Experimenting with Google docs - First 48 hrs

Heard about the new Google docs from a Google whizz kid who spoke at the Chicago APQC conference last week. Check out Cyrus Mistry if you want to get a feel for this guy speaking about Google to 25,0000. Big focus on Search, but he got me turned on to the new Google Docs capability.

So thought I'd try it out to help us collaborate this week on the church silent auction. Came home from the meeting, setup the document - pretty easy and intuitive - and sent out link with sharing permissions to everyone.

48 hrs later, the only person to respond is .. someone I didn't invite in the first place. I think it's maybe through one of the Mom's who's in IT. So far, no response from anyone else.

Now I'm wondering --> Did they get the email? Did they try and fail? Are they too busy to have checked it yet?

Stay tuned ...

The virtual teenage shopping experience

So we were at Urban Outfitters in Rice Village. Friday night. I'm the only one over 50, over 40, omg over 20 probably! Cool looking teens circulating; I'm lounging on the couch checking my blackberry (aka BB) in my corporate garb. My kids steer a wide circle around me to avoid any sense of connection.
Heidi comes out of the changing room and can't decide IF she should buy the shirts and WHICH one. Even though my advice is sought, it is really not wanted. What she wants is advice from a truly trusted source - i.e. another 13-yr old girl. I tell her to please make up her mind, I want to go home (nothing more I can do on the BB now and can't be bothered to graze through the store looking at clothes I love but would look ridiculous in).

Here's the point of the story:
She tells me she's just waiting for Sarah and Jessiah to respond to her text/photo message. She took a picture in the changing room and sent it to them. Within a couple of minutes we had the answer and were off to pay! The group decision was for the plain purple one and not the one with the peace symbol.

Love it!

Re-start in May 2008

Ok let's give this another try. Could I keep up a blog for a consistent period of time? What would my "passion" be? What would anyone else want to read about?
Maybe it's just a collection of stories about how the web and social computing connects people?
Will I be able to tease out my world a new story everyday?

Let's see....