Notes and Reflections on Day 1 of I-KNOW 2010

From September 1-3, 2010, I will attend the 10th International Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies (I-KNOW 2010) in beautiful Graz, Austria. I will use my blog to do a daily report on my captured notes and ideas. And now for something completely different In the last few years I have put a lot … Continue reading Notes and Reflections on Day 1 of I-KNOW 2010

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

I am convinced that the web will change our society in many ways that we cannot currently grasp. Clay Shirky's Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations is a book which everybody who is interested in these changes should read. Many books on technology take a very shallow approach. Often they focus on the … Continue reading Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations

Why we should stop using Twitter and switch over to Laconica

A lot of my colleagues at Stoas Learning including myself are having a lot of fun using the microblogging service Twitter. It has changed the social interaction between some of the team members and we have gotten to know each other better through a very simple service delivering 140 character messages at a time. I … Continue reading Why we should stop using Twitter and switch over to Laconica