What’s Happening in An Bui’s Life
An Bui en Flight to Astoria, OR
Some of you noticed that I’ve been pretty quiet lately, after I finished 10 Principles of Social Media. Well, people began to engage us on different real-world applications. One of these was the University of Lisbon who asked for a brief thought-exercise. They wanted us to think of ways the 10 Principles would apply to education.
We applied the 10 Principles to educations’ need to:
- Broadcast Value
- Streamline Publication
- Increase Communication
- Increase Access to Information and Resources
You can download Modus Cooperandi’s paper on Social Media for Higher Education for the University of Lisbon by clicking the link.
Bill Anderson and Jim Benson also guest-hosted a Yi-Tan call that covered: (1) how Agile formed, (2) its central tenets, and (3) lessons for the rest of business. I participated on the IRC backchannel (shh - it was my first time using IRC).
Agile methods have been applied for the last decade or so to programming teams. Agile metholodogies provided structure to minimize poor communication, unrealistic expectations, and unpredictable deliverables.
Agile primarily focuses on:
- Acknowledging that change is part of any endeavor
- Greatly increasing the frequency of discourse and review
- Assumptions are the rope from which the noose of business is tied
Click here to listen to Jim Benson and Bill Anderson discuss Agile
Craig Sutton was also so kind as to interview me for his blog, The Bit Boss. I share my thoughts on Twitter, what I do, social media, what motivates me, and my favorite book. So I’ve been busy - 2009 has seen me in Boulder and San Francisco. I’ll be going to Eugene and back to Boulder shortly. It’s also a matter of time before I go back to Bay Area as well. 