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Thursday, July 28, 2011
Elearning examples
In this blog, you'll find practical ideas that will help you create lively, powerful elearning for adults in the business world.
Tate museums chooses Drupal & cloud hosting for new website
The 10-year-old Tate website, which receives over 18 million visitors a year, currently uses hand-coded HTML files. This will be replaced with a Drupal 7-based platform to move the site from a "brochure approach" to a social platform, encouraging debate and interaction about art as well as supporting user-generated content.
Read more at Computer Weekly
Read more at Computer Weekly
Case Study: How To Improve A Newly Launched Community
Critique of the case study's UX at The Online Community Guide
Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Roger McNamee : The era of Google is over
Awesome lecture that contains the call to action to concentrate on producing HTML5 content
Article here
Article here
What creates & sustains active citizenship?
The RSA has recently published – ‘The Civic Pulse’ - a report that takes the first steps towards developing a new model for measuring active citizenship, or more specifically ‘the presence or absence of key mechanisms and social assets driving participation’.
The Civic Pulse model is based on a meta-theory of Republican Liberalism which ‘considers active citizenship to be a social right and civic obligation’ placing ‘particular emphasis on developing the ability of people to shape their own lives and the life of their communities and public institutions.’
Read more at Pathways Through Participation
The Civic Pulse model is based on a meta-theory of Republican Liberalism which ‘considers active citizenship to be a social right and civic obligation’ placing ‘particular emphasis on developing the ability of people to shape their own lives and the life of their communities and public institutions.’
Read more at Pathways Through Participation
Enhancing the Effectiveness of Online Groups via Storytelling
Building relationships in the world of online groups is a recent, exciting and challenging area for the field of group facilitation. Evidence has shown that online groups with strong relationship links are more effective and more resilient than those with without them. Yet, the processes and techniques to effectively facilitate the building of these online relationships are not yet understood and there is scant empirical knowledge to assist practicing group facilitators in this important task.
Challenges arise when many of the embodied aspects of inter-personal communication, such as body language, tone of voice, emotions, energy levels
and context are not easily readable by group members and facilitators. Many of the well established group processes and interventions that facilitators rely upon in face-to-face situations do not translate effectively or are simply not available in an online group situation. Storytelling, however, presented one approach from the domain of face-to-face group facilitation that might translate well online.
Storytelling is well known as an enabler for people to connect at a deeper and an embodied level. It can be highly effective at building strong social ties and group resilience – right across a wide range of settings. This thesis inquired into storytelling’s potential for online facilitation
practice with the question of how is storytelling beneficial in building relationships in a facilitated online group?
EnhanceEffectiveness15Nov09.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Challenges arise when many of the embodied aspects of inter-personal communication, such as body language, tone of voice, emotions, energy levels
and context are not easily readable by group members and facilitators. Many of the well established group processes and interventions that facilitators rely upon in face-to-face situations do not translate effectively or are simply not available in an online group situation. Storytelling, however, presented one approach from the domain of face-to-face group facilitation that might translate well online.
Storytelling is well known as an enabler for people to connect at a deeper and an embodied level. It can be highly effective at building strong social ties and group resilience – right across a wide range of settings. This thesis inquired into storytelling’s potential for online facilitation
practice with the question of how is storytelling beneficial in building relationships in a facilitated online group?
EnhanceEffectiveness15Nov09.pdf (application/pdf Object)
The New Definition of Innovation
Nobody can solve one equation with two unknowns, i.e., what’s a new idea? and what’s an economic outcome? The trick is to identify the new ideas and direct them to the appropriate economic outcome, not the other way around. Many companies live in a silo where many good ideas can’t find a place to be profitable, so they are scrapped. This is not the fault of talent or the idea, but invariably both are lost.
An Innovation economy built on a platform of social media will collect the ideas existing in a community, outside the construct of the corporation, and distribute them to the most worthy economic outcome; maybe a corporation or maybe not.
The existing definition of innovation is insufficient for use as a way to identify innovation in the present. There is no way to build an innovation economy upon a flawed definition and unpredictable value of innovative activity. This new interpretation will allow innovation to properly behave like a financial instrument.
Read more here
An Innovation economy built on a platform of social media will collect the ideas existing in a community, outside the construct of the corporation, and distribute them to the most worthy economic outcome; maybe a corporation or maybe not.
The existing definition of innovation is insufficient for use as a way to identify innovation in the present. There is no way to build an innovation economy upon a flawed definition and unpredictable value of innovative activity. This new interpretation will allow innovation to properly behave like a financial instrument.
