I like reading blogs to gain different perspectives, insights and individual views from various people coming from various geographies and cultural backgrounds. Today, my focus is on Ecademy network. I observed extra richness in Ecademy blogs within last few days. I am impressed by the content and diversity in general; for example the following categories and representatives took my attention:
1. Injection of business in social context by Jan Mulder, Bernadette Doyle, Martin Bamford, Ty Tyson, Cornelis de Maijer, Penny Power, Bob Nicoll, William Buist, Mark Lee, Marco van Velthuisen, David Winch, Anthony Mullinder, Annabel Kaye, George Emsden, Anna Stephens, Jason Collins and James McBrearty...
2. Challenging social observations and prompts by Wayne Bisset, Stuarte Harris, Sam Borrett, Simon Ellinas, Ann Andrews, Nighet Nasim Riaz and Andreas Wiedow...
3. Exotic cultural input from Fatimea Tedora, Zahir Shamsery, Dr Das Suman, Martin Dewhurst, Nick Dutch, Bernard Bonvivant, Michael Oon...
4. Interesting personal input from Norman Feiner, Mark Mandel, Elizabeth Malouvier, Demos Flouri, Carolyn Williams, Phil Shepherd, Jon Hansen, Keith Whitney, Dr Gaby Cora, Solveigh Calderin, Richard Derwent Cooke, Nic Oliver, Jet Rotmans, Maki Kosaka, Maurice Poole, Hans Terhurne Freddy Daems and Joy Webber ...
5. Highlights from various interesting media types by Richard Perry, Jeff Mowatt, Rajesh Ananda, Daniel-Flavius Lucica, and Tony Hine
6. Sudden breeze from famous Nikki Pilkington and a sad farewell from insightful Andrew Peel...
7. Social media flavour from Alan Stevens, Georgina Lester, Thomas Power, Steve Hall, Andrew Wilcox, Roger Vanstone, Zara Lockwood, Ivor Kellock, Steven Healey, Francois Hotte, Chris Ogle, Marcus Fielding, Nick Tadd and Vanessa Warwick...
8. Superior philosophical, realistic and thought provoking observations from Michael Heaney and Steve Holmes...
There were more interesting posts but it was the ones I enjoyed in my limited time and tagged some of them for future reading. What posts did you enjoy last few days and how did they impress you?
Regards,
Mehmet Yildiz
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Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Thursday, April 8, 2010
A preliminary and informal study on seven online tools for professional and business use
In this post, I'd like to share my findings for a preliminary study as a partial requirement of a paper to be published. It is related to the use of some popular online tools for business and professional purposes.
Study Approach: I selected 10 active online profiles from my networks. These are the co-networkers whom I established personal trust via a number of correspondence over 12 months. The sample is gender agnostic, representing only English speaking countries (USA, UK, Australia, and New Zealand) with business and professional background. I interviewed these 10 people via Google, MSN, Skype, Yahoo, and Facebook chat tools in an informal way approximately half an hour. I also confirmed some of conflicting and contradictory views via email follow-ups. My key questions were about their current beliefs on Ecademy, Facebook, Google, Linked, Twitter, Yasni and Youtube in terms of the contribution of these tools to their business or profession.
Findings: There were a number of interesting views that I will make available in a paper progressing on these tools. However I'd like to share the key common findings for each online tool related to their profession and business as of 7 April 2010 to validate my findings with a wider sample:
1. Google is the main source of information for their profession and business. They use it everyday.
2. Youtube is secondary source of information for their business. They use it everyday.
3. Twitter has done nothing for their business as yet. However they see it as third important source of information.
4. They all are in Facebook. They believe to have some potential for their profession and business even though they haven't used it for business purpose as yet.
5. Linkedin is seen as a business card or CV collection and they sometimes use it to check some contact references.
6. Ecademy is only known to them by the blogs they saw in Twitter and some email invitations. They have no idea so far how Ecademy can help their profession but they all are interested to explore the possibilities further.
7. Yasni was heard by 4 of them in various online sites but none of them knew its scope and contribution for their profession and business. They all indicated interest to explore the possibilities further.
I have some impressions, perceptions and personal views established based on my experience but what do these findings tell or mean to you? Can you comment on the points you are familiar with? If you prefer your views to be kept confidential; please send me a personal mail linked to my Google profile.
Regards,
Mehmet Yildiz
Study Approach: I selected 10 active online profiles from my networks. These are the co-networkers whom I established personal trust via a number of correspondence over 12 months. The sample is gender agnostic, representing only English speaking countries (USA, UK, Australia, and New Zealand) with business and professional background. I interviewed these 10 people via Google, MSN, Skype, Yahoo, and Facebook chat tools in an informal way approximately half an hour. I also confirmed some of conflicting and contradictory views via email follow-ups. My key questions were about their current beliefs on Ecademy, Facebook, Google, Linked, Twitter, Yasni and Youtube in terms of the contribution of these tools to their business or profession.
Findings: There were a number of interesting views that I will make available in a paper progressing on these tools. However I'd like to share the key common findings for each online tool related to their profession and business as of 7 April 2010 to validate my findings with a wider sample:
1. Google is the main source of information for their profession and business. They use it everyday.
2. Youtube is secondary source of information for their business. They use it everyday.
3. Twitter has done nothing for their business as yet. However they see it as third important source of information.
4. They all are in Facebook. They believe to have some potential for their profession and business even though they haven't used it for business purpose as yet.
