I Thought This Would be Easy!
Friday, July 27, 2007 at 12:17PM So much for being a professional podcaster and the easy life! I had a crazy day yesterday. Started off by presenting to a local group of business people all about the benefits of podcasting. It went really well and got a great reaction. I'll post up the slides when I get a minute. Then back home to prep this weeks show. Sudden change of direction due to circumstances beyond my control so didn't get much done. Then taxi-ing my daughter to Liverpool and back - twice Some family time Re-prepping this weeks show Discovered some redirect problems with the ScreenCastsOnline site Then staying up until 2am to participate in this weeks Mac Round table Followed by some quick support emails until 3:20am and bed. Up at 7am Fixed the site, more emails and then taxi my daughter (and friends) to the train station. Back home and record this weeks screencast. It's now lunchtime and it's finally ready for editing but needs to be done and dusted before some friends come over this evening. But you know, I wouldn't have it any other way! I may just have a lazy weekend - dream on!
Ok, so it took me a while and the process was a little bit painful, but I finally get FaceBook!
In case you don't know (!), FaceBook is (yet another) social networking tool/community.
Yes, I know, not another one :-)
But after playing with it for a month or two, it's providing to be surprising useful and also pretty addictive. There are elements of overlap with other tools but what is providing to be the clincher for me is the availability of plugins or applications for FaceBook that allows the sharing of data from other services based on your configuarion but more importantly, based on what friends you have and what information they are sharing.
I've now got friends from the blogosphere, podcasting, family, local businesses and those who are geographically local to me all mixed in and it's becoming quite a centralised pool of information. Only this morning, I added the upcoming application into my FaceBook account and found three events local to me that I was not aware of, automagically!
It's not the most obvious tool to get your head round but I think it deserves a screencast in the coming weeks on how to set it up and I'll demonstrate what sort of uses, I'm putting it to.
If you want to join FaceBook in the meantime and checkout my public profile, you can find me at:
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