So when Bill Ives just recently questioned whether you could make use of Twitter as a Personal Knowledge Management tool I couldn’t help but wonder myself whether I am using it as well as my PKM tool of choice, along with my own personal business blog and a couple of other tools. And, of course, no-one has got time for that! I have been using Twitter now for over two and a half years and, all along, if you have been following some of my recent twitterings , you would know how I seem to keep having a love / hate relationship with it. It still remains

On Friday, I ran a one-day hands-on computer course on how to do a social media marketing campaign. You exist elsewhere and have a voice/personality Don’t be that person!  Technorati Tags: AFTRS , blogs , computer course , course , Facebook , hands on , how to , LAMP , social media marketing This is for a presentation I gave as a seminar on Thursday. We ( Gary Hayes from LAMP and I) structured Thursday for speakers to 50 people on their social media marketing campaigns.

In the classical networking approach, the game is about presenting yourself in the most favorable light possible while flattering the other person into giving you their contact information. This requires intense curiosity, deep listening and empathy that seeks to understand the context that other person is operating in. It also requires willingness to disclose vulnerabilities, since Social networking is becoming more important, both at the individual and institutional level. For many, this provokes a negative reaction.

They're also very indiscreet, leaky categories, although it is of course possible to find examples of people who's online identity is confined to or dominated by a single category. The three main categories I use then are personal, professional, and organisational. Personal use might include using dating sites, having a social network account to connect to friends and family, uploading your family photos to a photo-sharing site. There are three main ways we can characterise most peoples online internet and mobile activity and presence. Let me state up front that these

Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Aug 27 2008 From courses to community: Josien Kapma and Nancy White Published by Nancy White at 6:42 am under communities of practice , learning This is an article that Josien Kapma

Blog post seven in Jim Benson’s Personal Kanban Series. In your personal kanban, it is possible to have a WIP that takes into account varying sizes of tasks? When I’ve done this, I’ve tried to take into account that there will be “flares” – tasks that arise and are completed during the course of a day that don’t make it onto the board. In the previous posts we looked at the Time Capsule workaround to having a backlog cluttered with small tasks of varying importance.  This throughput approach might help mitigate the need to use that approach.

Checking processes for only a few minutes lets you re-orient the course of your work. These These retrospectives allow a team the opportunity not only to celebrate or bemoan accomplishments or setbacks, but likewise to serve as a constructive way to create and direct their course.  A Over the past few months, I've spoken with many people who've begun to use personal kanban. In both Agile and Lean management there are points called "retrospectives," regular and ritualized moments where a team stops to reflect. Checking A retrospective shows us that things either went well or

This is the 20th post in my  personal kanban series. As always, your kanban should evolve over the course of your writing project.  Tags: Life Management Personal Kanba I can say with confidence that I am intimately familiar with the complexities of writing a full-length book. Having a life while working on a manuscript is a challenge, ask any author.

/Message « Om Malik on Social Networks And Scale | Main | Web Culture: Individuality, Belonging, and Scalar Freedom » June 14, 2008 Overload, Schmoverload: The Myth Of Personal Productivity by Stowe Boyd The newest attack on connectedness and whole brain attention is here, spouting conventional wisdom as gospel: [from Lost in E-Mail, Tech Firms Face Self-Made Beast by Matt Richtel] The onslaught of cellphone calls and e-mail and instant messages is fracturing attention spans and hurting productivity. The company, which draws

Here is my presentation in Russian about using social learning environments at courses: ...Tags: icamp personal learning environmen Next week we have some presentations in Georgia as part of the support Estonian Ministry of Education is giving to Georgia. Tags: self-directed georgia elearning 2.0