May 2008 – Page 8 – Silence and Voice

TweetWheel – Visual Twitter Relationships

Will the useful and interactive Twitter applications never stop? Thanks to the wonderful Twitterholics website, I just discovered TweetWheel.

This online application analyzes all of the followers we have and then identifies which of them in turn follow one another. In other words, this visually shows relationships between those people I follow. Bring the cursor over each name, and colored lines appear that link them to one another based on their relationships. While some relationships I know, a number of them were a surprise. As followers and relationships are dynamic while the TweetWheel takes a snapshot in time, you may want to generate this repeatedly. One word of caution, depending on the number of people you follow, this can take some time. As I have recently added a number of new people I follow (from the Connected Futures CP2tech01 workshop), this program helps me understand those people’s relationships a little better.

Click my TweetWheel image to see it full-size.

What community-building or other uses can you imagine for this?

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Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-05-07

@kanter ts Go, SuperBeth! #
The woman in front of me in line at the coffee cart was surprised when the man told her they only take cash; no credit cards. WTF?! #
Having difficulties accessing NYU research databases from my work this morning. #
Attending a #cp2tech01 workshop field trip in the Ciaris community http://www.ciaris.org #
@smithjd Thank you, John. As I am attending the #cp2tech01 vai phone calls and not skype, I at times feel not as much a participant. #
@cp2tech We should brainstorm how to visually represent people who attend teleconferences from different locations (phone, skype, etc.). #
@cp2tech Twitter is a wonderful back channel for some of these communication issues. #
Trying to understand CIARIS’ mission against "social exclusion." That seems somewhat broad; am not sure if I am reading it right. #cp2tech01 #
@smithjd John, I cannot find the RSS feed again. Can it be on the front page for ease of access? #cp2tech01 #
@maniactive If only we can be so lucky. For the coffee cart, they do not even have electricity! #
@abalone Thank you for the link. I wonder if some of my confusion is that there does not seem to be anything similar in the US? #cp2tech01 #
@phdaisy Yuck. That is a means of last resort. Can’t you use Outlook itself? I know I can for my university email. #
@abalone Not now, still trying to understand this. Rich lesson in cross-cultural applications of social issues and CoP. #cp2tech01 #
@BronSt Bron being a tough timekeeper! You would fit well with my internal project workgroups! #
@socialthing Can we help test? #
@abalone Who was busted – me or you? #
@maniactive They are indeed a hard working crew of two who are set up quite early. #
@abalone Me?!?! Not multitasking; think of it instead as working to capacity. #
@abalone Inspiration for blogging comes from all over the place http://tinyurl.com/6gc365 #cp2tech01. #
Attending the #cp2tech01 field trip with Webheads in Action. #
@socialthing Very cool. Thank you! #
@abalone Thank you! @CP2Tech01 #CP2Tech01 #
@cp2tech01 RRRRRRR; are muted again. Those participating on the teleconference but NOT on skype are challenged with participating. #
@Currie @bdieu and @abalone — thank you for helping to intermediate between skype and Twitter (pure teleconference) #CP2tech01 #
@cp2tech01 What is the "pub aspect" mentioned on the field trip? #
@etheoreal Much appreciated #cp2tech01 #
@abalone Not sure if that really helps . . .
#CP2tech01 #
@abalone Exellent. Thank you! @CP2Tech01 #
@CP2Tech01 QUESTION about Webheads, to follow up with @Currie – Webheads seems so decentralized; how can it still be considered a community? #
@BronSt Thank you for asking my question! #
@BronSt I suppose I am having trouble wrapping my mind over what this is. #cp2tech01 #
@BronSt I think that usually there is a central web site with references to the other technologies to "ground" the community #cp2tech01 #
@susny Interesting, Sus. How do people know where to look for these folks? #cp2tech01 #
@injenuity Do share . . . #
@cp2tech01 My headphone is muted! #
@cp2tech01 I just signed up for the Webheads Yahoo group; awaiting approval. Good start #cp2tech01 #
Going to a faculty workshop on graduate program student grading. Anybody have any grading horror stories to share? #

Multitasking = Working to Capacity

A colleague accused me (or rather busted me, to use her words!) of mulitasking during one of our Connected Futures CP2tech01 field trips, to which I responded that multitasking is more about “working to capacity.” I like framing mulitasking in that way better – mulititasking is working to capacity!

