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Regarding Google Wave

reneehendricks — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:09:55 -0600

I was one of the early testers with Google Wave and have found that it serves two great purposes - inter-office collaboration and brainstorming. I use it for the later, myself. But as a complete mainstream "everyone-has-got-to-use-this" sort of tool, not so much.

Great article, by the way!

Renee Hendricks http://www.socialurl.com/reneehendricks

Ego Lessons

Paula Copeland — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:42:59 -0600

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It Has Become a Life Long Job - Learning To Listen

Gena Haskett — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 17:58:40 -0600

I'm not as good as I hoped to be at this point. I do try to hear what has been said and what was really communicated.

I will have to begin studying your blog. I've always wanted to take a class on how to communicate with difficult people. Then again, I might be one of those people. ;-)

Thank you for your comment.

Gena - Out On The Stoop

It IS all about me!

Beverly Flaxington — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 08:07:20 -0600

I read this post with so much interest because this is exactly what I've written about in my book "Understanding Other Peope: The Five Secrets to Human Behavior". Secret Number One is that "It's all about me". But, not that we are totally ego-centric and full of ourselves, rather that we can't help but view the world through our own lens -- a lens comprised of our needs, our background, our experiences, etc. To process info, we tend to "label" things and make quick decisions based upon what we know and what we would have done. It's so hard to be genuinely empathic when we don't even realize we are using our own lens. So, recognizing it is the first important step and then learning to be an "Interested Observer" is next -- genuine interest and curiosity about what other's really mean. It takes work!

Beverly Flaxington

Blog: Dealing with Difficult People

Book: Understanding Other People: The Five Secrets

I agree. And having to

Laura Scott — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:04:56 -0500

I agree. And having to repeat ourselves is making the current multi-silo structure of existing social networks to be something of a pain. So you create your lists in Twitter. How do you translate that to lists in another network? I wish the lists could take in what I have on Tweetdeck, for example! (Maybe once Tweetdeck catches up on the new Twitter API?)

Ultimately I think peer-to-peer will be the most powerful solution.

Laura Scott, BlogHer Contributing Editor, Tech/Web
design, snap, blog, tweet

Here's another post

njgeiger — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:00:13 -0500

Rita, here's another I just posted that I think fits

http://thenestempties.blogspot.com/2009/10/snail-mail-for-college-kids-thing-of.html

Nancy

I'm still waiting for Google

LMAshton — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:29:34 -0500

I'm still waiting for Google Wave, although my husband's been playing with it. Like you said, it's hard to know what it'll be like when you don't know anyone else/hardly anyone else who's also on it.

Both my husband and I have Twitter Lists, and personally, I love it. It's a lot easier for me to track certain groups of people, like Sri Lankan Twitterers.I also like that I can add people to the list who I'm not following. I could, if I wanted to, make a general repository of all Sri Lankan tweeters who've tweeted at least once in the last month. Or I could do a general repository of all tweeters in the Colombo area only whether I follow them or not. I like that.

The thing I hate about groups features in Twitter apps is that, every time you try out a new app or switch to a different one, you have to set it up again. It doesn't help that I'm that person, the one who tries out a lot of different apps, switching back and forth sometimes until I find one that fits best. But Lists will be permanent. Once Lists are rolled out to everyone and implemented in Twitter apps, for me, it'll take over where Groups doesn't quite work for me. I'm tired of setting up groups after having done it a half dozen times. I want something more permanent.

Laurie in Sri Lanka

Chilli & Chocolate | A Canadian in King Parakramabahu's Court | LMAshton on Twitter

Thanks!

Rita Arens — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:19:42 -0500

Thank you so much for sharing your work!

Rita Arens writes at Surrender Dorothy and BlogHer and is the editor of Sleep is for the Weak.

