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Toronto Wiki Tuesday: Wikis at TV Ontario

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

It’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday time!
Reserve you spot & get on the announcements list: http://www.meetup.com/TorontoWikiTuesdays/calendar/9904930/
Speaker: Keith Robinson
This month’s speaker is from TV Ontario and will speak about the use of wikis for TVO’s The Agenda
When and Where:
6:30pm, Tuesday 16th April
See http://www.meetup.com/TorontoWikiTuesdays/calendar/9904930/ for location
Synopsis
The idea behind the AgendaCamp (http://tvo.org/agendacamp) concept was to marry the barcamp […]

Verna Allee at Knowledge Workers Toronto tomorrow night

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

Value Network Analysis is a method that can help you understand what motivates people to participate in exchange monetary and non-monetary (e.g. goodwill, favors, customer insight) transactions across ecosystems (e.g. companies, non-profits and adjoining industries). By knowing the VNA method you will be in a better position to evaluate the likelihood of success for a […]

Lifestream logging: I’m lifetrailing my laptop and iPhone.

Sunday, January 25th, 2009

Over the past few months I have been experimenting with collecting “life-trail” information about where I go and what I do. If I use an application, or make a phone call, I want it logged. I automate the collection of this output into my personal wiki.
Capturing Information for Billing
Being self-employed it’s very important to me […]

I bought MacSpeech Dictate

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

For sure, I think most quickly and creatively when I talk out loud.
And I express most succinctly when I type.
Too often I have flourishes of thoughts that I wish I could reclaim.

Sometimes I’ve gone so far as to record them as audio files.
And now, I hope, I’ve found a means to blend these two worlds: […]

Toronto Wiki Tuesdays July 2008: Truthiness for the Masses - what makes Wikipedia sufficient truthy?

Saturday, July 5th, 2008

Speaker: Maury Markowitz
This month’s speaker will be Maury Markowitz, discussing how Wikipedia is addressing the problem of ensuring truth in articles. Maury is a renowned Wikipedia editor with over 1,000 new articles and over 20,000 edits to his name. Maury works at a Toronto hedge fund firm where he is the programmer-on-call.
Note new Location! The […]

Collusion from Canada’s Internet Service Providers?

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

In the same week, Bell and Rogers have hit the Canadian public hard, imposing limits on how we use the internet.
DSL: Not only has Bell imposed this on their own customers but also on their wholesale resellers, organisations such as Teksavvy, who they have started traffic-shaping, cutting off many of the newest services […]

Forums and Wikis: Providing conversation-knowledge linkage for Wordpress MU

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

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 […]

WikiSym2008 - I’m Chair for Demos and Posters

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

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 […]

Wikis in Legal Practices - Toronto Wiki Tuesday - Feb 2008

Friday, February 15th, 2008

My congratulations go to Connie Crosby for her talk on Wikis in Legal Practices (Do Wikis belong in Law Firms)

Slides here
Despite howling winds driving a blizzard conditions and a late change of venue, 16 people successfully ventured toInsomnia on Bloor and Bathurst. My thanks to Marc Laporte, who was visiting from Montreal to run Tiki […]

Toronto Wiki Tuesday mentioned in Canada’s National Post

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Toronto Wiki Tuesdays got a brief mention in today’s National Post

‘‘I will be heading to Rower’s Pub to this month’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday, Toronto’s dedicated Wiki event. We’ve had some great topics, talking about how using a wiki efficiently creates knowledge, how we can use them to couple thinking to the output of systems […]