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Being Online: Purposeful narration of professional life

Explore the art of narrating your professional journey online, utilizing various media forms and platforms to establish connections, reputation, and educate others. Learn about the power of syndication, social bookmarking, and self-publishing in shaping your personal and institutional identity.

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Being Online: Purposeful narration of professional life

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  1. Being Online:Purposeful narration of professional life Crosstalk Seminars Jon Udell Microsoft Dec 5, 2007

  2. Doug Engelbart

  3. What is this a picture of?

  4. The blogosophere Messages to spaces Interactive surface area Data finds data, people find people Triangulation Manufactured serendipity SYNDICATION!

  5. Syndication-oriented architecture

  6. Global Research Library 2020

  7. Mashing up GRL2020 feeds

  8. Reading the combined feed

  9. Feeds Everyone a producer Everyone a consumer Everything can be: Syndicated Filtered Resyndicated

  10. Automatic syndication

  11. In Facebook: No effort required to make you aware: That my birthday is upcoming That I have begun using a new application That I just bought a coffeemaker on Overstock  The effects of syndication without the geeky apparatus

  12. The spectrum of self-publishing Social bookmark: almost effortless Twitter “tweet”: lightweight Blog posting: more substantial potential long-term value

  13. Narrating the work To make connections To establish reputation The Hollywood model To educate others Apprenticeship

  14. Aspects of work narration Personal information management becomes social Answering questions with URLs Principle of keystroke conservation “I don’t have time to blog”

  15. Modes of narration Text, obviously But also Audio Video Screencast

  16. Video narration Sean McCown: I sat down last night and made a video of the restore procedure for one of our ETL processes. It was 10mins long, and it explained everything someone would need to know to recover the process from a crash.

  17. Transmission of tacit knowledge Wharton School on knowledge transfer Direct contact allows for the transmission of tacit or non-codified knowledge that may be difficult to put in writing Counterexamples from screencasting: Jim Hugunin’s unconscious knowledge of Python Chris Gemignani’s NYTimes infographic in Excel

  18. Case study of a narrator

  19. “every day I experience life in the world of healthcare IT”

  20. Some other narrators Michael Barton gene expression and open notebook science Nicole Caulfield colored pencil drawing techniques Mike Leavitt u.s. secretary of health & human services Thomas Mahon bespoke savile row tailor

  21. Personal vs institutional identity John Halamka’s identities • Harvard: Chief Information Officer and Dean for Technology at Harvard Medical School • NEHEN (New England Health Electronic Data Interchange): Chairman HITSP (Chair of the US Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel): HITSP • geekdoctor.blogspot.com?

  22. Lifebits

  23. Lifebits as a service A secure lifelong digital archive I control: Namespace Access Syndication to partner services Kind of like HealthVault…

  24. Objection: Dear Abby

  25. Objection:Univ. of Mich. faculty/grad students Q: Why not use a blog to narrate your work? A: "I wouldn't want to publish a half-baked idea."

  26. Objection:Cliff Lynch The tyranny of self-promotion “I don’t like the idea that people feel they have to game their online reputations.”

  27. Objection:Mike Caulfield Self-reinvention is an American tradition I want to be able to reboot my identity

  28. Objection: John Seigenthaler

  29. Objection:Allison Stokke

  30. Your professional life story You can write it yourself Whether or not you do, others will What story do you want to tell? What is the best way to publish it?

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