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Welcome to the consulting life

This has been making the rounds. Most of the commentary has been along the lines of the future of executive life and work. Feels to me more like an accurate version of the consulting life as it’s always been.

via Doc and Euan among others.

UC Berkeley demonstrates its intelligence; awards danah boyd her Ph.D.

UC Berkeley took its time, but clearly shows excellent judgment and intelligence in awarding danah boyd her Ph.D. at long last. We’ve known how smart danah is here for some time.
Well done, danah!
OMG. I have my PhD! OMG!!!!!

PS: I will post my dissertation in January when I return from vacation.
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The best sales video ever

We could all benefit from this level of energy and commitment

With a hat tip to Espen for finding and sharing this.

Bloglines claiming post

Just managing some administrivia for bloglines. Please ignore

Seven years at McGee’s Musings

Today is my seventh blogiversary.
Over time, we’ve seen a proliferation of tools and services that give us ways to connect and interact. Today we have Twitter, Friendfeed, LinkedIn, Facebook, and more. All are ways to improve our chances of connecting. As you can see in the sidebar, I  maintain some presence on most of them.
This [...]

Speaking at the Social Media Strategies conference at the end of October

I’ll be heading to San Francisco at the end of the month to participate in the upcoming “Social Media Strategies” conference being held there on October 29th and 30th. If you’re interested in joining me, here’s a sign-up link that will get you a discount on the registration fee:

I’m planning on talking more about the [...]

Neologism of the Day: Qualifiction

Paul Myers and I were colleagues back in Boston back in the early 1990s. Thanks to the wonders of Twitter, LinkedIn, and RSS we reconnected and I came across his excellent blog and found this little gem this afternoon. I suspect that your politics might influence exactly how funny you find this, but I think [...]

Thought for the day

Hat tip to Pharyngula

About McGee’s Musings

Welcome to those of you visiting courtesy of Liz Strauss. This place started as an experiment while I was teaching courses in IT and Knowledge Management at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. This was in the Fall of 2001 and blogs were still relatively new. I saw them then and now as an important part [...]

Congratulations to Jack Vinson

One of the unexpected rewards of blogging is watching those that you’ve influenced in some way going off and succeeding in their own unique way. If for some odd reason you are not already following Jack’s work, you should correct that mistake immediately.
Blogging for five years
I have been blogging for five years now.  Amazing.  My [...]