Why Life Has Been Crazy: My Huge Job Announcement

May 23, 2008 by Jonathan · 3 Comments

Over the last few weeks I’ve been dropping hints on Twitter, but it’s about time I just came out with it. I’ve accepted a position at the Public Broadcasting Service. In case you’ve been wondering why the big move and road trip from Missouri to Washington DC was happening, that’s why.

I’m joining the ranks of those working full-time on social-media. Social media is such a huge part of the Internet now, and it’s not going anywhere and I’m here to make sure of that!

My title and job at PBS is Assistant Product Manager for PBS Engage. PBS Engage is the social media initiative funded by grants from the Ford Foundation and the Knight Foundation to get people to engage and connect with all of the great content that PBS distributes (like the awesome new series Carrier!).

The PBS Engage team is only a handful of people and the fate of social media is in our hands! Well ok, social media isn’t going anywhere regardless of whether or not we’re pushing for it, but I can dream right?

Feedback and response to Engage has been tremendous already with tons of comments on the Engage Blog, and lots of Twitter followers across PBS shows and communities.

At PBS I’ll be working with some really brilliant minds to come up with new ways of enabling participation, engagement, and conversation based around PBS content across the country. In addition to thinking of great ideas, we’re also building social tools to make things like social-networking even easier for PBS viewers regardless of the distribution channel used.

I’m really excited to be joining the PBS family here in the Washington DC area and am looking forward to seeing all of the progress we make in the next year.

With this new position I’ll be relying on YOU even more than before, so keep those @jdcoffman’s, dms, emails, and Facebook messages coming. Without YOU, there is no social-media.

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On Email Organization

April 22, 2008 by Jonathan · 1 Comment

For the last month or so I’ve been on a rampage, an email rampage. I haven’t quite hit Inbox Zero but inbox 30-40 suits me well actually. Here’s what I’ve done:

I now have only 2 visible email addresses, Gmail and my @jonathancoffman.com mail. Those other addresses (.Mac, Yahoo!, Mizzou, and my secondary Gmail) all now get picked up by my primary Gmail account, this way I only have two inboxes to check, and hopefully by responding to those with only one address I gradually get fewer and fewer messages going to those other addys.
Combining the last two addresses, my primary gmail and my domain email isn’t yet feasible. I can’t quite take myself down to that level yet. Because they’re used for two very different purposes (personal and professional) the use cases will remain mutually exclusive for the time being.
The downside to still having two inboxes: two sets of gmail tags/folders. My domain email is handled by GoogleApps (which I love by the way), so for now I have two identical but disconnected sets of tags.

My Current tag structure looks like this:

Account and Login Information
Banking
Bills
Blog Conversations
Contributr
Current Projects
Pipeline Projects
Coupons and Discounts
Job Hunting
Journalism School
Newsletters
Personal (family)
Private Betas
Product Orders
Service Orders
Require followup
Servers and Hosting
Social Media
Travel
URGENT

So as you can see I have a blend of informational, topical, and timeline based tags for my email. One of my goals is to set more auto-tagging rules for items to be placed where they belong. Right now I practice the art of triage in my inbox and sift and sort from there.

One glorious effect of this organization is that I find myself less stressed when I get a new message. I triage it as soon as it comes in, then reply, tag, or archive as time goes on.

I continue to be constantly connected in multiple ways and I don’t see myself moving from Inbox 30-40 to Inbox 0 anytime soon. Nor do I see myself cutting back on email usage to the point of only checking and responding a couple of times a day. I’m quite happy with my current schedule of approximately every 15 minutes (the minimum on my iPhone).

Something else I’ve noticed is that I don’t start up Mail on my laptop nearly as often as I used to. I almost exclusively use my iPhone to check and reply to emails. That is unless I need to send files or attachments since it’s not currently possible to do so on the iPhone.

