I will be presenting at the Online Information Conference 2007 on Wednesday 5th December, on the topic “Communities of Practice in Local Government”, which is part of the overall theme of connecting users and harnessing intelligence using social n…
Just picked up a new blog by Caren Levine at Techstew, which comments on the role of the ‘Technology Steward’. This is something I’ve been doing for the past 18 months for the I&DeA’s community of practice platform for local government. It’s good …
The most comprehensive summary I’ve read so far on Microsoft’s foray into social networking via their Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007) product. The article is an extract from a forthcoming white paper written by three Microsoft …
Search, information, cetgorisation, tagging, social bookmarking, social media – it’s all here in another excellent video from Mike Wesch.
I attended a very useful session the other day, organised by my colleagues over at the I&DeA ,which brought a number of experienced community of practice facilitators together to their share knowledge and experience with two fairly new CoP facilit…
An excellent article on del.icio.us and social bookmarking. From a Librarian as well! I take back what I said in an earlier posting on this topic!
Interesting things happening at Google, with much speculation that they intend making a more serious and focussed foray into the social media arena. The recent purchase of Jaiku (similar to Twitter, but with more features), and the growing interes…
I came across this post from Andrew Gent today, regarding ‘Management’s’ precoccupation with measuring the value of KM in their organisation, and – for example – using ROI as a measure of the effectivenes of CoPs. I suspect this will resonate with…
Came across this today, which seems to be gathering a body of support. I like the sentiments; pity it’s not enforceable! Joseph Smarr, Marc Canter, Robert Scoble, and Michael Arrington have authored a bill of rights for users of the social web. Th…
I’ve recently seen a flurry of blogs about the merits (or not) of Facebook as a social networking environment. I was stirred to action when I read Elsua’s blog this morning, which in turn refers to the question posed by Mitch Joel “Can you claim t…
