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Wikis for committee work to replace/reduce e-mail. Last night at ThirdTuesdayNB the conversation came around to how to implement social media in large, bureaucratic organizations without creating a white elephant type of project that takes years to implement. Michele Martin just posted some social media baby steps that have worked for her, particularly: Static website => blog. MORE
ralphmercer: committees are place to lure great ideas to be killed while absolving everyone of the blame hjarche: innovation is something you create from thinking & doesn’t usually come from existing practices that others are following [link] hjarche: Our Future: Security, Consumption, Participation and/or Green? Posted on December 23rd, 2007 by Harold Jarche It looks like social media (wikis, blogs & social networking) are going the way of e-learning and knowledge management (KM). MORE
link] March 24, 2009 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Once again, Clayton Wright has been nice enough to compile an incredible list of conferences focused on use of technology in learning. Clayton publishes this as a Word document but does not publish it as a web page. He has generously allowed me to republish here. You can contact him at: crwr77@gmail.com. His notes on the list. MORE
ralphmercer: committees are place to lure great ideas to be killed while absolving everyone of the blame hjarche: innovation is something you create from thinking & doesn’t usually come from existing practices that others are following [link] hjarche: Our Future: Security, Consumption, Participation and/or Green? Tagging, folksonomies, wikis and social bookmarks are new metaphors designed within the new medium. MORE
Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Nov 03 2007 About Nancy White Published by Nancy White Nancy J. Managed permanent staff of six, four volunteer committees and interns.> It’s all laid out on a wiki at Google Sites. [.] # Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange » TTIX 2010 Schedule of Events on 23 Apr 2010 at 2:37 pm [.] MORE
“But science is littered with examples of wikis like this…They are not attracting regular contributors.” If you’re a young scientist, the way you build your career is through the publication of scientific papers…One mediocre crappy paper is going to do more your career than a series of brilliant contributions to a wiki.” Michael Nielsen is giving a Berkman talk on the networking of science. (It’s MORE
link] January 7-8, 2013 Committee on College Teaching and Learning (CCTL) Conference on Teaching and Learning, 12 th annual, Niagara University, Niagara, New York, USA. Clayton R. Wright has done his 28th version of his amazing list of conferences again this year. Past years eLearning Conferences 2012 , eLearning Conferences 2011 , eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. You can contact him at: crwr77 [@] gmail.com. MORE
National Committee for the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA: [link] and as Co-chair of the CODATA Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries. Ican only see a small part, but researchers have been blogging, using wikis, microblogging, using Friendfeed (an aggregator) to carry ourt a vast range of informal distributed conversations about research initiatives and policies. MORE
The current the mix of tools that are available includes blogs, wikis, document repositories, live meeting software and a calendar. We'll also talk about how the different tools work together (for example, about community vs personal MS-Outlook calendars or how a wiki and a document repository overlap in some ways but serve different purposes at the same time). federal government's Knowledge Management Standards Committee under the federal CIO's council. MORE
A wiki? The head of the rules committee of the Utah House of Representatives opened up a space for comments online to share. This is a liveblog of Micah Sifry’s book talk hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. It is not a perfect transcript of the event. It was created collaboratively by Erhardt Graeff, , Nathan Matias , Sands Fish , Dalia Othman , Mayte Schomburg , and David Larochelle. and me. MORE
The proposed concept is intended to be complementary to two of the ways the Federal government currently obtains expertise to inform decision-making, namely by convening Federal Advisory Committees and announcing public comment opportunities in the Federal Register. Take a look at the example in the editable part of the wiki. And, yes, I did say that parts of the wiki are editable. MORE
Compensation committees on boards hire consultants to advise them on how much other chief executives at rival companies are paid to make sure that they are not undercutting their own top executives. MORE
For sins in my past, I’ve been invited on to our school district’s technology committee. So, yesterday evening I was there as we were reviewing and rewriting the technology plan (being new to the committee, I wasn’t there when the existing one was drafted). Naturally, I suggested that they use wikis to share the efforts across the schools in the district, but that’s probably a faint hope. MORE
In its place enters social and informal learning hubs like on-demand content, live online discussions, wikis and forums, and searchable content archives. Wikis or notes – for writing collaboratively, eliminating multiple versions of documents, sharing information with a relevant group, eliminating unnecessary email, and sharing responsibility for updates and error correction. the United Way Committee or neighborhood watch). Third post in a series. MORE
Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Nov 03 2007 About Nancy White Published by Nancy White Nancy J. Managed permanent staff of six, four volunteer committees and interns.> It’s all laid out on a wiki at Google Sites. [.] # Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange » TTIX 2010 Schedule of Events on 23 Apr 2010 at 2:37 pm [.] MORE
It is only the draft ad from Wieden+Kennedy for a full half-time show that begins to address the real issue by offering a spoof of Super Bowl advertising, and noting in its concluding line: “This SuperBowl half-time message paid for by the Committee to Improve the Federal Government’s Approval Ratings by Any Means Other Than Actually Improving the Federal Government." MORE
I will say that I think that Linda David and Pat Byers did amazing work on the program and they (along with my fellow committee members) deserve great credit. compares ease of wiki editingto updating your corp intranet…everyone laughs…grabdelicious feed for tk2007…(TekKnowledge 2007) (how is he doing the magnifying trick?) …see MORE
Fortunately, John Palfrey, the head of the steering committee , did some high-value live-blogging, which you can find here: 1 2 3 4. The sense of the room was that it’s important that DPLA not get stuck in committee for years, but should launch something quickly. The DPLA wiki is here I got to attend the Digital Public Library of America ‘s first workshop yesterday. It was an amazing experience that left me with the best kind of headache: Too much to think about! MORE
The exec secured a mandate from the executive committee to experiment with social networking in three areas of the company, international sales, manufacturing resource forecasting, and learning & development. Wikis – for writing collaboratively, eliminating multiple versions of documents and email, keeping information out in the open, eliminating unnecessary email, and sharing responsibility for updates and error correction. MORE
Managing intellectual capital usually includes the development of wikis, communities of practice, expertise databases, and other repositories of all sorts… but let’s pause here and not get ahead of ourselves (trust me, it’s easy to do!) After completing the analysis, present your findings to your board committee. Note From Beth: Many of us don’t value taking the time for intentional learning within our organizations. MORE
The review excluded facilitated e-learning and online education models such as the use of social networking, blogs, wikis and BlackboardTM learning management system software. He has not done this; instead he has taken their money and put them on the committee selecting the papers that will be 'representative' of academic research taking place in MOOCs. Here is the chart of citations collated from the papers selected by the committee for the MOOC Research Network (p. MORE
Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Nov 03 2007 About Nancy White Published by Nancy White Nancy J. Managed permanent staff of six, four volunteer committees and interns.> It’s all laid out on a wiki at Google Sites. [.] # Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange » TTIX 2010 Schedule of Events on 23 Apr 2010 at 2:37 pm [.] MORE
Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Nov 03 2007 About Nancy White Published by Nancy White Nancy J. Managed permanent staff of six, four volunteer committees and interns.> It’s all laid out on a wiki at Google Sites. [.] # Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange » TTIX 2010 Schedule of Events on 23 Apr 2010 at 2:37 pm [.] MORE
For example, Clay’s post from 2003 marvels at a “broadband conversation” in which the participants communicated simultaneously by conference call, through a wiki, and through a chat, each from a different source. Google Docs are functionally wikis, except without the draft>compile>post process.) This isn’t to say that groups have to have a selection committee and charge dues. MORE
technologies like blogs, wikis, podcasts and video blogs, combined with the availability of digital content, have changed those who were previously consumers of information into co-creators. JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) Pedagogical Vocabularies Project, Retrieved 24 March 2006 from [link]. Not only is e-mail where knowledge goes to die (according to Luis Suarez ) but PDF’s are where entire articles go to die. MORE
Best educational wiki : WikiEducator Numerous educational wikis could have taken the podium here - Curriki , Wikiversity , more. Best elearning / corporate education blog : Off Course-On Target Wayne Hodgins has been around forever, but blogging is a new medium for him, as most of his work has been done in standards committees and academic papers dev eloping and advocating the concept of learning objects. MORE
As Wikipedia suggests , “The organization began in New Orleans during a training committee meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in 1942. Talent is developed inside and outside of ‘training and development’ It comes in the form of coaching, mentoring, job shadowing, wiki’s, blogs, rotations, lectures, books, articles, job aids, leadership models … the list literally goes on and on. MORE
Last week I went to the launch of an excellent issues paper created by The Committee for Sydney , titled #wethecity: Collaborating to Compete in the Digital Era. Lucy Turnbull, chair of Committee of Sydney, notes in her opening comments that: Cities are collaborating to compete and the ones that collaborate most compete best. Case Study 7: Melbourne – Wiki for Future Melbourne planning, unconferences and CityLab. MORE
