8220; The entire system we currently call “government” is going to be challenged at every level . Abstractly speaking, the USSR course-corrected four times in 20 years, while the USA course-corrected five times. I, of course, am one of you. some college student in a Texas Ag program writes up permaculture for Malawi, and a retired doctor in Hawaii translates it, and two teenagers in suburban Durban make a video and dub it, and a Japanese phone services start up compresses the video so it fits over thin pipes, and a guy in Brazil wires it to the GPS formats used by the local phone companies, and pretty soon there’s your organic green revolution and people stop dying.

Of course, Vodafone may not today be able to empathise with this and there are some differences. But no doubt a challenging day for Vodafone today. ...Tags: Image via Wikipedia It’s been an interesting afternoon for Vodafone. Their VodafoneUK Twitter account has attracted a lot of attention after one Tweet in particular stood out from their usual

So I am afraid you will have to head over there and watch Big Blue’s Collaboration Challenges . So, of course, I am talking about Mark Hennessy , IBM’s vice president and CIO, who spends a little bit over five minutes sharing several stories on how IBM is making use of social networking tools to reach new levels of productivity. Those are some of the major areas that Mark Hennessy gets to cover in this five minute interview at Forbes’ CIO Network Earlier on today, a fellow IBM colleague, and good friend, John Rooney , shared in various microsharing Web sites (Both internal and external) a link to a recent interview I thought would be rather interesting for folks out there who would be keen on reading further on IBM’s efforts exploring the world of social software and using its 400.000 + employee workforce as testbed for many of the social tools most of us have been exposed to for a while already and some of which eventually make it into IBM products in the area of Enterprise Social Software.

And of course it means that we will get this information quicker than ever before. Image by tibchris via Flickr I’ve spent the last ten days with no Internet and very little access to English-language news sources. On my return I turned to my three favourite sources for getting up to speed quickly on what’s been happening: BBC News, Twitter and Google.

Of course, any distribution of contact details like this would break Twitter’s own terms of service with its users and no doubt alienate them as well. Image by Pink Sherbet Photography via Flickr Reports today suggest that Twitter is planning to roll-out a range of new premium features that it hopes will appeal to a corporate market. We’ve written

The following is Michael Albert’s second set of questions and challenges to our interpretation of the P2P paradigm, written from his own point of view i.e. “Parecon”. More, of course there are differences in different types of production that in turn yield different processes, experiences, etc. Why settle for trying to attain changes only in limited domains, which is not We continue our coverage of the P2P/Parecon debate featured at ZNet. 8220;Parecon”.

Michael Albert has the right to the final response in this debate on P2P Theory, so this is my last response to his challenges before he concludes the debate. One can of course easily criticize this as not ‘really true’, since capitalism was also based on disowning the productive classes from their productive property, but, once has to recognize the relative reality and truth of this motivational force. The emerging We continue our coverage of the P2P/Parecon debate featured at ZNet. The separate thread, where we start debating Parecon from a P2P point of view, will be featured

Wageningen International uses an e-learning platform, which is defined and maintained using a Content Management System (CMS) What are the main options of the CMS? Courses websites can be easily defined, developed and maintained. Groups of course participants can be given special rights in the system. The next interview took place at July 6, 2006 with Mirjam Schaap from Wageningen International. Meeting place “I work in the Capacity Development and Institutional Change Programme . What is it that you use? The system contains multiple websites, a library and

I explained in Top 10 Reasons for Social Marketing why marketers need to add social media to their repertoire and promised to “write about the unique challenges that social media marketing poses” to early adopters. Here then are my top ten challenges that social marketers will likely grapple with: Few books or Social media often meets with skepticism and resistance inside an organization. This reaction is normal to anything radically new.

Ignacio de Castro has written a fine trilogy on medieval p2p-like practices, that is somehow framed as a challenge to our p2p approach. One that is of course very well known is the existence of local land commons that were used by medieval peasants and serfs. It describes the practices of jewish maghrebi traders in the Middle Ages and their international support network, and wonders why they ultimately lost against their Genovese more ‘capitalist’ competitors. Ignacio asks: could the same defeat happen to contemporary P2P practices and communities?