Lucas McDonnell lists 44 essential KM sites and blogs on his Uncommon Knowledge blog. I regularly visit abut half the sites he lists, so I need to go and check out the other half. I guess the term ‘essential’ is rather subjective, and what constit…
Clearly I’ve been remiss in my recent blog and news reading since I only came across Wikileaks by accident. A bit embarrassing really given the name of my blog! The blurb on the site says: ” Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable Wikipedia for un…
‘Knowledge Management’ (KM) is a term that’s been bandied around since the mid 1990’s, with much debate as to what it actually means. The wikipedia definition is a reasonable starting point, but you still get the vociferous few who will take the l…
Directgov, has launched a new Flash animated site for children aged 5-11. DirectgovKids welcomes our future generation of civil servants (else why else would they be visiting Directgov?) into a self-contained little world full of virtual buildings…
I presented today on the topic of Communities of Practice for the launch of the Progress through Partnership programme, sponsored and supported by the South East Employers (SEEMP). The Progress through Partnership (PtP) is a peer led programme wit…
I’ve covered this before in a previous post, but if ayone is seeking a cheap (as in free) but powerful photo editing application, take a look at Picnik. They’ve just released version 11, which has a whole host of new features.
I picked this up courtesy of Beth Kanter’s blog, regarding a recent survey conducted in the education sector on use of Web 2.0 tools. The survey summary analysis is available under a Creative Commons license from David White, JISC funded ‘SPIRE’ p…
Dave Snowden’s post caught my eye today. (I’m interpreting Weltanschauung as meaning ‘world view’, or ‘accepted opinion’ here). Sensible (and deep) perspective on the social computing ‘revolution’ (my word not Dave’s), as you’d probably expect fro…
I’ve picked up on a couple of blogs recently referring to Ning, a platform for creating individual social networks or communities of practice. It allows you to have your own site to which people can sign up and leave blog posts, have forum discuss…
Bruce Mason over at TNN – Tags/Networks/Narrative has some interesting things to say about folksonomies, taxonomies and ‘collabularies’ (I choke each time I mention that word!). I’ve also learnt a new term – ‘feral hypertext’ – now I like that!
