Being%20Online:%20Purposeful%20narration%20of%20professional%20life

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Being Online Purposeful narration of
professional life

• Crosstalk Seminars
• Jon Udell
• Microsoft
• Dec 5, 2007

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Doug Engelbart
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What is this a picture of?
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The blogosophere

• Messages to spaces
• Interactive surface area
• Data finds data, people find people
• Triangulation
• Manufactured serendipity
• SYNDICATION!

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Syndication-oriented architecture
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Global Research Library 2020
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Mashing up GRL2020 feeds
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Reading the combined feed
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Feeds

• Everyone a producer
• Everyone a consumer
• Everything can be
• Syndicated
• Filtered
• Resyndicated

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Automatic syndication
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In Facebook

• No effort required to make you aware
• That my birthday is upcoming
• That I have begun using a new application
• That I just bought a coffeemaker on Overstock ?
• The effects of syndication without the geeky
  apparatus

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The spectrum of self-publishing

• Social bookmark almost effortless
• Twitter tweet lightweight
• Blog posting
• more substantial
• potential long-term value

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Narrating the work

• To make connections
• To establish reputation
• The Hollywood model
• To educate others
• Apprenticeship

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Aspects of work narration

• Personal information management becomes
  social
• Answering questions with URLs
• Principle of keystroke conservation
• I dont have time to blog

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Modes of narration

• Text, obviously
• But also
• Audio
• Video
• Screencast

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Video narration

• Sean McCown
• I sat down last night and made a video of the
  restore procedure for one of our ETL processes.
  It was 10mins long, and it explained everything
  someone would need to know to recover the process
  from a crash.

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Transmission of tacit knowledge

• Wharton School on knowledge transfer
• Direct contact allows for the transmission of
  tacit or non-codified knowledge that may be
  difficult to put in writing
• Counterexamples from screencasting
• Jim Hugunins unconscious knowledge of Python
• Chris Gemignanis NYTimes infographic in Excel

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Case study of a narrator
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every day I experience life in the world of
healthcare IT
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Some other narrators

• Michael Barton
• gene expression and open notebook science
• Nicole Caulfield
• colored pencil drawing techniques
• Mike Leavitt
• u.s. secretary of health human services
• Thomas Mahon
• bespoke savile row tailor

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Personal vs institutional identity

• John Halamkas identities
• Harvard Chief Information Officer and Dean for
  Technology at Harvard Medical School
• NEHEN (New England Health Electronic Data
  Interchange) Chairman
• HITSP (Chair of the US Healthcare Information
  Technology Standards Panel) HITSP
• geekdoctor.blogspot.com?

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Lifebits
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Lifebits as a service

• A secure lifelong digital archive
• I control
• Namespace
• Access
• Syndication to partner services
• Kind of like HealthVault

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Objection Dear Abby
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ObjectionUniv. of Mich. faculty/grad students

• Q Why not use a blog to narrate your work?
• A "I wouldn't want to publish a half-baked idea."

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ObjectionCliff Lynch

• The tyranny of self-promotion
• I dont like the idea that people feel they
  have to game their online reputations.

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ObjectionMike Caulfield

• Self-reinvention is an American tradition
• I want to be able to reboot my identity

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Objection John Seigenthaler
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ObjectionAllison Stokke
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Your professional life story

• You can write it yourself
• Whether or not you do, others will
• What story do you want to tell?
• What is the best way to publish it?