Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Jan 04 2008 What can we do for our friends in Kenya? He links to many sources of on the ground news, which is critical both to the work in Kenya and our understanding of how we can best be of support. Africa.

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Sep 11 2008 Catch up strategies in online courses Published by Nancy White at 6:42 pm under facilitation , learning My friend Bronwyn Stuckey wrote a blog post this week that rang bells for me. What else?

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Sep 20 2008 CoP Series #3: Community – without people? Or worse… nothing! Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Community – because without people, you just have a pile of content. Courses end?

After all, this isn’t a food blog, as much as I love food. had tweeted that I was going to make this cake in celebration of our finally naming “the book, &# and I was amazed how many people wanted the recipe. kept sending the recipe url to people who tweeted in reply. Is it the chocolate? The Guinness? The cake ? Cooking? The cake?

Is there one scheduled for Spring 2010? for Fall 2010? Nancy White on 14 Dec 2009 at 7:25 am Dear David – Alas, I have not scheduled a course yet, but I’m considering March 2010! Theresa on 22 May 2010 at 10:07 am Please let me know the date of your next course. Please contact Nancy if you are interested!

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Sep 20 2008 CoP Series #3: Community – without people? Or worse… nothing! Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Community – because without people, you just have a pile of content. Courses end?

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Sep 24 2008 A huge sigh of relief – a title Published by Nancy White at 10:39 am under collaboration , communities of practice , love , technology stewardship Warning – this is a venting blog post!

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Sep 24 2008 A huge sigh of relief – a title Published by Nancy White at 10:39 am under collaboration , communities of practice , love , technology stewardship Warning – this is a venting blog post!

Is there one scheduled for Spring 2010? for Fall 2010? Nancy White on 14 Dec 2009 at 7:25 am Dear David – Alas, I have not scheduled a course yet, but I’m considering March 2010! Theresa on 22 May 2010 at 10:07 am Please let me know the date of your next course. Please contact Nancy if you are interested!

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Sep 20 2008 CoP Series #3: Community – without people? Or worse… nothing! Part 1 is here. Part 2 is here. Community – because without people, you just have a pile of content. Courses end?

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Jan 14 2008 Tony Tags me on 2007 Traffic Stats Published by Nancy White at 4:11 pm under Uncategorized Tony Karrer tagged me with his new 2007 Blog Traffic Stats – Hopefully a Meme (hopes its a meme!).

After all, this isn’t a food blog, as much as I love food. had tweeted that I was going to make this cake in celebration of our finally naming “the book, &# and I was amazed how many people wanted the recipe. kept sending the recipe url to people who tweeted in reply. Is it the chocolate? The Guinness? The cake ? Cooking? The cake?

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Dec 04 2007 Bridging Across Language Online Published by Nancy White at 8:10 am under community indicators , language More and more I find myself working across languages. Yet I am not a fluent Spanish speaker.

Four countries, many sets of new and old relationships and a profoundly moving and challenging experience of a new set of complex cultures has left me so much to reflect on that it will take a while. And how everything changes, always. How the leaves changed and the last tomatoes gave up any chance of ripening. was not the only thing changing.

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Jul 10 2008 The World Cafe Community – Virtual Cafes? am feeling tortured, because I’d like to be fully participating, but due to the “to do list&# I’m watching from the side.

Four countries, many sets of new and old relationships and a profoundly moving and challenging experience of a new set of complex cultures has left me so much to reflect on that it will take a while. And how everything changes, always. How the leaves changed and the last tomatoes gave up any chance of ripening. was not the only thing changing.

Come online the week of November 17 for a different kind of conference experience. Mark your calendar now. The event is free. Events are live and online. Hook up with fellow innovative thinkers and international visionaries to gain insight into what’s going on, swap opinions, and shape the future of learning. And her is my disclaimer. Learning.

Come online the week of November 17 for a different kind of conference experience. Mark your calendar now. The event is free. Events are live and online. Hook up with fellow innovative thinkers and international visionaries to gain insight into what’s going on, swap opinions, and shape the future of learning. And her is my disclaimer. Learning.

