Monthly Archives: February 2007

Working with the Architecture of the Space

James Governor on Adobe Engage, held yesterday and today in San Francisco:
I liked the short introduction from David Mendels, senior VP enterprise and developer solutions, when he talked about how the layout of the room is a little formal, based on a presenter and an audience, rather than being a roundtable of more participatory environment. […]

How to Make Your Blog Popular

Through my blogging at Web Worker Daily, I got an email asking how to make a blog popular or hot. While my goal at Anne 2.0 is more personal expression than popularity, I have learned a few things about making a blog popular at Web Worker Daily:

Limit yourself to one topic. Your entire set of […]

On Enthusiasm, Volunteering, and Making Money

Johnnie Moore on enthusiasm (via James):
I found the original meaning of enthusiasm, from the Greek, was (my italics):
inspiration or possession by a divine afflatus or by the presence of a god
If you like, enthusiasm is about showing up in the here and now - a good way to counter anxiety, I find. You can invoke […]

Life Rhythms

We like to think of life and career in terms of progress and achievement and moving forward or upwards… but that’s not really how it is, is it? It’s more like spiraling, maybe like sine waves, perhaps chaos. But no, not chaos, because there are repeating patterns and cycles. Twenty years ago I left Denver […]

Feeling Sick or Stressed? Check out Web Worker Daily’s Latest

We’ve had a tough February at Web Worker Daily. I was out of town in SF at the beginning of the month, Judi’s husband has been away in Europe, then Mike and I got sick this week. Judi, Mike, and I all have other jobs besides our WWD blogging plus we’re parents too (and Mike […]

Making the Virtual Self Real

I’ve just returned from the Sun Analyst Summit where I acted out industry analyst suchness in person. I had to repeatedly answer the question, “where did you come from?” which I know aimed at understanding my professional background but landed on me differently, because having been out of the workforce for five plus years I […]

California Dreamin’, On Such a Winter’s Day

I’ll be in San Francisco Monday through Wednesday this week for Sun’s Analyst Summit. Should be a good time–I get to see and meet lots of people I want to see and meet at the same time that I escape Denver’s interminable intolerable unbelievable winter for three days.
My schedule’s largely spoken for at this point, […]