I interviewed him about the use of Yammer as an internal microblogging tool. At our department with 50 people there was a need for more knowledge and news to share. Yammer is a internal sort of Twitter. In addition, a small group that has the role to encourage people to use Quagga. Godfried Knipscheer works as digital communications advisor to the Flemish government in Belgium and is project leader of a social media project. There are many meetings, meetings and seminars, but knowledge was not structurally shared.

In the last post in this series we talked about some of the roles that support successful learning communities and CoPs (Communities of Practice). But when we think of these roles in the context of organizations like the e-learning provider UFI Learndirect (for whom this series was originally written), whose strength is providing learning services at a massive scale, some natural tensions are going to emerge. We might say This is the seventh  in a series of blog posts I wrote for  Darren Sidnick . I

Do you work for an international development NGO? Obtain an understanding and appreciation of the role and value of social media. Learn Tags: events international development social media technology stewardship workshop Then sign up now for the next Social Media Workshop offered by the ICT-KM Program of the CGIAR. Here are the details:

Re-Place-ing Space: The Roles of Place and Space in CollaborativeSystems Steve Harrison* and Paul Dourish+ *Xerox Palo Alto Research Center +Rank Xerox Research Centre, Cambridge Lab (EuroPARC) harrison@parc.xerox.com, dourish@europarc.xerox.com This is a draft of a paper which subsequently appeared in the Proceedings of CSCW96 (pub. Next, we will introduce the related notion of place, andcompare their roles in existing systems and consequences for futuredesigns. ACM). Abstract Many collaborative and communicative environments use notions of``space and spatial organisation to facilitate and structureinteraction.

Protect The Human is Amnesty’s International UK site . Campaigns play a crucial role on Protect The Human. Tags: Amnesty International Clients Amnesty International UK design Protect The Huma It’s designed to engage people to stand up for humanity and human rights. We’ve recently redesigned and launched new campaign pages on Protect The Human.

As I noted earlier , I’m starting to record a set of podcasts about the role of social media in international development. (That’s Today’s podcast is with William (Bill) Anderson and  focuses on the science and research aspect of international development. This fascinates me because of the work I do for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR), the Food and Agricultural That’s a long title, so for the future, the title slug will be  Social Media in Intl. Dev: Podcast with NAME.)

Cameron is dismantling the bubble and is relocating his office next to the internal cafe, without any special refurbishment to his new space. Yesterday I popped out for a meeting at the National Australia Bank. They have a new CEO, Cameron Clyne, and last week he announced a restructure that has substantially flattened the organisation. While the restructure has been the topic

Continuing my series of podcast conversations about the use of  social media in international development, this wee we have Gauresh Rajadhyaksh who works with the Development Prospects Group ( [link] ), a central think-tank unit within the World Bank .  Gauresh’s role has been in managing this system creation and its strategic planning as a tool for collaboration and communication. The unit monitors economic indicators, analyzes developments in real and financial markets and produces World Bank forecasts for the global economy ( [link] ) Much Much of the group’s work

A detailed example of an internal value network for technical repair This blog is adapted from the paper, “Value Creating Networks: Organizational Issues and Challenges,” being published in November by Emerald in The Learning Organization Special Issue on Social Networks and Social Networking . In the following figures the thick black lines and comments show where the group identified significant gaps in their own understanding of the roles, relationships, and interactions in the activity. This example demonstrates how value network modeling can bring fresh insights into even long established organizational structures and processes.

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