Redwood Asylum (emeritus)
...by the inmates...for the inmates...
Sunday, June 08, 2003
Evangelist vs. Contributor
One might think, with all the evangelizing I did over the years for collaborative computing and communication tools, that being a content creator would come naturally. One would be thinking incorrectly. <grin> Spirited evangelist and talented content contributor are not always synonymous. Many bloggers combine these two traits admirably. Sadly, this one does not.
However, in ancient times, I pumped content into collaboration systems to bootstrap new tool users. One example: ever heard of Collabra Share? (See 1, 2, 3 at Netscape or 4, 5, 6 locally as linkrot protection.) Netscape acquired the vendor, Collabra Software, in November 1995 and Collabra Share was re-written to become Netscape's Collabra Server. Prior to the takeover, I purchased a 20-user Collabara Share license at work to manage one of our largest software development projects. I populated the system with bug reports, feature requests, and copies of the training material. To make a long story short, PC-based email at that time was so new to our company that major team players were mesmerized by it and would not consider other communication tools such as Collabra. As I knew they would, they eventually discovered the downsides to email for project management, but not in time to save the Collabra experiment.
There were other collaborative communication experiments, but some things just don't fit a particular corporate culture. It was years before our company evolved to the point that things such as extranets were possible.
Somewhere, Over The Rainbow...
... lies a place where this author does not suffer from severe news aggregator overload and blog block. I want to update this from notes I've made in my Handspring/PalmPilot, but somehow never do. Then I face the task of backdating everything, which isn't easy to do with Radio UserLand. I use Mark Paschal's Kit tool to backdate, but have not modified my template to fix the permalink problem this creates. Probably not a big deal, as nobody in their right mind would link to my posts, but I like to be complete. <pronounced "anal">.
For anyone reading this from my RSS feed (probably 2 people, maximum), my various categories will probably receive a flurry of updates. There exists:
RadioFun for Radio UserLand / RSS / Blog stuff
ToReview as misc. news aggregator backup brain
MacPile to stash Mac / OS X stuff so I can learn enough to help my wife
There, that wasn't so bad; blog block broken. Yeah, right. Don't hold your breath...
...by the inmates...for the inmates...
Sunday, June 08, 2003Evangelist vs. Contributor
One might think, with all the evangelizing I did over the years for collaborative computing and communication tools, that being a content creator would come naturally. One would be thinking incorrectly. <grin> Spirited evangelist and talented content contributor are not always synonymous. Many bloggers combine these two traits admirably. Sadly, this one does not.
However, in ancient times, I pumped content into collaboration systems to bootstrap new tool users. One example: ever heard of Collabra Share? (See 1, 2, 3 at Netscape or 4, 5, 6 locally as linkrot protection.) Netscape acquired the vendor, Collabra Software, in November 1995 and Collabra Share was re-written to become Netscape's Collabra Server. Prior to the takeover, I purchased a 20-user Collabara Share license at work to manage one of our largest software development projects. I populated the system with bug reports, feature requests, and copies of the training material. To make a long story short, PC-based email at that time was so new to our company that major team players were mesmerized by it and would not consider other communication tools such as Collabra. As I knew they would, they eventually discovered the downsides to email for project management, but not in time to save the Collabra experiment.
There were other collaborative communication experiments, but some things just don't fit a particular corporate culture. It was years before our company evolved to the point that things such as extranets were possible.
4:15:19 PM
Somewhere, Over The Rainbow...
... lies a place where this author does not suffer from severe news aggregator overload and blog block. I want to update this from notes I've made in my Handspring/PalmPilot, but somehow never do. Then I face the task of backdating everything, which isn't easy to do with Radio UserLand. I use Mark Paschal's Kit tool to backdate, but have not modified my template to fix the permalink problem this creates. Probably not a big deal, as nobody in their right mind would link to my posts, but I like to be complete. <pronounced "anal">.
For anyone reading this from my RSS feed (probably 2 people, maximum), my various categories will probably receive a flurry of updates. There exists:
RadioFun for Radio UserLand / RSS / Blog stuff
ToReview as misc. news aggregator backup brain
MacPile to stash Mac / OS X stuff so I can learn enough to help my wife
There, that wasn't so bad; blog block broken. Yeah, right. Don't hold your breath...
2:34:40 PM
categories: Radio Fun