Monthly Archives: December 2009

Discovering the value of Social Networks and Communities of Practice

There has been much written about measuring the value of online communities such as Social Networks or Communities of Practice.  However, most pundits tend to think of measuring value from a purely financial perspective, i.e. the Return on Investment (ROI).  … Continue reading

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Bookmarks for December 23rd through December 30th

These are my links for December 23rd through December 30th: Defining social media : Tim’s Blog – Definitions are useful things in research and critical thinking around a subject. When studying the youth work uses of social network sites, I … Continue reading

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Bookmarks for December 17th through December 22nd

These are my links for December 17th through December 22nd: Knoco stories: Data, Information, Knowledge – Nick Milton explains the difference between data, information and knowledge, and by association, data management, information management and knowledge management. Good, clear narrative. YouTube … Continue reading

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An amusing Christmas video

If you’re not quite yet in the Christmas spirit, you must watch this. David Attenborough – eat your heart out!

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Bookmarks for December 9th through December 15th

These are my links for December 9th through December 15th: Openly Local :: Making Local Government More Transparent – Openly Local is a new project to develop an open and unified way of accessing Local Government information. knowledge management for … Continue reading

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Bookmarks for December 6th through December 9th

These are my links for December 6th through December 9th: Tweepular – Tweepular has a bright colorful interface that helps you to organize your followers and your followings. You can sort the tweeps by date added, number of followers or … Continue reading

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Knowledge Hub Advisory Group

The second meeting of the Knowledge Hub Advisory Group took place yesterday, 7th December. ( For some background to the Knowledge Hub see previous posting). It was regretable that we didn’t get more attendees from local authorities, but those who … Continue reading

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Bookmarks for November 25th through December 5th

These are my links for November 25th through December 5th: COI – Structuring information on the Web for re-usability – Government is committed to making its public information and data as widely available as possible. The best way to make … Continue reading

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The Impact Of The Social Web In 21st Century Organisations

The following was published in the Guardian IT Supplement on Thursday 26th November. It was produced as a leader article for the Online Information Conference 2009. We are witnessing an extraordinary growth in user-generated content, whether it is conversations on … Continue reading

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