How do you bring Web 2.0 too healthcare workers?
After reading an article on e-Clippings about IBM and all the technology that their staff is using, I just had to share the data with my supervisor. Immediately our minds race with how can we generate that kind of buy-in and use from our employees. Then I often snap back to reality (and rather abruptly […]
My Shared Items – Worth Looking at Too
Some postings I read are just so interesting that I don’t want to summarize the author, but I do want to remember them and share them with others. So to do this I tag them as “share” through my Google Reader. They are set up as links down the right side of my blog and […]
These aren’t your typical Martha type crafts
Skimming around some posts today I came across one about your own personal office cubicle garden. Hmmm, lovely sunny day…I’d rather be outside…sure why not bring the outdoors in…and so I ventured off to the site. Much to my delight I spent far too much time looking through lots and lots of great ideas of […]
Idea for Virtual Conferences – Better? Maybe.
Tony Karrer had a post mid month regarding ideas for creating better and more engaging conferences. I added a couple of thoughts, but then came across this today…what about just virtual conferences. You never need to leave your office, home, bedroom. Computer scientists at the University of Alberta along with HP in California are working […]
New Colours – Keeping it Fresh
Just in case you happened to notice…yes the colours on my page have been changed. I tend to do this every so often. One, because it keeps it fresh (maybe only to myself) without changing the content and layout. Two, it is kind of fun to play around with your layout and code (hmmm, maybe […]
Social Networks in Plain English – CommonCraft Creates another great Show
Here’s another wonderful production from Lee Lefever and The Common Craft Show team. This one is a small production on Social Networks in Plain English and is yet again anothe simple and straight forward presentation that everyone can easily understand. I also really liked Lee’s recent post on Why Paperworks: All About Constraints. In it […]
Generating Excitement for using Web 2.0 Tools
I started commenting on Angela White’s blog, but realized I was writing a little more then just a comment, so I’ll put my response here. Angela was commenting today (Trying… to… nudge… the… Wiki… along…) on the difficulties of putting all the time and energy into laying out a wiki for her organization to use, […]
Mobile Knowledge for Social Change
A great new (or recently new) wiki was passed on to me today for collecting ides on how to use mobile technology, elearning, communications to better the global community. It is fairly new in that not a lot of additions have been created on the wiki, but there is great room for growth an opportunity […]
Website Grader
Okay, this is an interesting tool to play with www.websitegrader.com Give it a try and see how your site ranks within their list of criteria. I found it via David Airey‘s site. He writes that he was able to use several of the suggestions on the page to increase his ranking. Two people I look […]
Is Facebook a Class above MySpace?
The BBC reports on a study from PhD student Danah Boyd from the School of Information Sciences at UC Berkeley that: Broadly, Ms Boyd found Facebook users tend to be white and come from familieswho are keen for children to get the most out of school and go on to college.Characterising Facebook users she said: […]