Anne Mims Adrian, PhD Alabama Cooperative Extension System at Auburn University [email protected] blog.aafromaa.com “How to Drink from a Fire Hose”
How to drink from a fire hose
May 12, 2015
How to drink from a fire hose. Presentation made to the North Carolina Cooperative Extension Virtual IT conference. Filtering based off of importance of the information.
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Anne Mims Adrian, PhDAlabama Cooperative Extension System at Auburn University
“How to Drink from a Fire Hose”
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Anne Mims Adrian, PhDAlabama Cooperative Extension System at Auburn University
How to Drink from a Fire Hose
“Today, if you're not staying current with Web 2.0 technologies' impact on business, then you're just not staying current. Period.”Sarah Perez of ReadWriteWeb
flickr.com/photos/rambleon/2384382498/in/set-72157604099911780/
150,000,000 active users
thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/
49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats
Unique URLs in Google’s index
1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion)
thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/ 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats
Wikipedia
2,695,205 - articles in English684,000,000 - visitors in 200875,000 - active contributors
thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/ 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats
YouTube
70,000,000 – videos (March 2008)412.3 years - time it would take to
view all content on YouTube (March 2008)
(sources here, here and here)
thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/ 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats
YouTube
13 hours - amount of video are uploaded every minute
$1,000,000 - YouTube’s estimated bandwidth costs per day
(sources here, here and here)
thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/ 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats
Blogosphere346,000,000 - people globally who read blogs (comScore March 2008)900,000 - average number of blog posts in a 24 hour period77% - active Internet users read blogsthefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/ 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats
Twitter stats
1, 376,315,900 - Tweets as of 3/23/2009 (continuous count )3,000,000 - Tweets/day (March 2008) (from TechCrunch)63% - Twitter users who are male (from Time)
thefuturebuzz.com/2009/01/12/social-media-web-20-internet-numbers-stats/ 49 Amazing Social Media, Web 2.0 And Internet Stats
Overwhelmed?
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The Age of SpeedLearning to Thrive in a More-Faster-New World
by Vince Poscente
Physical and traditional boundaries of time
Work
Home
Leisure
Multitasking IT
Productive in the long
run
Information through diverse social networks generates:
More revenue
More and faster completed projects
Workstreaming
OpenTransparenten.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workstreaming flickr.com/photos/tomsaint/2782080849/
WorkstreamingParticipative
Collaboration among a distributed workforce.
Enabled by creation of digital footprints and activity trails.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workstreaming flickr.com/photos/choconancy/433796533/in/set-72157603227477900
Blurring of work and personal
blog.k1v1n.com/2008/10/defining-freerange-enterprise.html
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Radical transparency
blog.k1v1n.com/2008/10/defining-freerange-enterprise.html flickr.com/photos/wonderlane/2349225382/
Burst style of working-anywhere / anytime
blog.k1v1n.com/2008/10/defining-freerange-enterprise.html flickr.com/photos/jswaby/936193896/
Contributions measured by value added
blog.k1v1n.com/2008/10/defining-freerange-enterprise.html flickr.com/photos/marcfonteijn/2608506370/
Personal responsibility and trust
blog.k1v1n.com/2008/10/defining-freerange-enterprise.html flickr.com/photos/shawdm/486400745/
Flatness in organizational hierarchyblog.k1v1n.com/2008/10/defining-freerange-enterprise.html flickr.com/photos/tomsaint/2782080849/
blog.k1v1n.com/2008/10/defining-freerange-enterprise.html flickr.com/photos/liberato/223754291/
Leveraging of edge competencies
Co-creation
blog.k1v1n.com/2008/10/defining-freerange-enterprise.html
Purpose driven
blog.k1v1n.com/2008/10/defining-freerange-enterprise.html
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Multiple areas of interest and avenuesWiki DocumentsTwitterFacebookFriendfeed Subject matterColleagues
Organization’s news (University, State Extension, National Extension, eXtension, USDA, National 4-H)
Bookmarks
Multiple areas of interest and avenuesEmailComments on blogs
(particularly my own)
Google AnalyticsFeedburnerGoogle Alerts
Communities (book club, Ning communities)
FlickrYouTubeGeneral newsPersonal
information
Information does not flow linearly
Relax
flickr.com/photos/zunami/2283133585/
Stay Curious
flickr.com/photos/jerobins/2760299430/
Use a “start page”iGoogleGoogle ReaderNetvibes
Network
Build relationships with those who share your interests.
Use your networkto filter
Participate ExploreLearn
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…that's part of the firehose …a mix of rapid fire ideas loaded with “imperfections”—a lot like life. Jason Adam Young
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Choose pipes, methods, and info based on your purpose and what you valueflickr.com/photos/namlhots/3096109459/
Go where people are
Keep skills up-to-dateKeep learning new tools
Technologies and communities will not stay constant
Lifestream—bring into one place
FriendFeedFeed readers (Google Reader)
Tweetdeck
My Google Reader
Priorities not categories
Re-tune filters
Manually constructAutomateContinuously re-tuneAre temporary
Re-think social structure & expectationsWe create, rethink, and re-tuned filters. Now we are in the flow.
How do we navigate the flow?
Re-tune filters
Updating the old filters is not the fix.
We create, rethink, and re-tuned the filters.
Topics for discussions
–How is email broken? –What are the solutions? –Other methods of sharing,
wikis, blogs, Twitter, FriendFeed, IM? –Still not working? More
solutions coming.
ResourcesEngaging Communities on their on Turf: Secrets of Social networkers
http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p79426457/
Not information overload--filter failure http://blog.aafromaa.com/2008/10/not-information-overload-filter-failure.html
ResourcesClay Shirky
"It's not information overload. It's filter failure" http://web2expo.blip.tv/file/1277460/ at Web 2.0 Expo NY
Beginner’s Guide to Social Media in Extension http://collaborate.extension.org/wiki/Beginners_Guide_to_Social_Media_in_Extension
ResourcesPoscente, Vince. The Age of Speed
Aral, Sinan and Van Alstyne, Marshall W., "Network Structure & Information Advantage: Structural Determinants of Access to Novel Information and Their Performance Implications" (January 18, 2007). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=958158
ResourcesRSS in Plain English, a video introduction to using news readers from Common Craft http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english
ResourcesFeeding Frenzy, an eXtension 30-Minute session recording presented by Beth Raney, extension http://connect.extension.iastate.edu/p51525211/ Use a newsreader, http://blog.aafromaa.com/2007/05/how-to-use-news-reader.html
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