3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." " Attempt to make the committees as large as possible — never less than five. (4) e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Godspeed Tim Russert. Main | "So" - A Whole Article on So.Awesome. » June 14, 2008 OMG.There are spies everywhere sabotaging our organizations!! MORE
demo - Weblion Wiki - user created content and support Somthing like this for learning design would be really useful, and if we made it open, then anyone could contribute content. It is probably time top steer the committee. More blog coverage from IMS in Montreal. The Future IMS Learning Design What is the future of learning design? It has been around seven years. But still it disseminates very slowly. Is it time to revise or reinvigorate the specification? MORE
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. Dev: Dr. Steve Eskow Published by Nancy White at 5:41 am under international development , non profits/ngos , podcasts , social media , technology stewardship Finally, I have grabbed a few minutes to add the next couple of podcasts in the series on Social Media in International Development. MORE
She also made one comment that was very interesting: To the consternation of my rather conservative university, I am submitting the dissertation in the form of a wiki (although - strictly speaking - is it really a wiki if I don't open it up to the community to co-author, which of course I can't do in this instance). First, I can't imagine trying to do a dissertation wiki. So, if they provide comments via the Wiki doesn't that make a lot of sense. MORE
The drafting committee of the Declaration presenting its work to Congress " In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « TED Videos - Watch em all!! via Boing Boing) | Main | Nothing to do with learning.but Transformers ROCKS! » July 04, 2007 Happy July 4th - Independence Day In the U.S. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. MORE
The DoT has 200+ on their open govt committee. They used a wiki tool ( MixedInk ) so the public could write policy drafts; that wiki let users vote on changes. Beth Noveck is deputy chief technology officer for open government and leads President Obama’s Open Government Initiative. She is giving a talk at Harvard. She begins by pointing to the citizenry’s lack of faith in government. Without participation, citizens become increasingly alienated, she says. MORE
Tony Karrer
MAY 17, 2008
She also made one comment that was very interesting: To the consternation of my rather conservative university, I am submitting the dissertation in the form of a wiki (although - strictly speaking - is it really a wiki if I don't open it up to the community to co-author, which of course I can't do in this instance). First, I can't imagine trying to do a dissertation wiki. So, if they provide comments via the Wiki doesn't that make a lot of sense.
Mark Oehlert
JULY 4, 2007
The drafting committee of the Declaration presenting its work to Congress " In CONGRESS, July 4, 1776. e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « TED Videos - Watch em all!! via Boing Boing) | Main | Nothing to do with learning.but Transformers ROCKS! » July 04, 2007 Happy July 4th - Independence Day In the U.S. The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America.
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David Weinberger
DECEMBER 16, 2010
The proposed concept is intended to be complementary to two of the ways the Federal government currently obtains expertise to inform decision-making, namely by convening Federal Advisory Committees and announcing public comment opportunities in the Federal Register. Take a look at the example in the editable part of the wiki. And, yes, I did say that parts of the wiki are editable.
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 21, 2013
Last week I went to the launch of an excellent issues paper created by The Committee for Sydney , titled #wethecity: Collaborating to Compete in the Digital Era. Lucy Turnbull, chair of Committee of Sydney, notes in her opening comments that: Cities are collaborating to compete and the ones that collaborate most compete best. Case Study 7: Melbourne – Wiki for Future Melbourne planning, unconferences and CityLab.
David Weinberger
AUGUST 25, 2014
For example, Clay’s post from 2003 marvels at a “broadband conversation” in which the participants communicated simultaneously by conference call, through a wiki, and through a chat, each from a different source. Google Docs are functionally wikis, except without the draft>compile>post process.) This isn’t to say that groups have to have a selection committee and charge dues.
Dan Pontefract
MAY 20, 2014
As Wikipedia suggests , “The organization began in New Orleans during a training committee meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in 1942. Talent is developed inside and outside of ‘training and development’ It comes in the form of coaching, mentoring, job shadowing, wiki’s, blogs, rotations, lectures, books, articles, job aids, leadership models … the list literally goes on and on.
Harold Jarche
MARCH 18, 2009
Wikis for committee work to replace/reduce e-mail. Last night at ThirdTuesdayNB the conversation came around to how to implement social media in large, bureaucratic organizations without creating a white elephant type of project that takes years to implement. Michele Martin just posted some social media baby steps that have worked for her, particularly: Static website => blog.
Steve Denning
JANUARY 12, 2011
Compensation committees on boards hire consultants to advise them on how much other chief executives at rival companies are paid to make sure that they are not undercutting their own top executives.
