This week marks the one year anniversary of my blog. It's unbelievable to me that it was 12 months ago I launched with my inaugural post Why I'm Blogging About Collaboration. Now, still blogging and 30 posts later, I'm going strong and enjoying every time I make a new entry. To mark my personal milestone I thought it would be fun to do a year in review with an image and a few comments on my most popular posts!
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| Bob and colleague Andrew Graley in scrubs to observe open heart surgery |
A highlight of my blogging year was this post (June 2010) about the Hammersmith Echocardiology Conference 2010 at Hammersmith Hospital near London, England. I was participating with my colleague, Andrew Graley. Our task was to support an interactive video collaboration session in which the surgeon, Dr. Prakash Punjabi of the Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, performed open heart bypass surgery for a mitral valve repair while instructing and taking questions from a group of observing surgeons, medical students, and professors.
Into the Wild - Collaboration on the Trail
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| Bob at the San Joaquin River head waters, approaching Thousand Island Lake, Mt. Banner in background |
Probably my favorite and definitely the most fun, this recent post (July 2010) honestly did not have much to do with collaboration solutions but I probably received more "cool" comments on this than any other item. In July I hit the trail with a group of five other friends and family members on a 20 mile journey in Ansel Adams Wilderness, along the John Muir Trail in the Eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains between Mammoth Lakes, CA and Yosemite National Park. Following six months of planning, training, shopping for gear, and excitement about the trek we set out on the trail, each hiker with his own fundamental collaboration tools - a compass and a map.
Hyperconnectivity in the Blogger's Hub
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| Bloggers Hub in upper level of Radio City Music Hall at 2009 World Business Forum in NYC |
My most overwhelming blog (October 7, 2009) came during the World Business Forum (#WBF09) in the Blogger's Hub at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. At the time I was pretty new to blogging yet was a "Featured Blogger" as part of the event. It was baptism by fire into the behind the scenes hyperconnected life of a blogger. It turns out, though, that my fellow bloggers were fun, energetic, engaging, interactive, and desiring to connect for the exchange of ideas – all of the things good collaboration is made of. It didn’t surprise me that this group would portray those characteristics – after all, they’re bloggers looking to stimulate online discussion and bring interested content seekers to their sites. But what surprised me was the open attitude and spirit of sharing of their blogging process.
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| Bob with Eric Jones of O’ia-da Intl, preparing for live cultural exchange event by telepresence from Newark, NJ to Ghana, Africa |
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| Business meeting on Simpsons TV show featuring a conference call utilizing Polycom SoundStation conference phone (on table) |
The blog post which is in my biggest area of expertise (April 28, 2009) proves that anyone can utilize
collaboration solutions - even the Simpsons! Furthermore, the way in which such tools are used (the application in a business process) can be quite different depending on the functional department or line of business (LOB) in which collaboration solutions are being implemented. In my job as Chief Collaboration Officer at Polycom there are several "sweet spots", or most common applications, I have observed for collaboration solutions at many organizations.
collaboration solutions - even the Simpsons! Furthermore, the way in which such tools are used (the application in a business process) can be quite different depending on the functional department or line of business (LOB) in which collaboration solutions are being implemented. In my job as Chief Collaboration Officer at Polycom there are several "sweet spots", or most common applications, I have observed for collaboration solutions at many organizations.
Blogging over the past year has been an interesting ride! I've met some great people and learned a lot through my blogging experiences. What comes next for my blog? Well, I have some ambitious goals for the coming year - getting better with the speed and precision of the posting process, bringing in more guest writers in posting content, and perhaps even moving to a new blog platform. Whew, lots achieved but more to come. Here's to another year of blogging yet to come!
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