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 […]
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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
Last night was http://barcamp.org/VizThinkToronto4 “Concept Mapping”- presented by David Gelb of York University, Michael Jones from Sheridan College and myself. (Sorry, for all the promotion we did with my pause in blogging I forgot to blog about it).
At the present count there are some 84 pictures of the event on Flickr:
And our slides at SlideShare
Most […]
