Month: August 2019

These are my pinboard links for August 20th through August 28th:

• OSoMe: Home – IU (and Knight Foundation) Observatory on Social Media. Performing research and data analysis on social media use, impacts and sharing tools and data to support the same
• Sense Home Energy Monitor – Connects to electrical mains and senses power consumption on a household basis, identifying devices and patterns of use. Quantified House.
• Collection Aids at UMD – Collection aids for UMD music and subculture archives
• From DC punk to library archivist – The Washington Post – A profile in the WaPo of John Davis and his work at archiving material and ephemera related to punk in the DC area
• A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard | Bloomberg Professional Services – A review of the various keyboard designs for the Bloomberg terminal over the years. From Chicklet to trackball to clicky keys.

These are my pinboard links for August 7th through August 14th:

• The Remote Work Report – Survey based report on 486 people covering multiple aspects of remote work – good, bad, ambivalent; much on the success factors.
• Why Aren’t We Talking About LinkedIn? – Discussion of the social/capital norms that make LinkedIn a different sort of network.
• Knowledge management: the secret sauce of productivity – Slack tips and breakdowns on knowledge capture, recovery, and distribution.
• I create presentations at Microsoft. Here’s how I avoid “Death by PowerPoint” – Tips on presentation from an experience designer at MSFT
• The Mountain of Memory – Jason Fry – Medium – Lovely meditation on Greece, family, youth, connections, and the permanence of memory and the fiction as well.

These are my pinboard links for October 14th through August 5th:

• Elevate – Monroe County GIS based property maps and records
• “Everyone knows about the Croatian Bocce players at Welles Park” in Chicago | Croatia Week – Finally some background on the neighborhood staples I've observed for years.
• Team Collaboration: Moving from Implementation to Success | Insight for the Connected Enterprise – Brief overview of collaboration adoption
• Welcome – IRCv3 – Project to extend existing IRC protocol set for modern functionality
• IRCCloud – Cloud based irc client and server service.
• 9 Mediterranean Diet Breakfast Recipes We’re Always in the Mood For – <blockquote>What's not to love about Mediterranean breakfast ideas like baked or scrambled eggs with feta cheese and avocado, Greek yogurt pancakes with loads of fresh fruits, and Mediterranean breakfast sandwiches with roasted cherry tomatoes?</blockquote>
• Guide to Chicago Sanborns volumes – Early 20th C insurance maps for Chicago, searchable.
• Taking a People-First Approach to Unified Communications –
• How to Make Yogurt and Greek Yogurt at Home | Serious Eats – Yogurt tips and tricks
• Your Past Is Not Your Future: Overcoming Time Management Regret – The New York Times – Therapeutic tips on time management, avoidance, and movement forward.
• OZ magazine, London | Historical & Cultural Collections | University of Wollongong – Digital archive of 1960s newspaper Oz
• A Personal Case Study on Network-Building: Selfishness, Frequent Collisions, and my Colearning Experiment – eek on his colearning and social experiments
• Skype for Business Server 2015 Firewall Diagram – FW diagram for SfB 2015
• The New York Times: Your Past is Not Your Future: Overcoming Time Management Regret – Notes on the psychology of time.managemeny, especially on change and forgiveness.
• How Slack impacts workplace productivity – Vox – Impacts of RTC on productivity.
• Microsoft, Slack, Zoom, and the SaaS Opportunity – Stratechery by Ben Thompson – On market growth and strategies in UC.
• Synchronous Text : On Mozilla moving away from IRC –
• Matt Haughey home wifi –
• I Let A Stranger Watch Me Work – Mel magazine article about virtual coworking service Focusmate
• Google’s three tips for remote work – Based in a survey of teams and employees – a FC summary.
• Monroe County Electronics Recycling – Ewaste info for Monroe County, IN
• Why You Procrastinate (It Has Nothing to Do With Self-Control) – The New York Times – NYT piece discussing the background and some of the emotional sources of procrastination
• IP and Bits –
• Mio – Keep your teams in sync – Cross platform interop for Microsoft Teams, Cisco and Slack.
• The Slack Bubble and the reality of  the Professional Instant Messaging Market – A review of Enterprise IM market and new entrant do.ne.
• Zulip – An open / licensed group chat service (Slack-ish)

  <blockquote>Zulip combines the immediacy of real-time chat with an email threading model. With Zulip, you can catch up on important conversations while ignoring irrelevant ones.</blockquote>

• Gluten-Free Restaurants: Chicago –
• How Collaboration put man on the moon –
• No, You Can’t Ignore Email. It’s Rude. – Discussion of email usage and collaboration, with a social science bent.
• The Organizational Spectroscope – Review of email usage and management / occupational health at Microsoft.
• Internet-era ways of working – Public Digital – <blockquote>An earlier draft of this list, stuck to the PD office door Our definition of digital says: “Applying the culture, processes, business models & technologies of the internet-era to respond to people’s raised expectations.” Once they’ve heard that, the next thing people always ask us is: “OK. But how? How do I make that happen…</blockquote>
• Taking Care of Business: Debuting Our Fifth Annual Businesses @ Work Report | Okta –
• Selecting the Best Nonprofit CRM. Salesforce vs. Insightly vs. Infusionsoft vs. CiviCRM – 2017 Review of non-profit orientated CRM selection criteria.
• How Zine Libraries Are Highlighting Marginalized Voices – Article on several zine libraries, with a focus on zine library studies around feminism, trans and other marginalized audiences.
• Library Planet – A crowdsourced Lonely Planet for libraries <3 – Touristing? Why not visit a library?
• How I got to 200 productive hours a month –