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

I love trying out new tools and could play all day. These would be my top ten as I enter 2010:  Google Voice: I love Google Voice. You ring my phone number and I decide on which phone it rings. If I'm ...

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

2009 saw me trying to integrate social reporting and facilitating in face-to-face workshops. My experience is that tools and workshop processes tend to get separated. Contrary to all the hype in our social ...

4. Launching into 2010
(Blog/Blog)

... geographic or otherwise, is a personal struggle that I'd like to get better at expressing, celebrating and making something of. Finally, the tools part. I know that tools aren't it. But I do love to play ...

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

... of something I wrote for an organisation who wanted to start using social media, but who were reluctant to take on a blog unless it was tightly controlled and with comments disabled: "Social media tools ...

6. 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 ...

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

... just any old people ... If these tools work for the White House it will be because they are using them in ways that support their objectives - like broadcasting what the President does and opening up ...

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

I prepared a toolbox of activities for community of practice events and workshops for the Central Advisory Services on Intellectual Property for a workshop in January, earlier this year. These tools are ...

9. Toasting mother ship on Ada Lovelace Day
(Blog/Social Media)

... were thought of. It's because of you that when people tell me online tools is a generational thing I think they must be referring to the generation before me. You would be happy to know that I don't rely ...

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

... of their own stuff and negotiation of meaning, with online tools as an integral, but background, part of the practice.   Five stars for this webcast, even without taking into consideration our presentation! ...

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

... of EQUAL events (such as Powering a New Future ) but the reflections, lessons learned, and tools that we used will be helpful for anyone doing social reporting or creating a shared memory of an event. ...

12. Situated social reporting
(Blog/Social Media)

... from and how they have responded to my invitation to bring a camera, video or anything else they want to use to capture what happens. The tools we have are the tools we have. (That reminds me of when ...

13. Webmania - first pick at Web2.0 sites AND in Portuguese
(Blog/Social Media)

... connect me to great tools that I often pick up later from (English) Web2.0 sites. It has the added bonus that it gives me info about the availability of the tools in Portuguese and other languages.  ...

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

Today I was asked how to get people to use an online space that has been created for them. The group has all the tools and a facilitator - all in a cosy online workspace. So why is no-one posting a message ...

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

... on a blank piece of big white paper is the most important tool I have in my repertoire of tools. They range from scribbles, jottings, quick thoughts to complicated networks, colour  coded diagrammes. ...

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

... telephone conference mode, lecture mode) making sure you include people who were not “there”. Puting reporting in the hands of more and different types of people with access to different tools, ...

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

... approaches and expectations are different. What a wonderful context in which to work out our curriculum for connecting in ways that are beyond our individual uses of and assumptions about tools and social ...

18. Moving on with my identity
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... answer about, for example, communication tools - as if a learning theorist would know more than, say, a practising technology steward. The experience made me question who I am and why I had difficulty ...

19. 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. ...

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

... taking place behind closed doors is appreciated for reducing the “noise” level on the internet. Tools are only a small part of the story and their effectiveness is the way they can be synched ...