National Training Day 2006- Melbourne

Quite a day here in Melbourne for the National Training Day 2006  – aside from the challenges of commuting into a city centre where there is a G20 meeting and complete lock down for security reasons… The venue was great -"The Backlot"  in the Rydges Hotel Melbourne…. now for those who have been around for…

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Learning Technologies 2006 video streams

While I’m still trying to catch-up on my posts and reviews from the LT2006 conference in Mooloolaba – the video streams of keynotes and featured speakers are available from MediaSite – this may not be the permanent URL – if there are any changes I’ll update it here. They’re all about 20 minutes long –…

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Learning Technologies 2006

Mooloolaba – here we come!It’s that time of the year again – Learning Technologies 2006 – time to head north to the Sunshine Coast for 3 days of sun, fun – oh, and some conference presentations, workshops, catching up with friends and sharing innovative practices (and just a little surfing before the sessions start!)This is…

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Web-Moderators – call for expressions of interest

MentorNet is looking for web-moderators…. The RoleThe Australian Businesswomen’s Network is seeking expressions of interest from experienced web moderators for a new mentoring program (see below) to commence in January, 2007.The web-moderator will manage the technology environment for a cohort of up to 25 participants over a 6 month period. There will be several programs…

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MentorNet – Young Female Entrepreneurs

About 8 months ago I was involved in a tender for a mentor program to be funded by AusIndustry (Australian Federal Government) to develop young women entrepreneurs…and to get to the point – we were successful! Yippee! The program will be delivered entirely through web-based applications, on a national basis and involve up to 200…

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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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