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Watch the commercial produced by KGMB9 about supporting our local businesses NOW. Very moving.

Sorry, can’t embed the video here. You need to visit their site.

Penelope Trunk on Reading Blogs (and Everything Else)

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Read Penelope Trunk’s latest post about how to feel like you have time to read everything. Some great quotes:

Only losers say they don’t have time to read blogs. Because everyone has the same 24 hours in the day.

reading blogs is not high enough on your priority list to read them

Stop talking about information overload. That term is for weaklings

And information synthesizers don’t feel overwhelmed by information – they either use it or they don’t, but they don’t whine that there’s too much.

Information is not something you have time for or don’t have time for. Information is either helping you meet your goals or not.

Men and Their Toys

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Men and their toys are going to get a boost when the new Lego store opens at Ala Moana on July 29. Hawaii reportedly has a big Lego fan base represented by the Lego Enthusiasts Association of Hawaii (LEAHI), hence the logical choice of opening a Honolulu location.

On August 15, the first 300 customers who spend $35 at the store will receive a special Lego set of a humuhumunukunukuapua’a and coral. That’s definitely a collector’s item!

I got to check this store out and perhaps, bring in some of my vintage stuff.

Thanks to @hawaii for the picture.

RPX Integration

Testing out account integration with RPX. With RPX, you can sign in to comment using existing accounts from Facebook, Google, Yahoo, OpenID, WordPress, and Twitter.

I think it’s working… Try it out and leave me a comment. Thanks!

Day of Traffic

Some interesting traffic today. Hope no one was hurt.

See the overturned car on the left?
Overturned Car

Was it the accident on the other side of the H3 that caused the afternoon backlog?

H3 Accident

Or was it the presence of KHON and KGMB(?) behind the Toyota truck that caused the traffic?
News Coverage

Great Article on Implementing Web 2.0 in Your Organization

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Wow, read a great and very pertinent article, “A Practical Guide to Implementing Web 2.0 (aka Social Networking Tools) in Your Organization” which hits very close to home. I’ve been experimenting and pushing the use of social networking tools at work and see lots of what is described in the article. And after attending a recent Knowledge Management Conference and meeting others working similar issues, the points of the article are driven deeper even more.

I have to blog more about this at work! But here are some interesting quotes from the article:

users have to resort to the dreaded search bar on the Intranet, too. Most people I speak to use this only as a last resort, and rarely find anything useful — they quickly give up and look for a real person to provide what they’re looking for

The final lemon in our trio is groupware (though the term, which is now disparaging, is rarely used). Groupware, of which the most notorious example is SharePoint, was designed to facilitate ‘communities of practice’ (CoPs)

Most groupware tools are so horrifically over-engineered and bloated with ‘features’ that they require full-time IT resources to manage, and to set up and ‘authorize’ new CoPs

From my experience, you should question the need for everything on the Intranet beyond directories and policies

Ah heck, there’s too much to list! Read the entire article for all it wisdom.

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