what am I thinking?

Good question. I’m wondering why I’m inputting my exercises to both Dailymile and Dailyburn (the web 2.0 application formerly known as Gyminee). Really, I do know the answer to this and the fact that the CyberSalon peeps just switched their quarterly challenge from Dailyburn to Dailymile confirms it. The challenge feature in Dailyburn would only allow folks to input one type of exercising (in this case “running") when folks in the challenge were doing lots of other things (walking, hiking, swimming, biking, etc.).

cc licensed flickr photo shared by galo/*

We have to test run and play with these various technologies to really get the feel for what they can and cannot do. It actually reminds me of LMSs; on the one hand, an LMS is an LMS is an LMS (someone at Blackboard as well as one of the Sakai programmers are sending me bad vibes as I write this). On the other hand...we know that they all have various hidden “gems” and “nightmares.” And we don’t find these specifics out about any technology until were actually playing in the system. Posting this blog also comes after my third time facilitating a LinkedIn workshop targeted to baby boomers. They keep asking about the hows and whys of these various systems (for example wanting to compare LinkedIn to Facebook and Twitter). And one of the main messages I keep trying to send is...you just have to jump in for a while to see what/if/how/why they work for you! Or...we can go have a long conversation about each of them over beer and wings!

So I’ll post this blog, and tweet about it, and push that tweet to Facebook, so like with my exercising, I’m posting to different locations. But I know the feedback I’ll get from each location will be slightly different.
PS...thanks CogDog for the rockin Greasemonkey Flickr citation script. The English Citation Nazi side of my brain loves you!

July 07 2009 | Posted in