Haven’t done a plain links post for ages. I’m trying to get away from lists, but perhaps a few annotated links can be a good way of tracking current interests. Or a nice Sunday displacement activity.
Events…many are still completely unamplified or curated, but for this seminar on the power of social media to support knowledge sharing this was particularly ironic. However checking back I can see that slides and MP3s are now available – hurrah! Better: make your intentions clear upfront.
The sessions by Hare and Dale are the most worthwhile:
- Hare on networks – more powerful than the node? – quoting John Husband on the notion of a wirearchy ( “a dynamic two-way flow of power and authority based on knowledge, trust, credibility and a focus on results, enabled by interconnected people and technology”), and running through Dave Snowden’s Cynefin framework
- Dale on the need for network literacy, highlighting community management/facilitation and social/digital curation (high level and with a narrative, not scrapbooking – more is not better) as two emergent roles; new values – collaboration and cooperation, CMs make collaboration possible and profitable, communicate, coach, disseminate, evangelise…
For a more vibrant event, this review of Pi Day has several ideas about how to generate online engagement via a mix of ‘sit back and watch’, discursive and action based activities. Also consider demanding more from your speakers.
Curation…the lawyer as trusted curator. Is this more than buzzword bingo? What’s next, estate agents as curators of property? A body of knowledge is part of the definition of a profession, no?
Blog portals…in the news for MOOCs, but can bring together any bunch of blogs. What’s The Blogging Tribe using? What are blogs for anyway? Mine is for personal reflection, but others are alternative news sources, they say. This is causing a bit of a ruction in Denmark, where niche is the new black, with blogs now being awarded the (to me controversial) mediestøtte – financial support from the state. Update: see When is an online digital magazine not a magazine for more on the blog vs news etc theme – aka start-up journalism.
Finally, boredom can be good for you. Our old friend ‘research’ finds that many are inspired to creative activities through boredom and silence. So take a moment to be alone, silent and without any particular plan next week, to see how it feels.