Bronwyn Stuckey Jeffrey Keefer Sue Wolff Sylvia Currie Take a look! SCoPE: Seminars: Managing Multimembership in Social Networks: Oct 27-Nov 9, 2008 How do you track and keep up with blog conversations? How do you manage your time as you engage in social networks? What are our limits as we integrate social learning into our work environments?

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Nov 17 2008 The Book of Love Published by Nancy White at 5:49 am under Monday videos , culture of love I have written in the past about the power of love. It appealed to me as the highest that I can vision.

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Dec 16 2008 The 7 things I would never tell my mother – NOT! So why not veer wildly… Elana tagged me with an ever twisting blog meme “7 Things You Would Never Tell Your Mother.&# Right, Larry?

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Jan 19 2009 How do you share your knowledge? Share and Enjoy: No responses yet Trackback URI | Comments RSS Leave a Reply New to Full Circle? Welcome to my web home. United States. United States

My botany degree, while neglected as a career path, has always kept my root interest in plants and ecosystems alive. In the course of doing a graphic recording of the presentation part of the session, a few things kept showing up for me. set of principles. So what might those principles be? Ownership, not public good. How do we know it is healthy?

Brandy was inspired to do a visual capture of Obama’s inaguration speech – something quite different than she normally does.  Brandy Agerbecks Graphic Facilitation Work I was really interested to read about her process… … I ended up scribbling down the main points I heard in pencil on a notebook. Not a real-time drawing.

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Feb 18 2009 Want to learn Graphic Recording? When I facilitate F2F I have my paper, pens and chalk and try at some point to use visuals to focus, capture or catalyze what is going on in the room. United States.

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Feb 20 2009 Penmachine’s Pictures of the Graphic Recording Session Published by Nancy White at 11:10 pm under events , graphic facilitation , visual thinking Nice photos Derek, aka,  Penmachine !You

Moreso for my US colleagues, but the change in economic times is on everyone’s mind. I’m doing more work online and less on the road. Budgets for current projects are sticking pretty steady, but no one seems to know what tomorrow will bring. For us independents, this uncertainty is nothing new, but clearly the playing field has changed.

am finally getting the rest of the series up. Part 1 ,  part 2 ,  part 3, ,  part 4,   part 5 ,  part 6 ,   part 7,    part 8  , and part 9 are all here on the blog.   Elearning is growing and evolving hand in glove with a constellation of technologies that have their roots in a number of places. One is in collaboration software. It is the people.

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Apr 10 2009 Challenge: SharePoint and NGOs/NonProfits -go or no go? Hmmm… Something is a ‘cooking. I presume this applies to US non profits as well, but oddly, I have heard of far fewer use cases.)

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Apr 22 2009 Coming out of the Graphic Facilitation Closet Published by Nancy White at 10:10 am under events , facilitation , visual thinking Well, I guess it is time to walk my talk and declare I CAN DRAW.

Then sign up now for the next Social Media Workshop offered by the ICT-KM Program of the CGIAR. Here are the details: After a successful pilot online event (See blog posts about the event ), the CGIAR, through its ICT-KM Program , is pleased to offer an online Social Media Workshop from May 25 to June 12 2009. Develop your strategy. United States.

asked Howard Rheingold to share a little bit about the Social Media Classroom (SMC) he developed as part of a MacArthur Foundation Award (A HASTAC award specifically). Every platform has its lineage, the experiences of the designers that inform design choices during development. What needs is it trying to meet? Welcome to my web home. United States.

It is called “ This Is Me.&# As I saw that lovely Creative Commons license on it, I thought I’d whip up a version for folks interested in social media and the digital identity implications in the non profit and NGO sectors. thought it would be handing in an upcoming workshop I’m facilitating for the CGIAR starting next week.

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… May 20 2009 My Spring Online Reading Published by Nancy White at 7:46 am under community indicators , culture of love This spring I decided to try and get back into a regular blogging practice. have no regrets.

