msg/talk/dashboard.mkd



% messaging dashboard
% Jonas Smedegaard
% Denmark, December 2012
Overview

Background - Open standards tools
Dashboard
Data
Enhancing data
Feeding Dashboards
Personalizing your dashboard

Background - Custom tools or open standards tools
Background - Custom tools

Owners can innovate
Others run behind, maybe innovate bits but on owners' mercy
Innovation not really needed: incentive is weak
Leads to stagnating innovation: mono culture

Background - Open standard tools

Anyone can innovate
Those innovating lead
Innovation is power: incentive is high
Leads to lively innovation

Dashboard

shows personal "tip of the iceberg"
needs data already organized (not a magic bullet!)
proposes sensible grouping of organized data

Data - Types of material

Articles (blogs, reports, news columns, ...)
Activities (tweets, presence hints, ...)
Media (audio/vide recordings, slide compositions, sketches, ...)
Agents (persons, organisations, ..., crowds?)

Data - Sources


Open public (and private?) hubs (blog aggregations, ...)


Closed data silos (Facebook, Google, ...)


Organizational resources (filesystems, mails, relations, ...)


Select personal resources (presence, relations, bookmarks, ...)


! Understand and embrace the power of copyleft


Data - Interesting stuff
Reasons why something should appear at "top of the iceberg".

New
Popular
Due
Inspiring
...

Data - streams (not pieces)

Not just the movie web page
Not just the event behind the movie
Not just the broker of the movie
Not just the discussion around the movie
The channels of web pages, events, brokers, discussions, etc.

Enhancing data

Semantics often missing, esp. for most local data
Must be dead convenient
Be loose - tags not folders, share generously

Enhancing data - tagging

Pick a tag, and apply to many resources
Get a batch  of suggestions, and approve/reject
Work fast and sloppy - verify later and collaboratively

Enhancing data - channeling

Share genereously

Feeding Dashboards
Personalizing your dashboard
The End - Use the source, Luke

Me: dr@jones.dk
This talk: http://dr.jones.dk/msg/dashboard/