Positive thinking versus positive action
Kate Carruthers There is a difference between merely engaging in positive thinking and undertaking positive action. On its own thinking is merely an interior act, and only when connected to positive actions…
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5 reasons crowdsourcing is stupid
Crowdsourcing is very trendy these days and is touted as the answer to many of the ills of poor design and the need to reduce costs. In these cash strapped…
Talk about barriers to entry!
A while back I got an invitation to join a new social network 434U & was amazed at the barriers to entry & the onerous rules for participation. It’s a…
Twitter 2009 retrospective
For me 2009 goes down as the year other people discovered Twitter. It went from a small and fairly intimate place to hangout to a busy bustling intersection of information,…
2009 a personal year in review
This year has been one of great personal challenges for me and my family. To have made it to the end of the year with all of us still on…
Social media, web 2.0 and implications for education
There are three areas that are relevant to both our society in general and to us as educators in particular. They are the: overall landscape in which we are operating;…
Social computing and its implications for education
I really enjoyed the opportunity to present to the TAFE teachers of the Western Sydney Insititute recently about social computing and its implications for education. Slides follow and more detailed…
Social connectors for #followfriday
One thing that has amazed me over the years is how some people are natural connectors. It is no surprise that many of those folks have ended up on Twitter.…
Citizens doing it for themselves
Recently, in the UK city of Birmingham, some people were unhappy with their local Council’s new £2.8 million website. Citizens took matters into their own hands and created their own…
TED: How the Internet enables intimacy
Stefana Broadbent’s TEDTalk video about her “research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules” – interesting stuff: http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf