Drinking from a Fire Hose

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This is an adaption of an earlier presentation on How to Drink from a Fire Hose. Anne Adrian blogs at http://blog.anneadrian.com

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April 14, 2009Anne Mims Adrian, PhDAlabama Cooperative Extension System at Auburn Universityhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/webwalker/114991439/

Drinking froma Fire Hose

Google me, Anne Adrian, Or find me:Twitter: aafromaa

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“Today, if you're not staying current with Web 2.0 technologies' impact on business, then you're just not staying current. Period.”Sarah Perez of ReadWriteWeb

flickr.com/photos/rambleon/2384382498/in/set-72157604099911780/

Facebook

Women older than 55 make up the fastest-growing age group on Facebook

cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/13/social.network.older/

Unique URLs in Google’s index

1 trillion

thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/ 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats

YouTube

70 million – videos (March 2008)412.3 years - time it would take to

view all content on YouTube (March 2008)

(sources here, here and here)

thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/ 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats

YouTube

13 hours - amount of video are uploaded every minute

$1 million - YouTube’s estimated bandwidth costs per day

(sources here, here and here)

thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/ 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats

Blogosphere346 million – people read blogs (comScore March 2008)900,000 - average number of blog posts in a 24 hour period77% - active Internet users read blogs

thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/ 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats

Twitter stats

1.4 billion - Tweets as of 3/23/2009 (continuous count )3 million - Tweets/day (March 2008) (from TechCrunch)63% - Twitter users who are male (from Time)

thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/ 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats

Work

Home

Leisure

Physical and traditional boundaries of time

Multitasking IT

Productive in the

long run

Information through diverse social networks generates:

More revenue

More and faster completed projects

WorkstreamingParticipative

Collaboration among a distributed workforce.

Enabled by creation of digital footprints and activity trails.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workstreaming flickr.com/photos/choconancy/433796533/in/set-72157603227477900

Radical transparency

blog.k1v1n.com/2008/10/defining-freerange-enterprise.html flickr.com/photos/wonderlane/2349225382/

Burst style of working-anywhere / anytime

blog.k1v1n.com/2008/10/defining-freerange-enterprise.html flickr.com/photos/jswaby/936193896/

Contributions measured by value added

blog.k1v1n.com/2008/10/defining-freerange-enterprise.html flickr.com/photos/marcfonteijn/2608506370/

Personal responsibility and trust

blog.k1v1n.com/2008/10/defining-freerange-enterprise.html flickr.com/photos/shawdm/486400745/

Flatness in organizational hierarchyblog.k1v1n.com/2008/10/defining-freerange-enterprise.html flickr.com/photos/tomsaint/2782080849/

blog.k1v1n.com/2008/10/defining-freerange-enterprise.html flickr.com/photos/liberato/223754291/

Leveraging of edge competencies

Co-creation

blog.k1v1n.com/2008/10/defining-freerange-enterprise.html

Multiple areas of interest and avenuesWikis (Wikipedia,

eXtension, internal)

DocumentsTwitterFacebookFriendfeed Subject matter

ColleaguesOrganization’s news

(University, State Extension, National Extension, eXtension, USDA, National 4-H)

Friends’ bookmarks

Multiple areas of interest and avenuesEmailComments on blogs

(particularly my own)

Google AnalyticsFeedburnerGoogle Alerts

Communities (book club, Ning communities)

FlickrYouTubeGeneral newsPersonal

information

Information does not flow linearly

Use a “start page”iGoogleGoogle ReaderNetvibes

Network

Connect & build relationships withthose who share your interests.

flickr.com/photos/rambleon/2637714144/

Use your network to filter

TryExploreLearnParticipate

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…that's part of the firehose …a mix of rapid fire ideas loaded with “imperfections”—a lot like life. Jason Adam Young

flickr.com/photos/aafromaa/3026998606/in/set-72157608631840641 /

Choose pipes, methods, and info based on your purpose and what you valueflickr.com/photos/namlhots/3096109459/

Keep learning new tools

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cc511/2304699865/

Becometechnology adept

Lifestream—bring into one place

FriendFeedFeed readers (Google Reader)

Tweetdeck

My Google Reader

Priorities not categories

Re-tune filters

Manually constructAutomateContinuously re-tuneAre temporary

Re-think social structure & expectationsWe create, rethink, and re-tuned filters. Now we are in the flow.

How do we navigate the flow?

Re-tune filters

Updating the old filters is not the fix.

We create, rethink, and re-tuned the filters.

Topics for discussions

–How is email broken? –What are the solutions? –Other methods of sharing,

wikis, blogs, Twitter, FriendFeed, IM? –Still not working? More

solutions coming.

ResourcesPoscente, Vince. The Age of Speed

Aral, Sinan and Van Alstyne, Marshall W., "Network Structure & Information Advantage: Structural Determinants of Access to Novel Information and Their Performance Implications" (January 18, 2007). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=958158

ResourcesRSS in Plain English, a video introduction to using news readers from Common Craft http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english

ResourcesFeeding Frenzy, an eXtension 30-Minute session recording presented by Beth Raney, extension http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p51525211/ Use a newsreader, http://blog.aafromaa.com/2007/05/how-to-use-news-reader.html

April 14, 2009

Anne Mims Adrian, PhDAlabama Cooperative Extension System at Auburn University

aadrian@auburn.edublog.aafromaa.com

“Drinking from a Fire Hose”

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