Nigel Beck

a geeky New Year's Eve test

2011-12-31T22:57:00+00:00

(New Year's video here. This post is different: geeky little test... No need for any normal human to read!)

Anyway: normally I publish via ping.fm. Basically: you hook up facebook, twitter, etc to ping.fm, then you can use a ping.fm client, or just email, to send your item to ping.fm and it will publish to all the things you've hooked up to it. The nice thing is that there are lots of clients, and lots of places you can hook ping.fm up to.

2011 Year In Review

2011-12-30T20:55:00+00:00

Its that time of year again when all things good and bad draw to a close, vacations and paperwork and last minute business intersect, and the Champagne sellers have a ball.

My Heading Talking

2011-11-22T19:08:00+00:00

My venture into the world of video, enlightening all about the panel I'm on at Le Web 2011 on "Mobile Local Social in the Enterprise":

Hope to see you there!

My Bio

2011-11-11T17:07:00+00:00

More and more these days, I'm asked for "my bio". Or perhaps I should say "something called my bio". (My autohagiography?) I put it that way as "bio" really means a couple of different things depending on who is asking:

He Was A Young American

2011-09-09T22:31:00+00:00

Today, having abjured all allegiance to foreign potentates, I became an American citizen.

Independence Day

2011-06-29T16:05:00+00:00

Yes... its that time of year again, rolling around to when we once again celebrate the achievements of our Forefathers in creating the greatest force for freedom the world has ever known, mankind's last best hope.

I mean, of course, Canada Day.

Godzilla's Ch-ch-ch-changin'

2011-04-01T17:52:00+00:00

Several years back I was sitting on a kind of shuttle going to an event, and a woman next to me started chatting. She mentioned that her husband's office had recently gone to a casual dress code. I started to reply in some anodyne way about the virtues or lack thereof of such a dress code, but she kept on going.

"Yes, we had to buy him a whole new wardrobe" she said.

A quick summary of my recent trip to Asia

2011-03-17T19:35:00+00:00

As many of you know, I was recently off in Tokyo, then Singapore and Malaysia for business reasons. At some point, I'd like to post some broader observations. At this point, just a couple of things.

First and obviously foremost: A week after my departure, Japan was hit with the terrible combination of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear catastrophe. Like many, I am challenged to understand the scale of the disaster, made especially poignant by my recent visit and my appreciation of the kindness and talents of my new friends in the Japan team. Please forgive my not making those reflections a further part of this post: the right words have not yet been found, not here and not by me. Fortunately, those friends old and new and their families and colleagues are all safe. Many, of course, continue to face challenging circumstances.

Social Business and blogsnwikisnthings #ls11

2011-01-29T22:19:00+00:00

Well, for the first time in a long time (I think over ten years?), I'm down at Lotusphere where all the talk promises to be about "social business". I'm actually quite interested in social business, so I thought I'd write about it periodically here, usually tagged "innovation" and/or "technology". The views here on this (or any!) subject are mine and not necessarily those of the IBM company, and my intent is to explore thoughts in this area, as in other areas on this blog, rather than shill for my employer. Its a new line for me to walk, so if I stray the course, please advise.

Tangled Up In Blue

2010-11-17T04:46:00+00:00

Its been a while (okay, five months...) since I've posted, and many of you could well wonder if this blog had died the unfortunate death of so many similar efforts.

Alas! The blog lives! The same morbid fascination that drew you in earlier to read my rants and bizarre opinions will rear up its ugly head and do the same again!