They had a technical host (Libraryguy), an overall [.] # Donna Chandler on 24 Jun 2010 at 3:07 pm May I use the doggie/access pic for use in a project in a web accessibility course? Nancy White on 24 Jun 2010 at 4:32 pm Donna, you will see that the images are not mine. If you are a librarian or library junkie, join us! Eastern Time.

I’m long-winded on the topic of new skills for knowledge workers and learning professionals, even if I don’t quite understand what a learning professional is. Here is part 3. You can  check back to Part 1 and Part 2 if you feel as lost as I often do! But here is the last batch. So your superpower is signal detection! What do you think?

Thankfully, Beth Kanter wasn’t. Take a quick hop over to her tips. And don’t be overwhelmed by the number of the tips. Little evil grin) Today is Information Overload Awareness Day.  Here’s one way you might celebrate.  Take my information overload quiz.  Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions.  

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Sep 28 2009 Social Media in Intl. Links to all the previous podcasts are at the bottom of this post.) This podcast is with another online colleague I’ve known since some of my early online days.

Here are some images for fun. Nancy White workshop – a set on Flickr (workshop) And… The full slideshow from the Sydney Facilitator’s network  is here. Thanks to Jeanne Walker for sharing the photos! Share and Enjoy: No responses yet Trackback URI | Comments RSS Leave a Reply New to Full Circle? Welcome to my web home.

Bringing your network into your organisation — Mathemagenic on 13 Jan 2010 at 5:26 am [.] have been playing around with this idea of triangulation (possibly not the right term) for a couple of months. Lilia has written about it to help me, but now I need my network to help me sharpen my thinking. This can block success. block or ignore it.)

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Nov 30 2009 D’Arcy Norman – How do you connect to people online? How do you connect to people online? the video) How do you connect to people online? from D’Arcy Norman on Vimeo. the bottle.

It was a pleasure to be able to be part of the EDayz09 conferenc e were many of the people I met during my tour in 2006 were present. You know its going to be fun. Thursday Michael Coghlan met me at the airport (how FUN is it when a real person meets you AT THE GATE these days! where we had some great S. Literally! But I controlled myself.

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Dec 19 2009 Holiday Chocolate Fudge Time Published by Nancy White at 8:12 am under Full Circ-Us Fudge Dark, rich and sweet Fudge! This is the recipe my family has been making for the holidays FOREVER! Delish!

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Dec 19 2009 Holiday Chocolate Fudge Time Published by Nancy White at 8:12 am under Full Circ-Us Fudge Dark, rich and sweet Fudge! This is the recipe my family has been making for the holidays FOREVER! Delish!

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Dec 19 2009 Holiday Chocolate Fudge Time Published by Nancy White at 8:12 am under Full Circ-Us Fudge Dark, rich and sweet Fudge! This is the recipe my family has been making for the holidays FOREVER! Delish!

Share and Enjoy: One response so far One Response to “Happy New Years with Love&# # Ton Zijlstra on 01 Jan 2010 at 4:30 am Elmine and I wish Larry,you and your family a great 2010 as well! Here’s to more fun interaction and learning in 2010! Happy New Years! Welcome to my web home. United States. United States

Share and Enjoy: 4 responses so far 4 Responses to “Tools for Finding Creative Commons Images&# # Pat on 03 Jan 2010 at 8:29 am I use the Flickrcc.bluemountains site and I really like it. Nancy White on 03 Jan 2010 at 11:19 am Pat, I agree – I like the link back to the original as well! My key word for testing was FREE!

Share and Enjoy: 4 responses so far 4 Responses to “Tools for Finding Creative Commons Images&# # Pat on 03 Jan 2010 at 8:29 am I use the Flickrcc.bluemountains site and I really like it. Nancy White on 03 Jan 2010 at 11:19 am Pat, I agree – I like the link back to the original as well! My key word for testing was FREE!

Share and Enjoy: 4 responses so far 4 Responses to “Tools for Finding Creative Commons Images&# # Pat on 03 Jan 2010 at 8:29 am I use the Flickrcc.bluemountains site and I really like it. Nancy White on 03 Jan 2010 at 11:19 am Pat, I agree – I like the link back to the original as well! My key word for testing was FREE!

