David is a native Texan, most recently of Austin, where he attends the University of Texas studying Computer Engineering. He grew up surrounded by computers and technology and is still hooked into the system.
In 2008, David made a renewed effort to blog more often and that grew into an entry into the Twitterverse, where he is meeting with new people every day and connecting with them in new ways. He studies and writes about social media, technology, productivity, and how millenials factor into the equation. One of his passions is helping people learn to use technology to optimize their work process. His blogging habit started as an exercise to improve his writing and turned into a way to find his voice and join the broader online community.
David can often be found in coffee shops around Austin, blogging, doing homework, or engaging with local entrepreneurs and technologists in the community. In those rare moments not spent doing homework, he is spending time with his girlfriend and his Labrador pup, exploring his beloved hometown of Austin.
David Giesberg's blog is david giesberg dot com.
Searching for these websites will often get you to an old course website or syllabus from previous semesters. For one of the classes I was looking at (”Computers and Writing”) I ended up coming across the instructor’s website , and from there, I found his Twitter. I tweeted that I was looking at his blog and considering the class and within a minute, he had responded to me!
Why should students care about social technologies? The way I see it, we can help show our schools how to use these cool technologies and make the college community just a little bit tighter and a little bit better connected.
I’m a month and a half into my summer internship doing quality assurance and I have already learned several big things (and confirmed others) that should serve me quite well for some time to come.
While it is important to make sure that all of your compromising content (assuming you have any) is protected, people sometimes forget about the counterpart to that. I believe that it is equally or even more important to make your online brand strong with positive content.
One of the cooler things about having a cube for the summer after having been a commuter student all year long is having a pseudo-permanent space that I can leave stuff in and not have to haul everything I need for the day on my back […]
All of those URLs will redirect you to my public URL for any of those services, I also have it set up for LinkedIn and my tumblr (which is inactive right now). You can do it too, as long as your webhost will allow you to use .htaccess files […]
RescueTime is a little program that runs on your computer recording where you spend your time on your computer (active web pages and applications), and periodically uploads that data so I can view it online. I think that it will give me a good way to see in black and white where my time is going when I am on the computer […]
I’ve always felt that the long-term absorption of information over time is infinitely more valuable than intense “study sessions.” For me, studying for too long or hard can be affected by diminishing returns; meaning that the amount of value that you get out of each unit of time spent studying rapidly decreases as times goes on […]
There is a movement in some engineering schools towards a more practical curriculum (while not being a trade school), showing real world applications of your knowledge, a more active way of studying. I think that that would be great.
I’ve spent a while playing with Facebook’s newly announced feature, called Lexicon. It gives an interesting view into the sorts of things that social networking sites can do with the massive amount of user-created content that they hold.
Basically, Lexicon lets you compare how often keywords show up over time on people’s Walls in Facebook […]
