The always-brilliant Charles Barsotti in this week's New Yorker sums up the real problem behind the financial system collapseStill euphoric over the past week's retreat on Bowen Island BC, and the pos...
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A remarkable synchronicity this week has me thinking about the Purpose of connectivism. I spent an extraordinary three days this past week with about thirty other facilitators from across North Americ...
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Leaving the rarefied atmosphere of Rivendell is a bit like a crash landing after a visit to a distant world.I was privileged to spend three days this week in retreat with thirty extraordinary people f...
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Cartoon by Tab in the Calgary Sun, from the Cagle site. Thanks to Rob Paterson for the link.Project 10 to the 100th: Google is offering $10 million for the top ideas that help people help other people...
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Week 3 of the CCK08 Connectivism MOOC is principally about network theory. I've written a bit about this, notably about network analysis (Rob Cross) and network mapping (Valdis Krebs, who was this wee...
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I'm on my way from San Jose to Vancouver and thence to Bowen Island for a course on The Art of Hosting (a collection of event facilitation and problem-solving methodologies). Despite the fact that Ope...
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Greetings to visitors to HtStW from KMWorld & Intranets 2008 in San Jose, where I presented yesterday on From Content to Context and From Collection to Connection, a discussion of how Knowledge Ma...
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My well-being mindmap, based on self-management actions I took after contracting chronic ulcerative colitis in 2006On Saturday I pointed you to an old (2001) article by John Perry Barlow on the foolis...
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The End of Free Markets and the US DollarThis has been the first week in seven years that the mainstream media have actually been reporting important news. The top news, of course, is that greed and i...
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THE NEW ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT (& ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING)IMPROVING PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITYFacilitating PCM: helping people to self-find, self-filter, self-publish, self-subscribe, and self-or...
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You wake up tomorrow and discover that all the hydrocarbons in the world -- all the oil, gas and coal -- have vanished. Evaporated. Crumbled into dust and blown away.Since it's dark, you have to stumb...
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My publisher, Chelsea Green, is the North American distributor for Rob Hopkins' book The Transition Handbook, which explains the Transition Town phenomenon and how you can make your community a Transi...
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Image of stampede from this Yorkshire UK siteIn times of great uncertainty, most people look for a leader to tell them what they should do, or for an agent to do it for them. It would be hard to imagi...
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A lie-filled Bush-style Conservative Party attack ad shows a bird shitting on opposition leader Stéphane Dion.Maybe it's the time of year, but I'm afraid this week's list is decidedly heavy on ...
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Map of Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) on Connectivism, by Matthias Melcher. Full size map you can actually read here.I'm currently enrolled in an online course on Connectivism and Connective Knowle...
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The way we act, and are seen to act, in this life is a function of two things: What we choose to do, and How we choose to do it. We can do the wrong things with style, or, as has been my wont, we can ...
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Much of my copy of Patti Digh's Life is a Verb is already dog-eared. Regular readers know I learn by writing, so here's the result of my writing down what most resonated with me as I read it. I should...
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Much has been written about the role of agents, intermediaries and collaborators in our economy. They represent three different ways to partner with people to get things done: Agents do things for you...
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Socotra Island, "the most alien place on Earth", photo by Jan Vandorpe. Photos on Dark Roasted Blend. Thanks to Our Descent for the link.Having Too Much Stuff: Beyond Rivalry reprises a post from JD R...
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