Bryper.com » How we live http://www.bryper.com Bryan is no longer blogging here; check his last blog post to find him at his new home Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:44:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 © bperson@gmail.com () bperson@gmail.com Tools, tactics, and conversations of social media -- by Bryan Person bperson@gmail.com No no http://www.bryper.com/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Bryper.com http://www.bryper.com 144 144 From Justin Kownacki: ‘5 ways to positively disconnect’ http://www.bryper.com/2007/06/15/from-justin-kownacki-5-ways-to-positively-disconnect/ http://www.bryper.com/2007/06/15/from-justin-kownacki-5-ways-to-positively-disconnect/#comments Sat, 16 Jun 2007 04:19:29 +0000 Bryan http://www.bryper.com/2007/06/15/from-justin-kownacki-5-ways-to-positively-disconnect/ Brilliant post from Justin Kownacki: “5 ways to positively disconnect.”

Here are Justin’s five recommendations:

  1. Commute in Silence
  2. Eat Alone
  3. Leave the Cell Phone at Home
  4. Meditate
  5. Take a Tech-Free Vacation

Justin’s just given me a good idea for a line or two to include in my upcoming “Managing Your Social Media” talk at Podcasters Across Borders next week.

How do you manage your social media? By simply switching it off every once in a while.

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But I’m by no means a one-trick pony.

Today I ask you to remember how useful the telephone — yes, that old-fashioned means of communication — can be.

On my ride home from work this evening, I received a phone call with a pre-recorded message from my daughter’s principal, inviting me to attend a night of “fun with math” later this week. The message reached me using just right the medium at just the right time. I’m sure the dozens or hundreds of other parents, especially those whose middle-school-aged children aren’t so forthright in handing over paper announcements passed out earlier in the day, would agree with me.

In this case, I didn’t need a blog post or even an e-mail (though either of those would have worked, at different times of the day) to keep me informed. A quick 30-second phone call did the trick.

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woman on a laptop in centuries-old doorway in Estonia

Part of Shel’s description:

She was sitting there in the doorway of an Estonian home built perhaps 800 years ago, ignoring the rain, intently staring at the screen of her Apple PowerBook. I’d like to think she was having a conversation with someone in a far off place.

For some good insight into Shel’s trip, audio style, check out the talk he had with Donna Papacosta just before leaving the US.

Wouldn’t you like to be traveling with Shel right about now? I know I would.

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  1. So … what do you blog about?

  2. What’s your feed?
  3. Hey, didn’t I see you on YouTube last week?
  4. What color’s your nano?
  5. Do you Skype?
  6. Can I leave you an audio comment?
  7. Want to be part of my … online conversation?
  8. Who’s your favorite podsafe band?
  9. (written) Here’s my numbr – TXT me.
  10. Wanna go PodCamping?

Let’s grow this list! I’m pinging a few of my creative and clever pals for a little help: Lee Hopkins, David Jones, Ed Lee, Leesa Barnes, Chris Brogan, Christopher Penn, Steve Garfield.

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Colleague 1: A graphic designer who uses e-mail only sparingly, doesn’t have or want a computer at home, won’t purchase anything online, and doesn’t consider the web a viable place to find information.

Colleague 2: A recruiter for a creative agency who spends a good part of his week on the phone and in meetings with both potential candidates and current talent. He also uses instant messaging to keep in touch with those candidates and the web to find new prospects. He listens to podcasts and reads blogs from time to time but hadn’t heard of RSS and liked my suggestion of using a tool (RSS reader) that would help him to read more blogs more efficiently.

Me: An unabashed advocate of social media and a regular online junkie. Holding down a job, paying bills, buying books, planning trips, reading the news, sharing photos, exchanging ideas, keeping in touch with family and friends around the country and the world that I don’t/can’t see regularly in person, making appointments for the “offline” world, consulting, blogging, reading blogs, podcasting, listening to podcasts, helping to organize an unconference, taking classes, chatting, and making new acquaintances and friends all require, or are enriched, by way of an Internet connection.

‘Web 2.0-only life’

Yet Technology Review’s James Fallows clearly blows me out of the water with his two-week journalistic experiment of “living a Web 2.0-only life.” Fallows uses a full range of online tools — from the more obvious ones, such as Flickr, Gmail, and Skype to the less well-known, such as iOutliner and Zillow — to manage all of his everyday activities and responsibilities, except (presumably) eating, sleeping, showering, and … uhm … kissing his wife :)

Among Fallows’s insights:

  • The new web is both analog — an evolutionary “continuum of new ideas” — and digital — it works better with “yes-or-no signals” than with “nuanced judgments”
  • The new web inspires us to create, share, and innovate, but also requires a certain level of trust and a ceding of even more of our privacy
  • Online-only tools have their limitations. A word-processing application such as Writely works brilliantly … as long as we’re not on an airplane and without an Internet connection. Hand-held devices such as PDAs and cellphones are good for reading and sending e-mails, but limiting when it comes time for accessing Web 2.0 applications
  • Ajax is a key component of Web 2.0, one that is doing wonders to enhance the online user experience

It’s a good and thoughtful read that illustrates how new media tools are weaving their way through our lives … for some of us, at least!

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Last month, in one of my first posts, I outlined the ways in which my own uses and knowledge of new media had grown in just the past year.

Yesterday, on his MediaShift blog, Mark Glaser summarized the responses from readers to the question about how the Internet had changed their lives.

Here’s one comment that I particularly like, from Charles Meshel:

I am past the eighty mark in life. I have been on the computer for the past 3 years and it has changed my life considerably. I listen to music far more than I had before,I view the news, local as well as national and international. I have contact with people throughout the country by e mail and by broadband,which I never did before. It is something that from my viewpoint is stimulating, and I sense that it has helped to keep my mind more alert. I am able to research so many things including medical information that would take days to do otherwise, if at all. I heartily recommend use of the computer for all ages.

Amen.

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