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An online notebook
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Formal learning doesn’t have to be all that formal – Is Facebook Destroying the American College Experience? – ★ Open and Shut – Digital technology and care – how do we…
(Am starting to post interesting links to the blog again, via Google Reader. Presentation leaves a little to be desired, but am working on it…) I find this stuff so you don’t have to: Bashing ordinary people who are making…
One of the key skills (or roles) that I bang on about a lot when I am delivering training to customers is community management. I talk about it a fair bit on this blog too. One of the first things…
A lot of people are unwilling to innovate online because they’re worried it’ll go badly. After all, there’s a story every week in the media about someone ballsing up online in one way or another. It strikes me, from only…
But certainly not any predictions! In the space in which Kind of Digital operates – which means largely working with public sector people in helping them innovate in the way they engage with citizens and communities using technology – I…
Reading some of the coverage of Instagram's change in their terms of service, you'd have thought a murder had been committed. Or maybe that the world was about to end.
A few years down what might once have been called the Web 2.0 road, well funded companies are finding that they have built their networks, grown their user bases, and now shareholders are looking for some return on their investment. We should not, therefore, be surprised that the rules are changing, that the digital ground we've been standing on is shifting beneath our feet.
Google+ is an interesting - if quiet - place. It's not used by very many people, which is a shame, as the interface is rather nice and it features some really cool bits of technology.
Hangouts, for instance, are fantastic - on demand video conferencing which integrates neatly with Google's other services likes Docs and so on.
However, because so few people are active there, it does feel a bit empty at times. When asked if organisations should use it as a space for engagement, I tend to say no - as time would be better spent working with the much larger existing communities on Twitter and Facebook.
I spent an interesting morning at the Online Information conference on Tuesday - ably chaired by my pal Steve Dale - and the session I enjoyed most was about implementing collaborative technology in organisations - one example was from a big media and communications provider, the other a government department.
Click through to see some of the thoughts that the session inspired me to write down…
A little while ago, Paul Coxon wrote a blog post querying the long term viability of unconferences in the public sector. I didn’t respond, because I felt I couldn’t do so without sounding defensive and chippy. This evening, the weekly…
Social learning is a really interesting concept. It's basically the idea that we can often learn better from each other rather than from an expert or teacher.
There's an obvious usage for the internet and the kind of social tools I write about here in social learning, and an additional argument in favour of making them available within organisations.