Teen A is over at friends for the night and will probably need a ride home this morning. Only sign of life I could get from him this morning was from his Facebook status --> "Chelsea!" Guess the English Premier League games have started already. Forget calling on the phone - he doesn't answer phone calls. Texting seemed to also escape his attention. Everyone was commenting on his latest FB status, so I chimed in with "report to home base". That didn't work either.
Learning: old-fashioned consequences for not adhering to basic agreements for staying in touch. You're gonna get busted the old-fashioned way. I've tried to reach out to you on every new media option available. No more excuses pal!
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Monday, November 9, 2009
Fine line between teaching and nagging
I'm wondering about these questions today:
Every day I'm sending out little instructive coaching notes to key users of our collaboration space. Are they helpful or simply annoying?
Some thoughts on some useful techniques to help with these questions:
- Where is the line between teaching & coaching and nagging & bossing people around?
- How do you reach people in a way that's instructive and helpful and not dominating and stifling?
- When do you step over the line into obsessive compulsive behavior around keeping our information repositories organized?
Every day I'm sending out little instructive coaching notes to key users of our collaboration space. Are they helpful or simply annoying?
Some thoughts on some useful techniques to help with these questions:
- Establish the "rules of engagement", and then refer to these, when giving feedback
- Include a signature survey link, that will allow people to give feedback on the note
- Establish clear 'domain' owners and spread the OCD behaviors !
Monday, June 9, 2008
Blogging Notes - Must Mention to Jim
1. About Me Profile -- anything here to set the stage? Purpose? Intent?
2. Comment screening -- consider to avoid need for deletion
3. Pictures
4. More Linking
5. Read other blogs and connect
2. Comment screening -- consider to avoid need for deletion
3. Pictures
4. More Linking
5. Read other blogs and connect
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Erractic Picture Tagging Behaviors
So this is the scoop. The last couple of times I've posted photo albums on Facebook, the kids were swarming over them with tagging requests. Between 10pm one Sat night and 10am next Sun am I received 50+ tagging requests on the Big Bend Trip.
48 hrs ago I posted a bunch of pics of a graduation event ..... and nothing ...! Did I restrict permissions accidentally? Have they all fallen into a summer stupor already? Did I break some unknown-to-20+'ers and unwritten by anyone rule of FB etiquette, and they are now giving me the cold-cyber-shoulder?
Stay tuned ... must consult with my teenage expert
48 hrs ago I posted a bunch of pics of a graduation event ..... and nothing ...! Did I restrict permissions accidentally? Have they all fallen into a summer stupor already? Did I break some unknown-to-20+'ers and unwritten by anyone rule of FB etiquette, and they are now giving me the cold-cyber-shoulder?
Stay tuned ... must consult with my teenage expert
Psyched about Jim Nutter starting to blog
Finally got an appointment with Jim Nutter to help him embark on the blogging path and I come home tonight to find that he's out there as of today with Reflections From Jim Nutter!!!
Now I need to rustle up all those Best Practices from Luiz Suarez and others to pass them along. It's worth taking a look at his blog periodically to get a flavor of what a SuperStar blogger does.
Here is a Best Practices Posting I ran across by EchoDitto. Very worthwhile reading for beginners!
... and here's another interesting one from Stephan Spencer's Scattering on Optimal Blog Posting Frequency ... actually it has lots more than just frequency. Good description of frequency vs. recency vs. relevance and their relative importance.
Now I need to rustle up all those Best Practices from Luiz Suarez and others to pass them along. It's worth taking a look at his blog periodically to get a flavor of what a SuperStar blogger does.
Here is a Best Practices Posting I ran across by EchoDitto. Very worthwhile reading for beginners!
... and here's another interesting one from Stephan Spencer's Scattering on Optimal Blog Posting Frequency ... actually it has lots more than just frequency. Good description of frequency vs. recency vs. relevance and their relative importance.
Monday, June 2, 2008
No PC in my living space is huge problem
Feeling very disconnected from email, Facebook, Blogs, etc.
I've reverted back in time to the I-go-to-cyberspace mode vs. the new I-am-with-cyberspace-all-the-time mode. It's a huge difference. Great reminder of where most folks still are hanging out.
I've reverted back in time to the I-go-to-cyberspace mode vs. the new I-am-with-cyberspace-all-the-time mode. It's a huge difference. Great reminder of where most folks still are hanging out.
Monday, May 26, 2008
No PC in the Kitchen - feels like kitchen sink OUT
The downstairs laptop is overheating and it's gotta be switched off, boxed up and sent in for repairs. I feel like I don't have a functional kitchen sink anymore. I now have to "go to" the internet instead of it being integrated with my living/working space ... i.e., the kitchen at our house.
Now I'm reminded why so few of my friends are on the internet as frequently as I am. They probably have to "go to" it somewhere in a different room. It's not just part of the kitchen/living space where they hang out most of the time.
... I can see an iPhone in my future.
Now I'm reminded why so few of my friends are on the internet as frequently as I am. They probably have to "go to" it somewhere in a different room. It's not just part of the kitchen/living space where they hang out most of the time.
... I can see an iPhone in my future.
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