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Recently, a few people have asked me if it’s worth it to get an iPhone. It’s a personal decision for sure, but here’s an idea of how I use my iPhone in any given day. See if you can tell what the answer is for ME! I’ve listed in parentheses the iPhone applications I use.

5:30am - I awake to the sound of soft harps. (Clock)

5:35am – I do a quick check of my personal email (Mail), work email (iNotes), news (USA Today), and check the weather to see what I should wear and if I should bring an umbrella ella ella (WeatherBug).

6:15am - I listen to podcasts on the way to work. If it’s a Monday, you can be sure I’m listening to This American Life with Ira Glass (iPod).

7:00am - Once I get to work, I listen to a personalized music selection online while I get set up and plan my workday. (Pandora)

10:00am – During a meeting I might hear about a new technology so I check out the latest tech news. (CNET)

11:00am – While in the break room, someone asks a question I don’t know the answer to. While others sit and speculate, I pop out my iPhone and find the answer lickity-split. (Google)

11:30am – I might get a new client on my Meals on Wheels route, so I plug in their address and have my iPhone give me turn by turn directions to their house. (Maps)

12:30pm – Upon return to the office, I notice something weird that I must take a picture of. (Camera)

12:32pm – I upload said picture to twitpic via my iPhone Twitter client. (TwitterFon)

1:00pm – I receive a message via the Facebook iPhone app that my colleague/friend finally gets to bring her baby home from the hospital after being in ICU for several weeks! (Facebook)

2:00pm - I connect with several former colleagues who are looking for jobs. (LinkedIn)

5:00pm - As I leave the office parking lot, I hear a song on the stereo, and I can’t for the life of me remember the artist. I let my iPhone listen to the song and after 10 seconds of listening, it tells me who the artist is, what album, etc. (Shazam)

5:30pm – I call my husband to see if he needs me to pick up anything on the way home from work. (Phone) Yes, it’s true. The iPhone can actually be used as a telephone.

5:45pm - I get home and pull out the fixins’ for dinner. I follow the recipe using my iPhone. (BigOven)

7:00pm – I decide to practice my flute for a few minutes, and I make sure I’m in tune. (StayInTune)

7:30pm – I get totally grossed out by my flute cleaning rag which is dirty, so I pull out my iPhone and purchase a new one online. (Amazon)

7:45pm – I help my kids with their homework, and rather than look stupid by admitting I don’t know the answer to their questions, I discreetly look up answers on my iPhone. (Wikipanion)

8:00pm – I go on a walk around the neighborhood, and since it’s dark (and we can’t seem to keep a working flashlight in the house), I use my iPhone. (myLite)

8:45pm - I check to see if tonight’s episode of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” is a repeat. (i.TV)

10:30pm - I read a chapter of the latest book I’ve downloaded from Amazon.com. (Kindle)

11:00pm – I listen to “Rain with Thunder” as I drift off to sleep and dream about how I will use my iPhone tomorrow. (Ambiance)

One thing I love about IBM is the fact that I have easy access to an amazingly diverse group of over 300,000 people. I can find an expert in just about anything, at any time of day. I can easily find people with the same interests as mine. And I’ve expanded my interests thanks to colleagues who’ve shared a bit of themselves, whether personal or professional.

This morning while browsing my RSS feeds, I ran across a blog entry by Sacha Chua, a colleague and friend I met while working on Lotus Greenhouse earlier this year. Sacha is amazing. What I love about her is her ability to share knowledge in such fun and friendly ways. Business and technology doesn’t have to be dull, and Sacha proves that. Yesterday her blog entry talked about adding joy to your job title! I can’t wait to see what she chooses for her new title (she recently changed jobs) — right now, she’s “Tech Evangelist, Storyteller, Geek.”

I hope to meet up with Sacha soon to talk with her about her goal setting technique. She seems to have developed a cool system for herself, and I bet she’ll be able to provide some tips as I work on my new goals and objectives for 2008.

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At the risk of sounding a bit geeky, I’m going to post my thoughts on some business-related items. I’m currently exploring what’s going on in the area of social software. I have a potential opportunity to work in a new organization…whose mission is to explore and develop new technologies and social software. I find social software FASCINATING! My background is in sociology…..specifically organizational sociology…..how people work together…what makes them effective….what are the barriers etc. Of course when I got my degree, it was just the beginning of the personal computer (yes, I know I’m old), so the issues didn’t involve technology as much as organizational structure. But now that we have the technology component (e-mail, instant messaging, collaboration software, blogs, wikis, etc.) as an important part of organizational communication, the study of organizational sociology becomes even more FUN!

Here are some questions I’m considering as I think about social software and innovation:
-What type of organizational environment helps facilitate innovation?
-What type of development environment helps facilitate innovation?
-What are the most popular social software technologies?
-How do we organize all the different avenues for social networking/computing….for example, should I have separate blogs for different topics? how do I track all the different things I want to monitor?
-What are the best technologies for the different types of collaboration and communication?
-When would you choose blogs vs. wikis vs. podcasts?
-What makes each of these technologies successful?
-How does personality play into the success of these technologies? For example, is an introvert going to be more or less apt to use a particular technology.

More thoughts and questions to come…