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Many folks ask me to direct them to policies and procedures for online participation for their staff. Usually I suggest that this is better done as an organic response by each organisation. But here is a good example of " Principles for participation online " from the UK's
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I've been thinking more about some of the challenges related to adoption of agile SDLC methods in larger enterprises. A key concept that keeps coming up is the importance of project management and how it relates to the agile SDLC (using Scrum as example here). Some people seem
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Just been creating a wordle diagram for a conference talk I'm planning - wordle is great: By Carruthers via Aide-mémoire http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&services=facebook%2Cdigg%2Cstumbleupon%2Cdelicious%2Creddit%2Cblinklist%2Cnewsvine%2Cfurl%2Ctailrank%2Cmagnolia&style=rotate&publisher=
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There is a new tool for the busy blogger, AussieBloggers have released a Lazy Bloggers Post Generator. It could come in handy when you're busy. Just gave the tool a quick test with the following generated post: OMG! I just discovered I have not updated this since last
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"Well established hierarchies are not easily uprooted; Closely held beliefs are not easily released; So ritual enthralls generation after generation." Tao Te Ching All change is difficult. It requires strong leadership and an understanding of foundations needed to instantiate the desired change. Most of all change requires that
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The purpose of MobilizeThis2008 is to bring educators, e-learning technologists, managers, tech-heads and cross-sector organisation representatives together in a program that fosters conversations, workshops and online experiences to inform practical pedagogical practice employing ICT's in an open and global context. I've been asked to present at
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Here's a bit of fun with this quiz about identifying your personal strengths, my results below: http://www.findthelostring.com/_res/badges/dikaiosune-en.swf Link to quiz By Carruthers via Aide-mémoire http://w.sharethis.com/widget/?tabs=web%2Cemail&charset=utf-8&services=facebook%2Cdigg%2Cstumbleupon%2Cdelicious%
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In recent times there has been talk in the press about the dangers and evils of social networking technology (Facebook, Myspace, etc. ) in the workplace. Many commentators voice concerns about employees wasting time at work. In a recent AustralianIT article Nick Ingelbrecht from Gartner is quoted saying "social networking
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"I Hear and I Forget, I See and I Learn, I Do and I Understand" - Confucius In recent times I've been involved in both delivery and receipt of education and training at tertiary and vocational levels. On the delivery side, lecturing to postgraduate accounting students
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This image shows yet another offensive way of interacting with people who do not want to add your application in Facebook. Here the application still wants you to log in merely so it can then never annoy you again. It is just plain annoying - this kind of application rudeness
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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }.flickr-yourcomment { }.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } High tea STUB, originally uploaded by kate.carruthers. Some of the @STUB (a.k.a. Sydney Twitter Underground Brigade) met for high tea at the Queen Victoria Building in Sydney yesterday. It was
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Every home in the developed world has a plethora of devices and gadgets being recharged. Old houses don't even have sufficient power outlets to manage the demand. That is why we really need ways to recharge all our equipment without plugging it into a power outlet on the