A very good introduction to RSS, courtesy of The Common Craft Show Click To Play There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to st…
I am grateful to Hilary Messeter from the National College of School Leaders (NCSL) for agreeing to present at a recently Community of Practice workshop I co-hosted. The NCSL have created a Facilitation Toolkit for their community of over 100,000 …
I came across this excellent slideshow presentation from Andrew Hinton, which goes some way to explaining what is meant by “Information Architecture”. It touches on Social Media, Web 2.0 and communities of practice, and even manages to draw some i…
If you’ve ever wondered what the acronyms and ‘civil service’ speak actually mean on the letters you get from the council, or you need some help interpreting the latest government policy initiative, check out the Local Government Glossary over at …
An excellent commentary and explanation about on-line facilitation from Nancy White over at Full Circle. Very topical for me at the moment as I begin a new contract working as Interim Head of the Information Authority, a new Secretariat sponsored …
Dave Briggs over at LGNemedia has assembled an excellent montage describing Social Media as a vehicle for collaboration and knowledge sharing. I’m looking forward to meeting Dave today at the IDeA’s Community of Practice Workshop, which I’m co-hos…
This is a neat little video explaining RSS is plain English. Note – it requires Flash Player 8.
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…
