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Community call 07-21-2009

From Dreamfish

Dreamfish Community Call

G'morning. Here are the notes from last week's community call. We'll build another agenda for today based on everyone's interests. ;^)

Contents 1 Checkin 2 Topics 2.1 investing in our personal brands 2.2 Relevancy of personal brand 2.3 Changing gears for work, how do people deal with that?

[edit] Checkin

• Tiff
• Maureen - thinking about assessing relevancy of how personal brand connects to a particular community
• Johannes: satisfaction with completed work Scott: doing a presentation. Switching gears
• Eckhart

[edit] Topics

• Tiff: marketing our work; developing/investing in our personal brands
• Maureen: relevancy of personal brand for a particular audience
• Scott: Changing gears for work, how do people deal with that?

[edit] investing in our personal brands

Tiff has two blogs and has been trying to get the information together and usable for others. She would like to start using slideshare to get past presentations publicly available.

new blog post: http://vonemmel.com/2009/07/playing-into-the-future/

If we don't position our work ourselves, someone else will do it.

Maureen: There's a lot of issues related, time management, creating deliverables that you can show as cases for work. Such as on the Dreamfish Service Team, doing User Experience work to tangibly be able to show. Tiff: pulling process work out to write about to demo intangible expertise Johannes: Everything i have come up as style for projects with has been used so far.

[edit] Relevancy of personal brand

Maureen: How to create relevancy. Twitter is good, blog. Doing projects further work. i haven't been promoting my brand. Have been separating art and user experience

Scott: Experience changes with personal brand. Example: Scott Monty of Ford http://twitter.com/scottmonty

Maureen: multi-tasking your personal brand or brands --how can your goals & values help to focus or streamline...

[edit] Changing gears for work, how do people deal with that?

Scott: I can switch between tasks easily, but when I have a stack of work that needs to get done, it gets harder. The internet is a distraction.

Tiff: used a google app to see where we are putting out time. Take a week of time and estimate how much time is put int different contexts. Evaluate and see where to shift.

Maureen: try clustering smaller, similar, related tasks. Ask what work you can do away from the computer to avoid the distraction. Some work can be done on paper and the transcribed to computer. Develop the muscle against distraction.

Johannes: bookmarks are one click away and become a distraction. Uses the blogs or other distractions as a rewward for completing a task, but sometimes it's so easy that more time is spent on the rewards, especially as the day goes on.

Scott: an offline Wiki Text Editor would be great

Maureen: Work on "offline" as a mental space instead of physically disconnecting.