Archive for October, 2006

Am in San Jose, California until Thursday

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

I’m visiting San Jose - at the KMWorld Conference where I just presented the Wiki half of “Wikis and Blogs for Knowledge Management”
I’m thinking of staying a couple of extra days - if I can make the flight costs change worthwhile.
If you are in the Bay area and would be interested in meeting up […]

Am in San Jose, California until Thursday

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

I’m visiting San Jose - at the KMWorld Conference where I just presented the Wiki half of “Wikis and Blogs for Knowledge Management”
I’m thinking of staying a couple of extra days - if I can make the flight costs change worthwhile.
If you are  in the Bay area and would be interested in meeting up then […]

The Myspace Generation has a new way to innovate

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Wikis are typical playing grounds for today’s 20-something age group. For the last 10 years this ‘myspace generation’ has been acculturated in a totally different set of social norms powered by collaborative technology. As these people take their places in corporations we are seeing totally different possibilities. Being able to quickly collaborate with anyone across […]

CutePDF stamp Text

Friday, October 27th, 2006

Hello Martin
Stamp Text, Image will put text or image on your PDF document permanently.
It’s not commenting tool which can be modify.
Yes, we told our developer already to make it more clear and easier.
Regards,
Support Team
Acro Software Inc
—– Original Message —–
Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:13 PM
Subject: How do I delete a stamp?
Date:  10/26/2006 7:13:13 PM
Name:  Martin […]

Behind but not forgotton!

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

Preparation for the conference has taken a lot of my time in the past couple of weeks - and I am guilty of letting a couple of things drop as a consequence.
The faster I can back my interests with paid work the happier I’ll be. Apologies especially to the guys in NZ… you know who […]

My talk at KMWorld

Wednesday, October 25th, 2006

Next Monday, the 30th October, Dr. Bill Ives and I will be giving a talk on Blogs and Wikis at the preconference of KMWorld. Bill will cover blogs, and I will cover wikis.
Bill will discuss corporation’s uses and policies of blogs. My talk covers a story of wikis and what they mean for creating idea […]

Is your company autistic?

Sunday, October 15th, 2006

Most of us work for companies without really stopping to wonder why. Organisations are good for individuals because they allow us to specialise and the collective to be more productive, such that each of us can do tasks that interest us and together we can get more done.
We all have something to gain from working […]

The About Me Widget

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

I’ve started looking around for sidebar widgets for the site. These can be seen on your Site Admin | Presentation | Sidebar Widgets setting.
The most recent is “About Me” - this gives you the opportunity to upload a photo and say a few words about yourself.
Additionally there is now a sidewide RSS feed - at […]

Picasa to Flickr (to blogs.conceptmapping.org)

Friday, October 6th, 2006

Picasa is really nice for editing photos, Flickr is great for sharing them. But, they are owned by different companies (Google and Yahoo) and each company seeks lock-in. Picasa is therefore hardwired to Google’s Blogger service.
Jim Rutherford on http://www.digitalmediaminute.com/article/1299/gmail-picasa-and-flickr has put together a nice procedure for automating the upload of the groovy picasa application […]

The Situative Perspective in Educational Psychology

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

According to situated cognition, knowledge does not transfer between tasks. Teaching through abstraction is of little use since real learning occurs …
http://www.uni-koeln.de/ew-fak/konstrukt/didaktik/situierteslernen/situative.ppt