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Signing off for the year before heading off to the warmth of California and Hawaii….

In January, I’ll be at the Social Spaces mini-track at HICSS, presenting the paper “People Sensemaking and Relationship Building on an Enterprise Social Network Site.” Hope to see you there!

Don’t forget, before the end of the year, send an email off to Future You!

If you are like me, during this week between Christmas and New Years, you are spending some time reflecting on the past year and thinking a bit about the next year. If you are, then have I got a website for you! FutureMe.org! FutureMe allows you to write an email to your future self. You write yourself a note, set a delivery date in the future (at least 1 year into the future), and then you promptly forget what you wrote. Then when the date arrives, you get an unexpected blast from the past.

I’ve been using FutureMe.org for years, for all sorts of future-related emails. It is always an excellent surprise to get these messages. I just got an email today that I wrote last Christmas about how nice the holiday with my family had been. My favorite, and most unexpected, email arrived on my PhD graduation day. I had written a note several years beforehand of both congratulations and encouragement, hedging my bets that maybe I was graduating, but maybe I wasn’t, and that was A-O-K.

Happy 2008! And send off a message to the future today!