Collin Carbno Bio

Collin Carbno is an IT specialist in process improvement and methodology. He completed his bachelor degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1974, and Master’s in theoretical physics in 1977. He has been employed for nearly 30 years in a variety of IT and process work at Saskatchewan Telecommunications. For the last two years he has also been member of a health care non-profit think thank (Medicare Decisions by Consensus) studying health care Issues in Canada and the world.

Collin’s professional work is implementing social media in our environment. So, he is deeply into blogs, announcement lists, discussion groups, wiki and the like. He has been a RESPeRATE user for the past two and a half years. With the support of his physician, he has been able to decrease his high blood pressure medication in half since starting to use RESPeRATE.

A few thoughts from Collin about blogging:

Blogging was originally conceived as a kind of a narrative … it is a story, a personal diary, a reflection of thoughts on something, a developing narrative on a topic. One can use the blog as a kind of information delivery process – but other web forms may be useful for long term type storage such as “sterile” fact laden information as would be found in a textbook. In my mind, a really good blog is more than information. It has emotional content; it connects to the reader emotionally. It helps them identify with you, it paints a picture of the situation, it captures their imagination, it helps them to see you as a person with needs, hopes, fears, dreams. It’s like reading a good novel– there is a hook, a lead in, an unresolved situation — and you just keep reading looking for the answer as your curiosity is aroused.