Share and Enjoy: 6 responses so far 6 Responses to “Journalism that Matters – Day 3&# # Amy Gahran on 09 Jan 2010 at 10:20 am Great post, Nancy. Hmmmmm… - Amy Gahran # Karoli on 11 Jan 2010 at 11:47 pm Amy, that’s a fabulous idea. Paul on 17 Jan 2010 at 8:24 pm Awesome GF love your work!! We need both.

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Jan 09 2010 6footsix: high fives for happiness! Published by Nancy White at 8:01 am under Monday videos , culture of love 6footsix: high fives for happiness! You GO Colleen!!!! Welcome to my web home.

Share and Enjoy: 6 responses so far 6 Responses to “Journalism that Matters – Day 3&# # Amy Gahran on 09 Jan 2010 at 10:20 am Great post, Nancy. Hmmmmm… - Amy Gahran # Karoli on 11 Jan 2010 at 11:47 pm Amy, that’s a fabulous idea. Paul on 17 Jan 2010 at 8:24 pm Awesome GF love your work!! We need both.

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Jan 10 2010 Theory and Practice Game Card Published by Nancy White at 7:47 am under Uncategorized Theory and Practice 3 Originally uploaded by bdieu Too good not to blog this. Welcome to my web home.

Bringing your network into your organisation — Mathemagenic on 13 Jan 2010 at 5:26 am [.] have been playing around with this idea of triangulation (possibly not the right term) for a couple of months. Lilia has written about it to help me, but now I need my network to help me sharpen my thinking. This can block success. block or ignore it.)

Share and Enjoy: 6 responses so far 6 Responses to “Journalism that Matters – Day 3&# # Amy Gahran on 09 Jan 2010 at 10:20 am Great post, Nancy. Hmmmmm… - Amy Gahran # Karoli on 11 Jan 2010 at 11:47 pm Amy, that’s a fabulous idea. Paul on 17 Jan 2010 at 8:24 pm Awesome GF love your work!! We need both.

Share and Enjoy: 6 responses so far 6 Responses to “Journalism that Matters – Day 3&# # Amy Gahran on 09 Jan 2010 at 10:20 am Great post, Nancy. Hmmmmm… - Amy Gahran # Karoli on 11 Jan 2010 at 11:47 pm Amy, that’s a fabulous idea. Paul on 17 Jan 2010 at 8:24 pm Awesome GF love your work!! We need both.

So far yesterday 200 of us started to get to know each other in small conversational groups, browsed the work of various media and information groups and organizations (the new Northwest News Ecosystem,) and then more conversations into the evening. Many community activists. Some students. Lots of passion! am not a journalist. hope to learn more.

Share and Enjoy: 2 responses so far 2 Responses to “Reading Joyce’s Dubliners With Imaginary Friends&# # virginia Yonkers on 01 Feb 2010 at 8:46 am Believe me, you’re going to need all the help you can get in understanding Joyce! You may NOT know that I’ve never read James Joyce beyond snippets. Welcome to my web home.

ANKUR VATS March 6, 2010 at 4:39 am i travelled through your airline on 10 of feb from new delhi to london heathrow. The cost was $4339.50. Copies of receipts and boarding pass stubs are attached. The flight to London was fine, but when my plane arrived in New York from London, my baggage did not arrive on the carousel for more than an hour.

ANKUR VATS March 6, 2010 at 4:39 am i travelled through your airline on 10 of feb from new delhi to london heathrow. The cost was $4339.50. Copies of receipts and boarding pass stubs are attached. The flight to London was fine, but when my plane arrived in New York from London, my baggage did not arrive on the carousel for more than an hour.

Mohamed Adam Jr February 14, 2010 at 5:46 am Quiet and nice atmosphere. In a “Peanuts” strip from the mid-1950s, Charlie Brown walks through the first panel and finds Schroeder sitting in front of an adult-size hi-fi, his ear to the speaker. Shh,” Schroeder says, “I’m listening to Beethoven’s Ninth.” Charlie Brown inspects Schroeder’s outfit.

