Toronto’s tech sector is on fire!
When I first arrived in Toronto in 2004 I found very little in the way of Tech community. I was told that the Dot Com Crash had pretty much annihilated every shred of enthusiasm this city had left to offer.
Today, in 2008, there’s no doubt in my mind that […]
Below is a copy of an email I sent to Wordpress Pro mailing list addressing the dynamic between information stored in a wiki and knowledge spurred on by conversations in a forum. In it I make recommendations as to why and how to link the two assuming that the community won’t shift to a pure […]
A bit of news - I’ve been asked to be on committee to hold the position of Chair for Demos and Posters at WikiSym 2008 in Portugal this September.
This is great as I’ll not only see breaking ideas as they happen around the world, but also be responsible to evaluate them and help them […]
A company lives and dies by its ability to sustain its existance. Nothing is more important than knowing where you are in order to make prudent decisions.
My XP laptop (an IBM X30) died last month. As the data was backed up this was not catastrophic disaster in itself.
I’d been running my accounting system(QuickBooks) […]
What is the Future of Work using Enterprise 2.0 technologies?
It’s the wrong vision to take today’s apps from the desktop and put them out to the web. Instead, innovation will be from finding new simple apps that do new, different things.
You have to look at the value proposition: reduce costs, improve productivity. Look back at […]
Michael Arrington (Techcrunch) reports:
Google may finally be preparing to re-launch wiki service Jotspot, nearly a year after it acquired the company.
Google acquired JotSpot last year, bringing it into it’s over widening portfolio of office-related services. Jotspot was not only a decent wiki, it contained a veritable suite of groupware features capable of giving any vendor […]
I’ve accepted an invite to speak on two panels (Thurs-Fri) at Office 2.0 in San Francisco, California this week:
Cultural and Technology in Enterprise 2.0 rollouts (hosted by Jevon MacDonald).
This will explore the cultural nuances related to designing, developing and deploying Social Software in the Enterprise. Being a wiki kind of guy I’ll bring some perspectives […]
10.2c Imagery and recall
The Buzan Centre promotes many memory aiding techniques. The underlying theme to these systems is to incorporate the creative and logical functions of the brain. By synthesising informational, perhaps abstract facts with experiences we are able to commit them to memory. This is related to an issue raised in [MIM] that questions […]
Imagery and recall
To explain point 9 of Figure 2-1, we note that a principle law of Mind Mapping is to emphasise. [p. 97, The Mind Map Book] advises ‘Always use a central image’ and ‘Use images throughout your Mind Map’. The justification for this is simple:
“While both words and pictures are symbols, they are different […]
2.10.1 Omitting background words - a key principle in the Mind Mapping Technique
An important principle in Mind Mapping is the deliberate omission of the many background words; these are simply not needed because the purpose of these words in the text would be to imply structure. The mind map has a less discursive format and […]
