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It helps us see traditional words and documents differently. I belong to a network of KM practioners working in development. Today a resource was shared that I am marveling at. I have tested it out with a document describing a learning network established in a community climate change adaptation initiative. I inserted all the words in the document to a website (Check out wordle ) and above is what it came up with. This is making work fun! MORE
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HSBC advocate for ‘different points of view’ and demonstrate this with identical images and different tag lines. They have a series of panels showing different objects and people. The lessons I take from them are that people are unique and see the world and things inside it differently. Indeed, there is beauty in different opinions. As I travel through airports around the world, I am struck by the advertisements of HSBC. MORE
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As xMOOCs become more successful and begin to experiment with pedagogies that go beyond the didactic video lecture approach, I have been trying to understand the essential differences between the original connectivist MOOCs such as CCK08 and the current xMOOCs such as those offered by Coursera. MORE
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Heterogeneity and boundary spanning between different kinds of networks lead to innovation. On the other hand… sometimes you meet people where you feel like even the basic structure of their brain must be completely different from yours. Getting to understand each other can become a tough job of explaining and misunderstanding and you feel like learning a different language altogether just to make yourself understood. MORE
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HSBC advocate for ‘different points of view’ and demonstrate this with identical images and different tag lines. They have a series of panels showing different objects and people. The lessons I take from them are that people are unique and see the world and things inside it differently. Indeed, there is beauty in different opinions. As I travel through airports around the world, I am struck by the advertisements of HSBC.
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I read Dealing with differences by Nico Vink, who looks at communication as scanning of social spaces and positions, rather than exchange of information. So where do we currently find the cultural differences? Yet there is a difference.
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The question remains however if there is a different form of leadership required in such communities. Keith Sawyer has an interesting post about the role of leadership and lessons learned from the impact of internet ‘democratisation’ and the emergence of ‘open source communities’ Keith suggests that the internet has enabled ‘participatory democracy’ evidenced by Wikipaedia and Linux.
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December 23, 2007 in Commentary | Permalink TrackBack TrackBack URL for this entry: [link] Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Timeout For Something Different : Comments You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post.
Joitske Hulsebosch
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So at home she wanted to know what the difference is between consonents and vowels. Both my children are in mixed classes at school. The youngest in group 3/4, the eldest in group 4/5. At times the youngest overhears what is being taught to the other group.
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An interesting article worth reading (regardless of viewpoint): Is Online Privacy a Generational Issue? By Ken Denmead. October 1, 2009 | . 9:00 am | . Categories: Electronic Geek. This is a guest post by Heather West , Policy Analyst at the Center for Democracy & Technology ]. It seems like every time I talk to people about privacy, there’s a feeling that younger users of online tools simply don’t care about the issue.
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But on the agency side, the whole thing is different. One of the things I've been saying a lot lately is that over the next couple years, we can expect to see corporations adding dedicated internal social media teams. Does this sound like a statement of the obvious?
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