Cyber Presence

Robert Frittmann's online identity management blog.

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    • BGIedu Students Post for Blog Action Day on Food 17 October 2011
      Today is Blog Action Day, where each year a topic is chosen and bloggers and activists worldwide write about that topic in their blogs or post about it on Twitter and Facebook using the tags #FOOD and #BAD11. This year's topic is Food, and this year many of my students of my BGIedu class Using the Social Web for Social Change are using the day to help k […]
      ChristopherA
    • Managing your Social Graph with Google+ [Google Plus] 14 July 2011
      With Google+ almost two weeks into its test phase, conversation about this new social network service seems to be going in circles. Literally. That’s because Circles is the Google+ feature that users are generating the most buzz about. It’s Google’s answer to the problem of organizing your social graph online. If you’re not familiar with a social graph it’s […]
      ChristopherA
    • Paying for Favors 22 November 2009
      One of the common practices in the independent movie industry is to share favors to keep production costs low. I loan you use of a camera and you later do some editing for me on the cheap. Of course, it is often actually less direct then that: I loan you the camera, the community knows that I am generous, and when I need some editing time on the cheap, my so […]
      ChristopherA
    • Blog Action Day on Climate Change 16 October 2009
      Late this evening while catching up on my feeds, I saw for the first time that this year's Blog Action Day is on the topic of Climate Change. This event is sponsored yearly by Change.org. I wish I had known...
      ChristopherA
    • Facilitating Small Gatherings Using "The Braid" 27 September 2009
      [intro skipped] One tool that I've used to manage these odd-sized groups in the past is what I call “The Braid”. It is derived from a group process called the Café Method, of which The World Café and Conversation Café are excellent examples. In The Café Method, people meet in smaller groups around tables, and then flow from table to table sharing ideas, […]
      ChristopherA
    • Password Best Practices 25 September 2009
      Passwords are very important for maintaining your online identity, because they ensure that no one else can access your accounts and do things that you wouldn't do. As such, you should make sure that your online passwords are as strong...
      ChristopherA
    • Creating Shared Language and Shared Artifacts 17 September 2009
      [brief summary of longer post] The average native English language speaker uses in the realm of 12,000 to 20,000 words, whereas a college graduate would use 20-25,000 words…Every time a new group of people meet together — whether in a team, in a marketplace, or in a community — one of the first activities they must do together is create a shared language…The […]
      ChristopherA
    • Teaching "Using the Social Web for Social Change" at BGI.edu 17 September 2009
      Starting next week I will be teaching a course at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute on the topic of "Using the Social Web for Social Change". [post continues with details...]
      ChristopherA
    • Creative Commons Posts "Defining Noncommercial" Report 14 September 2009
      ast year I participated in a survey followed up by a focus group on the topic of Noncommercial Use, in particular around the context that about 2/3rds of the Creative Commons licenses extant use the NC attribute, such as in CC-BY-NC. (post continues with details and commentary...)
      ChristopherA
    • Community by the Numbers, Part III: Power Laws 19 March 2009
      In my first article in this series I talked about community numbers: how the sizes of groups ultimately affect their success (or failure). However what I discussed only offers up the most rudimentary explanation of the dynamics, and that is because typically not all of the members of a group are equally involved. In order to better define who constitutes the […]
      ChristopherA

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    • What’s 10 Weeks, 13 Interviews, 0 Applications and 1 New Job? Priceless 24 May 2012
      Meet Ben Paul, a real person with whom I spoke this past month.  At that time he had not yet landed his new job.  However, I knew he would get a job offer based on his story of how he was conducting his job search.  He’s every career coach’s dream.  He did everything correctly in [...]
      Dorothy Tannahill-Moran
    • When Considering a Job Offer, Do the Math! 23 May 2012
      I had a lengthy discussion with someone that was trying to decide whether to take a position that would pay significantly less than her target salary range. She has been unemployed for over a year, and her financial situation had become dire. She recognizes the need to get an income, however, is torn about taking a [...]
      Harry Urschel
    • What to Do If a Company Asks for Your Facebook Password in a Job Interview 22 May 2012
      Imagine you’ve been on the job market for about six months. You are paying your mortgage on your credit cards at this point. Your unemployment benefits are about to run out and your job prospects remain dismal, no matter what you seem to do. Finally, you land a killer opportunity, pass the phone screen and show [...]
      Joshua Waldman

About

Robert Frittmann lives in Auckland, New Zealand, and has been married to Nikki since 2000. Robert has been a computer hobbyist since the 1970′s, and began working in the computer industry in New Zealand in 1996. Robert’s primary focus has been in computer security, but also has experience in computer retail and OEM system building, network administration, business computing, ERP, and software development (using VBA and VisualStudio 2005). While not a recognized expert in any one of these fields, Robert’s abilities with such a broad range of computing subjects has often improved his employment prospects.

In 2004, Robert’s career took a major direction change with the closure of his business, Computer Warrant of Fitness Ltd. Deciding to return to the safety-net of a regular wage instead of the vagaries of self-employed income, Robert began a whole new career in security… as in, site security, security monitoring, private investigation, etc. He has experience as a site security officer at a Coca-Cola distribution center, CCTV monitoring, burglar alarm monitoring, asset protection, and offender monitoring using Electronic Monitoring anklet technology.

Merging his previous career in the computer industry with his new career in the security industry is Robert’s new goal. He is currently studying towards a Masters in Forensic IT, which he hopes to attain by 2015. Robert has a blog dedicated to information he learns about the field of computer forensic investigation, electronic discovery, data analytics, data recovery, and other related subjects, which he calls Frittmann Forensics (frittmann.wordpress.com).

As a personal interest, but along similar lines, Robert also maintains a blog called Cyber Presence (cyberpresence.wordpress.com), which looks at issues relating to online identity, privacy, and internet safety. Robert’s other personal interests include cyberpsychology, cyberculture, including cyberpunk and steampunk. Robert has a personal blog about his informal studies in cyberpsychology called Psyber Psychology (psyberpsych.wordpress.com).

Robert is a very methodical person, and is currently creating an ontology (an explicit formal specification) of his life. He is using the graphical mindmapping software PersonalBrain for this project, and is also blogging the effort at Personal Ontology (personalontology.wordpress.com).

 
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