Suw Charman: BlogTalk Reloaded

Social Software in Business – An adoption strategy: Installing social software in a variety of companies – as a consultant…As a social software consultant Suw goes into organisations to fix "socially broken" social software applications – how to get people to use it.Trojan mouse method – bottom up approach…Top down adoption..Neither of the above strategies…

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Lee Bryant – BlogTalk Reloaded

Lee has just shared a case study application of social software in a large global legal firm – the underlying philosophies and principles….don’t push the "happy, clappy" sharing philosophies….talk about information flow and efficiencies…. I loved the change in focus away from email dependency and interoffice email spam to RSS / subscription that controls the…

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Danah Boyd – BlogTalk Reloaded

The Significance of Social Software:Danah raised the issue that we have already been talking about at BarCamp Vienna … how can web.20 applications still be beta? One of the response is that Beta means it’s still not profitable… OK – so that’s a new take on it!And then there’s the angle that the open source…

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BlogTalk Re-loaded kicks off!

It’s raining in Vienna…but not cold (so I still have a suitcase full of boots & jackets that will come back to Australia unworn!!)… Good to see the audience mix has evened out somewhat! Elmine & I have been noting all weekend how few women have been represented so far (actually – there was just…

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Effective online learning – FREE event

If you are a  LTUG member you are invited to the USDLA Global Affiliate meeting with colleagues from Europe, USA, Japan, India and Australia. This is a FREE event – you just need to meet your dial-in costs. DATE: 29 September 2006TIME: 8am – 9am (Sydney, Australia time)TOPIC: Effective Online and e-Learning SPEAKERS:Andy DiPaolo, Executive…

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Denmark DREAMing…

Leaving Odense(southern Denmark) today for London – with a quick couple of hours in Copenhagen to grab some sightseeing. It’s been a jam-packed information overload 4 days of conferencing, talking, presenting, reading, meeting people – it’s likely to take me most of this week to gather my thoughts and share some of the key issues…

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Re-thinking learning networks

Tim Rudd – Futurelab – UK – from the DREAM conference (Odense, Denmark) Some of you may be familiar with Future Labs work in the UK and/or have heard Anika Small’s presentation at the education.au "What’s Changed" day in August – or listened to the podcast. Tim, a senior researcher with futurelab,….(here’s link to the…

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Informal Learning & Digital Media – What’s New?

Today is the first day of the DREAM conference – I’m presenting this morning  and I’m still struggling with limited internet access…. I’ll attempt to capture some of the key issues from each of the keynote presenters and then draw out some of the themes that are emerging on informal learning…just allow for delayed posts…

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