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We were advised this morning that LearnX Asia Pacific 2008 has announced that the winner in the category of 'Best Website for Learning' is ........Anecdote! We are really pleased that our efforts to make the website an interesting and valuable place have been recognised in this way.

Shawn and Robyn are 05/07

Last week Melbourne was witness to our taxi drivers protesting in the city streets against their poor working conditions. The protest was sparked by the fatal stabbing of a fellow taxi driver. Among a range of improvements, the drivers wanted taxi owners to make available security screens that wrap around their driver's seat.

The sextet shares a few non-learning sites that may interest you.

May 10 is Pangea Day. A great opportunity to get inspired!

Storytellers from all over the world will tell their stories about humanity to humanity. 24 short films have been selected (from the thousands submitted) based on their ability to inspire, transform, and help us see the world through another person's eyes. Check out this05/06

In a simpler setting, when we're launching the Foundations Workshop, for example, I have developed a whole set of heuristics for figuring out when people are engaged and the degree to which they are connecting with the group. Some of the tell-tales I use include:

In my quest to lose weight. I’ve given up ports and a DVD drive.

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A friend pointed out that my calendar (interface) appears in German to her. She's happy because she's German. I'm guessing that the calendar appears in your google preferences language. Call me easily pleased, but that's just 05/03

My friend Madelyn Blair is busily preparing for two great storytelling events in Washington that start on the 9 May. I believe there are 30 seats left now so you still register to attend

For Smithsonian Event, May 9 go to 05/02

At risk of sounding neurotic, let me say a word about how important my calendar is. I have a memory the size of a pinhead and what's not written down, doesn't happen. Many sleepless nights I'm immersed in dreams of missing 'planes or meet ups with people because I forgot the time or am late.

I also like to 05/01

The blue tongue disease outbreak in the UK has been relatively dormant over the winter months when midges are not active, but it hasn't gone away by any means. The good news though, is that an effective vaccine has been developed and made available, and the massive task of widespread vaccination 05/01

As Harold mentioned yesterday, half a dozen kindred spirits are engaged in dialog to improve our individual learning and to “eat the dog food” of network effects. Yesterday we experimented with adding our abbreviated, outside opinions to a workshop I was taking part in.

Our connected futures workshop is off to a good start, I think. The launch phone call went well. For some of us, having a telephone call is very comforting. You feel like there's a real person on the other end of the line (or in that other corner of the telephone bridge cloud, perhaps?).

Weekly Knowledge Management Blog by Stan Garfield

KM Question, Blog, Link, and Book of the Week

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Keeping an Action Log

In my first post about First Person Action Research I mentioned the Action Log, and now I'm going to explain what I mean by that, and invite you to take the first action but first, here's some context.

Goals

actKM is again participating in the annual Information Awareness Month. This year, actKM is hosting a world cafe-style event on the topic of: 'How can KM practices contribute to volunteer/community organisations?' The event is in Canberra next Tuesday (6th May) and all the details are on the 04/28

Some worrying developments which might limit the use of the Internet for the little guy.

via Dave Snowden

Hugh Macloed is a master with social objects. He draws at the back of business cards!

Here's two of his recent creations, so cleverly done for Microsoft.

It's a fun way to get people talking about collaboration.

My article, "The Uniter vs The Divider", about the use of story by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, has been headlined in OpEdNews.

This is the first in a short series of blog posts about 1st person Action Research, theory and practice.

What is First Person Action Research

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• tantek wiki / CommunicationProtocols
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• 04/26

After writing our paper on collaboration there were several things we wanted to explore that just wouldn't fit into the original work. We are interested in when it's unhelpful to collaborate, examples of when collaboration has failed, and how collaboration differs from similar terms such as co-operation and co-ordination.

I'm still poking around the issue of stress , and its apparent inevitability for today's savvy, knowledge web-workers.

In a post on ReadWriteWeb Alex Iskoldy talks about "04/26

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“Thank you for calling Big Stupid Company.

We value your business and look forward to serving you.

Your call may be monitored for training purposes.

Listen carefully, for our options have changed.

As the CPsquare “Long Live the Platform” conference wraps up this week, I’ve been thinking a lot about “community” and its role within the enterprise.

CPsquare, the Community of Practice on Communities of Practice, is doing a month-long exploration of platforms supporting communities of practice, called Long Live the Platform.

Proposition

The old saw suggests that if the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.  We're seeing a lot of that in the social software space.

04/24

Social Network or Community?

There's a fascinating formal debate taking place on The Economist site this week. The proposition put forward is:

If the web-displayed email list is the oldest form of Web2.0 technology, the message board is probably the second-most venerable form of the read-write web.

Educause has released their study of Students and Information Technology, 2007. 

The blogs are alive with Knowledge Management talk this week. Apparently, June is KM conference time.

Josh Catone does a very nice round-up of freely-available collaboration software this week in

There’s an interesting post on Terra Nova this week by Robert Bloomfield, entitled Will we ever see this on a Resume? 

I’m becoming a big fan of the commoncraft show, where Lee and Sachi LeFever posts their brilliant introductions to Web 2.0 elements.

His low-tech representations of the workings of RSS and most recently,  

Dave Lee is noticing a pervasive, annoying issue for anyone who has advanced from experimenting with social tagging to depending upon it.  In 04/24

Last week, Jay Cross declared something we’ve thought true for a long time: Conversations are a better way to learn than reading blog entries, so I’m remapping my site [to] make it easier to learn from.

Sherry Turkle writes in Forbes this week about the tradeoffs incurred in our technologically-facilitated multi-tasking approach to the world.

She observes:

There’s an image, a map of online communities, making the rounds this week, developed by