Read more here
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Producing culture in a weak intellectual property environment
Cultural producers should be relaxed about digital technology's erosion of copyright, writes Felix Stalder. A weak copyright regime offers a chance to re-embed cultural production in concrete, personal relationships out of which new economic models can and do emerge.
Read more at Eurozine
Read more at Eurozine
How Peer to Peer Communities will change the World
Open, equal and participatory platforms and paradigms, able to put people in direct contact with each other, shown tremendous potential during recent years: with the mission to help other p2p alternatives to emerge and consolidate, the “Foundation for P2P alternatives” was founded by Michel Bauwens years ago.
Michel is an amazing speaker, researcher, analyst and writer: the very perfect person to help us investigate the impacts that these changes, those summarized in this piece today, will hopefully have on the world to come.
Read more here.
Michel is an amazing speaker, researcher, analyst and writer: the very perfect person to help us investigate the impacts that these changes, those summarized in this piece today, will hopefully have on the world to come.
Read more here.
Content Syndication Strategy
We are all living in a world of content saturation: text, videos, Tweets, images, updates, texting ad nauseum! Your challenge is to make your brand engage and reverberate, if you are to have any success in this always on chart topping focused content world!
Find out how here.
Find out how here.
Five building blocks to incorporate as we’re rethinking the structure of stories
If we could re-envision today’s story format — beyond the text, photographs, and occasional multimedia or interactive graphics — what would the story look like? How would the audience consume it?
Read more at Nieman Journalism Lab
Read more at Nieman Journalism Lab
Movie Making with Destination Marketing
Tips for low cost in-house production techniques from a destination marketing point of view at Echelon Media
Geoloqi Adds Location to Your Mobile Applications
Why use the Geoloqi platform? It’s ideal for development teams and entrepreneurs who want to build real-time location sharing or geofencing features into new or existing applications. You can can use the Geoloqi platform to monitor user locations and send messages based on activity, build location-aware applications that work on top of popular APIs such as Foursquare, Twitter and Facebook, and send messages to users when they are near a location at a certain time of day, or are travelling at a certain speed.
Read more here.
Read more here.
Monday, July 25, 2011
Applying the open source software model to the world of filmmaking
The idea of open source filmmaking doesn't just mean a Creative Commons license or more collaborative development. Seeing all sides of the entertainment industry changing with the speed of technology, storytellers are working on imagining new business models as well as new consumption concepts.
Read more at opensource.com
Read more at opensource.com
12 Brilliant Projects That Explore How Tech Helps Us Talk
Museums as society's R&D departments at Co. Design
Sunday, July 24, 2011
The democratization of communication: In filter we trust
It’s no blinding insight to say that, with the “democratization” of communication that the Internet enabled — and the resultant onslaught of data and artifacts created — there is a greater need for filters than ever before. We are sipping from the proverbial firehose and drowning in the ensuing deluge.
Read more at Tech News and Analysis
Read more at Tech News and Analysis
Friday, July 22, 2011
How to Be A Resilient Change Agent
Are you someone who wants to help address the big global challenges looming before us in the 21st Century? You will need to prepare yourself for a long endeavor if you’re working on climate change, sustainable cities, social entrepreneurship, or global justice. There are important choices to be made and vital life skills to learn in order to be an effective change agent across your lifetime.
Read all about it here.
Read all about it here.
Location 2012: Death Of The Information Silos
Interesting vision of location based services in the near future at TechCrunch
The End of Client Services
It’s not sufficient to just publish a narrative to the Internet. You have to build an experience around it, a system that lets the user experience the narrative but also one that responds to his or her inputs and contributions. Basically, to create anything meaningful in digital media, you need to think in terms of a product, not just a story.
However, it’s very hard for a design studio to create digital products on a contract basis because the messy timelines and continual course corrections that are required to launch a truly effective software product are anathema to the way clients like to be billed. No matter what a design studio promises, it’s very likely that in its first iteration a digital product will take longer to complete, will cost more, and will be less effective than originally promised. The most critical time for designers to be involved in a digital product is all the time, but it’s perhaps most important for them to stick around after the launch, when they can see how a real user base is using it, and then amend, refine, revise and evolve it. But it’s at just about this time that most studios are preparing invoices and shuffling their staff on to other clients’ projects.
I had this experience when I was doing services work, and I knew so many other people who did as well. The familiar refrain was, “We designed a great first pass, but our contract ended and we weren’t able to stick with the product. Now the client has gone off and made so many changes without us.”
