They see it as a platform, not a mere blogging tool. Tags: Blogging Community Conference hosts should take a lesson or two from Matt Mullenweg. Today’s Wordcamp San Francisco was simply great. Great line-up of speakers. Glorious weather. Most participants were making money from designing or installing Wordpress sites.).

From Jay Cross' Informal Learning Flow Hot List for August , fantastic video with Seth Godin and Tom Peters discussing the value of blogging. They sound a lot like what I say about blogging and learning. Tom Peters No single thing in the last 15 years professionally has been more important in my life than blogging.

WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into an iPhone applicatio. Blogging Design Just JayI’m simplifying and cleaning up my sites for the new year. I’m not quite finished weeding this online garden, but things are a lot more tidy than last week. My home page is less cluttered but still suffers aesthetically.

How about for blogs? As background for an upcoming presentation, I wanted to create a page that provides background resources that explain various eLearning 2.0 tools. immediately thought of the Common Craft videos. I've embedded them below. Are there other good introductory resources? Social Bookmarking Social Networking Wikis RSS

Blogging Business Future Journalism Links Live Web News Past problems TechnologyNews rivers were a brilliant idea in the first place. Perhaps, now that at least one high-profile publisher has embraced them, the rest might follow. But first, some history, in the best chronological order I can muster —. Newspapers 2.0 , in October, 2006.

Reflections conference blogsNot so much "a train heading straight to Heaven's Gate" but we made progress today. Yesterday was more "Fire rages in the street" as far as I was concerned. Mind you my expectations were on the low side and the first session looked like it could go either way with the title Religion, Emotions, and the Workplace.

Awesome Blogging Fun IdeasJust discovered YouReputation while checking on what Drazen Pantic has been up to. I met Drazen a decade ago while researching public Wi-Fi in New York for Linux Journal.) YouReputation is Drazen’s “viral search” engine. Viral Probability: 0.7092. Sentiment:  31% POSITIVE ,  0% NEGATIVE.

The director in question is Frank Eliason, who has a fine blog and is running at about 16,000 followed and followers as @comcastcares on Twitter. Tags: Blogging Business Ideas Journalism Life Photography Travel infrastructure problems Would have enjoyed having coffee with him this morning. Right. They are not marketing. So is the Web.

Add to this a special Twitter hashtag of #lrn3d, where I will be tweeting Quotes of the Day (or Hour depending on energy level) for the next month, , a Facebook Fan Club and a 20% discount from the publisher and even a “prize&# for folks that follow the entire tour and leave a comment on every blog. You can get it here.

It was pretty much a given that most if not all of the responses to this question , posted on the Learning Circuits blog, would be "no". Blogs, wikis, lists, voting, rss feeds, timelines, photo sites, podcasts, vlogs, plogs, mashups, etc. Why not just blog it as it comes up? let everyone find their own way of making meaning."

I just saw a post by Amit Garg Top 47 eLearning & Workplace Learning Blogs. Please let me know if I'm missing any blogs that produce good content on eLearning and more particularly Workplace eLearning that would make sense to include. Subscribe to the Best of eLearning Learning for updates from this blog and other eLearning blogs

About a year ago I wrote a blog on the post retirement phase of my life.  Finally, there is blogging.  I recently wrote about my complex relationship with blogging and the central role it now plays in my life.  Blogging helps me structure my fairly eclectic life.  My time is now my own.  Next is access to people. 

blog entry is a stub for conversation One of the key ways to create a loyal audience for your blog is to create a community of readers who interact with each-other on your blog. This means that your blog entries should be structured in such a way that they start conversations. blog is a place where you say something.

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So I’m going to respond to Hugh MacLeod’s question about the importance of blogging to me. Like I said many times before, for those of us crazy enough to take it seriously, blogging matters, so does freedom, that’s why I wrote the book. Without my blog, nobody would ever have heard of me. PKM SocialLearning

"?Most of what we inherit is so clearly correct it goes unseen. It fits the world seamlessly. It is the world. But despite its richness and variability, the well-defined world we inherit doesn't quite fit each one of us, individually. And so you make your place in the world by making part of it -- by contributing some new part to the set.

