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

... world with me, so that I can see more than one document or web page on the screen at once. This NEAT application perfectly positions the pages side by side or one at the top and one at the bottom.I don't ...

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

... Avoid London, Paris or Brussels, especially higher-end brands.  There's a similar rant in PCWorld and in TechCrunch Sarah Lacy writes: "The quality of the connection is almost always better in emerging ...

3. 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 ...

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

... faith that the love you impart on them will somehow make the world better than it was." Someone in the White House blog team is capturing the essence of the new Administration in some smart posts Having ...

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

Today is Ada Lovelace Day. Ada Lovelace (born in 1815 and who wrote one of the world's first computer programmes) was "one of the coolest nerds ever" and we remember her today as a celebration of women ...

6. Calling for practical wisdom
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... a call for "practical wisdom" in a world which has gone made with bureaucracy. His call is that we: acknowledge and celebrate moral heroes and demand that people around us do too   strive to be ordinary ...

7. History's eve
(Blog/News)

... it is for my grand-children - and the children and grand-children of other people in the world - that Barack Obama becomes President of the United States. I don't talk with political conviction. I ...

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

...  Anyway, when you sign up for Freshbooks, they ask you to choose if you are someone leading a team or if you are taking on the world alone ... I hovered over the one about taking on the world alone, decided ...

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

... society, organisational learning, gender equality... Most of the audience will be people from Europe but there should be voices from different parts of the world. Etienne Wenger and Bunker Roy will be ...

10. Dreaming of places to tell our stories
(Blog/Designing for Learning)

The sun is shining, the world is smiling and the sounds of Ben E. King and the Drifters competes with my neighbours' sounds belting out the window. I find myself getting excited about an idea for next ...

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

... and cultural contexts,  working in and across different sectors. Our experience of the world is different from each others'. We have different time, family and project constraints. Our learning ...

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

... else? What's its name?  In other words, two things I need to pay attention to in making sense of my identity are: Where and how do I show up in the world? Where are the reifications of my participation? ...

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

... to be more like them. There are things in this blogpost that come back to me. Moving on from World2.0 (an expression coined by David Gurteen to describe a world in which there is a Web2.0 paradigm) ...

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

... is part of our future". His context is the blogosphere which he extends to the business world. "The problem" he says, "is with the real-time, as-fast-as-possible approach to things", ...

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

... it takes. And those who do have the time can end up having no time for real people. For a while I've also been pondering on David Gurteen's post about World 2.0 "where we all have the capacity ...

16. Marketing authentic peasants
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... voice for describing how it was for them. Anything I say is framed with my worldview, embedded in my context and told in the language of my own self-knowledge with benefits to me and my identity. Other ...

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

... different world views can come together across space and time, using a mix of different offline and Web-based tools to put together - under time pressure - a joint "production". I find that ...

18. Rome Addis: some travel tips
(Blog/Blog)

... to the time I left Addis. Someone suggested it was due to the altitude (2300 meters, third highest city in the world) and it could have been as I also had a rare nosebleed when I arrived in Rome. Downtown ...

19. What makes something a place?
(Blog/Meta Thoughts)

... but that practice that fell by the wayside. Our lens is communities of practice and situated learning where our experience of the world and the tools is embedded in our (changing) contexts and not in the ...

20. The world's most expensive cable connection?
(Blog/Social Media)

2000 USD a day for a cable connection at the Hilton Hotel in Addis Ababa.   Don't expect to see me online in the last week of February!