1. Integrating facilitation and social reporting
(Blog/Blog)

... media bubble, most people are not using new tools and there is an art we need to develop to integrating the tools so that they don't just stay in the hands of the the techy enthusiasts. Christian Kreutz ...

2. Launching into 2010
(Blog/Blog)

... internet arrangements in expensive hotels, especially in Western Europe. Let's face it. No-one uses social media. Who in your extended family and friends outside the professional world are using it? I ...

3. What makes early adopters of social media successful?
(Blog/Social Media)

Following the first question in my interview with Beth Kanter where she talked about the challenges to nonprofits of social media, I asked her what made early adopters successful. She tells the story of ...

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

The other day I interviewed Beth Kanter, who thinks and writes profusely about how nonprofits can use social media. The interview (on my blog in four parts) was to share at a workshop with local development ...

5. When a blog post is not a blog post
(Blog/Social Media)

Still on the lines of the White House blog and how social media tools in themselves are not what it's about. This blog post from the White House is a great example. Read the post "Shooting Around With ...

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

... who want to follow the new administration's lead. All's well EXCEPT it's not the tool or the platform that will perform for you. Signing your organisation up to all the in social media sites does not ...

7. A social reporting toolbox
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... from David Wilcox back in 2006 in a post he wrote called "Social media, social web, social networking... time for the social reporter". Then, in the last few months of 2008, David and I did ...

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

... reports". Reflective reports get her to spend a long time thinking ... and thinking about the processes ... and thinking about the intermediate, semi-learnings .... and thinking about how she would ...

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

... Keeping a shared memory of “what happened” through more than one people doing it, often in quite random ways, and brought together by tags; Using different types of media for reporting, each ...

10. Identity attack: new tools
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

... having to cross multiple tools and platforms:  flickr, Linked In, Ning, WikiMedia. Few people in the room, experts in their field and with a dedicated history to their field, had heard of these tools. ...

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

... to the question: what the hell are all these connections and social media for? ... I live a ridiculous life - in order to keep up. And, therefore, to feel behind. Yes, I read GTD, Life Dev and to ...

12. Stress - a discursive problem?
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... It is a multi-channel gaming portal (categorised in "Media and Entertainment") under client success stories: Today, the portal is one of the most popular sites in Portugal, attracting more than ...

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

... time I have to talk to and play with people in my own family(-ies), communities and networks. The more I work with connecting other people the less time I have to think or act on social media tools - ...

14. The phone is not my media
(Blog/Social Media)

I hate using the telephone. I always have - since a kid. Most of my adult life I've had to prepare  a script before I could phone someone. And I've stuck to the script, regardless of whether ...

15. Life outside social media
(Blog/Blog)

My daughter is in Brasil where she wants to do some work with AfroReggae, a great band who continue to do workshops in the favela in Rio where they come from. She's been writing some brilliant emails ...

16. Those myths about social media
(Blog/Social Media)

I still meet people who want to convince me that face-to-face meetings are superior to doing things together online. That's like saying that the phone is better (or worse) than writing a letter, or ...

17. Genre and Discourse Analysis (2004)
(Blog/Essays)

... and the duality of reification and participation (Etienne Wenger). TOP DISCOURSE AND ITS ANALYSIS In his guide to key concepts in Culture and Media Studies (2002: 73-75) Hartley explains how the ...

18. Weaving together Online and Face-to-Face (2006)
(Blog/Essays)

An article written by John Smith and Bev Trayner for the Elearning Conference in Montreal, 2006. Abstract: Weaving together online and face-to-face learning improves the quality of working in both media. ...

19. Policy-making as design (2005)
(Blog/Essays)

... students for academic and professional world, it has become vital to “learn various types of electronic literacy (such as Web search and computer mediated collaboration), and they have to learn (…) ...

20. Don't talk with your mouth full
(Blog/Social Media)

One of the results of a Marketing Study is that most people multitask while using new media... "eating remains the No. 1 activity people engage in while using media, followed by doing housework, ...