Digital Web Magazine: Community Issue
Digital Web Magazine: Community Issue (via DfC)The new issue of Digital Web Magazine is up, and this one's all about web community. Check it out for an enlightening feature on evolt, a tutorial by Matt Haughey, and an interview with Derek Powazek on writing the book 'Design for Community' and designing community sites.
community Add tag Permalink | Thursday, August 16, 2001
JOHO: Post-Modern Knowledge Management: A
JOHO: Post-Modern Knowledge Management: A One-Question InterviewKnowledge management has traditionally suffered from the hubris of modernism: the belief that we can discover ultimate truths and organize the world according to rational principles using clever code. The idea was that we should capture and organize bits of "knowledge" in central databases. The people involved were relevant only as donors to the common ontology or as empty vessels into which knowledge could be poured.
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Fast Company: He Drills for
Fast Company: He Drills for KnowledgeKnowledge-management guru John Old drills away at a potential gusher: the collective brainpower of Texaco's 18,000 employees in 150 countries. Their pool of knowledge ranges from how best to set the stroke depth of an oil-well pump to how to get the inside scoop on top competitors. Old's mandate inside Texaco, which pumps more than 1 million barrels of oil a day, is to connect people who have questions with the people who have answers -- helping the company to work faster and more efficiently.
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Fast Company: Who Owns Your
Fast Company: Who Owns Your Intranet?As companies march ahead with efforts to link employees through internal Web sites, they are learning a key design principle: If you want your intranet to take off, then take a hands-off approach. The case for intranet democracy.
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Learning Circuits: Digital Copyrights and
Learning Circuits: Digital Copyrights and WrongsWhether you're facilitating online learning, researching training stats, or just plain curious, it pays to know what you're getting into when using electronic content--and how to stay out of hot water. Here are some tips for navigating digital copyright issues.
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 15, 2001
USA Today: Investors study e-learning
USA Today: Investors study e-learning programsInvestors learned the hard way that dog food and books aren't exactly big moneymakers for online retailers. But some wonder if investors still smitten with the Internet bug are getting too giddy about stocks of companies selling education on the Internet.
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Yahoo! News: DigitalThink to buy
Yahoo! News: DigitalThink to buy LearningByte for 4.5 mln shares DigitalThink Inc., a provider of Internet-based education solutions for corporations, announced on Tuesday an agreement to acquire LearningByte International, a provider of custom "e-learning'' courseware, for about 4.5 million shares, or $60.5 million.Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, August 15, 2001
Content Spotlight: Use Your Subhead
Content Spotlight: Use Your SubheadIn Web writing, we serve our readers poorly if we don't give them some way to grasp the whole document while making it easy to find and understand particular sections. Enter the subhead.
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The Chronicle: With National e-University,
The Chronicle: With National e-University, Britain Gets in the Online-Education Game Although only a few universities will offer courses through the e-University when it puts its first materials online next year, the government plan calls for all higher-education institutions in Britain to be members of the holding company that owns and administers the project. The e-University will not award degrees on its own, but the participating programs will be marketed jointly and will share some technological infrastructure. The effort will be financed by a combination of government and private money.Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, August 14, 2001
Reading Online: A Face-to-Face Graduate
Reading Online: A Face-to-Face Graduate Class Goes Online: Challenges and Successes In this column, I want to share what online learning looks like in my context, the problems I have encountered, and what I have found out along the way about providing effective online learning for the teachers in my university-level courses. Clearly the use of technology as a tool for learning is something that most school educators are dealing with in their classrooms. Indeed, in Australia this has been written into school policies and curricula. However, with respect to teacher education -- be it at the preservice, inservice, or graduate level -- we are only just beginning to realize the potential that technology has for learners.Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, August 14, 2001
MIT Technology Review: Reworking Online
MIT Technology Review: Reworking Online WorkRay Ozzie: From the personal perspective, "online collaboration," or knowledge work with others toward a common objective, facilitated by technology, is becoming the rule as opposed to the exception. We pick our tools based upon our human needs. When we need to communicate simple messages, we choose e-mail. When we need to visually mark up an image, we oftentimes choose fax. When we need to communicate an emotion, such as a sense of urgency or happiness, we frequently choose the phone. Humans are multimedia creatures by nature, and we choose the tool that meets the need..."
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Web Review: Communities and Commerce:
Web Review: Communities and Commerce: Beyond the Bulletin BoardNow that the Internet economy has been rationalized, so to speak, community is once again the buzzword du jour. But this time, "community" isn't just a tacked-on benefit
community Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, August 14, 2001
Silicon.com: Knowledge management: It’s about
Silicon.com: Knowledge management: It's about people tooThe term 'knowledge management' is outdated and confusing and should be scrapped, according to David Snowden, director of IBM's Institute of Knowledge Management, EMEA... According to Snowden, his analysis is based on a move towards studying culture as an anthropologist, not a consultant. Management consultants go into companies with pre-conceived ideas, argued Snowden, which is why they are unable to understand the knowledge management requirements within that company.
