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Creative Business in the Digital Era. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos
An initiative re pulling together new business models based upon open IPR – not just the copyright arrangements per se. Basically, how do people reckon to make a living from giving stuff away. Dawn of a new era, really, so cd be seminal stuff
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Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World [OCLC - Membership reports]
Survey undertaken on behalf of OCLC (worldwide library collective) on Sharing,Privacy & Trust in online world (oh, and use of library services)
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Kaliya Hamlin’s blog about Unconferences – what it says on the tin, really. A must-read resource if I’m ever thinking of an alternative to talking heads/small-group break-out sessions
Archive for October, 2007
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Combination of timeline + communities. Not the only tool that enables you to create a timeline, obviously, but the additional sociability factor is a nice touch. Store your digital scrap book items, and share them basically. ‘Patient experience’ potential
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List of “White Label” (Applications you can Rebrand) Social Networking Platforms
What it says on the tin, really. A handy list of links to SNS offerings. JW is careful not to get into the isue of recommendations. It’s also current as it Oct 07, so watch for currency limitations…
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Instant Communities: List of companies that provide Web Collaboration Suites or Platforms
Helpful list (2007) of web 2.0 tools for collaborative working – most are suites of tools, like Google docs (which includes spreadsheets and ppt-equiv, not just text-processing)
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bewitching visual display of a tag cloud. Mouse over any given tag, and see the way linked tags swim into focus. Beguiling!
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excellent initial conversation piece on digital text. See also on same page related vids and others by the author
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see embedded video – essentially a ‘digested digested read’ of Everything is Miscellaneous!
“…a conversation starter, and works especially well when brainstorming with people about the near future and the skills needed in order to harness, evaluate, an -
Another good vid from the Digital Ethnography team and Kansas State Univ. Underpinned by collab use of Google docs by the students, who surveyed themselves (and hold up the results on camera).
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a list of links – quite a few about copyright, plagiarism etc. but also stuff about safe behaviour online
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Several succinct notes on writing good book proposals – from a commissioning editor at Wileys
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The KJ-Method, named for its inventor, Jiro Kawakita (the Japanese put their last names first), allows groups to quickly reach a consensus on priorities of subjective, qualitative data.
Sometimes, we’ll be in a situation when every team member has dif
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As a concept attention makes sense to anyone who is online today. We know when we are paying attention and we know what we are paying attention to. The problem is that the information about our attention is not readily available to us afterwards. The prem
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The campaign has direct support from Bebo, the British-based social networking website. Joanna Shields, the president of Bebo, said that she hoped Amnesty would be able to use the website’s virtual word of mouth in order to spread its message further.
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In July and August the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies asked learning professionals to let them know what their favourite tools for learning were, either for their own personal learning or for creating and delivering learning for others. 10
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4 key lessons Enterprise web 2.0 can encourage collaboration.
Start small and define ownership clearly. (At the BCC, their system was owned by everyone.)
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350 leading practitioners of innovation get together to tell stories about collaborative innovation
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Another collaborative mind-mapping tool, for exploration sometime
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Deborah Cameron. Extracted from The Myth of Mars and Venus published, by Oxford University Press
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The role of background knowledge and its structure, in informing what we learn about anything specific. Good stuff re Frames of Reference, really. Part of a fascinating-looking ‘Engines for Learning’ hyperbook
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Employers now seeking out people with web-schmoozing skills! – how to come across as authentic when making a friends request…
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Interview with Fred Stutzman of Unit Structures fame forms the core of this piece on Facebook strategy for news organisations
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v handy outline comparison of social networking site approach, with more traditional online community approach. As explanatory as their videos – but without the visuals!
