Somebody definitely got up on the wrong side of bed this morning – and it was me.

1. Unsolicited attachments to large groups of people. I get a lot of emails.  A lot. A lot of people do.  I get a lot of emails with attachments.  And like many people who work in a corporate environment I have a ridiculously small amount of space allocated to me on our email server.  There are times when I need to receive documents as an attachment – for example – you want to show me and only me and maybe one other person a file. (Well, you could share it with me via Google Docs, but ok)  But if you have a list of more than five people, you should be finding a place to upload that file and send me a link.

2. Corporate blocking for no reason at all.

It ain’t right that the very sites that would help Number 1 (Google Docs for instance) are blocked by some corporate sites.  Also social networking sites like Ning, any blogs that end in WordPress, Flickr, etc. etc.  No point in naming and shaming (just yet) – but for local government (the sector in which I work) this is really no good.  We need to communicate with the citizens – and as someone with direct responsibility for helping the sector use new technologies for professional development and knowledge transfer it’s really.really.really annoying.

3. XXXXXX

OK, this one really bugs me and you know who you are – or you would if I described this in full.   But for reasons of maintaining good relations,  I won’t.

In its place, I’ll put people who broadcast via social media – a lot – but don’t take the time to read what others are up to.  You’d know who you are on this one, too – if you could bother to read this.  (BTW- we all have times of deep self-absorption and busyness and so on, it’s a consistent approach to this that really bugs me).

4. Tech-topianism

Worthy of a whole discussion and investigation – the idea that social media is going to make us all better people.  Better connected isn’t necessarily better.  Sorry – I’m cynical – also I have a Masters in Economics – they don’t give you one of those until you’ve proven that you have poor view of human nature.  It’s pretty cool, but it ain’t magic.

5.  Instant experts

You have multiple social media accounts and have actually posted some content – so now you know how it all goes down.  Uh-huh.

Bonus peeve: Everyone who has cooler gadgets than me.  Which is pretty much everybody, cause I’m definitely not an early adopter when it comes to hardware.  I walk around in constant state of tech envy. Well, except right now as I’m typing on my brand new Mac.