5. Linkedin is seen as a business card or CV collection and they sometimes use it to check some contact references.
6. Ecademy is only known to them by the blogs they saw in Twitter and some email invitations. They have no idea so far how Ecademy can help their profession but they all are interested to explore the possibilities further.
7. Yasni was heard by 4 of them in various online sites but none of them knew its scope and contribution for their profession and business. They all indicated interest to explore the possibilities further.
I have some impressions, perceptions and personal views established based on my experience but what do these findings tell or mean to you? Can you comment on the points you are familiar with? If you prefer your views to be kept confidential; please send me a personal mail linked to my Google profile.
Regards,
Mehmet Yildiz
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Adding NEW meanings: mixing FUN & business with popular media: My recent top 20 items ACCEPPTED in Superfan
New social media is stretching the scope and blending the borders of business and pleasure!
You can be fan of anything at superfan accepted by the assessment committee using an objective criteria. If your favourite items are not there, you can create your objects and first you become the superfan of that object then invite others to be fan of it. It is also possible in some cases others may steal your superfan and then the whole fun starts. The objects gain value and visibility. For example, Ecademy, Yasni, Hereke Silk Carpets, Megan Fox and IBM are a few famous ones that reached to very high scores in very short time. It is up to the fans to promote their items.
I introduced the following items to the Superfan recently which they were not available in there and they were accepted successfully:
1. Nasreddin - A historical humorous character
2. Manuka Honey - strong antibacterial honey from New Zealand
3. Oil Wrestling - Traditional Turkish Sport
4. Semiotics - the study of how meaning is constructed and understood.
5. Cloud Computing
6. The University of Melbourne
7. Orhan Pamuk - Turkish Nobel laureate in Literature
8. Kevin Rudd - current Prime Minister of Australia
9. Seymour Papert - one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, as well as an inventor of the Logo programming language.
10. Hyacinth
11. Mindfulness
12. IBM AIX - Server Operating System
13. IBM System z10
14. Hookahs - Nargile (this is only for cultural awareness purpose, I am non-smoker but can connect to smokers:-))
15. Know Me, Like Me, Follow Me - Penny Power's recent book. (just introduced yesterday)
16. Karagoz and Hacivat
17. Mayapple - plant native to the eastern part of North America.
18. Meet the Robinsons - my son's favourite show
19. Sertab Erener - 2003 Eurovision winner represented Turkey
20. Blue Gene - Enabled IBM to be a winner of National Medals of Science, Technology and Innovation
You can see and become fan of my current 69 items from this link.
What are your recent favourite top 20 objects, concepts that you may want to share with your networkers?
Through this post, I'd also would like to obtain your views on use of this new medium for both business and pleasure. What could be the implications from your angle?
Regards,
Mehmet
Dr. Mehmet YILDIZ || IBM || IT Philosophy || Future|| Leadership || My blog || Twitter || Linkedin || Yasni ||Google || Naymz|| Superfan
You can be fan of anything at superfan accepted by the assessment committee using an objective criteria. If your favourite items are not there, you can create your objects and first you become the superfan of that object then invite others to be fan of it. It is also possible in some cases others may steal your superfan and then the whole fun starts. The objects gain value and visibility. For example, Ecademy, Yasni, Hereke Silk Carpets, Megan Fox and IBM are a few famous ones that reached to very high scores in very short time. It is up to the fans to promote their items.
I introduced the following items to the Superfan recently which they were not available in there and they were accepted successfully:
1. Nasreddin - A historical humorous character
2. Manuka Honey - strong antibacterial honey from New Zealand
3. Oil Wrestling - Traditional Turkish Sport
4. Semiotics - the study of how meaning is constructed and understood.
5. Cloud Computing
6. The University of Melbourne
7. Orhan Pamuk - Turkish Nobel laureate in Literature
8. Kevin Rudd - current Prime Minister of Australia
9. Seymour Papert - one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, as well as an inventor of the Logo programming language.
10. Hyacinth
11. Mindfulness
12. IBM AIX - Server Operating System
13. IBM System z10
14. Hookahs - Nargile (this is only for cultural awareness purpose, I am non-smoker but can connect to smokers:-))
15. Know Me, Like Me, Follow Me - Penny Power's recent book. (just introduced yesterday)
16. Karagoz and Hacivat
17. Mayapple - plant native to the eastern part of North America.
18. Meet the Robinsons - my son's favourite show
19. Sertab Erener - 2003 Eurovision winner represented Turkey
20. Blue Gene - Enabled IBM to be a winner of National Medals of Science, Technology and Innovation
You can see and become fan of my current 69 items from this link.
What are your recent favourite top 20 objects, concepts that you may want to share with your networkers?
Through this post, I'd also would like to obtain your views on use of this new medium for both business and pleasure. What could be the implications from your angle?
Regards,
Mehmet
Dr. Mehmet YILDIZ || IBM || IT Philosophy || Future|| Leadership || My blog || Twitter || Linkedin || Yasni ||Google || Naymz|| Superfan
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