When people say technology is value neutral, I say people have values and people build software, therefore the software carries the imprint of the designers’ values. There is a lot of understanding of how social tools should work and need to work in enterprise (deeply based on how people interact with others and with interfaces) that must go on top of the technology platform. Tags: collaboration technology For a number of years I have cringed every time one of my clients tells me that have or are planning to deploy Microsoft SharePoint as a collaborative platform. They say

The post had a quote that resonated with my experience as a technology steward to various communities. You never know how users will end up using your technology. technology is designed for groups, but experienced by individual These two tenets have significance for technology stewards. I was cruising through my blog reader, hopelessly “behind” in reading (my own construction - I know I can “mark all read!”) 8221;) and came upon a post from Vic Desotelle who pointed to a TED talk on Compassion which somehow lead me to a Garr Reynolds post

I have saved a few delicious tags about individuals’ technology configurations if you want to browse with they use. This is a very messy lump from a technology standpoint. If you are a technology steward for a community, how does your personal configuration inform the configuration of the community? ...Tags: Recently I wrote a post that received a lot of attention - more than I would have expected: How I use social media . At At the end of the post, I promised to write about WHAT social media I currently use.

A bunch of friends and colleagues have just written/edited a new book on stewarding technology in non profits and NGOs. With contributions from the top experts in the nonprofit tech field, this book provides nonprofit decision makers with information to make smart, strategic decisions about technology. This book hones in on how to manage technology in an organization and offers practical advice on critical subject matter unfamiliar or mysterious to many in nonprofits. Holly Ross, Katrin Verclas and Alison Levine wrangled some authors together to write Meet Your Mission. You can

Tags: learning technology stewardship the-big-questio This month’s “Big Question” from Tony Karrer jolted me out of my sun-gardening-induced blogging lethargy to reply to this question: In a Learning 2.0 world, where learning and performance solutions take on a wider variety of forms and where churn happens at a much more rapid pace, what

The post had a quote that resonated with my experience as a technology steward to various communities. You never know how users will end up using your technology. technology is designed for groups, but experienced by individual These two tenets have significance for technology stewards. Crossposted from my Full Circle Blog I was cruising through my blog reader, hopelessly “behind” in reading (my own construction - I know I can “mark all read!”)

Tags: collaboration communication technology stewardship photos tool Via Michael Guhlin I’m playing with some tools to find creative commons images for use in things like blogposts, slide shows, etc. I thought I’d give Sprixi and FlickrCC.Bluemountains.net –by Peter Shanks, a new year’s test drive.

As part of CPSquare’s “ Connected Futures ” workshop exploring the use of web technologies in the service of communities of practice, we (John Smith and I!) We were interested to hear about the development both because we are using a hosted version of the SMC as our “home base” this iteration of the workshop, and because Howard’s project is a nice example of community technology stewardship. asked Howard Rheingold to share a little bit about the Social Media Classroom (SMC) he developed as part of a MacArthur Foundation Award (A HASTAC award specifically).

Tags: open_source technology_stewardship online_communit A suite of open source community .net net applications ...Tags:

But it brings up the issue of adopting a new technology because it is “cool.” Tags: presence Twitter technology stewardshi If you haven’t already heard about Twitter, the microblogging tool, it is never too late. I’ve been focusing on it as a tool for collaboration , learning and social presence. With a lot of self-effacing