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At Headshift Australia we’ve launched a new initiative: Social Software Executive Mentoring.The concept was informed by the number of requests from learning and development practitioners who wanted to extend their knowledge about learning strategies with social software, had specific workplace contextual needs, and wanted to learn more – but in a less structured way than…

I'm immersed in a number of sustainability and environmental projects at the moment – facilitating an online community inquiry (I'll tell you more about that later – right now we're still in stealth mode!) and subsequently immersing myself in research, readings and attending events. Yesterday, I attended a seminar hosted by DSRD (Department of State…

For those of you who have heard what’s been happening to Al Upton and Mini Legends –  go to his site – and pay particular attention to the comments and reactions from the Minis themselves… Just what are we doing with education in our schools??

What happens to your blog when you loose your voice?No – it’s not a rhetorical question. And no, I don’t mean physiologically loosing voice, like laryngitis, or from writer’s block like procrastination. I mean when you just can’t write due to an emotional reaction to a traumatic personal event? For me – it’s 4 weeks,…

10 Ways to a Killer Blog From: yizmo, 10 months ago Presentation of Robert and Maryam Scoble about how to blog well. The Blog Business Summit 2006 is a conference and seminar series focused on business blogging.

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I’m officially declaring this week Social Software week! Why?Because of the amount of workshops, webinars, focus groups, and discussions that are occurring this week…. If I can take poetic license and start the week from Saturday 25th – there was a 3am meeting with Sebastian Fiedler and Lee Bryant (Headshift) as we start to construct…

Here’s an evolving wiki-based resource from Leah Macfayden of UBC: CyberBabel Wiki – a dynamic bibliographical review of online intercultural communication. It’s based on the research project conducted in 2003 and published in 2004 : Comminicating Across Cultures in Cyberspace – which appears to be reproduced here on the wiki. The Bibliography is extensive –…

"A mind stretched by a new idea never goes back to it’s original dimensions"Oliver Wendell Holmes jnr The audience has gone very quiet…I think they might be overwhelmed…huge day – thanks AITD! And a final gem from Liz Stone (CEO AITD) – "Shoot the Puppy" – that’s what you say to friendly vendors that you…

Almost Anything! by Marc Prensky in Innovate – Journal of Online Education June/July 2005 issue There are one and a half billion cell phones in operation around the world, and a large percentage of them are in the hands of students. Yet these phones are barred in most classrooms because they interrupt lessons and can…