Knowledgelab have posted an interview with Etienne Wenger, and a full (90 min) lecture given by Etienne on the topic: “What if we assumed that society itself is a large-scale learning system?”Etienne Wenger is one of the founding fathers of Social…
Uberblogger Robert Scoble is truly one-of-a-kind. For those who don’t know, he became famous as a technical evangelist at Microsoft and quickly became their most outspoken and influential blogger. He now interviews people like Bill Gates, and the …
Reading Seth Godin’s blog this morning I came across what was a very relevant item for me, about jobs for the future – the Online Community Organizer. The proximity of Seth’s description of this role with the position I’ve identified and am currnt…
Just picked this up from Euan Semple’s blog – a new Facebook application called Blog Friends lets you track blog posts by your Facebook friends on topics that interest you, and displays those posts on your Facebook profile while they help you grow…
I thought I should make the most of this blog to publicise a number of job vacancies that will be advertised in the Guardian this coming week. The positions have been created as part of the strategy I’m developing for the Information Authority Sec…
Another great video from Common Craft. This one is about Social Networking. Enjoy!
I read with interest that my old employer – Reuters – has chosen Blogtronix as the social media platform for their recently launched Green Market Social Community. I’ve been pondering which platform would best suit the social media network I’m pla…
Came across a blog from Collective Intelligence on the topic of social bookmarking (tagging). I was at the Blogs & Social Media conference referenced in the article, where Keely Flint presented on the Bupa experience using Cogenz as the social boo…
The IDeA have published a report on the Community of Practice ‘Facilitator’s Workshop’ I organised for them on 27th April. The purpose of the workshop was to bring together the various facilitators of the on-line communities supported on the IDeA …
The Cabinet Office have commissioned a report – The Power of Information – from Ed Mayo (chief exec of the National Consumer Council) and Tom Steinberg (the man behind mySociety and PledgeBank) to look into the ways government can benefit from use…
