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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
It’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday time!
Continuing our 2008 Toronto Wiki Tuesday Guest Speaker Series,
Vanessa Peters (PhD Candidate, OISE) will lead discussions next Tuesday at Toronto Wiki Tuesday
at another new location, GROUNDHOG PUB.
http://www.torontowikituesdays.com/twiki/bin/view/TorontoWikiTuesdays/WikisInEducationMay2008
Here’s Vanessa’s description:
In this meeting I will discuss a new wiki-based scripted activity that was created for secondary school biology students. Using a co-design method, […]
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Friday, April 4th, 2008
Legal precedent states that your ISP is a Common Carrier. This means that they are not responsible for policing what kind of packets they deliver to your house, nor do they have any right to go poking around in the packets delivered to you. So, if you want to read the political views of an ousted dissonant your ISP is not responsible for enforcing that rule. Their role is to get the information from one place to another, with neither interest nor responsibility for the content.
Posted in Small Business, Open Platforms, Canadian Life, Canadian Competitiveness, TorCamp | 1 Comment »
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
Some of you may have noticed on the upcoming page that March’s date for Toronto Wiki Tuesday was preliminary, due to a schedule clash on my diary. I’m settling on the 2nd Tuesday of the month whereever possible, making Toronto Wiki Tuesday on the 2nd weekday of the 2nd week of each month.
This month only, […]
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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 […]
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Last month’s Toronto Wiki Tuesday marked a turning point. For the next 3 months in 2008 we have speakers lined up! To date I have usually lead a conversation based on my work with clients but I much prefer to not have to be center-stage all of the time.
Talks at Toronto Wiki Tuesdays usually […]
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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 […]
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Wednesday, July 18th, 2007
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 […]
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Tonight at Toronto Wiki Tuesday we will begin with a quick talk about IBM’s QEDWiki, starting with a short video clip.
We’ll question how IBM have extended the concept of a wiki as a mashup of content to wiki as a mashup of data & content and how this relates to their other product suites. We’ll […]
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Saturday, December 30th, 2006
Andrea and I will be away until next Wednesday morning, so I won’t be checking mails. Life should return to some normality from that point onward
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Monday, December 18th, 2006
In My Blog Got Me a New Job ex-Ernst & Young Rod Boothby explains how his blog enhances the chances of landing a new job, and how he attributes his job offer to having lowered the risk to potential employers by being seen to be more transparent and open. In this posting I extend this […]
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