{"id":207,"date":"2009-02-28T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/2009\/02\/being-social.html"},"modified":"2010-01-15T23:13:24","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T04:13:24","slug":"being-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/being-social.html","title":{"rendered":"Being social"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By nature I am an introvert.  I don&#8217;t schmooze.  I don&#8217;t &#8220;network&#8221;.  Like Sartre, I am firmly in the &#8220;Hell is other people&#8221; camp.  However, since social and collaborative computing is large part of what we work on at IBM, and we&#8217;ve recently signed deals with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2009\/01\/19\/lotus-notes-soon-to-become-even-more-linkedin\/\">LinkedIn <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/news\/2009\/011909-ibm-intros-lotus-cloud-suite.html\">Skype<\/a>, I&#8217;ve decided to jump in with both feet and see what value these and other social networking and communication services have to offer. <\/p>\n<p>Certainly, within IBM, I&#8217;m constantly typing into Sametime.  I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if I exchange more internal information, counted by characters, in instant messages, than I do in emails.  However, in my external communications, both professional and personal, it is almost entirely via email for 1-to1 communications, and this blog for broadcasts.   I&#8217;d like to experiment a bit and see what other tools and services are effective.  This isn&#8217;t a long term commitment to being social, but a experiement.  We&#8217;ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve put up my contact information for various social sites on my <a href=\"https:\/\/2d823b65bb.nxcli.io\/blog\/who-is-rob-weir\">Who is Rob Weir?<\/a> page.  Feel free to contact me via these services.  Also, I&#8217;d be interested in what other services you think I should be looking at.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By nature I am an introvert. I don&#8217;t schmooze. I don&#8217;t &#8220;network&#8221;. Like Sartre, I am firmly in the &#8220;Hell is other people&#8221; camp. However, since social and collaborative computing is large part of what we work on at IBM, and we&#8217;ve recently signed deals with LinkedIn and Skype, I&#8217;ve decided to jump in with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-blogging","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":556,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robweir.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}