Statement from Sit Time Berners Lee and Prof. Nigel Shadbolt would indicate that the cuts do not affect the Make Public Data Public initiative, and that the momentum for release of non-personal linked data via data.gov.uk portal will increase. So, it's not all bad news. http://amplify.com/u/6gu9
Thursday, 27 May 2010
Tuesday, 25 May 2010
Are you a Somebody?
There are four people: SOMEBODY, NOBODY, ANYBODY and EVERYBODY.
There was a job to be done. EVERYBODY was asked to do it.
EVERYBODY was sure SOMEBODY would do it.
ANYBODY could have done it but NOBODY did it.
SOMEBODY got angry at that, because it was EVERYBODY’s job.
EVERYBODY thought ANYBODY could do it.
NOBODY realised that EVERYBODY wouldn’t do it.
It ended up that EVERYBODY blamed SOMEBODY when NOBODY did what EVEREYBODY could have done.
The moral of the story? Try not to be somebody!Friday, 14 May 2010
Facebook Finally Calls Meeting on Privacy Strategy « Black Web 2.0
I guess when you have over 400 million users you can afford to be arrogant - as Facebook is clearly demonstrating. Yes, there has been a flurry of news about people closing their accounts, but this represents a fraction of a percent of the total user base. I think the whole privacy thing is lost on the majority of users, not helped by the unnecessarily complex settings on Facebook. However, continued bad press like this - warranted or not - is not doing the company any good. That other company that 'does no evil' must be loving every minute of this! http://amplify.com/u/5zru
Equal Benefits From Yoga or Drinking
Research confirms that drinking gives you the same benefits yoga does !!!
Thursday, 13 May 2010
Cultivating Knowledge Through Communities of Practice
My thanks to Jesus Matinez Marin and the organising committee for inviting me to address the Congreso Internacional EDO 2010 Conference in Barcelona (12-14 May). I only hope that I didn't cause too many problems for the Spanish and Catalan translators who gave a real-time audio translation to the audience. I am particularly honoured to have been included in the official book "Nuevas estrategias formativas para las organizaciones", which (relying on Google Translate) means "New training strategies for organizations".
The presentation I gave is available on Slideshare and embedded below.
I very much appreciate the hospitality shown to me during my stay in Barcelona and look forward to continued collaboration with the Generalitat de Catalunya Department de Justicia as they develop their knowledge management strategy.
The presentation I gave looks at the phenomenon of Communities of Practice in the public sector and how they can develop into effective knowledge sharing and learning environments. Topics I covered included:
- What is a ‘Community of Practice’ (CoP)?
- Moving from conversations to collaboration
- Community culture and behaviours
- What makes a successful community?
- Measuring success and the elusive ROI
- Lessons learnt from deployment of CoPs in UK local government.
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Couch potatoes to get active with Google TV?
The days of sitting zombie-like in front of our TV screens may be coming to an end. Google TV will integrate social media with traditional broadcast TV, enabling viewers to interact in real-time with what they see. The possibilities are endless - not only being able to instantly critique what we are seeing, or sharing our opinions with friends, but maybe even influencing the storylines of our favourite soaps? http://amplify.com/u/5pls
Thursday, 29 April 2010
Getting rid of IE6 - civil servants please ignore this.
This notice from PayPal caught my eye today in relation to safe web browsers. Getting on my hobby horse again (see previous post on this topic), I wonder when the UK public sector are going to wake up to the fact that the vast majority of government staff (central and local) have no other choice but to use Internet Explorer 6. IE6 is no longer supported by Microsoft, does not benefit from the latest security software patches, is not supported by a growing number of social media websites (e.g. YouTube, Flickr), does not comply with W3C standards, and is the antithesis of a web productivity tool. I had hoped that Socitm might take up the campaign to get IE6 replaced - or to at least to support the concept of staff having an alternative to IE6 in the workplace - but they remain strangely silent on this issue, despite the fact that this could be one of the most significant staff productivity improvements available to the sector -to say nothing of the improved security. So, sorry civil servants, you can ignore the remainder of this post since it is clearly of no relevance to you. Best just to think of 'phishing' as something that people do with a rod and line!
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