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Open webinars
I’ve always found webinar software like WebEx, Elluminate, or GoToMeeting to be constraining and, because they try to be a “total solution” they don’t play well with other uses or software. Because...
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A tech steward looking at reading
Last May’s CHIFOO presentation was a great talk about reading by Cathy Marshall. Here are Marshall’s slides from which I’ve borrowed some images to talk about her work in this post. Marshall read (out...
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Skype as a community platform
You probably already know that Skype is a great tool – especially for community leaders. If you are a technology steward, you’ve got to know how to use it and talk about it, too. To really talk about...
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Cantilever out from the known
Several people from the Fall 2009 Foundations of Communities of Practice workshop have continued meeting every few months to catch up with each other, find out what people are working on, and swap...
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Evolving Skype interface
I’ve written before about finding the Skype mute button because it’s hard to explain to people during a call (especially when they are the possible source of noise). Now Skype has reorganized and...
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A vision with legs – that grows
Photo: WhiteHorse.com "The Future of In-Aisle Mobile, A Framework for Consumer-Centered Innovation" This post gathers the #chifoo Twitter feed from a presentation by Will Reese (@willreese) at CHIFOO...
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Watching videos together in a Google Hangout with CPsquare
This is cross-posted from CPsquare.org… My fellow-conspirator Sylvia Currie posted a reflection on her blog, too. We’ve had a regular series where CPsquare members and friends go on a virtual field...
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Where is “the us” in the nework?
I’m always on the lookout for how technology changes “being together” — especially how it can change the sense of a group and of our “place” in a group. For that, NodeXL and Twitter have real...
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Meaning of “the only thing that could have happened”
In an open space conference like the Community Leadership Summit, according to Harrison Owen’s second principle of Open Space Technology, “Whatever happens is the only thing that could have.” But when...
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Not just one kind of learning
Next week Nancy White and I are doing a talk at USAID on “Keeping Our Eye Out for Learning: How to identify learning practices and leverage them more strategically” We are inviting people to step back...
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Moving from delicious to evernote
Over the years I’ve accumulated more than 1,000 links in http://delicious.com/smithjd. Delicious (in its various versions) was my preferred tool for storing, retrieving, and sharing bookmarks. Far...
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What a webinar can prove
On Monday I did a webinar for a group that Joitske Hulseboch and Sibrenne Wagenaar have been leading on social media for professionals in The Netherlands. I’ve posted the slides here. Sibrenne and...
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Some ideas about a tool for community reflection
One initiative I took on as part of the IFAD synthesis project got going due to a conversation with Philipp Grunewald where we were wondering how a community like KM4Dev could guide a researcher’s...
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Walking around it to find a problem’s shape
Working together and staying in touch over more than ten years, Sean Murphy and I have tried a lot of different ways of learning together, from each other and from others. We kept at it and learned...
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Mapping a community – easy and not-so-easy
I’m resonating with how Joitske Hulsebosch has organized “Tools for social network analysis from beginners to advanced levels.” It’s always safer when you can start at “the shallow end of the pool”...
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Tools for a Hack Oregon project
A Hack Oregon project is fun and you get to make a contribution. In a project like the Oregon Hunger Equation last spring, everyone is figuring out both how to have fun and collaborate during the...
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Computing on R
R is not just software. It’s actually a global organism that grows information: insights, discussions, work methods, human relationships, and open questions as well as a massive amount of software and...
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