Happiness: How to Be it for Just Minutes a Day!

Sounds like one of those Enquirer articles from the 1970s. Funny how such research has just come up now when the world seems to be in turmoil.

clipped from www.earthlink.net Happiness. Here’s to Yours! The science…that could keep you smiling. Our primary mission here at EarthLink is to keep you happy with your Internet experience. But we sure would like you to be happy with the rest of your life too. Here’s a head start… The Happiness Formula – BBC’s comprehensive look at the science of happiness. Authentic Happiness – Comprehensive research & questionnaires on happiness. Dan Gilbert – Do people & experiences make you happiest? The Happiness Diet – Could 8 min. a day make you happier? Money & Happiness – What to watch out for. Science of Happiness – Time magazine cover story (PDF).

Reweeting

Twitter is an interesting service to use at conference if a critical mass of people participate. I found it to be useful at the SLA 2008 Conference in Seattle for updates on what was happening in other sessions. People also transmitted salient points that speakers made. I think it created another level of connection.

Below, Daniel talks about re-tweeting, where tweets are rebroadcast.

clipped from yankeeincanada.typepad.com sla2008 re-tweeter I have developed a re-tweeter for sla2008 based on the Twitter API and John Eckman’s code.� Thanks John! Re-tweeting is helpful for: separating out your sla2008 related tweets from your other tweets sending broadcast messages (6 minute delay) to all sla2008 followers seeing what sla2008 followers are tweeting about without necessarily having to go to the sla2008 page (you have to have device updates from sla2008 turned on if you want the tweets sent to you) creating an archive of tweets on the sla2008 page Further Reading Introduction to Twitter (SLA Innovation Lab) Twitter away at SLA (Daniel Lee aka Yankeeincanada) Twitter in Plain English (Common Craft)

Phone Spell

If you can’t figure out what numbers belong to phone “words”, use this site.

clipped from www.phonespell.com New Feature! Now you can automatically dial vanity phone numbers! The PhoneSpell� search engine provides three 4 services in one! You may have heard that now you can take your phone number with you when you move. Enter a 6 to 10 digit phone number and we’ll show you what words and phrases your phone number spells to help you decide if you want to keep it. Opening a business and need a new phone number? Pick a new 7 or 8 digit phone number by typing in an available exchange (first 3 to 5 digits) and see what one-word numbers you can choose from. Searching for just the right toll free number to advertise? Type in letters and we will show you the corresponding phone number. We can even dial the number for you! Questions? Get the FAQs. Enter a full phone number and see what words and phrases it spells, -or- Enter the start of a phone number and see what words start with those digits, -or- Enter some letters and see (and even dial) the corresponding phone number

Block Cellphone Spam

This is a very interesting post on Cellphone spam. It was easy to set up the blocking and allow certain email addresses to send to your phone. I don’t know if I will ever use this feature, but it is better to be prepared against cell phone spam.

clipped from pogue.blogs.nytimes.com How to Block Cellphone Spam The beauty of this feature, of course, is that it blocks ONLY text messages from the Internet. Your friends, using cellphones, can still text you. * AT&T: Log in at mymessages.wireless.att.com. Under Preferences, you’ll see the text-blocking and alias options. Here’s also where you can block messages from specific e-mail addresses or Web sites. * T-Mobile: T-Mobile doesn’t yet offer a “block text messages from the Internet” option. You can block all messages sent by e-mail, though, or permit only messages sent to your phone’s e-mail address or alias, or create filters that block text messages containing certain phrases. It’s all waiting when you log into http://www.t-mobile.com and click Communication Tools.

Knowledge Sharing

David Snowden talked about knowledge sharing. He talked about KM and KS in a very high level way and not at all with cliches and he old, tired advertising slogans. He gave me some new ideas about KM, which I want to think about some more.

clipped from wiki.sla.org Spotlight session with speaker David Snowden, Cognitive Edge Some key ideas from David’s presentation: KM is ten years old. The question is… How do you create a knowledge sharing culture? Must understand that knowledge is only ever volunteered; it can’t be scripted.� You can’t measure whether someone has shared their knowledge. You can measure conformance if you want to force people to complete a form to share their knowledge. No one will share knowledge in anticipation of your need. Most knowledge systems are anticipation systems. What’s happening now…People chatting with other people they trust in fragmented ways. The way people describe what they are doing is not actually how they are doing it. We can always know more than what we can tell and more than what we can write down. Hard to take tacit knowledge to explicit knowledge.

PKM Solution

One way to deal with multiple phone numbers and voicemail boxes. Perhaps this is the firs step in reconciling personal information?

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Personal Information Management at SLA

Knowledge management and the new iteration, knowledge sharing, was a big topic at SLA. One aspect of knowledge management is personal knowledge or personal information management. How do we manage all the different aspects of our personal information. How do we reconcile our Gmail with our Outlook folders and the tidbits we glean from Twitter and Yahoogroups with bookmarks and blogs?

clipped from www.talesofpim.org Tales of PIM Introduction to Tales of PIM Personal information management (PIM) refers to both the practice and the study of the activities people perform in order to acquire, organize, maintain, retrieve and use information items such as documents (paper-based and digital), web pages and email messages for everyday use to complete tasks (work-related and not) and fulfill a person’s various roles (as parent, employee, friend, member of community, etc.). One ideal of PIM is that we always have the right information in the right place, in the right form, and of sufficient completeness and quality to meet our current need. Technologies and tools such as personal information managers help us spend less time with time-consuming and error-prone activities of PIM (such as looking for information). We then have more time to make creative, intelligent use of the information at hand in order to get things done or, simply, to enjoy the information itself.

Knowlede Sharing

Dave Snowden talked, at SLA, about a lot of factors dealing with knowledge sharing issues. He plans to put a podcast up on his website at http://www.cognitive-edge.com with his presentation.

clipped from en.wikipedia.org Cynefin Cynefin (pronounced kun-ev’in) is the name of a decision making framework which has been used in knowledge management as well as other applications including conflict resolution. Its use in the context of leadership was the cover feature in the Harvard Business Review in November 2007.