1. Communicating on the go
(Blog/Social Media)

Developing a repertoire of tools and practices for email, phone and WIFI access while I'm in different places keeps my grey hairs growing.   Between now and end of March my travel schedule looks like ...

2. Challenges of social media to nonprofits
(Blog/Social Media)

... informatively" (Clay Shirky). That's not easy when non profits are short of resources and time and needs patience. Organisational culture - social media challenges us to work in different ways and change ...

3. Following the White House
(Blog/Social Media)

... keeping a blog and different ways to do it. Flickr is great for a voyeuristic view into President Obama and First Lady Michelle's life. But that's because he is the American President and they are not ...

4. A webinar as a performance art
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... perform rather than as a way of talking to people, then it opens up a whole different mindset and range of possibilities. You probably need a brief, focused message for a webinar which is spun out into ...

5. Site updates
(Blog/News)

  I'm all different now, in case you haven't noticed. My blog/website has a cleaner look, different features and a new URL (the RSS feed stays the same). I managed to delete my database in the process ...

6. Social reporter - old school
(Blog/Setúbal Now)

... to look at the scenery...You don't often find a man of the campo with a book and we got talking. He reads a different book every single day of the year. Sometimes I forget to bring food with me, he ...

7. Situated social reporting
(Blog/Social Media)

... into session and workshop design.  Social Reporters are one sub-group of several groups with different roles who meet at several points in the programme to plan and review their tasks and responsibilities. ...

8. Blog v. documents in dusty filing system
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... do it differently next time ... and thinking about who else could be involved ... and thinking about those very little things that make a difference .... and thinking... With so many gems being lost in ...

9. Who would you invite to talk about social innovation?
(Blog/News)

... speakers. Their experience of social innovation would be in areas like: job creation and local development, combating different kinds of discrimination at work, citizenship, empowerment, the knowledge ...

10. Online space or a place to hang out?
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... in different places and locations. It is hard, when your funding and job description is to support a group in an online space, to think of how to incorporate a trajectory of practices (and identities) ...

11. Thinking public personal boundaries
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... A cycle of noticing, conversations and practice The ideas come from a series of conversations (going back years) with David Wilcox and John Smith (in different contexts) ... the conversations spark something ...

12. Thinking digital literacies
(Blog/Social Media)

... link to things (photos, text, video, audio files) on the Internet. Basic rule of thumb - do you know where to store a picture and get a link to it? knowing that what you do might look and behave differently ...

13. From report writing to social reporting
(Blog/Social Media)

... and should get (ethically) for publishing images and words of other people. In community events this role of capturing stuff seems different to and as important as that of technology steward , facilitator, ...

14. Beyond individual tools and an individual's assumptions
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... Shawn refers to on his blogpost ) is that we should be starting from where we (as a whole group) are.  In our group we are from different countries, with different  time-zones and linguistic ...

15. Time to get behind
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... different approaches are needed The paradox of living both with complexity and simplicity is unresolved. Ironically, Twitter - dear Twitter -  helps me feel my way towards a possible World 3.0. ...

16. Cross app, cross system, cross-language
(Blog/Social Media)

... neatly appears in my website.  You can be as excited as you like about the millions of free web apps, but it's the applications that seamlessly work for you across different apps, different systems, ...

17. Meltdown, Takeoff and World 3.0
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... are given freedom in return for accepting responsibility People choose between having freedom or being controlled in different contexts. Information is distributed freely and uncontrolled There is too ...

18. Connectivity as place
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

I've spent quite a lot of time recently with different projects that are just starting up. The assumption in all of them is that "we'll have a community of practice" as if it was something ...

19. Some process issues about where we meet next time
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... started the planning. We're going to start the writing process differently to how we've done it before.. We decided that each of us would talk to one paragraph of the first three paragraphs that ...

20. A document as a set of relationships
(Blog/Social Media)

... well-presented document submitted for a bid is actually a reification of a set of globally distributed relationships... ... and the strength of the proposal is that people from different domains and with ...