• Internet Anagram Server / I, Rearrangement Servant : anagram, anagram, software, anagramme, anagrama, wordplay, word play, anagram creator, anagram solver, anagram finder, anagram generator, anagram maker, anagram unscrambler, anagram machine, crossword,
  Anu Garg’s wordsmith is the most FUN ‘zine that I subscribe to.
  (tags: tools language anagram fun generator)

• Virtual Ethnography – Qualitative Social Research
  Domínguez, Daniel; Beaulieu, Anne; Estalella, Adolfo; Gómez, Edgar; Schnettler, Bernt & Read, Rosie (2007). Virtual Ethnography. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 8(3), http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs-texte/
  (tags: autoethnographies cyberstudies)

• Re: Testimonials on Communities on Practice
  John Parboosing shares his wisdom about how to get health professionals to talk about practice and move in the direction of a CoP. He acknowledges com-prac as a resource (even though it includes few medical folks).
  (tags: communitiesofpractice health conversation)
• United States Patent: Huberman , et al. September 25, 2007 Discovering communities-of-practice
  A great example of the mono-platform, “we live on email” assumption: “Acquired data about communication interactions is used to form constructs which are indicative of an entity and communities-of-practice within the entity.” Extrapolating to “real life”.
  (tags: communitiesofpractice tools socialNetworkAnalysis)

Elliott Masie always does a great job creating buzz for his events, and his use of IntroNetworks pushes the use of the software to the next level by having people like Sarah Lynes, a member of his staff, facilitate the whole colleague discovery process for big conferences. His screen-cast gives a sense of who attends and how he’s deployed the software.

As I’ve written before, this is software that you have to configure and shape according to the audience that’s going to attend your event. The way Masie uses it, the four buckets that become quadrants that are used for matching include “About Me,” “My Work,” “My Expertise” and “Seeking Solutions.” Charles Steinfield admitted that having one quadrant dedicated to “Geography” was kind of a waste of mindshare for the C&T Conference. I think it’s interesting how he invites participants to identify their age group, presumably to help you find people the same age?

I’ve been thinking that screen-casts like Masie has produced are really going to be very important in the future because they provide a way to “look over each other’s shoulders” to see how to use the software, how to configure it, and how to fit it into the social framework. I still think that this software looks and feels very separate: Masie says, for example, that email addresses are not listed (because conference participants are not trusted enough, I assume). No mashup here.

Tags: intronetworks

• Forum – Library 2.0
  A network for librarians oan others interested in Library 2.0. Gives a flavor of how much you can do with Ning.
  (tags: copexample tools)

• The Ball Foundation: Chula Vista Community of Practice
  History of Myron Rogers and Joann Ricci work on During the 2004-2005 school year, the six schools that represented the Chula Vista Elementary School District (CVESD) at the October 2004 Partnership Learning Network (PLN) meeting started to build a communi
  (tags: copexample teacherscommunity)

• The Great Flickr Tools Collection
  A frequently updated catalog of dozens of flickr-related tools.
  (tags: flickr tools reference api)
• Conflict ethnography and the biggest picture
  David Kilcullen, a former Australian Army officer, now seconded to the United States State Department.
  (tags: conflict anthropology)
• http://www.harmonyschool.org/nsrf/protocol/doc/consultancy.pdf
  The Consultancy Protocol was developed by Gene Thompson-Grove as part of the Coalition of Essential
  (tags: learningprotocol)
• Critical Friends: a process built on reflection
  Critical Friends Groups at the National School Reform Faculty, which is a professional development initiative of the Harmony School Education Center in Bloomington, Indiana http://www.harmony.pvt.k12.in.us/www/cfg1.html
  (tags: learningprotocol)

• Shirley Williams’ Review of “Web 2.0 for Content for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education”
  “Web 2.0 for Content for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education” is a report that was funded by the JISC (a UK body – Joint Information Systems Committee) and prepared by Tom Franklin and Mark van Harmelen.
  (tags: web2.0 technologyforcommunity)

• Online Invitation service from MeetingWizard.com
  Tool to arrange and schedule meetings and other events. As a productivity tool it makes the planning process easier and more effective. Saves results directly to Outlook.
  (tags: meetings scheduling tools)

• Guest speakers in previous Foundations workshops
  (tags: guests)