What’s more, it’s not as if the services model works so well for clients anymore, either. It’s one thing to manufacture a widget and turn to a design studio to create a logo, a package, a brochure for it — to basically tell its story. But more and more, every business is becoming a digital business, is responsible for digital products. If a company is not able to design, develop and maintain their own products without outside help, then what kind of future does that company have?
Read more at Subtraction.com
However, it’s very hard for a design studio to create digital products on a contract basis because the messy timelines and continual course corrections that are required to launch a truly effective software product are anathema to the way clients like to be billed. No matter what a design studio promises, it’s very likely that in its first iteration a digital product will take longer to complete, will cost more, and will be less effective than originally promised. The most critical time for designers to be involved in a digital product is all the time, but it’s perhaps most important for them to stick around after the launch, when they can see how a real user base is using it, and then amend, refine, revise and evolve it. But it’s at just about this time that most studios are preparing invoices and shuffling their staff on to other clients’ projects.
I had this experience when I was doing services work, and I knew so many other people who did as well. The familiar refrain was, “We designed a great first pass, but our contract ended and we weren’t able to stick with the product. Now the client has gone off and made so many changes without us.”
What’s more, it’s not as if the services model works so well for clients anymore, either. It’s one thing to manufacture a widget and turn to a design studio to create a logo, a package, a brochure for it — to basically tell its story. But more and more, every business is becoming a digital business, is responsible for digital products. If a company is not able to design, develop and maintain their own products without outside help, then what kind of future does that company have?
Read more at Subtraction.com
Centre for Narrative Leadership
Telling a coherent and convincing story that acknowledges where an organisation has come from, recognises the realities of the present situation and offers a worthwhile future is the basic task of narrative leadership. It is crucial for our future – especially at this time of urgent environmental, social and ecological challenges – that we develop skill and discernment in telling and listening to leadership narratives.
Read more here
Read more here
The Benefits of Building a Narrative Organization
The value of narrative in your organization extends well beyond telling stories in your annual report and newsletters. When an organization embraces narrative and applies it throughout its work, brand identity is clear and appealing; audiences are quickly and sustainably engaged; leaders appreciate and strategically share stories; and knowledge is easily gathered and shared.
A closer look at the benefits here.
By the same author: Working with Stories
A closer look at the benefits here.
By the same author: Working with Stories
Thursday, July 21, 2011
The New Social Media Landscape: A Roadmap
Here’s how I think this all going to shake out:
* Facebook is for social networking
* LinkedIn is for business networking
* Google+ is for knowledge networking
* Twitter is for notifications
Read more here.
* Facebook is for social networking
* LinkedIn is for business networking
* Google+ is for knowledge networking
* Twitter is for notifications
Read more here.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
NT MOJOs
This is today's third reference to storytelling, place and renewal. The serendipity is magnified by the NT MOJOs because a contact from my past is the creator of this project. I can hear the Twilight Zone theme music echoing in the ether...
Check out the NT MOJOs.
My interest is framed within the Territory 2030 promise to establish five Digital Playrooms by 2012
Check out the NT MOJOs.
My interest is framed within the Territory 2030 promise to establish five Digital Playrooms by 2012
The Story of Place Institute
The Story of Place Institute believe that to practice regenerative community stewardship requires first and foremost a fundamental shift in our way of thinking and valuing. Such a shift involves moving:
From: seeing humans as separate from nature
To: understanding humans as a part of nature and that nature and culture are co-creating the future
From: One-Size-Fits-All
To: understanding each place as unique requiring unique approaches
From: focusing on parts and pieces
To: beginning from a holistic and integrative understanding of the fabric of life and its working
From: focusing on threats and problems
To: focusing on potential and the opportunity it brings
From: seeking change through advocacy and expertise-driven, silo-based interventions
To: working developmentally and co-creatively, measuring progress by the capacity for rapid learning and co-evolution
From: working on symptoms and marginal fixes
To: working on deep causes and fundamental, systemic change through acupuncture interventions.
Read more here
From: seeing humans as separate from nature
To: understanding humans as a part of nature and that nature and culture are co-creating the future
From: One-Size-Fits-All
To: understanding each place as unique requiring unique approaches
From: focusing on parts and pieces
To: beginning from a holistic and integrative understanding of the fabric of life and its working
From: focusing on threats and problems
To: focusing on potential and the opportunity it brings
From: seeking change through advocacy and expertise-driven, silo-based interventions
To: working developmentally and co-creatively, measuring progress by the capacity for rapid learning and co-evolution
From: working on symptoms and marginal fixes
To: working on deep causes and fundamental, systemic change through acupuncture interventions.
