Year: 2006

It’s getting difficult to keep up with the plethora of social networking tools, but have just stumbled upon StumbleUpon. Looks like it could be nifty little tool for discovering new sites and shared interests.

David Coleman has identified 10 rules for establishing on-line communities, which I quite liked.1. Identify community founders/initiators, and explain the reason for starting the community, ongoing roles, and participation.2. Provide a good reason…

Picked up an interesting commentary from David Weinberger about Folksonomies in response to some criticism from the Taxonomy camp. Fully agree with David’s comments. Based on experience I’ve had in implementing enterprise search solutions, users p…

Interesting post by David Wilcox today about digital inclusion in the era of social networking. I have to admit to some concerns that there is an implied need to fully engage with the ‘digital world’ in order to be an effective social networker. T…

I’m not sure if anyone else has tried out the beta ‘Coop’ facility recently announced by Google. Dave Briggs has used this to set up a federated/personalised search engine – LGSEARCH – for searching across all local government web sites. I think t…

Have just picked this up from Mike Gotta’s Collaborative Thinking blog. Microsoft’s plunge into the social networking and collaboration space doesn’t look too bad. Aggreg8 is for the use of the IT community, but it’s not so much the type of commun…

I arranged and co-hosted a meeting for the Regional Improvement Partnerships on 8th November. The RIP’s have received funding from the DCLG for developing best practice and service improvements amongst local authorities within their region. There …

“It’s the opposite of project-oriented collaboration tools that places people into groups. Social software supports the desire of individuals to be pulled into groups to achieve goals.” According to Stowe Boyd. I particularly liked this definition…

There’s an interesting item on Dave Snowden’s blog about whether a community of practice should be self-organising, or if it should be directed. I’d agree with Dave on the point he makes that CoP’s evolve and can’t be designed top-down. However, I…

I’ve just heard that I’ve made the shortlist for an award for ‘Innovation in Knowledge Management’ at the Online Information Awards. The award is for the IDeA Community of Practice collaborative workspace. As with all these things, there’s a team …