I’m a huge consumer of information. I love to learn as much as I can about nearly any topic and I’m good at it. My old boss used to ask me to research various issues outside of my normal area of expertise because he knew I could find an answer and usually find that answer quickly. At various social gatherings, friends often ask me questions when they are stuck for an answer because I usually know the answer or can find it fast. It’s something I’m good at and something I enjoy.
However, one thing I struggle with is sharing what I learn with others online. Offline, I’m OK but I know I consume massive amounts of information online and rarely give back any insights I may have gained from it.
So, one of my goals for 2009 is to start giving back. Getting back into this blog is a step in that direction. Got any questions?
What a long week! I spent this whole week taking some SharePoint training classes and my brain is tired. It was kind of nice to be a way from work but I know I have a lot of work to get caught back up on next week. Especially since I’ll be on vacation the week after.
Anyway, back to SharePoint…my company is interested in implementing at least some of SharePoint internally so after playing with it for a while, I decided I probably should take some classes before going any further with it. It’s flexible (almost too flexible) and can be very confusing.
After a week of classes, I have a better understanding of it but I still find pieces of it confusing. There are just a lot screens that look similar and often have similar functionality but you can only get to them in very specific ways. It can be difficult to find the specific screen you need to find. Even the instructor got lost in the interface a few times, so I don’t feel too bad when that happens now.
Overall, I see some great potential in SharePoint but I also see the potential for a lot of work maintaining it. Luckily for now, we’re only going to be using WSS 3.0 and not the full SharePoint 2007 software and we’re only going to roll it out to one department at a time. More than likely, we’ll eventually start using the full version but for now, the basic version will make a big difference…better document management, document versioning, better and easier to use interface than our current Intranet, etc.
I’m excited!
Speaking of echoes, I think the “Web 2.0 Bubble” echo has been done to death. That’s not to say that I agree or disagree with those stories; just that I’m tired of seeing headlines about it.
The “Web 2.0 Bubble” doesn’t need to be reevaluated and written about every single day! Not much has changed since yesterday; give it a two or three weeks before revisiting it please!
Today is definitely an echo day! Luckily, this doesn’t happen every day, but you can see what I’m talking about over on TechMeme today.
I don’t want to add to the echo so I’m not even going to point out exactly what I’m talking about but it should probably be pretty obvious. Of course, the issue is not as big of deal as most people are making out of it and I think most bloggers have figured that out.
Anyway, I love the blogsphere but it can be annoying when most people are just repeating what others have already said without adding any substantial commentary of their own. I can’t fault the bloggers that posted earlier when these echoes blow up but all the ones since just add unnecessary noise to the conversation. To make the situation worse, you just know that Mainstream Media is going to pick up the echo the next day and add even more unnecessary noise to the conversation!
The funny thing is that this could be avoided if most of these people used tools like TechMeme. It’s a great tool (I use it daily!) and you can see an echo on there pretty easily when they happen.
I guess maybe most people don’t care and just want to join the link chain. Oh well.
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