Read more here
Storytelling & Urban Renewal
Storytelling has long been used to connect people to each other and to celebrate the past, but a handful of communities today see storytelling as the way to a better future. The three communities highlighted here and in the Planning Tool Exchange used storytelling to engage their citizens and identify common values – part of a broader community planning processes.
Read more at EngagingCities
Read more at EngagingCities
Monday, July 18, 2011
How Storytelling Dovetails with Stakeholder Engagement
Here are 5 tips on how to craft and deliver your message in a way that will produce productive dialogue, increase the level of positive relationship in your stakeholder community, and ultimately, create behavior change.
Engage heads, hearts and hands. Begin by precisely defining what you want your stakeholders to think, feel, and do differently. Put yourself into each of their shoes. What do they currently know and believe? What do they stand to lose or gain? What demands and constraints are they facing? What do they fear? What do they hope for? Who are their stakeholders? Consider these questions from an intellectual, emotional, and behavioral standpoint then develop a story that addresses all of them.
Create a narrative, not a deck. A list of bullet points never changed the world. Tell a great story, paint a compelling picture, share concrete examples, use visuals and startling stats to grab and keep your stakeholders attention. Skeptical? Check out Peter Norvig’s hilarious take on this topic: http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
Why before What. If your stakeholders don’t buy in to the “why,” they won’t care about the “what.” Start your story with why this matters. Some people are inspired by imagining a new possibility. Others are motivated by a “burning platform.” Make sure your story illustrates both the upside of action and the consequence of non-action.
It ain’t over ‘til it’s over: Stakeholder engagement is a dialogue, not an event. Plan out your touch points as an arch, with a beginning, middle and end. Each touch point should tell a complete story and serve as a component of the larger narrative. Define your “win” criteria and persist until you get there. It doesn’t count as a success if there is no follow through action after all of the talking and planning.
Relationships are everything: Think about the entire ecosystem of relationships that exist in your stakeholder community, and how you can increase their quality through your engagement strategy. Think of success as the strength of the relationships your stakeholders will walk away with – not their acceptance of your message. This is especially important for stakeholder groups that will have to change, but don’t get an immediate payoff from doing so. In telling your story, build relationships by being authentic, vulnerable, and honest.
Read more here.
Engage heads, hearts and hands. Begin by precisely defining what you want your stakeholders to think, feel, and do differently. Put yourself into each of their shoes. What do they currently know and believe? What do they stand to lose or gain? What demands and constraints are they facing? What do they fear? What do they hope for? Who are their stakeholders? Consider these questions from an intellectual, emotional, and behavioral standpoint then develop a story that addresses all of them.
Create a narrative, not a deck. A list of bullet points never changed the world. Tell a great story, paint a compelling picture, share concrete examples, use visuals and startling stats to grab and keep your stakeholders attention. Skeptical? Check out Peter Norvig’s hilarious take on this topic: http://norvig.com/Gettysburg/
Why before What. If your stakeholders don’t buy in to the “why,” they won’t care about the “what.” Start your story with why this matters. Some people are inspired by imagining a new possibility. Others are motivated by a “burning platform.” Make sure your story illustrates both the upside of action and the consequence of non-action.
It ain’t over ‘til it’s over: Stakeholder engagement is a dialogue, not an event. Plan out your touch points as an arch, with a beginning, middle and end. Each touch point should tell a complete story and serve as a component of the larger narrative. Define your “win” criteria and persist until you get there. It doesn’t count as a success if there is no follow through action after all of the talking and planning.
Relationships are everything: Think about the entire ecosystem of relationships that exist in your stakeholder community, and how you can increase their quality through your engagement strategy. Think of success as the strength of the relationships your stakeholders will walk away with – not their acceptance of your message. This is especially important for stakeholder groups that will have to change, but don’t get an immediate payoff from doing so. In telling your story, build relationships by being authentic, vulnerable, and honest.
Read more here.
Augmented Reality + Interactive Storytelling = ARIS
ARIS is available at the Apple Store, and cheat codes are available to adapt it for other games/locales: https://www.appstorehq.com/aris-iphone-252535/app. The ARIS authoring environment allows users to create mobile games, tours and interactive stories through GPS and QR Codes. With ARIS, users are able to create and select audio/video clips, images, etc. to build enhanced tours and/or place-based games to use in their communities.
