Q-bits

Antique Cash Register,
originally uploaded by beecue.

You don’t see many of this anymore, so when I passed one being displayed in a Vienna store somewhere in the 3rd district, I had to snap a picture. Never mind that the reflection of the display glass sorts of spoil the shot.

Beginning May 2010, this blog is no longer being actively maintained. Instead a copy has been migrated to a new domain – http://www.q-bits.net – which will from here on be hosting this blog as well as my other net activities.

In the next couple of days, I will be putting in a redirect that will automatically take users from this site to the new one. In the meantime, please click on this link to access the blog’s new location.

Interesting campaign now being launched by Greenpeace UK against Nestle, the maker of Have a Break, KitKat using social media tools. Makes one think twice before taking another bite of chocolate.

Pat Metheney is currently is on a world tour promoting his new CD, Orchestrion, a forward-looking musical experience which features him alone with 25 or more musical instruments that he controls and plays remotely with an array of foot pedals and through his custom-built guitar.
As he told the gathered fans at the Wiener Konzerthaus one balmy spring-like evening, “You must all be wondering what you’ve come in here for and so am I. What’s going on is too complicated and would take longer than two hours to explain. I’d rather play for two hours.”

The survey results are in on the social media profile of international organizations and the figures are looking good. All in all, about 61 respondents from some 36 international organizations participated in the survey. This included but was not limited to the United Nations family of organizations. The survey ran for two months, from 25 November 2009 to 25 January 2010.

I would be analyzing the results in more detail in the coming days. But for now here are the main highlights:

With the apparent holiday silliness now firmly behind us and with the the dawn of a new year and new decade, it is high time to get down to the serious stuff.

For me that means finally getting serious on starting and finishing that dissertation on social media, which would hopefully land me that long awaited MSc, if not a place in the now very crowded arena of social media experts. Work-wise, it also means finishing up this loooooong, drawn-up project for a redesign, nay face lifting of our organization’s public web site. And finally, it means getting a serious handle on whether I should jump career and workplaces this close to retirement. (Yes, head hunters, let it be known indeed that I ‘could be’ available.)

Lest I get carried away on that topic, here’s a link to a survey I’m currently running on organizations’ use of social media. Please participate if you’re in anyway involved with social media in your company or organization. I would need as diverse a respondent as possible. So far,I’ve received more than a 100 visits already but 70% abandon or do not fill up the survey (normal numbers, they say).

Happy New Year to one and all.

‘Tis the season to be silly. Here’s my take on it:

Here’s a recent collaborative effort on timelapse photography, with Kresimir Nikolic and Dean Calma doing most of the work.

This performance – by Ukraine’s Got Talent winner Kseniya Simonova – is simply too amazing to pass up.