Jay Cross
AUGUST 31, 2012
In its place enters social and informal learning hubs like on-demand content, live online discussions, wikis and forums, and searchable content archives. Wikis or notes – for writing collaboratively, eliminating multiple versions of documents, sharing information with a relevant group, eliminating unnecessary email, and sharing responsibility for updates and error correction. the United Way Committee or neighborhood watch). Third post in a series.
Jay Cross
NOVEMBER 15, 2012
The exec secured a mandate from the executive committee to experiment with social networking in three areas of the company, international sales, manufacturing resource forecasting, and learning & development. Wikis – for writing collaboratively, eliminating multiple versions of documents and email, keeping information out in the open, eliminating unnecessary email, and sharing responsibility for updates and error correction.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
MAY 2, 2015
The review excluded facilitated e-learning and online education models such as the use of social networking, blogs, wikis and BlackboardTM learning management system software. He has not done this; instead he has taken their money and put them on the committee selecting the papers that will be 'representative' of academic research taking place in MOOCs. Here is the chart of citations collated from the papers selected by the committee for the MOOC Research Network (p.
Nancy White
SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Nov 03 2007 About Nancy White Published by Nancy White Nancy J. Managed permanent staff of six, four volunteer committees and interns.> It’s all laid out on a wiki at Google Sites. [.] # Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange » TTIX 2010 Schedule of Events on 23 Apr 2010 at 2:37 pm [.]
Steve Denning
JANUARY 16, 2011
It is only the draft ad from Wieden+Kennedy for a full half-time show that begins to address the real issue by offering a spoof of Super Bowl advertising, and noting in its concluding line: “This SuperBowl half-time message paid for by the Committee to Improve the Federal Government’s Approval Ratings by Any Means Other Than Actually Improving the Federal Government."
Nancy White
JANUARY 14, 2010
Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Nov 03 2007 About Nancy White Published by Nancy White Nancy J. Managed permanent staff of six, four volunteer committees and interns.> It’s all laid out on a wiki at Google Sites. [.] # Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange » TTIX 2010 Schedule of Events on 23 Apr 2010 at 2:37 pm [.]
Nancy White
OCTOBER 3, 2008
Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Nov 03 2007 About Nancy White Published by Nancy White Nancy J. Managed permanent staff of six, four volunteer committees and interns.> It’s all laid out on a wiki at Google Sites. [.] # Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange » TTIX 2010 Schedule of Events on 23 Apr 2010 at 2:37 pm [.]
Nancy White
SEPTEMBER 26, 2008
Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Nov 03 2007 About Nancy White Published by Nancy White Nancy J. Managed permanent staff of six, four volunteer committees and interns.> It’s all laid out on a wiki at Google Sites. [.] # Teaching with Technology Idea Exchange » TTIX 2010 Schedule of Events on 23 Apr 2010 at 2:37 pm [.]
Clark Quinn
FEBRUARY 18, 2009
For sins in my past, I’ve been invited on to our school district’s technology committee. So, yesterday evening I was there as we were reviewing and rewriting the technology plan (being new to the committee, I wasn’t there when the existing one was drafted). Naturally, I suggested that they use wikis to share the efforts across the schools in the district, but that’s probably a faint hope.
Nancy White
SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
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. Dev: Dr. Steve Eskow Published by Nancy White at 5:41 am under international development , non profits/ngos , podcasts , social media , technology stewardship Finally, I have grabbed a few minutes to add the next couple of podcasts in the series on Social Media in International Development.
David Weinberger
APRIL 29, 2010
The DoT has 200+ on their open govt committee. They used a wiki tool ( MixedInk ) so the public could write policy drafts; that wiki let users vote on changes. Beth Noveck is deputy chief technology officer for open government and leads President Obama’s Open Government Initiative. She is giving a talk at Harvard. She begins by pointing to the citizenry’s lack of faith in government. Without participation, citizens become increasingly alienated, she says.
Nancy White
SEPTEMBER 4, 2009
National Committee for the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA: [link] and as Co-chair of the CODATA Task Group on Preservation of and Access to Scientific and Technical Data in Developing Countries. Ican only see a small part, but researchers have been blogging, using wikis, microblogging, using Friendfeed (an aggregator) to carry ourt a vast range of informal distributed conversations about research initiatives and policies.
Mark Oehlert
JUNE 14, 2008
3) When possible, refer all matters to committees, for "further study and consideration." " Attempt to make the committees as large as possible — never less than five. (4) e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « Godspeed Tim Russert. Main | "So" - A Whole Article on So.Awesome. » June 14, 2008 OMG.There are spies everywhere sabotaging our organizations!!