Rita, Here are 3 posts I've

njgeiger — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:00:16 -0500

Rita,

Here are 3 posts I've already put on my blog on the subject. I'm adding them from my newspaper column a few at a time.

http://thenestempties.blogspot.com/2009/10/text-or-talk.html

http://thenestempties.blogspot.com/2009/10/invading-their-space.html

http://thenestempties.blogspot.com/2009/09/in-these-days-of-cell-phones-emails-and.html

Nancy

Mine, Theirs and Ours

Devra Renner — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:59:36 -0500

Now that my children are older, ages 9 and 13, there are some tricky challenges that accompany using all of this George Jetson technology. I recently told my kids that CD's did not exist when I was their age and I swear I think their heads exploded. I am looking forward to sharing some of my own tips and tricks as well as writing about the latest trends and news as it relates to parenting our kids in this age of uber information. www.parentopia.com/blog

Hi Rita

kazari — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 19:39:24 -0500

My first child is due at Christmas (I'm a blimp!) and this is something I've been thinking about a lot. I think my first six months at home is going to be very different to my mother's.

We don't own a TV, but have two laptops that are on pretty much the whole time we are home. I'm wondering how that will change, and if we'll feel the need to get a tv when we have an active toddler.

Anyway, I'm looking forward to hearing everybody's stories!

http://myrope.wordpress.com

Thanks for sharing!

Rita Arens — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:39:00 -0500

Please do share any posts you've all written on this subject!

Rita Arens writes at Surrender Dorothy and BlogHer and is the editor of Sleep is for the Weak.

I've been writing a

njgeiger — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 11:54:31 -0500

I've been writing a newspaper column about parenting a daughter in college since she first went away. (She graduated in May) In looking back over the 4 years I find that many of them talk about Facebook, texting, My Space, etc. In fact the tag line is "In these days of cell phones, emails and instant messages, can the nest really be empty?"

I just started putting the earlier (first year) columns on to a blog:

http://thenestempties.blogspot.com/

Nancy

It's a little funny that I'm working on this project.

Rita Arens — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:26:33 -0500

I actually sort of cringe when I see my daughter staring at a screen, even if it's KidPix or something I consider to be creative and worthwhile. For someone who spends her whole life tapping away at a keyboard, I don't really want that to be a huge focus for my daughter. So far, she hasn't really begged for screen time. We'll see what happens for us, as well.

I'm glad you commented because these are the issues we'll be exploring. Please bring this up in the Family Connections group -- this is a valuable discussion I'd like to keep moving!

Rita Arens writes at Surrender Dorothy and BlogHer and is the editor of Sleep is for the Weak.

I wish so much I could contribute...

micrimas — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:33:04 -0500

I am married to an uber-geek. Yes, he works for one of the largest software companies in the world. And I, formerly employed by a massively popular computer hardware company.

We are both pretty tech-savvy (yet as a SAHMer, I find myself, with no time, not able to keep up with changing technology as much as the DH).

We have twin sons who have never watched TV. Never seen a video. Don't know who "Dora and Diego" are. We have witheld these from the kids because, well... at first it was because they had muscle tone issues and we focused solely on them getting strong and walking. Then once they began to walk, we moved the AV equipment to a safe, locked place.

Now we have decided they are so used to not seeing videos and TV that we will let activity and creativity reign. Their playspace is designed for learning and physical activity, especially in the winter weather here in the Northeast.

I wonder if their peers will consider them socially inept because they are clueless about TV and videos and the characters. The DH and I were discussing this last week. Do we buy a portable DVD player and use it every once in a while in the playspace? Or do we forgoe it and just focus wholly on their body and minds.

I know there are many educational TV programs, especially on PBS... but the bonding I am getting from the boys by reading to them, painting, doing crafts... allowing independent play... is priceless.. Doctors say that kids should not watch TV or vids until age 2. They will be 2 in March.

I am still conflicted about this. When I was a child I loved TV... but my mother used it as a babysitter. And also... well, my grandparents and mother also used to zone out in front of the TV. I would read books and just immerse myself in the words -- pictures painted in my head, and not on a TV screen. Reading and writing is my passion. While I have very little time to read, I do have time to write, which is why my blog is my focus when I have precious little downtime, boys napping, or sleeping...

I just remember those days, laying on the bed, the TV downstairs droning as background noise, while I read book after book. Going to the town library was the biggest adventure for me. I learned so much from books, both fiction and non-fiction.

I don't know what we are going to do. Being as we are both geeks in our way, having worked in the computer industry for decades... how will we integrate media and all that goes with it (good and bad, the materialistic being the worst, with TV commercials).

Suggestions would be most welcomed....

Half of a Duo, Raising a Duo

http://micrimas.blogspot.com