It’s been a slow week on this blog because I’m doing a final read-through of the second draft of “ Too Big to Know.&#. Last week I finished accommodating my editor’s comments. He gave it an extraordinarily helpful reading, focusing mainly on making sure my arguments make sense and are clearly expressed.

This blog is turning conversational. I’m returning to the impromptu, stream-of-consciousness style I used when I began blogging a dozen years ago. When I’ll post things ready for prime time to jaycross.com , my official blog. ” Blogging Just Jay Psychology ThrivingIt’s me to you. Informal. Hacked? 

Note: 9/17/2007 - fixed link to correct instructor's blog. I've received several good questions from Kirsten Morton that I'll be answering over the next few blog posts. This semester, one of her courses focuses on trends in eLearning and requires that each student start a blog. Some good comments coming in. Tools Class.

Four years ago, Max took on our quest blog and his posts were a delightful mix of the whimsical and the profound. So here it is, The Boisot Blog. A few days ago I got a friendly reminder from Plaxo that I should schedule an eCard for delivery on Boisot's birthday, and the reminder was repeated yesterday. Reflections

This is my second blog post reviewing 2011. Today, I take a look at some the key moments of my own year in terms of resources, blog posts and presentations I have produced. January. In January I published my Social Learning Handbook (both as a paperback and a PDF). This book aggregated a lot of my thinking and activities from 2010.

This list is a result of a series of tweets, initiated by Janet Clarey who referred to a Top 50 list of educational technology blogs. These are not all the blogs I read and I have another set of blogs that are more academic and purely learning related. Internet Time Blog another one by Jay Cross (US).

Euan Semple takes a moment to reflect on how blogging has affected how he thinks: Once you have a blog you notice more, you start to think “I might write about this on my blog&# What do I want to say&# “What will people’s reaction be&#. Blogging is not unique in this. … t. Is that good? dunno.

series of eight presentations, plus an introduction before lunch is just too rich to conference blog, so I'm going to attempt a high level summary here. Tags: Reflections conference blogs Lunch: Pasta agli spinaci, Coniglio al forno con patate, insalata & Frutta. minor humiliation at lunch. So what did I learn? Telmo Pievani ( h.

Blogging doesn’t need to be a race. Tags: Blogging Business Journalism Past Technology problems Apple Gizmodo When  Gizmodo reported on the next-generation iPhone that had come into its hands, I was as curious as the next geek about what they’d found. But I didn’t think the ends justified the means. We got it. Really.

Blogging Complex Systems Economic Issues Education and Talent Innovation Management and Leadership Society and Culture Technology and Strategy 'Where will good jobs come from in our emerging digital economy?  Unfortunately, we don’t have very good answers. Workers without a post-secondary education face a contracting set of job opportunities. 

That’s what happened with the post “To be (a brand) or not to be (a brand)&# , at a blog called Daily Breaking News Update. I’m not linking to either, because I think I fell here for a splog (a neologism I like, coined by Mark Cuban , for a spam blog). What are your thoughts on personal branding? It doesn’t.

So I can get back to all the stuff I’ve neglected in the meantime, including this: blogging. think it was twelve years ago today that I put up the first post on this blog. Writing in WordPress is more complicated, but my favorite blogging tool is still OPML. Alas, one diversion that became essential to deny was blogging.

Blogging The FutureThe Churchill Club is the real deal. Movers and shakers and enterpreneurs. nexus. I’m always blown away. Some of my notes from tonight’s session, mainly Alan Kay’s observations. “The revolution is old but it feels like it’s just taking off.” Missing the mark created the internet. MOOCs?

Blogging has continued to play a central role in my life since I started this blog in May of 2005. Given its role in both my work and my life, every so often I like to focus an entry on blogging itself. When I first started blogging, it was almost a giddy experience. My blogs have also gotten more serious.

"Do not tell me what to do, tell me what you do. Do not tell me what is good for me, tell me what is good for you. If, at the same time, you reveal the you in me, if you become a mirror to my inner self, then you have made a reader and a friend.". George Sheehan

Yoani started her blog, Generation Y , in April of 2007.  She writes that her blog is “ an exercise in cowardice which lets me say, in this space, what is forbidden to me in my civic action.” Her blog was quickly discovered by the world.  Ever since then, Yoani has been blogging blind , unable to post or see her own blogs. 

