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Your Kids Online: What Are You Doing to Them?

by Rhett Smith on November 10, 2009

[image by Zieak] Something I have been torn over for a while is the question of “How much of my daughter’s life do I share online?” With blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and other services it’s more convenient than ever to post photos, share little blurbs about their day, and our reactions as parents to certain [...]

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So You Have a Lot of “Friends” Online…Now What?

by Rhett Smith on October 23, 2009

Tony Steward and I are super excited to be facilitating a conversation at the Cultivate Conference this upcoming Tuesday in Chicago. Ever since we were asked to facilitate jointly at the conference we have been discussing what would be the most beneficial conversation we could be a part of. What experience and skills could we [...]

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Apologies John Saddington over at Church Crunch had a great post, Digital Apologies and Blog Confessionals. John’s post was in reference to Digg co-founder Kevin Rose’s apology about comments on his uber-popular video podcast Diggnation. John says: Blogging, for most part and for many is a one-way street. It’s a digital megaphone to the public. [...]

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Exponentially Evolving:Will Your Job Exist Tomorrow?

by Rhett Smith on December 1, 2008

The video has me thinking about the future of vocation. Will your job exist in the next 5, 10, 15, 20 years? My dad and I have the conversation about how we will probably “cobble together” a number of vocations, rather than just having that one job. And I think those “cobbling together” of vocations [...]

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Twitter is one of those things that either you get or you don’t. If you don’t get it, then you probably won’t miss it that much since it was never a part of your daily life. But if you get Twitter, and you have used it, then you understand just how powerful a tool it [...]

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Chris Brogan has a fascinating post, Communications in a Post Media World. He begins by saying, When Google is the front door, the side door, the hidden key under the mat, the cash register, the finder of everything we ever lost, and everything we wished we’d lost, what comes next? When everyone is a newspaper, [...]

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Leveraging Technology in Your Community

by Rhett Smith on November 10, 2008

Two of my passions are technology and community–especially, how technology can be used to create and sustain community, and how it can be used to open up communication. So I’m real excited that Cynthia Ware has a great, great post/presentation on Leveraging Technology to Support Community . Please check it out–it is well worth your [...]

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Inventing the Internet…

by Rhett Smith on June 17, 2008

Vanity Fair magazine has a good story on the invention of the internet, Inventing the Internet, An Oral History. You have to buy the magazine to get the full-version, but browse through the online article to get a snapshot of some of the key figures past and present.

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