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Monday, August 13, 2001
SF Gate: Leaping ahead of
SF Gate: Leaping ahead of the competition: Some big stars in the Knowledge UniverseWhat do ex-junk bond king Michael Milken, Oracle Corp.'s flamboyant Chairman Larry Ellison and former U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz have in common?... All three are involved with Knowledge Universe, a low-profile Menlo Park company that intends to boost education not just for kids, but also for adults and corporations.
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Fast Company: How the PC
Fast Company: How the PC Really Got StartedThe personal computer celebrates its 20th birthday this month. At a gala party in Silicon Valley, the PC's original developers, including Bill Gates and Andy Grove, swapped tales of those wild and wacky days on the frontier of the computer revolution.
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Berkeley Computing & Communications: Weblogging:
Berkeley Computing & Communications: Weblogging: Another kind of websiteLloyd Nebres works for UC Berkeley's Academic Talent Development Program. For several years he has taught a summer course for high school students called The Internet Classroom... For his summer 2000 course Lloyd decided to introduce weblogging using Userland's Editthispage as weblog host. Little did Lloyd know that this would turn into a thriving community of 20-some regularly blogging high school students beyond the summer and throughout the past school year, with students introducing other friends to blogging, gradually leading to the involvement of peers, relatives, siblings, friends, and other adults. Since May 2000 Lloyd has flipped his blog daily, referring to and commenting on student blogs, posing questions and writing prompts, weaving together themes from various weblogs, and carefully pushing and pulling at the students to foster critical thinking and thoughtful writing.
blogging Add tag Permalink | Saturday, August 11, 2001
TechTV: Top Five Tips for
TechTV: Top Five Tips for Online CommunityGot a website? Thinking of adding community features such as Web boards and chat rooms to let your users talk back? Here are a few tips for happy community building online from Derek Powazek, whose book on the subject, Design for Community, comes out on August 15.
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Chicago Tribune: E-books solving a
Chicago Tribune: E-books solving a problem consumers don't haveThe publishing world's attempts to turn electronic fiction and non-fiction into a lucrative revenue stream have yielded only a trickle of customers. Flaccid sales aside, publishers face even bigger challenges. Digitizing the printed page has put the very nature of books up for grabs, unleashing heated battles among writers, readers, librarians and technologists over who should control electronic books.
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New Scientist: New language could
New Scientist: New language could speed up the webThe new language is Curl. Its creators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology claim that the fledgling technology can speed up the delivery of applications over the web by up to 10 times. It is said to combine the simplicity of web typesetting tools such as HTML with complex web programming languages such as Java.
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Resource: e-learningjobs.com “Search our database
Resource: e-learningjobs.com"Search our database of active jobs, post your r
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eLearn Magazine: The Global Gamble
eLearn Magazine: The Global GambleWhen the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced in April that it plans to place materials for all its courses online at no cost, many were puzzled. At a time when most colleges and universities are trying to figure out how to make money on the Web
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eLearn Magazine: Back to the
eLearn Magazine: Back to the Future: WhatAdd tag Permalink | Friday, August 10, 2001
Fortune: Cool Supplies Attention, class.
Fortune: Cool SuppliesAttention, class. School hasn't even started yet, and already you have to answer some tough questions when it comes to technology. Yes, you need a computer at college, but which one? Windows or Macintosh? Desktop or laptop? Do you scrimp on the budget, knowing the low-end machine will almost certainly flunk out before graduation, or spend more for a machine in the hope that it won't be the class clown four years from now? And what other gizmos do you need in the dorm room? On the following pages we've created a cheat sheet of cool gadgets--a mix of electives and requirements--that can make campus life more productive and fun, not necessarily in that order.
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SiliconValley.com: Revisiting isolation and its
SiliconValley.com: Revisiting isolation and its link to the InternetBack in 1998, Robert Kraut, a professor of social psychology at Carnegie Mellon University, released a study, HomeNet, that found the Net was dangerous to one's social and psychological well-being... Now, Kraut and colleagues are back with another report, Internet Paradox Revisited, due to be published next spring in the Journal of Social Issues. In re-interviewing the subjects of the first study, the researchers found depression significantly declined with Internet use and social isolation was not associated with high Internet use.
- Journal of Online Behavior: Reformulating the Internet Paradox: Social Cognitive Explanations of Internet Use and Depression
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The Chronicle: Australia Will Spend
The Chronicle: Australia Will Spend $100-Million on Distance Programs for Developing CountriesTens of thousands of teachers, students, and officials in developing countries will receive training in specific skills over the Internet, becoming "virtual students" in Australian universities. Younger students will undertake Net-based school programs devised in Australia.