Date and Location: July 22, 2006 – Red Hat Offices, Raleigh, NC.
What’s a BarCamp? Read this First!
A BarCamp is an unconference where people interested in a wide range of technologies come together to teach and learn. Unfamiliar with unconference? Here’s the idea in a nutshell. Rather than having scheduled speakers, everyone pitches sessions the morning of the BarCamp. Those sessions are put on a schedule, and lots of little groups form for intense group learning. Everyone is expected to teach, to talk, to participate. Yeah, its different from a regular conference – but it works!”
Author: Michael C. Habib
Thanks to Jeremy Hiebert for noticing my 43 Things Community Study
I just noticed it as I was assembling my ClaimId page, but Jeremy Hiebert posted about my 43Things Community Study. While he is correct that it is more of a review than a formal study, I thank him for focusing on the “gems” within. I have started reading his blog HeadsPaceJ and plan to continue doing so. His blog focuses on instructional design and interaction design which is a similar perspective to my own. Given that he too uses blogger, I hope he has backlinks turned on so that he notices my compliment.
Update to blog template
Now that I have started blogging again, I have updated the site quite a bit. Now that it is up and running properly, I am going to start adding some content. I am trying to put something in everyday to get in the habit.
I was just searching for my last name (habib) online and discovered http://www.freehabib.org/ which appears to be the site for an animation designer in Beirut. The only link on the site leads to some sort of music video.
Back to the blog and online identity
Okay, I am going to give it another go at keeping up with blogging.
I have been working on two personal projects (now three) lately:
1. Participating in social networking communities.
- During JOMC 191 I began participating in 43Things.com and this remains one of my favorites because it has a practicial goal beyond networking.
http://www.43things.com/person/mchabib - I began a LinkedIn profile when my old roomate from the University of Amsterdam sent me an invite. This also is one of my favorites because it is brutally practical in purpose.
http://www.linkedin.com/in/habib - I joined MySpace, Friendster, and Facebook because my friends use them. Most of my friends appear to be on MySpace. However some of my classier friends are only on Friendster. I have just started exploring Facebook, but look forward to seeing more of Fred Stuzman’s research on it.
http://myspace.com/habibmi
http://www.friendster.com/habibmi
http://unc.facebook.com/profile.php?id=2724087&l=29cd0f9cdf
2. I am working to build an online identity. While the social networking profiles are part of my strategy, ClaimID is the hub holding it all together. This is a great idea started locally by a few PhD students here at SILS. I would write my praises of it, but the folks at PostBubble have already said what needs to be said in this post. I have been working to add my ClaimID hcard to all of my various sites and have verified the sites that I can.
http://claimid.com/habib
3. Start to blog.
Back to school
Hopefully I will be able to blog more in a week or two once I settle in for the semester.