ChiefTech
JUNE 18, 2008
Where would we be without rating and reputation systems these days? Take them away, and we wouldn’t know who to trust on eBay, what movies to pick on Netflix, or what books to buy on Amazon. Reputation systems (essentially a rating system for people) also help guide us through the labyrinth of individuals who make up our social web. Is he or she worthwhile to spend my time on?
Collaboration 2.0
JUNE 8, 2008
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Information Matters
JUNE 16, 2008
On Thursday and Friday of last week I was at the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians annual conference in Dublin. They invited me to talk about Web 2.0 as well as developments in library and information courses and what we have been up to at the University of Brighton. I really enjoyed the 2 days and had some interesting discussions with the organisers and some of the 400 or so delegates.
Collaboration 2.0
JUNE 30, 2008
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JUNE 30, 2008
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ChiefTech
JUNE 29, 2008
Blogging about this problem in the open source Alfresco enterprise content management system, Dr Q writes : " There is an interesting but annoying issue with Alfresco document links. It is way too long and it looks particularly terrible in email messages. One quick solutions is to use the services to provide by vendors like TinyURL*. But is that really necessary?
ChiefTech
JUNE 27, 2008
Bohmte, a town in Germany, has abolished road signs in an effort to reduce accidents. Sounds a bit like a wiki-style approach to sharing the road, don't you think? Quoting the Bohmte mayor, ABC news reports: " In the city center, all conventional traffic signals have been taken out and the traffic is no longer regulated by traffic signs - people do the regulating themselves.
Collaboration 2.0
JUNE 24, 2008
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ChiefTech
JUNE 24, 2008
Kind of ironic laughing at this tonight, as I'm in the middle of writing an organisation change plan for a project. If you have ever delivered or been on the receiving end of one of those technology rollout briefings, you'll get the universality of this humour: Hat tip to David W.
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JUNE 22, 2008
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ChiefTech
JUNE 22, 2008
After hearing about a record breaking 105 year old light bulb from Kim , this short piece about the demise of the incandescent light bulb by Alice Rawsthorne , which was republished in this weekend's SMH Good Weekend , caught my attention. All around the world, incandescent bulb are being phased out by new energy efficient lighting technologies, like compact fluorescent bulbs and LEDs.
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JUNE 19, 2008
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ChiefTech
JUNE 18, 2008
MindCanvas describes itself as a remote research tool that uses Game-like Elicitation Methods (GEMs) to gather insights about customer’s thoughts and feelings. It was developed by Uzanto Consulting , a web product strategy firm. When I first learned about MindCanvas, I understood it to be an online card sorting tool. Happily, it’s much more than that.
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ChiefTech
JUNE 16, 2008
Occasionally I get the urge to answer a question on LinkedIn. Question: How do you decide what content goes on intranet and what content goes on a Document Management System. Is it an issue in your organization? My Answer: Ideally we wouldn't need to worry if content is part of the intranet, document management system or any other kind of information management system - storage, transformation and consumption of information would be separated so that ultimately information could be used where ev
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JUNE 15, 2008
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JUNE 13, 2008
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JUNE 12, 2008
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ChiefTech
JUNE 11, 2008
Yes, I'm always thinking about Enterprise RSS. Dennis Howlett talks to Patrick Slesinger , director and CIO at Wallem Services Limited , about how they are using Enterprise RSS to break down information sharing silos: " In shipping, it takes master engineers around eight years to reach the pinnacle of their profession. They tend to be contemptuous of ship captains, taking the view that captains are merely the people who stare out the front of a ship that wouldn't go anywhere without engineers.
Information Matters
JUNE 11, 2008
Today I received an email from Friends Reunited that all their services are now free. Previously you had to pay £5 (or something similar) a year to be able to send messages to old school friends you had lost contact with. I had almost forgotten about Friends Reunited having joined about 5 years ago when it was one of the most talked about Web sites in the UK.
ChiefTech
JUNE 8, 2008
If you've been following OpenSim and thinking ( like me ) of the potential for private enterprise grids (i.e. intra- and extraverses) then this is an interesting proof of concept development (via eightbar ): " At about 11:00 AM, Linden, Ruth arrived on an OpenSim server, quite quietly. and to her surprise. We had been testing some code, and I'd asked Layla Linden to try to log on again, to see how the bug looked on the client side.
ChiefTech
JUNE 7, 2008
A great column in this weekend's Sydney Morning Herald by Ross Gittins , a political and economic journalist and author, reflecting on the difference of perspectives between economists and sociologists on how markets (and organisations) operate - essentially while economists see that " markets are composed of many firms competing vigorously with each other ", sociologists see something quite different.
Speaker: Anindo Banerjea, CTO at Civio & Tony Karrer, CTO at Aggregage
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Information Matters
JUNE 4, 2008
Entrepreneurs — looking to grow your business? Starting this Thursday, June 5, you can learn some of the most current techniques for growing your business in the Escape 9 to 5 Teleseminar Series. I love what the organizer, Melissa Gerdes, has to say about the series on the registration page: Why are we doing this? It’s simple. We love our lives and we love helping other people experience the realities of entrepreneurship.
ChiefTech
JUNE 3, 2008
I'm in sunny Perth all this week (for a client project) but since this is only my second trip here and I don't know when I'll be back next, I wanted to grab the chance to connect up with the local knowledge management community. Thanks to both the new Perth Knowledge Management & Innovation Forum and Dopplr , we organised an informal chat session featuring myself and also Nerida Hart (from Land & Water Australia ) who is in town at the same time.
Information Matters
JUNE 4, 2008
Entrepreneurs — looking to grow your business? Starting this Thursday, June 5, you can learn some of the most current techniques for growing your business in the Escape 9 to 5 Teleseminar Series. I love what the organizer, Melissa Gerdes, has to say about the series on the registration page: Why are we doing this? It’s simple. We love our lives and we love helping other people experience the realities of entrepreneurship.
ChiefTech
JUNE 1, 2008
To tackle the classic “how to prototype rich interactions” problem, I developed a process for translating static screen designs (from wireframes to visual comps) into interactive experiences using Flash. Requiring some fairly basic ActionScript knowledge, these prototypes proved to be a quick yet powerful way to bring interaction designs to life.
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ChiefTech
JUNE 1, 2008
The rising popularity of the comic as an internal communication device for designers has increased our ability to engage our stakeholders as we build interfaces. Yet, social service agencies looking to provide services to hard-to-reach groups like immigrants, cultural minorities, and the poor have taken pride in innovative outreach methods. In situations where traditional printed matter is a barrier, graphical methods can be used very effectively to communicate with audiences.
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