inCommunicado - eric eggertson

  DM Gallery    Originally uploaded by Thomas Hawk.
Thomas Hawk (psyeodonym of a San Fransisco investment guy) is the most consistently interesting photographer I keep track of on the Flickr photo sharing site.
His eye for colour, composition and compelling subjects is amazing.  If I didn’t have confirmation from other sources that […]

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Two years ago, I cared little about weblogs, except for the trendwatching entertainment of seeing their increasing popularity.
Now, I get more news and information from them than from TV.
Next year, who can say?
Jeremy Wright calls MySpace "the new blogosphere."  Steve Rubel points to sites like YouTube, digg, MySpace and Stupidvideos.com as sites with growing audiences […]

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A knowledge management community of practice that got punted by its online landlord, Yahoo Groups, successfully lobbied to get the information sharing group reinstated on Yahoo’s servers.

The fact the group has been active since 1999 and has
1,569 members didn’t slow Yahoo down when it got wind of possible
trademark infringements.
Moral of the story: When you build […]

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The use of GPS location information continues to be applied to web tools that identify where in the world someone or something is.Steve Rubel points to KMaps, a service that allows you to provide and receive location information from a home computer, a PDA cell phone, or a Palm PDA. KMaps can host various directories […]

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Ruby Beach Originally uploaded by Lee LeFever.
Regular readers have seen me post to Lee Lefever’s Common Craft blog from time to time. Lee is a consultant helping organizations use social networking tools to accomplish things in a virtual environment that normally would only be possible in person.
Lee recently announced he and wife Sachi […]

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Lee Lefever writes about online communities.
"In the best situations," he says in a posting this week, "businesses are able to create an online home
for their customers to feel connected to one another and the company.
Often, this might include product support discussions, user-to-user
discussion, polls, etc. These communities can and do yield significant
value. But, there is […]

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  Flickr Meetup:  Shouldn’t that be a maple leaf?    Originally uploaded by carpeicthus.
One of the most active, interesting and sociable of the users of Flickr.com is Striatic, a Toronto photographer who has embarked on a tour of the U.S., with a final leg in B.C. and Alberta.
The express purpose of […]

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Techies and near-techies have always been early on the uptake with new software and hardware, but the difference today is the speed and influence of the digerati. Seth Godin points out in a post called The New Digital Divide that weblogs and other tools have given geeks immediacy and clout that they didn’t have before.
Based […]

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Lee Lefever makes a case for using wikis (definition) as a permanent record for the information sharing that takes place in a blog or a message board.
Anyone who has tried to sift through a year’s worth of entries on a chronological web site understand what Lefever is getting at.  He says:
"Blogs and message boards both […]

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Greg Brooks on the rules of social networks
- they haven’t changed much, despite the advent of several new sites
this year.  His observation: behaving yourself goes a long way when
you’re trying to make business connections online:
If you are polite and know how to gently work a room, you can make some spectacularly useful contacts.

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Stowe Boyd reports that he has reduced the number of social networking sites he belongs to. It’s more difficult than it sounds to shut down your membership on social networking sites, particularly if your e-mail address has changed and you don’t have your password handy.
I am keeping involved in Last.fm, Flickr, and Plazes. And I […]

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