I started this blog when Informal Learning was released, November 10, 2006. Join me at Internet Time Blog. That’s where I’ve blogged for more than a decade and where I engage new thoughts and interactions. Even I was getting confused about which blog to post in. The informal learning meme has gone mainstream.

Not so with the Net, the Web — or blogging. As with the Net and the Web, blogging is NEA. So here I am on a street in Saverne, France, getting on the Net over a rare open wi-fi hot spot. was going to tweet something about it, but Twitter is down. So here we are. There’s one Net, one Web and one Twitter. said through.

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So I suggest blogs have Subscribe Sundays. For pointing to other blogs you think are worth subscribing to. haven’t subscribed to particular blogs in awhile (mostly I subscribe, temporarily, to topics, or search strings). Tags: Blogging Ideas Hey, Twitter has its Follow Fridays. Bonus link: Go track yourself.

Ten years ago I was writing several daily blogs: In 2001, these joined together to become the Internet Time Blog, one of the earliest blogs about learning: Five years later, writing my book on Informal Learning, I added a blog of the same name. That left me with two nearly indistinguishable blogs.

By David Gurteen. Why oh why do we still use podiums at conferences? was at a conference recently and there was no lapel mike available and no hand mike - just a fixed mike on the podium which meant I had to stand behind the damn thing, not walk around and not move my head too much. Crazy! Burn all podiums! That's what I say

Posterous, a very easy to use blogging tool, ranks 55= on the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009 list and is one of the 10 tools for 2010 that I think are worth considering. Tags: Blogging Posterous Posterous. If you are looking for a guide to using Posterous, you'll find some links in our Posterous Reading List.

Andrew McAfee’s Blog The Business Impact of IT Home Home RSS Search Toward a Pattern Language for Enterprise 2.0 In an Apr 9, 2009 blog post ( [link] ) Andrew Gent did a great job responding to the question: ". work is different from Enterprise 1.0 tools and communities appeared. And I thought that in best 2.0 vs. 1.0 vision.

was quoted in the article talking about social shopping and mini-blogging. Here are a few further thoughts on mini-blogs. Here is an excerpt from the article on mini-blogging: The popularity of Twitter in part reflects a desire for immediate gratification in posting and consumption of information. as easily as possible.

By David Gurteen In reading this article on Self-Improvement Myths by Michael Schrage. It reminded me of a quotation I recently added to my collection. Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it . Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. . Credit: Siddh?rtha Good advise, given its 2,500 years old!

By David Gurteen. Why oh why do we still use podiums at conferences? was at a conference recently and there was no lapel mike available and no hand mike - just a fixed mike on the podium which meant I had to stand behind the damn thing, not walk around and not move my head too much. Crazy! Burn all podiums! That's what I say

Where I work, we also use micro-blogging and IM (instant messaging) applications. communication email micro-blogging social networking technology daddio Email messagingOne of my favourite people on the planet is Luis Suarez. And who would blame him? believe him. In fact, I don’t think it’s going to go away at all. Of course it is.

My friend Jon Lebkowsky suggested that I blog my response. Many platforms (not just SP) started bending their base structure (often built off of discussion threads) to “act like&# newer tools such as IMs, wikis, blogs, etc. It was clear that the email lull of the holidays was over. This proved to be very true. My folders. Again.

By David Gurteen When I was in corporate life, many things were inflicted on me that I either hated or felt very uncomfortable with. Brainstorming was one of them. can't recall one where I felt anything useful resulted from them other than a pile of flip-chart paper. It just never jelled with the way my mind works. The world is too complex for that!

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Building a Blog With Personal Clouds. Here are some of my open tabs, now closing as I list them here in outline form: Infrastructure. Stories of First Nations building, owning, controlling, accessing local community fibre networks. Google’s Google problem. Google’s spectrum database. Cars, Privacy and Personal Clouds. Conferences.

have been gently ranting about this for some years and I back searched my blog and came up with this post from May 2003 People are people - not things! Interestingly Steve has also just blogged on this Two streams of thought in management today. They are like oil and water. dispiriting activity for all involved. No one is in control.

