I went to Social Media Breakfast East Bay and @irenenelson took these awesome notes and tweeted them.

Another visual resume-re.vu

http://re.vu/noellemac

My resume in a word cloud

vizualize.me - Noelle 's profile

vizualize.me - Noelle 's profile http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/4203986/word_cloud_resume

Should is a four letter word

I hate the word should. The phrase, "you should be writing a blog" rattles around in my head along with the half-baked ideas that could be blogs. I struggle with writing and I know that the only way to become a better writer is to write more. So now, I am diving into my latest idea. This blog, here on blogspot is my blog scratch paper. Its a start, and hopefully one that goes somewhere.

Generally, I think blogs with a focus are best, though there are some really great personal blogs as well. My big idea is to write about my adventures around the social web. This will encompass personal and professional ideas, conversations and anecdotes. Its been fun and exciting what the net unfold and evolve. I hope to glean some pearls of wisdom while contemplate what I have seen and continue to experience.

The Semantic Web: What It Is and Why It Matters [VIDEO]

The Semantic Web: What It Is and Why It Matters [VIDEO]

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There is no information overload, only filter fail

One of the things that the internet has fundamentally changed is language, so I find it a little bit ironic that there is much buzz about the semantic web because the culture of web 2.0 is chock full of all kinds of creative uses of language. The most recent term I learned is bacn. Bacn is that email that is jamming your inbox. It is not spam but it sometimes feels like it. Its is all information that you opted to have sent to you, but you really don't have time to read, but you think you will some day so it sits in your inbox unread. I was happy to know that I am not the only one that has this problem, but also that it is common enough to have a clever slang word.

I opened my gmail and all I could see was bacn. A transient moment of information overload came over me, until I realized the situation was a filter fail. And the failure was on my part, because I had failed to use the filters available in gmail. In less than 15 minutes I had set-up several filters to index and archive my lists without ever going to my inbox. Search-centric email is the greatest thing that has happened since email itself. Google's mission is to organize the worlds information, but I know at least in my world, mission accomplished.