September’s big question on the Learning Circuits Blog is Where to Work? I think there are fewer questions that are more personal than what working environment is the “best”, so I don’t think I’ll try to generalize, but I will reflect a little on why I enjoy my work. As is obvious from the placement
My friend Bob Watson pointed me to an interesting article this week in Red Orbit by Ashley Heher about the U. S. Intelligence Community’s planned implementation of social networking software to improve cooperation and communication among agents. Heher notes the key features of the new app, dubbed “A-Space”: Aside from simply being able to share
The Learning Circuits folks have a new space which they are calling the “Learning Circuits Blog Discussion Wiki.” They introduce it by observing “Here the community can take on topics of interest to the elearning and learning fields. The wiki can afford a longer, more involved dialogue than the somewhat here today, gone tomorrow approach
The blogs are alive with Knowledge Management talk this week. Apparently, June is KM conference time. As a professional who has spent most of my career developing technical tools to facilitate communities of practice and training, I think I can reasonably refer to my work as facilitating the management of knowledge. Mostly, I’ve been all
Josh Catone does a very nice round-up of freely-available collaboration software this week in Rolling Your Own Online Office. Though our xPERT eCampus is a pretty comprehensive online collaboration tool, we at Q2 do use a few of the tools he mentions – email, obviously, but also Google Docs and instant messaging, and some other
Last week, Jay Cross declared something we’ve thought true for a long time: Conversations are a better way to learn than reading blog entries, so I’m remapping my site [to] make it easier to learn from. One of the most active conversations in Jay’s new Ning-based Internet Time Community is “How to start a community?”
There’s an image, a map of online communities, making the rounds this week, developed by Randall Munroe, whose sweet, romantic, yet inexorably geeky comics at xkcd are a favorite part of my blog-reading routine. Regular xkcd readers know that Munroe buries little mouseover “easter eggs” in his images. The map one reads, “ I’m waiting
One of the things I find most fascinating (and frustrating) about games is that typically you’re not modeling an external goal-set, but are creating one out of whole cloth — and thus one that the potential user must find attractive, engaging, and fulfilling. It sets a whole new bar on software “usability.”This observation by my
Jacqui Cheng over at Ars Technica notes that voyeurism still rules the web 2.0 world. She refers to a speech this week by Hitwise analyst Bill Tancer at the Web 2.0 expo in San Francisco: According to the report, only 0.16 percent of YouTube’s total traffic is made up of users who upload videos. Similarly,
The current flurry of interest in the idea of a code of conduct for bloggers is a bit amusing to veterans of community building on the Internet. The issues being raised now about the costs freedom of expression exacts have been well-known since the days when Usenet News first gave anyone with an Internet connection