2008 Highlights

This will likely be my last blog post of 2008 and I would like to recap my 2008 accomplishments since I will also do this with my IBM manager soon. Here goes:

• Published 3 articles on IBM's intranet (including one on social software that generated 3,200+ page views)
  
• Created Knowledge Library utilizing Dogear (IBM's social bookmarking application like del.icio.us) and WikiCentral (IBM's wiki application)
  
• Discovered and ulitized Wordles (while it may not provide large ROI, these do come in handy when attempting to visually explain something, see Visual Eyes)
  
• My wife had our third child (Kathryn Elise)on March 28
  
• Produced many internal videos and podcasts covering topics such as selling application services, social software, and effective voice mails.
  
• Produced 5 Social Software Story Videos that highlighted business use cases for applications such as Blogs, Dogear, Cattail, and Wikis.
  
• Developed and distributed multiple Firefox Search Add-Ons customized for IBM sellers. (If you are not utilizing the Firefox search box at the top right of your browswer, I highly recommend this time saver)
  
• Learned some Perl for the TeamIQ project
  
• Developed TeamIQ, a tool that aggregates the social presence of a team (imagine a table with links to your team members' Facebook friends, Google Docs, Del.icio.us bookmarks, and Blogs).
  
• Won the Beehive API contest with TeamIQ
  
• Traveled to Leeds, England to produce a sales training video
  
• Won an iPod Nano in a blog commenting contest (then gave it to my wife for Christmas. She loved it!)