Filed under: Blog, Personal Development and Branding
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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-03-14

March 14, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment

Back home, watched Mizzou loose to Nebraska over drinks with friends. Too bad our BBall team is busy beating on people #
@mightykenny congrats! #
@guykawasaki now THAT’S how you know you’ve really made it in the world! lol #
@zamees yeah you hate to see them blow it like that in the first round #
Good Morning Twitterville! #
Chatting with SoftLayer about a new server for Contributr, I think I have approval to purchase now #
DMV only took 20 minutes, its a miracle! #
@WindowsObserver iPhone for the win #
in Vegas, where would you recommend? The Bellagio, Hilton, Luxor or MGM Grand? #
hmm, my iPhone has said ‘no service’ for the last hour and a half, are the towers out around me? #

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Tagged: DS, Ike, Mizzou, phone, Twitt, Twitter, Twitter Updates

links for 2008-03-12

March 12, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment

How Apple Just Made All Other Mobile Platforms Irrelevant :: iPod Hacks :: The Latest and Greatest News and Info for Your iPod / iPhone
The Scalable Multi-Server Grid-Server Hosting Platform Pricing : GoGrid Pre-Paid Plans
Who has the $10,000 idea? Vote now! | Reynolds Journalism Institute | University of Missouri
Dinner for a week…. in one bag

This is a pretty cool idea, they send you an email each week with a shopping list of Kraft products and 5 meals that you can make with those common ingredients.
The super social network | Mizzou Wire | University of Missouri
Adobe - Developer Center : Direct from Jonathan Coffman

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Jonathan’s Twitter Updates for 2008-01-01

January 1, 2008 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment

Does anyone else love Utterz as much as me right now? #
happy new years my European friends and tweeters! #
be sure to check out this blog I’ve Bren contributing for: countdowntothecottonbowl.blogspot.com #
Splurged on wifi in my hotel room, think KOMU will pick up the tab? #
Uploading my Dallas/CottonBowl/KOMU.com pics to Flickr http://www.flickr.com/jdcoffman #
Just posted my latest Blog post to Countdown to the Cotton Bowl. I’ll be up early at the tail-gate doing some multimedia coverage. #
Awake, trying to clean up and pack up the hotel room before heading to breakfast and Cotton Bowl festivities #
The hogs (Razorback fans) were SUEEEYing up and down the hotel hallways at midnight, not very respectful of themselves or others. #
Ten minutes until Mizzou hits the field in the Cotton Bowl. #
[utterz] http://tinyurl.com/23tbfy Our national anthem: Listen in as our national anthem opens up the 2008 cotton bowl.<br #
MiZzou loses the coin toss #
Mizzou takes the field in the Cotton Bowl #
Mizzous defense is pumped up! #
Mizzou stops Arkansas’s first drive #
@danoph it is fun! #
Mizzou punts it to the Arkansas 14 #
Mizzou stops arkansas’s drive again. #
MiZzou touchdown!! #
Mizzou stops an Arkansas fake and gains posession. #
@pcrow you got that right! Go Tigers! #
Let’s go for another 7 Tigers! #
14-0 tigers whoop! TD! #
Halftime and the tigers are enjoying some hog! #
[utterz] http://tinyurl.com/28mrfj Halftime!: And the Tigers are enjoying some hog! 
 
 
 
- … #
Tiger Touchdown!! #
Mizzou definately has the momentum out of half time. #
Do you smell a shutout? 28-0 mizzou! #
Arkansas- gets on the board with a td, tigers retain momentum #
Chase just had an amazing hit baby!! #
Mizzou just continues to dominate this game! #
[utterz] http://tinyurl.com/yp5dvz Arkansas fans flea Cotton Bowl: - Jonathan Coffman 
<a href=”http://jonathancoffma #
Mizzou Td!!! #
Tony Temple smashes Cotton bowl rushing yards record. #
[utterz] http://tinyurl.com/27xwc8 Our national anthem: Listen in as our national anthem opens up the 2008 cotton bowl.<br #
I declare this pulled pork sandwich day. Good job tigers! #
[utterz] http://tinyurl.com/yvl8yv #
[utterz] http://tinyurl.com/2dpucb #
Take THAT BCS! Mizzou rah! Man I’m glad to be a tiger. #
Searching for lunch before heading back to Houston #
@acomputerpro I let it download updates but not install. That’s ply too much though. Hvent tried nethung vista. #
@vergil66 how much snow are you getting? #

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American Girl Dallas

December 31, 2007 by Jonathan · Leave a Comment

The Dallas Galleria has an American Girl botique and store. There are
only a few of them in the nation.There were a LOT of mizzou fans buying and having a good time.

I’ll be at the parade later today and will check in again then.

I am proud to be a Mizzou fan though, last night at dinner the
Arkansas fans started calling the hogs home. Why would you want to
yell “here sueeey” to your fellow fans?? MIZ-ZOU wins any day of the
week.

- Jonathan Coffman
http://jonathancoffman.com/
713.965.7370
Mobile post sent by jdcoffman using Utterz. Replies.

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