I’ve called my blog my persistent presence on the Web. As more social media applications come and go and we see value in some of them and maybe even use them more than our blogs, it becomes even more important to have a spot that doesn’t change too much. To see where blogging may be headed (Blogs 2.0?)

By David Gurteen What is going on in the world, that when I propose a knowledge cafe instead of a talk, I am told it is not a good idea as people will not enroll if they feel they have to do something! Or is it that many of our organisations have created cultures where people are fearful of expressing their own opinion

blog about real life; I talk about the internet. Art Berkman Blogging Books Geography Geology history Journalism Life Places problems Quote Technology VRMNicholas Carr is ahead of his time again.  The Big Switch nailed computing as a utility, long before “the cloud&# came to mean pretty much the same thing. Maybe. Alice writes.

Blogging Broadcasting Business Future Journalism Live Web Santa Barbara Technology infrastructureHere’s a great idea for local TV news departments: start streaming, 24/7/265, on the Net. You don’t need to have first-rate stuff, and it doesn’t all have to be live. Loop fifteen minutes of news, weather and sports to start.

Kim Sbarcea blogged about it and her post sums up my views on the matter quite well. Naguib Chowdhury picked up on my recent presentation in Abu Dhabi and blogged Don’t do KM - then let’s not have a term called- KM! By David Gurteen My recent keynote talk at KM Middle East was titled Dont do KM. You can find the slides on SlideShare.

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I head to India tomorrow so will be out of commission for the next two days, but did want to alert you to the awesome lineup for the fourth week of our Blog Book Tour. Day Sixteen 02/01/10 Gordon Snyder’s blog Information & Communications Technology Blog. With special guest blog this week by Course Director Daniel M.

By David Gurteen Johnnie Moore recently blogged on The Danger of Safety and pointed to some evidence that although you would expect that better brakes made for safe driving that is exactly the opposite of what happened in an experiment with a fleet of taxis. So better brakes - can lead to more accidents! The lesson?

This might seem gloriously disconnected from the world of blogging but it is not … trust me. I sometimes wonder what it is that bugs me. What is it that drives me to do the work I do - because it does feel driven, something I am passionate about. Who or what am I reacting to? What windmills am I tilting at? and later]. Temperament, I suppose.

Today marks the beginning of a 30+ stop blog book tour for our book Learning in 3D: Adding a New Dimension to Enterprise Learning and Collaboration. During the Blog Book tour, I will be limiting posts on Learning Matters to Learning in 3D Nuggets, the rest of my blogging time will be spent I posting on the the blogs listed below.

Photo of this session courtesy of Jay Cross] Although I've been tweeting a lot from the conference (see @c4lpt) and trying to keep up with what's happening in Facebook, I've not blogged at all. This Forbes article suggests that it is

Adaptive Path. Andy McAfee. Charles Jennings. Clark Quinn. Dan Pontefract. Dave Gray. Dave Snowden. David Gurteen. David Weinberger. Dawn of Learning. Dion Hinchcliffe. Doc Searls. Donald Clark Plan B. Eide Neurolearning. Ellen Wagner. Euen Semple. George Siemens. Harold Jarche. Internet Time Alliance. Irving Wladawsky-Berger. Jane Hart. Jay Cross.

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You’ll notice that blogging isn’t in the diagram (though Despair does feature it in four other purchasable forms). bring that up because I think there is a difference between the social media in the Venn diagram and blogging, and that difference is akin to that between weather and geology.  Blogging itself is not.

Wow, what a great presentation / video from Michael Wesch and the author of The Machine is Us presenting to the Library of Congress. It's an hour long, so make sure you give yourself time

I just realized I missed my 10th anniversary of blogging. My first post on the Trends in Living Networks blog was on October 5, 2002, beginning: The emergence of the “living web”: In just the same way as the networks are coming to life, the language that we use to describe this new world is emerging and evolving. Undoubtedly.

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By David Gurteen To my mind the failure by business but more so governments to understand the adverse affects of measures, rewards and targets is a colossal Knowledge Management failure. As far as I can tell nearly all the research and evidence shows that rewards and targets do NOT work in complex environments. think there is enough to write a book!