Mohamed Adam Jr February 14, 2010 at 5:46 am Quiet and nice atmosphere. In a “Peanuts” strip from the mid-1950s, Charlie Brown walks through the first panel and finds Schroeder sitting in front of an adult-size hi-fi, his ear to the speaker. Shh,” Schroeder says, “I’m listening to Beethoven’s Ninth.” Charlie Brown inspects Schroeder’s outfit.

Mohamed Adam Jr February 14, 2010 at 5:46 am Quiet and nice atmosphere. In a “Peanuts” strip from the mid-1950s, Charlie Brown walks through the first panel and finds Schroeder sitting in front of an adult-size hi-fi, his ear to the speaker. Shh,” Schroeder says, “I’m listening to Beethoven’s Ninth.” Charlie Brown inspects Schroeder’s outfit.

Mohamed Adam Jr February 14, 2010 at 5:46 am Quiet and nice atmosphere. In a “Peanuts” strip from the mid-1950s, Charlie Brown walks through the first panel and finds Schroeder sitting in front of an adult-size hi-fi, his ear to the speaker. Shh,” Schroeder says, “I’m listening to Beethoven’s Ninth.” Charlie Brown inspects Schroeder’s outfit.

Mohamed Adam Jr February 14, 2010 at 5:46 am Quiet and nice atmosphere. In a “Peanuts” strip from the mid-1950s, Charlie Brown walks through the first panel and finds Schroeder sitting in front of an adult-size hi-fi, his ear to the speaker. Shh,” Schroeder says, “I’m listening to Beethoven’s Ninth.” Charlie Brown inspects Schroeder’s outfit.

Mohamed Adam Jr February 14, 2010 at 5:46 am Quiet and nice atmosphere. In a “Peanuts” strip from the mid-1950s, Charlie Brown walks through the first panel and finds Schroeder sitting in front of an adult-size hi-fi, his ear to the speaker. Shh,” Schroeder says, “I’m listening to Beethoven’s Ninth.” Charlie Brown inspects Schroeder’s outfit.

Mohamed Adam Jr February 14, 2010 at 5:46 am Quiet and nice atmosphere. In a “Peanuts” strip from the mid-1950s, Charlie Brown walks through the first panel and finds Schroeder sitting in front of an adult-size hi-fi, his ear to the speaker. Shh,” Schroeder says, “I’m listening to Beethoven’s Ninth.” Charlie Brown inspects Schroeder’s outfit.

Mohamed Adam Jr February 14, 2010 at 5:46 am Quiet and nice atmosphere. In a “Peanuts” strip from the mid-1950s, Charlie Brown walks through the first panel and finds Schroeder sitting in front of an adult-size hi-fi, his ear to the speaker. Shh,” Schroeder says, “I’m listening to Beethoven’s Ninth.” Charlie Brown inspects Schroeder’s outfit.

Mohamed Adam Jr February 14, 2010 at 5:46 am Quiet and nice atmosphere. In a “Peanuts” strip from the mid-1950s, Charlie Brown walks through the first panel and finds Schroeder sitting in front of an adult-size hi-fi, his ear to the speaker. Shh,” Schroeder says, “I’m listening to Beethoven’s Ninth.” Charlie Brown inspects Schroeder’s outfit.

Mohamed Adam Jr February 14, 2010 at 5:46 am Quiet and nice atmosphere. In a “Peanuts” strip from the mid-1950s, Charlie Brown walks through the first panel and finds Schroeder sitting in front of an adult-size hi-fi, his ear to the speaker. Shh,” Schroeder says, “I’m listening to Beethoven’s Ninth.” Charlie Brown inspects Schroeder’s outfit.

