Sep 24 2009
Last May’s CHIFOO presentation was a great talk about reading by Cathy Marshall. Here are Marshall’s slides from which I’ve borrowed some images to talk about her work in this post.
Marshall read (out loud, from the slide on the screen) that:
“Nothing is more commonplace than the experience of reading, and yet nothing is more unknown. [...]
Aug 28 2009
I’ve always found webinar software like WebEx, Elluminate, or GoToMeeting to be constraining and, because they try to be a “total solution” they don’t play well with other uses or software. Because they’re popular they’re used in situations where they’re inappropriate. The Digital Habitats wiki, for example, doesn’t go into enough detail about their uses [...]
Jul 03 2009
Rebecca Egolf, I think, recommended The reason YOUR CHURCH must Twitter; making your ministry contagious by Anthony D. Coppedge and I’ve recommended it to several people since buying the $5 e-book about a week ago. So it comes with excellent ecumenical credentials, since her recommendation said, in effect, that it was “good for synagogues, too.” [...]
Jun 25 2009
For a couple of years it wasn’t “a book” but just “an update”. After our ideas started getting more interesting and more useful, I took to taunting my co-conspirators Etienne Wenger and Nancy White that what is now Digital Habitats “is actually a book.” Later, when we all admitted that it was indeed a [...]
Mar 02 2009
“In a community, unfinished is good news” — that’s almost completely obvious and common-place in the world of wiki practitioners and wiki masters. That’s who was there at the Recent Changes camp. In a world of proposals and business plans that aim to be “done with it” and iron out uncertainty before things [...]
Feb 02 2009
Ward Cunningham just recently set up his own channel on YouTube and has edited a conversation we had last Fall. His philosophy for conducting interviews is simple and effective: make guests feel comfortable and ask them questions that make them look good. He did a great job making me feel comfortable.
We start by talking about [...]
Jan 14 2009
My work as a tech steward and community leader involves dealing with a lot of little sets of data that comes from different sources. As our communities live on more and more different platforms, for example, it becomes a messier and more complicated job to keep track of who’s on which platform, and we often [...]
Oct 24 2008
Last week was the fall vacation for universities in Denmark, so their facilities were used for conferences such as AoIR 9.0 and EPIC 2008. Many of the people who participated in either conference did not seem to know about the other one, even though to me there were many connections and overlaps. There was a [...]
Sep 18 2008
It’s really great when special-purpose websites are mashed together. The effect is multiplicative. For example, Twemes.com, although it has a really ugly pattern for a background, is elegant and simple and combines:
“Tweets” from twitter.com that have a particular hashtag
Photos from flickr.com that have the same hashtag
links from delicious.com that have that same hashtag
Here’s a silly [...]
Jun 27 2008
I’m posting this here because CPsquare’s blogs are broken (soon to be moved & updated).
CPsquare book club: We’ll be reading selected chapters from Communities of Practice: Creating Learning Environments for Educators, edited by Chris Kimble, Paul Hildreth, and Isabelle Bourdon. See the table of contents for both volumes. Several of the authors are [...]
