1. BEtreat - a party workshop
(Blog/Blog)

Etienne Wenger and I are throwing a birthday workshop in Grass Valley, California.  It's a way of sharing our work together and pushing out the envelope. And having fun at the same time. BEtreat In 2008 ...

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

... this: Brazil, New Zealand, New York, Kenya/Tanzania/South Africa, S.E. Asia (tbc), France, Slovenia.  Meantime I'm in California where things are no better than anywhere else. Internet at the house goes ...

3. Ten tools I couldn't do without
(Blog/Blog)

... You take quick screenshots, mark them, drag and drop them anywhere you want. I probably use it about ten times a day, even for little reminders to myself. TwoUp: I hump around a 17" computer all over the ...

4. Crummy internet in expensive hotels
(Blog/Blog)

I now spend about half my time on the road so internet access is an abiding concern. I need it for work and for staying in contact with my family.   My experience is that the more stars a hotel has, the ...

5. Launching into 2010
(Blog/Blog)

... think our frame is to find meaningful ways of extending conversations beyond time and geography - and for the time being this keeps me busy working out how to integrate facilitation and social reporting. ...

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

... the ability to reiterate, experiment, understand what worked and refine what they were doing over time.  ...

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

... early stages of learning how to use it and make sense of it.  We're still in an experimental phase and so we won't get it right the first time. It's very much a situation of learn as you go and of "failing ...

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

... team is honoured and appreciated. Their reception at the White House was informal, personal and fun. Obama takes time to play for people (and even wins in games they play) Obama inspired Maya Moore, one ...

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

... make you hip. And does not necessarily make you effective. The White House blog is (a heavy, CSS and bandwidth intensive) tool for broadcasting information in a timely way. There are other reasons for ...

10. Communication toolbox - or ode to the pdf
(Portfolio/Toolboxes)

... true and a myth. It's true for some people some of the time. Outside that time you might be many kilometers away from a connection or you might have to pay, share a computer, or have a server with big ...

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

... skills in the dark. Meantime I don't have the concentration to sit through a webinar or webcast (or even a telephone conference presentation) so I'm missing opportunities to learn through good examples. ...

12. Building competencies through e-learning
(Blog/News)

John Smith and I are presenting a webcast for the Human Capital Institute (HCI) next week. It's called "It's the Sign of the Times: Building Competencies through E-learning" and is sponsored by Safari ...

13. 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 ...

14. Transitioning to 2009
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... leave enough time for strategic thinking, let alone the important stuff like reflection, creativity, play and love. Among other things, this year I want less and I want the less to be more meaningful. ...

15. 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 ...

16. Sanity as in smart, sensitive and Silvia
(Blog/News)

  When you sign up for Freshbooks, a great application for keeping time and doing your invoicing - if it weren't for the fact that invoicing in Portugal is such a d-a-m-n complicated business.... ...

17. Notes on using iMovie for social reporting
(Blog/Social Media)

I've been having fun (and getting frustrated) playing with Apple Mac's iMovie, Garage Band and QuickTime Pro . I put together some stills and notes made by social reporters at an event I was facilitating, ...

18. 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 ...

19. Throwing a donut at the moon
(Blog/Social Media)

I was convinced that we would have Shirikisha vanilla ready in June. I had already allowed for some delay. 43 folders has a post that sums it up in "Task Times, The Planning Fallacy, and a Magical ...

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

... time - negotiating places, identities and technologies". In the visual you can see the (blue) "CoP off the shelf" that organisations invariably ask for. CoP off the shelf is usually a budget ...