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Distractions – November 2, 2010

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I just checked and it’s been about nine months since I’ve posted a set of distractions. It’s not like I haven’t had any. That said, here are some things that have caught my interest over the past couple of days.

Media Surfaces: Incidental Media – Probably my favorite this week. Great video by Berg Design exploring the future of media social and otherwise. See also Media Surfaces: The Journey which is part 2 of the series.

Jane McGonigal’s Sunday Sermon at the School of Life – More fantastic stuff from Jane McGonigal on games, happiness and productivity. Very much worth your time if you are a fan of hers.

Heytell iPhone/Android App – Recommended by my buddy Adam Cutler, this app is just as he says “Seriously, this is one of the best apps in a while.” It turns your phone into a combo voice messenger/walkie-talkie. Incredibly useful and already on my iPhone home screen.

Khoi Vinh on the state of Magazines on the iPad – I’ve been meaning to write something about Magazines on the iPad for a little bit now. It’s one of my only disappointments so far with my iPad. More later on this.

Last, but not least, RockMelt. It’s a social network integrated web browser. Make sure to watch the video. This looks pretty interesting and I’m very eager to play with it for a bit. Sort of tangentially relates to the first Berg video. I really think that there is something here.

Oops! One more that I meant to post but forgot in the initial writing.

I’m loving this commercial for Call of Duty: Black Ops. I’m not a big fan of Kobe, but I think his appearance adds to the commercial and if you have played any of the earlier versions of the game, you’ll probably get a laugh at the writing on the side of Jimmy Kimmel’s weapon. At any rate, Gimme Shelter has been in rotation on the iPod as of late and already I’ve pre-ordered my copy of game.

From the “What Do We Do With These Unconnected Dots?” Desk

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Even after a number of years being in front of a room for workshops, small group briefings or larger presentations, sometimes I still get a little bit of nerves. Typically, when this happens, my brain works faster than my mouth (or maybe it is the other way around) and what I want to say doesn’t come out exactly in the way that I wanted to say it.

In hindsight, I think this was a little bit true last night. I think I pretty much shared all of the big picture things that I wanted to say, but I’m not sure that I connected the dots in the way that I had hoped to…so….I thought I might try to do that in a quick blog post…as an addendum to my presentation last night.

But before I try to do that, I wanted to say that I had an absolute blast being one of the panelists and speakers on the Flying cars are here! The futuristic present of marketing panel last night.

Thank you Mike Proulx for inviting me to participate and I really echo all of the other things that were said about the event that you, Hill Holliday and the Social Media Club put on last night. It was absolutely excellent.

Okay, so onto the dots…

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Jessica Esch’s Social Media Workshop Sketch Notes

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Over the past couple of months, as part of a grant program performed by IBM Citizenship and Corporate Affairs, I’ve had the pleasure to facilitate a series of workshops for a number of nonprofits on the use of social computing and social media. Each one has been just an absolute blast.

Last week, with my friend and colleague Tyrrell Donelan, I had the pleasure to facilitate a workshop for United Ways of New England. United Ways of New England serves as an umbrella organization for many of the individual United Ways here in the local area.

I had no idea at the time, but Jessica Esch (twitter) an artist who was one of the participants in the workshop from the United Way of Greater Portland was taking visual sketch notes that she has shared on Flickr.

I am admittedly a little bit biased (read: understatement), but I think that these are just absolutely excellent. (Okay, I’m also a geek…about a quarter of the image views are probably mine. It makes me smile every time I look at them.)

If you are so inclined and interested, you can view the entire set of Jessica’s notes on Flickr by clicking here.

PS…Jessica…thank you for sharing these. Did I already say they were excellent?

The IBM Interactive Weblog

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As many of my friends know, for the past two years I’ve been working on the social media strategy for IBM Global Business Services. There have been many good ones, but without a doubt, this project has been the most enjoyable one on which I’ve had a chance to work over the past 10 years.

We’re at the beginning of the deployment phase of our project, so the first small pieces of our work are just now becoming visible.

It has been a long time coming, but here is my first post on our new IBM Interactive Weblog.

Also, here’s a link to my friend Jodi’s post on the very cool (and very important) work she’s been doing with Children’s Hospital in Boston.

I’m thinking that I probably will be posting *most* (but not all) of my work related stuff over there for the foreseeable future.