Sneak Peak at Upcoming LinkedIn Article

I've recently been hitting the social networking scene, only I've taken a different path than most of my peers who are my age and younger. Instead of the MySpace addicts and FaceBook fiends, I hopped onboard LinkedIn.com, a professional networking site, to create an account and accept my initial invitation from a friend of mine who I do business with online. What started this "late bloomer" beginning in the world of social networking sites really had to do more with my current employment than personal desire. I work for an executive search firm that among other things desires more efficient and smarter ways of doing business. One of the reasons why I was brought on board was to help in this area. Fast forward to today, and I have a full-fledged LinkedIn premium account with 35 connections. Granted, that's a small number of connections (or "friends" for you MySpace folk), but you're looking at someone who had NO desire whatsoever to join and setup an account at a social networking site.

Next post, I will talk about the benefits of using LinkedIn both as a business user and for your own personal gain. I will also start to delve in other Web 2.0 technologies that I've begun to really start using, mostly at work. I'll mention several relevant articles that helped me to understand how these tools work, so that hopefully they can help you to do the same.

In the meantime, feel free to click on that shiny new button to the left that looks like this: to see my LinkedIn.com profile. Until next time!

Happy New Year! 2008

Happy New Year to everyone! May this year, 2008, be bigger and brighter than ever. 2007 went by so fast and a great deal has happened in just this short year alone. A lot is going on in the technology community including ever more complex gadgets and hardware consolidating features into ever smaller packages. That is going to be the theme for this year: miniturization. Whether it be the consumer, education, private or military sectors, this theme will be universal and integral in providing cutting-edge devices that solve our world's most complex and even simplest problems.

My goal is to attend at least 1-2 trade shows this year that deal with consumer electronics, robotics, convergence technology, or a related field and bring that coverage right here to Convergence Daily. Last year, as part of my daytime job, I attended the AGC Trade Show in Austin, TX to learn and understand more about the construction equipment industry, its players, and the equipment and vehicles typically used. Convergence technology is playing a role in this industry as well with major players using virtual simulators to teach new equipment operators the ropes before they jump behind the "wheel" of that million dollar piece of equipment. More advanced controlling mechanisms and software algorithms are being developed to make the training simulations as accurate and true-to-life as possible. In addition, we will probably see more advanced video monitoring & other technologies used in dozers, haulers, and other construction equipment in the hopes of increasing the overall safety of the operator(s) and protecting the investments of the equipment owners as well.

I'm continuing my major in Computer Engineering with a minor in Business Administration in the hopes of going into business full-time working for myself. This year will be a pivotal year of changes for me and will hopefully bring together some positive changes for this blog along with my other site Neowave.us.

Until next time!