Mohamed Adam Jr February 14, 2010 at 5:46 am Quiet and nice atmosphere. In a “Peanuts” strip from the mid-1950s, Charlie Brown walks through the first panel and finds Schroeder sitting in front of an adult-size hi-fi, his ear to the speaker. Shh,” Schroeder says, “I’m listening to Beethoven’s Ninth.” Charlie Brown inspects Schroeder’s outfit.

Michael Gove's endless, faulty lists were clearly a sign of his inexperience. This is what happens when ideology overrides good sense. To rob the budget for repairing existing schools to pay for new schools for middle-class lobby groups is madness beyond reason. But this is not the only gaff made by the new Government.

Michael Gove's endless, faulty lists were clearly a sign of his inexperience. This is what happens when ideology overrides good sense. To rob the budget for repairing existing schools to pay for new schools for middle-class lobby groups is madness beyond reason. But this is not the only gaff made by the new Government.

I didn’t need the viral campaign to convince me I loved the Old Spice Guy ads. rewound it the first time I saw it on TV so my wife could see it. Two points: 1. And what’s essential about the content, besides the charm of the Guy himself, is that it mocks advertisements, men, the product, and the viewers.

I am a Tim Hwang fanboy. Tim is one of the founders of ROFLcon and The Awesome Foundation. So, I was very happy to get to interview him for Radio Berkman. We talk about classifying Internet enthusiasts , and about whether there are schools of thought emerging among people who think about and research the Net. In fact, Tim Hwang is awesome

Ethan Zuckerman , the world’s best live blogger — full awesomeness for his intellect, his writing talent, and his typing skills – is blogging TEDglobal. He is a prodigy of live blogging. can’t even list all of the talks he’s blogged. And Ethan’s own TED talk there is brilliant, funny, surprising, and compassionate

Larry Lessig has responded to ASCAP’s near-total misrepresentation( 1 2 ) of Creative Commons with a clear explanation, and a challenge to debate the president of ASCAP at NY Public Library. You can support CC here

I’ve been staring at a chapter I need to write about transparency, books, long-form thinking, and maybe attention. had hoped not to have to write about this stuff. As a result, I haven’t thought about what to say or how to say it. don’t like writing without knowing roughly what the chunks are that I need to cover.

This week’s Berkman Buzz , as compiled by Seth Young: Doc Searls remembers Persephone Miel link. Ethan Zuckerman asks, “What if search drove newspapers?&# Donnie Dong gets lawyerly with Google.cn’s ICP license link. Herdict on Australia’s progress toward Internet filtering link. Radio Berkman 157 “Gaming Grief&# link.

Here's my picks for the top five 21st century cities so far. 1.Seattle 2.Portland 3.San Diego 4.San Francisco 5.Minneapolis The most exciting corridor is the northwest, with Portland-Seattle-Vancouver BC a dynamite combination. All 5 cities have city-wide initiatives that are transforming their cities on a very visible level. That's my picks.

House Bill 4810, An Act Relative to Certified Professional Midwives and Enhanced Practice of Certified Nurse Midwives, would provide licensure and oversight for direct entry midwives, i.e., for home-birth midwives (as opposed to nurse midwives, who are already covered). Midwives provide superb care for women and their babies.

I have never liked the for-profit colleges.  They charge too much.  Make unseemly profits.  Leave students unserved.  And then walk away leaving society unserved.  Although they have less than 10 percent of students, they account for 40 percent of defaults on student aid.

They are very very tiny. And sweet. And good.  What you buy and eat is a domestic hybrid. We have wild strawberries on our property (cabin on a lake) in northern Wisconsin. Enjoy the holiday weekend

By David Gurteen In this post on Public Parts , Jeff Jarvis talks about his next book of the same title and about the end of privacy and the benefits of publicness. In it, he quotes Steven Johnson's article In Praise of Oversharing in Time: We are discovering in this new realm that public exposure is not just a matter of egotism or idle voyeurism.

Well, my last blog post on the CIPD fat cat salary scandal caused quite a stir, with the CIPD quickly deleting the erroneous claim that their CEO was a Director of Shelter from their website. Garry Platt then kicked off a good debate on TrainingZone and a blistering thread opened up on the CIPD members group on LinkedIn.