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Plenty of experts and lay-people alike have kicked around their ideas through their blogs. This collection offers 100 of these blog posts speculating on the future of learning. Online Learning Find out what direction the relatively new field of online learning might be taking with these articles.

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By David Gurteen I received an email from a student a month or so back in which she asked for my advise. She replied very excitedly that she thought it was a brilliant idea and would try it. have yet to hear back but I hope it works for her. wish I could find the article

Its all very easy to do and those of you with your own sites or blogs might like to take a look and build your own store By David Gurteen I have long had a book section on my website with links through to amazon.com and amazon.uk to make it easy to order the books. What's more, the effort was trivial.

When is a blog not a blog? When it is a blog post. There is not much that brings out the pedant in me but when people refer to a blog post as a blog it drives me nuts! get caught out all the time when someone says "Have you seen my new blog?"

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I blog by grace of something I hardly expected to find: a free open wi-fi hot spot in London. Tags: Blogging Fun Travel infrastructure Somewhere betwen then and now that ended. So now I’m sitting with even newer friends where Blackfriars Bridge crosses the Thames, on Riverside Walk in the Spring. Except it’s Autumn.

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Art Blogging Fun Photography Places Santa BarbaraThe Santa Barbara Arts Collective is looking for worthy photographs to hang in the Mayor’s office. And my friend Joe just called to suggest I submit some candidates. I’m kinda partial to… This view out the front door of a friend’s house. This oil platform. Votes?

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It’s also the name of his blog at Bubkes.org — which, perhaps miraculously, is back up again. Among the many “items above&# is Skywave , an old blog of mine that I’m glad to see kept alive in archived form (and for which I thank Dave and friends for rescuing with other former radio.us erland blogs).

By David Gurteen Everyone loves Dilbert. Over the years there have been some gems relating to knowledge management, collaboration, knowledge sharing and the like. So I thought I would start to dig them out and create a collection of Dilbert comic strips on KM that can be viewed through my media player. Enjoy! Dilbert on Knowledge Management.

political blogs on the left, right, and center during the summer of 2008 and, based on qualitative coding of the top 155, finds evidence of an association between ideological affiliation and the technologies, institutions, and practices of participation across political blogs.

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SmartCompany has released a nice list of Australia's 25 top business blogs , created by Brad Howarth. With the list is a useful article running through the highlights of the blogs on the list, including why these leading businesses blog, the value they get from it, how they go about it, and far more. Telstra Exchange : 8,771.

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By David Gurteen I have long advocated that blogging is a thinking tool and not a publishing tool. If you don't blog and still don't quite get it - take a look at what Seth Godin has to say about blogs for example it does not matter if no one reads your blog! And so many non-bloggers have looked at me as if I was crazy.

Found via Donald Clark - Business Week article - The Wiki Workplace that discusses use of Wikis and Blogs and particularly their use. Geek Squad is a case in point. IBM uses it for Innovation Jams. Great Stuff

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”    My colleagues at Momsrising, the poster child for Networked Nonprofits, offered this amazing guest post filled with great tips on how to get your blog noticed. Seven Ways to Make Sure Your Blog Gets Noticed, Guest Post By Elisa Batista, Donna Norton, and Monifa Bandele from Momsrising. Flickr Photo by alshepmcr. Enjoy!

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Perhaps ironically, Technorati maintained an archive of all blogging for half a decade. More to the point of this post, here’s her Media Re:public blog , with many links out to other sources, including her own. Tags: Blogging Health Ideas Journalism Life Live Web News Past infrastructure problems We are what we do.

Clay Shirky has been talking about the Cognitive Surplus for a couple of years now and I have blogged about it in the past and I had assumed that everyone was aware of the concept but during my recent travels I was surprised how many people had not heard of Clay nor Cognitive Surplus so here's the gist and video talk here. Media Information

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Most recently, Robert Scoble from Microsoft blogged about an epiphany he had earlier this week during a visit to Silicon Valley. This theme is further developed in a blog posting by Seth Goldstein entitled “AttentionTrust.org: A Declaration of Gestural Independence”. Dont Count On It. Attention is hugely important. Thanks!

WLEX-TV in Lexington, Kentucky, an NBC affiliate, has turned its news site into a blog. It actually contains news produced independently of what goes out on broadcast. Very very interesting.