Twitter FavesInformation overload is supposed to be the scourge of 2008, reports Ars Technica, and one way to address it, according to this news article referencing the same report, is to be smarter with our e-mail. E-mail is like cars in an urban metropolis; neither effective nor efficient due to the fact that there are just [...]
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Checking some of my stats for the past 365 days and thought they might be of interest. Search Engines that direct readers here: 95% Google 2% Yahoo! 1% Ask Jeeves 1% MSN Browser used: 51% IE 36% Firefox 6% Safari Screen resolution: 37% 1024 x 768 14% 1280 x 1024 13% 1280 x 800 7% [...]
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Canada’s east coast seems to have some of its happiest residents. While not rated high for all those cosmopolitan virtues that Vancouver may have, it seems that we are happy “down east”. Living in Sackville, we’re in the middle of four happy cities – Charlottetown, Saint John, Moncton and Halifax – all of which placed [...]
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Technology is the application of organized and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems. I dug up this quote from my personal knowledge management (PKM) system, or outboard brain, or whatever you want to call it. The quote is from Harold Stolovitch, and it’s stored on this blog from a post I made over three years [...]
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Are you the family “go-to” geek that everyone calls upon when they have computer problems? You may want to give a Zonbu as a self-interested gift. I gave one to Andrea for Christmas and it was installed in less than five minutes. That means up and running with no EULA or anything else to sign. [...]
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It looks like social media (wikis, blogs & social networking) are going the way of e-learning and knowledge management (KM). That means big companies charging big fees for cookie-cutter solutions. Jon Husband reports on this phenomenon for 2008 and advises Caveat emptor: Big firms either 1) develop standardized methodologies and practices (their business models depend [...]
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I’m helping to create a collaborative work and learning space for a group of executives and this is part of the introduction to the site: Blogs: The main communication tool is your blog, which each participant has registered in his or her name. Think of your blog as a professional journal, where you can record [...]
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I don’t know who TakingITGlobal is and I don’t use my Eduspaces account very much, so I’ve just deleted all of my information and posts. It was fun while it lasted, but I don’t need someone else aggregating my data and my FOAF file. More from Stephen Downes. So long, and thanks for all the [...]
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Informal learning is a theme of this blog and has been an area of professional interest for the past couple of years. There is a link between informal learning and collaborative work; the latter is a key focus of my consulting. This link was highlighted by Teemu Leinonen in a recent post on networked learning, [...]
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The impending closure of the Eduspaces service has many people wondering what to do and several options are cropping up in the online discussions. For those not in the know, Eduspaces is/was a free, social networking and blogging service built on the Elgg open source platform. It used to be called elgg.net but was changed [...]
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