Tony Karrer
OCTOBER 5, 2009
The current the mix of tools that are available includes blogs, wikis, document repositories, live meeting software and a calendar. We'll also talk about how the different tools work together (for example, about community vs personal MS-Outlook calendars or how a wiki and a document repository overlap in some ways but serve different purposes at the same time). federal government's Knowledge Management Standards Committee under the federal CIO's council.
David Weinberger
DECEMBER 2, 2014
A wiki? The head of the rules committee of the Utah House of Representatives opened up a space for comments online to share. This is a liveblog of Micah Sifry’s book talk hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. It is not a perfect transcript of the event. It was created collaboratively by Erhardt Graeff, , Nathan Matias , Sands Fish , Dalia Othman , Mayte Schomburg , and David Larochelle. and me.
David Weinberger
OCTOBER 25, 2011
“But science is littered with examples of wikis like this…They are not attracting regular contributors.” If you’re a young scientist, the way you build your career is through the publication of scientific papers…One mediocre crappy paper is going to do more your career than a series of brilliant contributions to a wiki.” Michael Nielsen is giving a Berkman talk on the networking of science. (It’s
Harold Jarche
DECEMBER 17, 2008
ralphmercer: committees are place to lure great ideas to be killed while absolving everyone of the blame hjarche: innovation is something you create from thinking & doesn’t usually come from existing practices that others are following [link] hjarche: Our Future: Security, Consumption, Participation and/or Green? Posted on December 23rd, 2007 by Harold Jarche It looks like social media (wikis, blogs & social networking) are going the way of e-learning and knowledge management (KM).
Beth Kanter
AUGUST 30, 2013
Managing intellectual capital usually includes the development of wikis, communities of practice, expertise databases, and other repositories of all sorts… but let’s pause here and not get ahead of ourselves (trust me, it’s easy to do!) After completing the analysis, present your findings to your board committee. Note From Beth: Many of us don’t value taking the time for intentional learning within our organizations.
Harold Jarche
FEBRUARY 15, 2010
technologies like blogs, wikis, podcasts and video blogs, combined with the availability of digital content, have changed those who were previously consumers of information into co-creators. JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) Pedagogical Vocabularies Project, Retrieved 24 March 2006 from [link]. Not only is e-mail where knowledge goes to die (according to Luis Suarez ) but PDF’s are where entire articles go to die.
Harold Jarche
DECEMBER 18, 2008
ralphmercer: committees are place to lure great ideas to be killed while absolving everyone of the blame hjarche: innovation is something you create from thinking & doesn’t usually come from existing practices that others are following [link] hjarche: Our Future: Security, Consumption, Participation and/or Green? Tagging, folksonomies, wikis and social bookmarks are new metaphors designed within the new medium.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
DECEMBER 17, 2007
Best educational wiki : WikiEducator Numerous educational wikis could have taken the podium here - Curriki , Wikiversity , more. Best elearning / corporate education blog : Off Course-On Target Wayne Hodgins has been around forever, but blogging is a new medium for him, as most of his work has been done in standards committees and academic papers dev eloping and advocating the concept of learning objects.
Tony Karrer
NOVEMBER 13, 2012
link] January 7-8, 2013 Committee on College Teaching and Learning (CCTL) Conference on Teaching and Learning, 12 th annual, Niagara University, Niagara, New York, USA. Clayton R. Wright has done his 28th version of his amazing list of conferences again this year. Past years eLearning Conferences 2012 , eLearning Conferences 2011 , eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. You can contact him at: crwr77 [@] gmail.com.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
JULY 15, 2009
demo - Weblion Wiki - user created content and support Somthing like this for learning design would be really useful, and if we made it open, then anyone could contribute content. It is probably time top steer the committee. More blog coverage from IMS in Montreal. The Future IMS Learning Design What is the future of learning design? It has been around seven years. But still it disseminates very slowly. Is it time to revise or reinvigorate the specification?
Mark Oehlert
JUNE 3, 2007
I will say that I think that Linda David and Pat Byers did amazing work on the program and they (along with my fellow committee members) deserve great credit. compares ease of wiki editingto updating your corp intranet…everyone laughs…grabdelicious feed for tk2007…(TekKnowledge 2007) (how is he doing the magnifying trick?) …see
Tony Karrer
JANUARY 2, 2009
link] March 24, 2009 Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Once again, Clayton Wright has been nice enough to compile an incredible list of conferences focused on use of technology in learning. Clayton publishes this as a Word document but does not publish it as a web page. He has generously allowed me to republish here. You can contact him at: crwr77@gmail.com. His notes on the list.
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