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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Outlook’s facebook integration
Apparently, every time I send an email from my McKinsey email address, and someone uses Outlook to view the email, they see my current Facebook profile image–a picture of me dressed up as a knight from Halloween, some 15 years ago. I’d never noticed this, as a Lotus Notes and Gmail user, so it was a bit of a surprise to be peering over a client’s shoulder and seeing my profile picture pop-up.
I thought that leaving my Facebook image public was harmless. And I still don’t mind if someone who searches for my name finds it. Images on Facebook are expected to be less formal. But Outlook doesn’t make the source of the images really clear, and I can imagine that some of the more staid executives I’ve worked with wouldn’t be too amused by the image, and potentially see it as a signal of immaturity.
I’d say that removing my work email is the main solution, or I could just set my profile picture to private, or change it to something that’s better suited to work. Facebook encourages adding email addresses though (which are used to verify your network), and I see Facebook as my non-professional network. So none of the options seems perfect.
Thoughts / suggestions? Am I missing anything here?
LinkedIn visualization
LinkedIn has a great tool which visualizes your connections. These connections–when you have enough of them, start forming networks. In my chart, the whole left area is Swarthmore — but there are clear separate networks for 2009, >2009, and <2009. I also find it telling that my family is large enough to get its own separate network placement.
You can view the whole thing here.
Google Reader trends: Mildly terrifying
(This is also a test of blog-Facebook integration.)
Playing by the rules
Andrew Sullivan pulls out some key excerpts from an essay by Freddie deBoer.
My take: The Occupy Wall Street movement appears like it might be getting taken over by people who think that they should be in a better situation because they played by the rules, and want their position in society restored/provided–instead of being led by people who think the rules themselves are the heart of the issue.
I guess that’s a key question. Is ‘success’ from occupy wall street increased employment, and a society where there is a clear path to the middle class (like we used to have–college -> law or whatever), or is it a complete re-imagination of our society? The former is a bit underwhelming.