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Imagine if you had a question about a technology purchase see an available terminal online with a camera… post a quick question… and within seconds get world wide response from your Seesmic friends.

Think that is too far fetched?

It just happened this morning at a Best Buy.

Wow.

Geeked out :)

CNN ran a spot highlighting that ABC news and their employers reached a settlement to be reimbursed for non-work hours blackberry time. The clip is below. I would like to take it a step further and ask how you manage your time while having such a device. I find it that the more responsive I am, the more folks assume I will always be as responsive. If I am not quick to respond, then many clients, coworkers, friends, and family tend to take it personal.

So the question is… is creating an expectation of responsiveness a good thing?

What about that family time? Or the date time?

How do you manage?

A GREAT new web 2.0 video site for TV episodes, clips, etc.

What better way to showcase this new technology then with this great clip!

The race for the newest opt-in tool or gadget has given way to a more transparent real time reflection of your day to day life, and we are signing up for it eagerly.

Is this a bad thing?

Folks know I am down with the social networks.  I am able to maintain the many personal and professional connections that I have made via the tweets, the facebook messages, or the old school txt messages back and forth. I am… plugged in. I am down with that fact. My previous post mentioned some concerns I have had balancing the two worlds while I am this plugged in, which apparently many also have concern with, bult ultimatly I am down and plugged in.

The latest technology I have been a fan of is online video and in real time.  I have fooled around with Qik and ooVoo. I am completely addicted to Seesmic. More technology like Conversa and Phreadz are in the works. With 3G technology being bridged with real time streaming to web combined with a “follow me” technology like BriteKite and Fire Eagle, is this level of transparency a good thing?

We previously spoke about building your personal brand and being confident in who you are while using such social networks. In the world of public affairs, public relations, and marketing these networks are a way to stay plugged in with your peers. If you’re not online and using these systems… you are behind the game. You voluntarily sign up as to keep up.  This voluntary sign up is opening your day to day life into a wider audience. Is this seemingly narcissistic behavior a good thing?

We are in essence jumping up and down at the next tool to make our life less private and more accessible to the world.

Are you down for your life to be open source?

What is the fine line that makes you too nervous to cross?

I often try to figure out how to balance personal and professional in the online world of facebook, twitter, blogs and the like. I know many of you have many personal contacts on these online social networks, but also have professional contacts as well. So recently I opened this up for discussion over on seesmic. I was really pleased with the response that many try hard balance this as well. I would love to know your thoughts on this.

Here was one of the greatest responses from this online conversation.

For more responses, click on the conversation videos on the left:

Sorry I have not posted much on the SpidelBlog much.  We kicked off the PAC on Wednesday, and brought on a new client this week via BlueDynamic, so it has been kinda nuts. I am leaving tomorrow to New Orleans, LA for one of our clients to prepare for a national media campaign during the General Election around the issues of Gulf Coast Recovery.

During this past week and while in NOLA I have played and will be playing with some new technology for both SpidelBlog and BlueDynamic. You saw the podcast live on Wednesday night. Not the best quality, but the concept is there. I will be trying to podcast live from NOLA to test the cell phone networks on quality. The goal is to create real time high quality video for our future projects (such as blogging live from the floor at both DNCC and RNC.)

You can see some of this work on the media section of BlueDynamic, but we have a lot more to upload and play around with. You will start to see some of this technology pop up on political sites that are our clients. So stay tuned. Until then… consider SpidelBloe my beta blog to test it all out :)

You will see some of this stuff while I am in NOLA the next few days. Feel free to comment on the quality and provide some feedback overall.

Peace,

Kevin

Sign a brief pledge that you’re not down with torture or the existance of Guantanamo Bay detention facility, and one of the pixels in the disturbing photo that represents the prison fades to black.

That pixel is yours forever; your name pops up in a little balloon over it.

Head on over, tear a pixel down, and forward to your friends: http://www.tearitdown.org

Pretty slick.