Read more at The Arboretum
Read more at The Arboretum
Data Synchronization System Between Facebook and Enterprise Systems
MicroStrategy Gateway is the only data synchronization system enabling connectivity and communication between Facebook and enterprise systems. This revolutionary, social-to-enterprise data synchronization system brings Facebook data into your enterprise systems for analysis and access by your organization’s apps. MicroStrategy Gateway also lets your apps easily write back to Facebook.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Quantum Bureaudynamics
This report covers the findings of the current quantum bureaudynamics experiments being carried out in the NT.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Thursday, July 7, 2011
FlairBuilder
With quotes being sought for the construction of the virtualisation project I'm working on, there's a need to get sketching some wireframes... I'm going to give this a try.
Storytelling Applications for Your Smartphone
There’s a handy list of storytelling applications for iOS, Android and other mobile platforms here.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
All screens are not equal
100 Bullet Points from #CannesLions 2011 by @jessedee
View more presentations from @JESSEDEE
My favorites:
All screens are not equal. It's no longer about the matching luggage (make something for TV then publish it out online). The right content for the right screen:
TV
tap into my emtions
entertain me
help me relax
don't make me work too hard
Computer
give me a challenge
teach me something
give me something that makes me look good
help me become all I can be
let me show you what I've learnt
give me some competition
Mobile
must know me perfectly
make me feel like I belong
help me fit it
keep me on top of my life
help me make the most of myself
surprise me
Tablet
provoke action
curate life
enhance flexability
enable competence
provide experience
interact seamlessly
If you can understand how to have connected tissue across all those screen characteristics, the opportunity is limitless.
Guide to Open Source Software
The Guide to Open Source Software for Australian Government Agencies, Version 2.0 has now been revised and finalised following the public feedback. Get it at AGIMO Blog
Sunday, July 3, 2011
10 ways to create a knowledge ecology
1, Have a variety of tools rather than a single system. Not everyone sees the world the same way or has the same needs so mixing up different tools with different strengths allows people to find one that works for them. Avoid single platforms like the plague.
2. Don't have a clear idea where you are headed. The more fixed you are in your aspirations for your ecology the less likely you are to achieve them. Be prepared to go where people's use of the tools takes you and enjoy the ride.
3. Follow the energy. Watch where the energy in the system is and try to copy the factors that generated it. Get others interested in why energy emerges and they will want some of it themselves.
4. Be strategically tactical. You can have an overall strategy of behaving in certain ways depending on how your ecology develops. It is possible to sell this as a strategy to those who need strategies.
5. Keep moving, stay in touch, and head for the high ground. Keep doing things, keep talking about what you are doing and why, and have a rough idea of where the high ground is.
6. Build networks of people who care. Don't try to manage your ecology by committee but cultivate communication and trust between those who care that it works and have the commitment to do something about it - whoever they are and whatever their role.
7. Be obsessively interested. Notice everything that happens and consider why. Tell great stories about what you are observing.
8. Use the tools to manage the tools. Blog about what is going on with your corporate blogging, ask questions in your forum about security, tweet when something is changing in your ecology and ask people why it is interesting.
9. Laugh when things go wrong. If you are pushing limits and exploring new territory things will occasionally blow up in your face. Having a sense of humour and enjoyment of the absurd will help you stay sane.
10. Unleash Trojan Mice. Don't do big things or spend loads of money. Set small, nimble things running and see where they head.
Read more at The Obvious?
2. Don't have a clear idea where you are headed. The more fixed you are in your aspirations for your ecology the less likely you are to achieve them. Be prepared to go where people's use of the tools takes you and enjoy the ride.
3. Follow the energy. Watch where the energy in the system is and try to copy the factors that generated it. Get others interested in why energy emerges and they will want some of it themselves.
4. Be strategically tactical. You can have an overall strategy of behaving in certain ways depending on how your ecology develops. It is possible to sell this as a strategy to those who need strategies.
5. Keep moving, stay in touch, and head for the high ground. Keep doing things, keep talking about what you are doing and why, and have a rough idea of where the high ground is.
6. Build networks of people who care. Don't try to manage your ecology by committee but cultivate communication and trust between those who care that it works and have the commitment to do something about it - whoever they are and whatever their role.
7. Be obsessively interested. Notice everything that happens and consider why. Tell great stories about what you are observing.
8. Use the tools to manage the tools. Blog about what is going on with your corporate blogging, ask questions in your forum about security, tweet when something is changing in your ecology and ask people why it is interesting.
9. Laugh when things go wrong. If you are pushing limits and exploring new territory things will occasionally blow up in your face. Having a sense of humour and enjoyment of the absurd will help you stay sane.
10. Unleash Trojan Mice. Don't do big things or spend loads of money. Set small, nimble things running and see where they head.
Read more at The Obvious?
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