innovate. At the same time and place SAP TechEd in Las Vegas, ESME was introduced that is built on a different innovation model. This blog is trying to look at the two models and what the consequences ...

Twitter my Twitter

Wednesday, August 13th, 2008

Your performance problems are well known. Here a little improvement idea that is trivial to implement, but would make a big difference to your users and helps your performance too. Add more information into your follow notifications. Example:

NowPublic lock-in tricks

Monday, June 30th, 2008

Three days ago I get the following email regarding our Wildfire Haze picture. The text reads interesting, NowPublic looks like a citizen journalism site : :: Your California wildfire photo Hi Mark & Marie Finnern, Here's a personal note from <name withheld>: _____________________________________ We're running a news story about the ...