Of course, work and capacity are both words that can be defined in many different ways. Ask any mother, student, knowledge worker, or community of practice technology steward!

Jeffrey’s Twitter Updates for 2008-05-06

Just worked out at the gym while finishing my #cp2tech reading and listening to a combination of George Michael and Ensemble Alcatraz. #
@smithjd OK, for our workshop, it is #cp2tech01. Can you update this in our internal workshop areas so we will all be clear? #
@shirleyearley What are you doing with tagging? #
@josien About ready to cut some Twitter folks I follow but no longer read. The first time I did it and Scoble went bye, I felt so free! #
@cindybrock Night. #
@dougsymington That it is, Doug. Welcome to them all. #
@arjunsingh Why? #
@dmcordell Have some cake for me. #
@phdaisy I like SocialThing!, but it seems to be taking so long to develop. In other words, there is not much there to do yet. #
@jazzychad Mister popularity! Hope you have unlimited texts. I had to turn that off; I could not take the vibrations. #
@arjunsingh Busy day tomorrow then. Best with it. #
Did #Twemes take over where #hashtags left off? #
Can it be I have been too busy to Tweet??? #
@skydaddy Wow. How much do stamps cost these days, anyway? #
Veggie patty from Subway with a skim latte. If only I could be somewhat as healthy. #
Polishing my syllabus for the graduate leadership course I begin teaching next week. #
@gusgreeper How does the saying go? It takes all kinds. #
Joining @kanter for an CP2tech01 field trip to see what she does with tagging her NpTech. #
@josien Lucky you. #
@socialthing Excellent. Few tools are as user-friendly as yours, so am really looking forward to it. Let me know if you need any testers. #
In the #CP2tech01 call — are we supposed to be on a site, or just on the teleconference? #
@kanter For the #cp2tech01 field trip right now, are we just listening, or are we supposed to be looking at something together right now? #
@coyenator It does sound so, but I cannot locate them. #
@coyenator If we do not speak up, we may fall behind. The issue seems when / how to raise them. Good to recall with colleagues #cp2tech01 #
@CP2tech01 My blog https://silenceandvoice.com/ is not on the #CP2tech01 RSS feed. #
@smithjd Hurray!!! Can you then post the RSS OPML stream on the wiki left nav bar, under CP2tech? That way it will be easier to locate. #
@smithjd I tried to add a comment, but still seem to be muted. How can I get unmuted? #cp2tech01 #
@coyenator Hurray, a reader!! Seriously, thank you, LaDonna. Once the RSS OPML stream is up, I will then start to travel between them all! #
Leaving for class. Tonight my students in Project Management for Training do their final projects. #

CP2tech01 Connected Futures Workshop, Week One

I have been Tweeting and posting on the various pages for the Connected Futures workshop much more than I have been blogging in the past few days. I suppose I have had more to say than I have had time to say it.

As one of our workshop expectations is to create a blog post reflecting on our first week, I think that what is strongest on my mind is how much I realize I want to learn more about the topics though, while somewhat disoriented from the amount of discussion and buzz and new tools and co-participants, I am not feeling overwhelmed. John and Bronwyn are both experts at facilitating and leading communities of practice, and they are doing a wonderful job juggling all the demands of this active adult professional audience, so much that they are setting a feeling of calm over the workshop. It feels safe to be disoriented, as that is where so much rich learning can occur, without making or allowing for feeling stupid or inferior. How they manage to remain composed while still answering lots of emails and posts (with one or two of them my own . . .) demonstrates, or rather role-models, what I think those of us who facilitate communities of practice should strive for. I mentioned this during our Monday afternoon teleconference check-in, and was happy that Etienne Wenger, one of our workshop colleagues, mentioned that he was happy this was the sense that has been actively conveyed. I hope my colleagues feel this as well.

Strange, as learning is often so content-focused (cf. learning objectives), that here I am learning how to just BE–and in the process to be open to learn more than any book or slide deck can teach. What possibilities when we can just allow our students to sit and process all the busyness involved in learning.

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