Sue-Point-Oh!

I’m not sure what is taking off quicker right now, real estate 2.0 sites or job listing 2.0 sites. Since I’m not buying a house anytime soon I’ve been spending a lot more time viewing the latter.

JobFox provides a service where they take your experience, ask your some survey questions about each position to figure out what you really did and then create a map of your skills. It’s sorta concept map meets tag bubble. Here is my map for my Training skills.

To see my full career page, click here
http://www.jobfox.com/people/susancline

What I like about this site is that people spend hours figuring out how to describe each position they have had on their resume. Employers are really looking for a set of skills like “cash register” rather than knowing that the employee “took patron’s money, made change and balanced register.” JobFox help the candidate par down previous job positions into a set of marketable skills.

I was directed to these “fifteen things” lists on Collaborage.com: Enterprise 2.0 Implementation Overview and I think they make great materials for presentations introducing the enterprise to web 2.0 technology. I would like to take the lists and adapt them for an education focused audience.

Fifteen Things Wiki Users Need Training On

Tuesday: July 3, 2007 10:50 AM Here are fifteen things end users need training, education, or training on. Don’t assume anything.
1. How to title your entry so that people understand the context
2. How to search and locate relevant content so content isn’t replicated
3. How to tag content
4. How to write clearly and succinctly
5. How to add attachments
6. How to include an image in the page
7. Other methods of content discovery; most popular, recently updated
8. How to use Rich text Editor or WYSIWYG Editor
9. How to use the Wiki markup syntax
10. How to create a new page or use [new page] function
11. How to roll back history and versioning
12. Understand that diversity of opinion is critical to wiki success
13. How to edit a page
14. How to manage your pages and keep the information current
15. Wiki policies and procedures

Fifteen Ways to Deliver Training the Enterprise 2.0 User Needs

Tuesday: July 3, 2007 4:09 PM 1. Online Instructions
2. Step-by-Step Guides
3. Product Documentation
4. One Page Tip Sheets
5. Communities of Practice
6. Lunch and Learns (Brown Bags)
7. Road Shows
8. Consulting Engagements
9. Word of Mouth
10. Frequently Asked Questions
11. Glossary of Terms
12. Sample Environments where users can see a Business sample
13. Podcasts
14. Video Training (Webcasts)
15. External Sources (Books, Classes, Magazine, Journals, etc.)

Fifteen Wiki Metrics That I would Like to See

Sunday: July 8, 2007 8:42 PM 1. Wiki Page Count
2. Page Update Chart with Quantity on the top and Age on the bottom
3. Number of Page Views Day, Week and Month
4. Popular Tags and Search Phrases
5. Number of Content Producers (People Updating the Wiki Information)
6. Number of Consumers (Readers of the Wiki Information)
7. % of Active versus Non-Active Producers (Active = Updated in the Past Two Weeks)
8. Number of Downloads
9. Distribution of Authorship (What are the most diverse pages?)
10. Most Updated Wiki Pages
11. Page Path Analytics (Where did the Reader Come From?; Tag Clouds, Search, Links)
12. Most Popular Pages
13. Most Linked to Pages
14. Longest Page
15. Most Favorite or Highest Ranked Page

The other day I presented the radical claim that zombies may be just as hot, if not hotter than pirates right now. This was based on the popularity of movies like “Shaun of the Dead”, “28 Days Later” and the recent Andy Samburg video where he punches people in the face while eating and then does a zombie dance. I thought that perhaps pirates had reached their peak last year with the third Pirates of the Caribbean movie and the pirate Halloween costume crazy of 2006.

However - according to Google trends the term “pirates” has a much higher search volume than “zombies”:

At first I thought this could have been because “Pirates” is also the name of an baseball team. However, internationally, where baseball is not as popular, the results hold strong, “pirates” are the winner.

(Blue = pirates, Red = red)

It should be noted that the search rate for “zombies” is a bit more substantial in the US, UK, and Canada. The UK did come up with “28 Days Later” and “Shaun of the Dead”.

It’s official - pirates are still hotter than zombies right now.

Recently revisited Lewis Carrol’s famous “Jabberwocky” poem. Some claim this poem is the greatest “nonsense poem” of all time. Carrol made up many of the words by combining sounds and letters from two or more words.

“‘Twas brillig, and the slithy toves

Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

All mimsy were the borogoves,

And the mome raths outgrabe.”

 

Mimsy = miserable & flimsy

Slithy – Combination of “slimy” and “lithe.”

 

Do any of these nonsense words seem a bit familiar?  Are our favorite webtreprenuers using “portmanteau”  (fuses two or more words or word parts to give a combined or loaded meaning) to create their website names?

 

Eventful? YouTube?  Blinksale? Fotki? BitTorrent? 

 

Beginning to sound a bit like a Lewis Carroll poem, eh?

 

 

 

 

 

You may have noticed that I changed the name of my blog from “the art of eating a pomegranate” to “Sue Point oh!”. I had to make the name change because I was looking at my Google Analytics and noticed that most of my Google visitors arrived by searching for “pomegranate eating” and I felt like I was being misleading. So now I’ve adopted this cheezy new title - my name does rhyme with “two” and I felt that I had the moral obligation to do it. If people start complaining of feeling sick to their stomach by the cheesiness of it all then I will find something a bit less cutesie.

Now, back to those pomegranates - November is national pomegranate month and pomegranates are all the rage right now for their health benefits. Here is a link to the instructional website I made with tips on how to open, juice, and eat a pomegranate.

No, that ‘J’ is not for “Jesus”, its for “Jacob Nielsen”.

Read what JN has to say regarding the 1:9:90 rule termed “participatory inequality”. I love that the 90% group is tagged “lurkers”!

Participation Inequality: Lurkers vs Contributers on Online Communities.

CraigStats!

I’m in the process of looking for a new apartment in San Francisco and feeling quite forlorn because there are very vacant apartments and tons of qualified tenants at Open House. Apparently the market now is similar to how it was during the dot-com boom where one-bedrooms in lowest low of Lower Haight are renting for $1800.00.

Thanks to CraigStats I can now put graphs and visuals to the depression that is searching for an apartment in San Francisco. This site uses apartment listing data from CraigsList and the Google Maps API technology. One of the best features of this site are the heat maps overlaid on the city showing density for high rents, vacancies, postings, etc. Apparently NYC, LA and Seattle are next on the list to receive the CraigStats treatment.

On another note - what’s up with the “I crotch San Francisco” logo at the top right of this page? What does that mean? I’m willing to accept “heart” as a verb because it sounds cute, like a puppy, “I heart NYC” but I’m not sold on this crotch business.

If you are using IE you are out of luck but you Firefox users reading my blog now have the chance to choose the color theme for this blog by clicking on the small color squares in the upper-right. Feeling down, go for the blue! Trying to get in the mood for the environmental theme of this year’s Burning Man, go ahead and choose green! This is a really great skittles candy inspired theme that also includes the possibility to make it fixed or fluid width. Can’t quite seem to figure out how to get over the IE hurdle but I shall persevere because it’s important for me to provide my blog readers with color choices.

I was noticing my mail friends check their gmail the other day and I saw that my male friends seemed to click on the subject heading of the email to open it while the females clicked on the name of the sender to open the mail. Could this be due to the fact that women are more people/relationship oriented while men are more fact/object oriented? Perhpas it’s time for Dr. John Gray to come up with a “Men are from Mars, Women are Venus, 2.0″ book.