Homeland Security linking to new “security” reports that rely on Australian virtual world ‘terrorism’ reports from 2 years ago. As an avid World of Warcraft player - Level 80 Fire Mage on Feathermoon, if you please - I am always astounded and immensely amused by the crapola that is said about the game. Anything from playing in a guild with 400 people and organising raids makes one ‘anti-social’ U.S. This sort of rubbish is now rippling out  from Australian High Tech Crime Centre to USA Homeland Security who in turn are passing it on, thru

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Today John Inman had a great post on using the world cafe for a five hour strategic planning session with a non-profit.  His Tags: Art of Harvesting Art of Hosting Collaboration Conversation Design Facilitation Open Space World Caf His process works as follows: First I asked that the whole system be in the retreat.

BLOG World-Changing Questions THINGS YOU CAN DO TO MAKE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE I t's been Save the World)". that the world can't be saved, only made better than what it is, and my recently-acquired things you can do to make a difference, Questions 12 THINGS been awhile since I updated my article on "What You Can Do (to Save

As more companies are working with partners around the world and multicultural teams occur more and more often, understanding of cultural differences is important for team members and leaders — for both face-to-face and virtual teams. For these reasons, intercultural training may be an excellent candidate for transfer to virtual world environments. Previously, Surinder wrote a blog post on his observations about different cultural expectations and implicit communication patterns.  He discussed some ways that virtual team leaders could help limit cultural snafus in teams.

Thanks to Virtual World News for this excerpt from a new report from eMarketer on teens and tweens in Virtual Worlds. Over the course of 2008, an estimated 8 million teen and pre-teen kids in the US visited virtual worlds on a regular basis, researchers at eMarketer said today. Calling virtual world usage "strong and getting stronger," eMarketer senior analyst Debra Aho Williamson projects that number will grow to over 15 million The growth, however, does not come without a hiccup or two. "Unfortunately, Unfortunately, as with social networks, advertising has

Thanks to Anne Collier of Connect Safely and the NetFamily blog for publishing these excellent Kids' Virtual World Safety Tips and Virtual World Safety Tips for Parents of Teens on Connect Safely. Virtual worlds are great places for kids to learn the fundamental rule of password protection. Tags: child safety virtual world Whilst some of the information is obviously repeated between the two sets of advice, I really like the way that she has targetted the two age groupings - for example, emphasising to teens how important it is to maintain a good online reputation: "They know a comment can come back to haunt them, but research shows they don't always think about how – over time – texts and posts can collectively turn into a reputation that can be hard to turn around.

am already on Week 1 of what I have decided to now call " A World Without Email ". 8230; Welcome to ( my and, hopefully, yours, too!) "A World Without Email"! Tags: Enterprise 2.0 , Social Software , Social Networking , Social Computing , Social Media , Collaboration , Communities , Learning , Knowledge Sharing , KM , Knowledge Management , Remote Collaboration , Innovation , IBM , Networking , Social Networks , Social Networks , Networking And so we move forward into the next challenge on my quest of eventually giving up on e-mail at work.

Surinder and I are currently attending the Mardi Gras conference on virtual worlds in Baton Rouge along with our colleague Rui Huang . We are here to present our paper that I discussed in last week’s post and also to hear the exciting work that others are pursuing in and around virtual worlds. am amazed by the breadth of interests that people have in the area and the innovative research that has been conducted on topics such as education, I One major take away that we have gotten from the conference is that people are still struggling to understand what virtual worlds are and

The starting quote is right of the mark : “Despite current ads and slogans, the world doesn’t change one person at a time. The speed at which knowledge development and exchange happens is crucial, because local regions and the world need this knowledge and wisdom now. Republished from our archive in January 2007: The following is from a remarkable essay by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze, which I consider a must read.