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Esquire wikis article on Wikipedia

Esquire wikis article on WikipediaEven ZD-NET has crummy posts.Mispelled headlines, terrible grammar, improper use of terminology.This article doesn't hit the nail. The problem is crummy journalism and not the ability to post freely.Do some research on current text books in the hands of students today. You will find...

Tags: Wiki, wikis article, Esquire, Wikipedia

Discussion threads 2005-09-29

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Flipping Fantastic

Getting the most out of Flip video cameras The picture above a still from a Flip video is of my venerable old three chip Sony VX1000 video camera, Frezzi light and associated 10 pound battery belt. In the foreground is a Flip video...

Tags: Microphone, Video Camera, Video, Camera, Flip, Flip Camera, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-11-21

Practical guide to really making wikis work in the classroom

I agreeGoing back to what I just shared in previous article. Any success was because students were working in cooperation with me and their classroom teachers in order to gain benefits.

Tags: Wiki

Discussion threads 2009-10-07

Practical guide to really making wikis work in the classroom

I stumbled across a great article this morning on the use of wikis in school. As Ruth Reynard points out in The Journal, ...the technology itself does not develop the skill, nor is it the teacher; the technology is only a tool, and teachers must...

Tags: Teacher, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-10-07

The burnout risks for E2.0 community managers

Dion Hinchcliffe's piece on community management surprised me. There is a sense that Dion is trying to lay down some ground rules in an area that is too new for anyone to draw anything other than tentative and early stage conclusions. That's not to say that conclusions are incorrect. There...

Tags: Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2009-09-29

Cisco's Brave New World

An intriguing and very well written article in this week's Economist documents Cisco CEO John Chamber's ambitious plans to conquer 30 new areas of business: ...From “virtual health care” to “cloud computing” and “safety and security” to “routers in space”, the company is tackling more than 30...

Tags: Information Technology, Brave New World, Cisco Systems Inc., Chambers, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-08-30

Twitter still not 'serious' enough for business

Maybe......they should change the name to "microblogging". Like "e-mail", you'd send an "m-blog". I would imagine serious business users are a little uncomfortable using the terms "twitter" and "tweet" in a business environment, when "microblogging" sounds so much more business-like.Carl RapsonOthers Love ItI find it funny that people talk like...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, Obama, Twitter Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-08-26

What really happened to Wikipedia

Well, not quite.:-) Nice piece.I'd question that the influx of money (which is still trivial - a few million dollars is NOTHING to run a top 10 website) has anything much to do with the processes such as the living people's bio policy. One is the Foundation, the other is...

Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia, Wikimedia

Discussion threads 2009-08-25

What happens if Google's Edu Apps aren't free anymore?

A local technology director tweeted a link tonight to an article on free Web 2.0 tools that eventually go commercial and stop being free. Us educational folks tend to embrace free tools because, well, they're free. The Web is crawling with great tools, many of which are free,...

Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Tool, Productivity, Cloud Computing, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-08-13

Facebook pages for schools

Separation is KeyI don't think Facebook is an appropriate medium for schools to communicate with students/parents/faculty. One of the issues that comes up in our household frequently is the separation of personal and professional life on Facebook, i.e., I am not "friends" with any of my professional acquaintances on...

Tags: SECURITY, Facebook, Facebook Pages, social media

Discussion threads 2009-08-07

The 'Social Media' Quality Problem: What a Racket

Gary & the Hornets Oskar Weiner US TV Commercial, 1967 While it is highly desirable to stimulate dialog between business units, individuals, partners and of course customers in order to encourage cross pollination and capture ideas collaboratively, there is a parallel challenge of the quality...

Tags: Social Media, E-mail, Tammy Erickson, Marketing Research, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-23

Helping sort the wheat from the chaff

One of our key jobs in K-12 education is helping students become well-informed, "discerning" (to use a word from our school district's vision statement) users of technology. While this means getting young people to look beyond the first three hits on Google, it much more directly relates to teaching...

Tags: Blog, Blogging, Internet, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-04-21

The CIA's Collaboration Growth Curve & IBM's Lotusphere ecosystem

One of the highlights of last June's Enterprise 2.0 conference was Don Burke and Sean Dennehy of the US Central Intelligence Agency CIA describing how their 'Intellipedia' wikis were transforming the agency into a more collaborative organization: that presentation is embedded above. Ten...

Tags: Fax Machine, CIA, Network, IBM Corp., Intellipedia, Fax, Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-16

Five ways Gen Y will change the way you work

Five ways Gen Y will change the way you work ???Sounds very much like the author is saying GenY folks want to play instead of work. Ethics missplaced it seems.It sounds like a way to chew up employees and spit them out. Hardly a way to create...

Tags: Five-ways Gen-Y, Generation Y

Discussion threads 2009-03-27

Extraordinary Collaboration Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

Image: E.M. Ward, "The South Sea Bubble" (1846) Tate Gallery UK David Freeman, who has positive views about disordered individual work practices in his book 'A Perfect Mess', wrote an interesting piece I refer back to a lot in Inc magazine September '06 'What's Next:...

Tags: Collaboration, Groupware, Enterprise Software, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-01-13

Teaming Up to Crack Innovation and Enterprise Integration

There is a thought provoking piece in the November issue of the Harvard Business Review written by James I. Cash, Jr., Michael J. Earl, and Robert Morison. Morison is an executive vice president and director of research at nGenera Corporation, while Earl and Cash are...

Tags: Innovation, Enterprise Integration, Morison, Distributed Innovation Group, Leadership, Strategy, Enterprise Software, Management, Software, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-11-21

If you don't think Wikipedia is a worthy resource, make it better

A number of the teachers in my district are already using wikis and blogs to post assignments and class information. However, as we all began using a wiki to collaborate on some sweeping curriculum changes, a significant number made a link between our wiki and Wikipedia. OK, so...

Tags: Wikipedia, Wiki, Online Communications, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-11

Autonomy CEO: Web 2.0 'under all the hype, there is something there...'

An intriguing article by 'meaning based computing' company Autonomy's CEO Mike Lynch in today's Financial Times: Embracing the friend, taming the beast â€" Web 2.0 in the enterprise. Autonomy are mature and stable (with a 4 billion market capitalisation), rapidly becoming the second largest pure software company...

Tags: Web, Autonomy Corp. Plc, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2008-06-30

Why social software won't dethrone the incumbents

Why social software won't dethrone the incumbentsThose are all smart arguementsApple, Salesforce.com, Google, VMWare, Amazon:They're companies who were supposed to die and/or who grew from nothing. If it's a forgone conclusion that the big IT guy landscape is cemented, then we should all just give up and go home. The...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, Groupware, social Software, incumbent, software, Sig Rinde, Social Software

Discussion threads 2008-04-30

"Science 2.0" is good for all of us

Scientific American is running an article on "Science 2.0," examining the such initiatives as MIT's OpenWetWare that allow researchers to post all results, successes, failures, etc., on the Web as they happen. This is in contrast to the nearly secretive nature in which research has been conducted before the...

Tags: Web, Researcher, Science, Knowledge, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Wiki, Web 2.0, Channel Management, Strategy, Online Communications, Internet, Marketing, Management, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-04-22