My father passed away in 1998. got a call from my mother. asked what I could do. Just come," she said. took the bus from Brandon through northern Ontario, overnight in the dead of winter, to arrive in a couple days and in time to be there. I'm glad I was able to achieve some kind of reconciliation before he died.

By the time I got round to booking accommodation in Dunedin this weekend there was nothing, and I mean nothing left in the town itself. Net result I ended up a hours drive out of town in a Bed and Breakfast at Pukerangi. As it happened I couldn't have asked for a better place. The accommodation itself more than lived up to its description.

In the “why didn’t we think of that&# category, file this: DIY whiteboard tables. Well regarded French type designer Jean Francois Porchez is excited to see someone use Apolline italic on the web. Turns out it’s P.J. How to train an animator , according to Walt Disney. Vincent Connare shares. Paradox? Surprise! It’s a game.

Ten hours to LAX, twelve hours to Auckland and waiting for two hours to Dunedin but it was all worth it for the walk from the International to the Domestic terminal in Auckland. It is one of my favorite walks in the world as it always follows a long flight, its always windy with a taste of moisture in the air and the oxygen count is high.

Thanks everyone who joined us on the AIGA studio crawl on Tuesday night! Looks like we found yet another good use of our monoliths.

Thursday, June 17, 2010. Please join Girls in Tech and Adaptive Path for a special evening of brainstorming and  deep questioning with Arden Pennell. The evening isn’t one-size-fits-all… it’s about you! Arden promises an engaging and energizing experience that you won’t want to miss. 00pm – 8:00pm. 6-8pm.

A frantic few days, getting ready to fly out to New Zealand tomorrow. never get used to the date line; you either loose a whole day, or you have to work the same day twice! This morning I gave a keynote at the UK's main KM conference and choose to take a controversial stance on KM practice and the need for radical change.

Ontology-centric Knowledge Discovery in a Contact Centre for Technica Product Support Brad Shoebottom, Innovatia This paper outlines a technical support product that helps people find answers to questions for customers. Description of a pilot study, of searchers with up to four terms. Phase 1 - ontology and usability test. or what? I give up.

The biggest barrier to human centered design is just getting it done. Once you plan the research, recruit participants, conduct research sessions, then analyze and report the results, you’ve tapped hundreds of work hours and taken weeks off your schedule. You have to plan weeks in advance. Instead, let’s say screw all those barriers.

People learn socially and informally. Research usually finds that around 80% of workplace learning is informal. This is of course an average; the value depends on the context and the individual learner. What proportion would you think Informal Learning accounts for in today’s connected world?

Introduction to Semantic Web Technologies Harold Boley, NRC Presented sample of RDF being used in BBC music site. Wikipedia is using external, public data sets. In short, it is using the web of data as a CMS. More and more data is on the web, and more and more applications rely on that data. We ned to break out of database silos. Example: book.

In marked contrast to a 90 year old, I gave my iPad to a 18 month year old girl called Hannah. The excitment was palpable and you can see from the photograph. She managed to get the interface in minutes: she loved swiping the Apps so they flicked from screen to screen and she also learned (how, I have no idea) to open and close Apps. to hold.

Spiced up Twitter The big news in social networking is games-based, GPS tagging. Foursquare and Gowalla allow you to check-in, tag your location and record what you did/are doing at those locations, through badges, points, whatever. It’s like a spiced-up Twitter, with points for prizes. It makes it fun for the kids by adding competition and prizes.

My first encounter with some of the idiosyncrasies of editing the WIkipedia remains memorable; being told that you obviously don't understand your own work seemed bazaar at the time, but I was a Wikipedia Virgin (to use the title of that post). Interestingly that was my main reason for getting involved in the first place. That's the Bad.

urlist is a nifty way to quickly share links with friends and clients. Joshua Handy from Method Products discusses The Tyranny of Best Practices. Here’s a video from a UNICEF sponsored rapid prototyping workshop to address the needs of families and children. Find out at Narrow Streets Los Angeles.