» Networked Learning Conference 2010 Paper Submissions Due in 1 Week
07/11/09 16:27 from Silence and Voice
If you are planning to submit a paper for the 2010 Networked Learning Conference , you better hurray–the date for submissions is only a week away. Key dates and submission specs are listed here . I am busily revising a paper that I a..

» Causes Ditches MySpace: Don't Put All Your Fundraising Relationship Eggs in One Third Party, Proprietary Basket!
07/11/09 00:17 from Beths Blog
Photo by Billie Hara Late last night (or early this morning), Amy Sample Ward reported that Causes notified 184,725 users that its MySpace app will be removed from MySpace as of today. The email encouraged MySpace users of Causes to jo..

» Bike Scheme
06/11/09 13:47 from Shirley Williams : Activity
A recent circular starts: "The University of Reading is pleased to announce the launch of its Cycle to Work Scheme. University staff can now take advantage of the Government’s tax initiative scheme aimed at encouraging more peo..

» Book #43 - The Surgeon of Crowthorne
06/11/09 08:03 from Shirley Williams : Activity
My brother gave me "the Surgeon of Crowthorne" by Simon Winchester. My first reaction was to think it was a fictitious thriller, when I realised it was in fact a book about a dictionary I was uncertain how readable it would be. The book is ..

» Ways To Use Twitter Lists for Your Nonprofit Work
06/11/09 07:53 from Beths Blog
Gopher Screen Capture Twitter Lists: A Natural Evolution of Internet List Culture The Internet has a strongly ingrained "list-making" and "collecting" culture. Back in the early 1990's, during my "gopher mistress" days, I could use this In..

» ROI on building management capability
06/11/09 02:50 from Anecdote
Today's Australian Financial Review (p7) reports on the release of a study funded by the federal government. The report, titled 'Management Matters in Australia: Just how productive are we?' demonstrates what we know intuitively..that if a..

» Cloudworks
05/11/09 17:43 from Webbed Feat
I've been following the work of Gráinne Conole from UK's Open University for some time. I believe the first time I corresponded with her was during the Shaping Our Future conference in May, 2008 at SCoPE where we invited her to provide an ..

» (Online) Identity in Postmodernity
05/11/09 12:57 from Silence and Voice
I am starting to be a little restless with my blog byline recently; perhaps it no longer fits me or I have outgrown it . The wonderful thing about websites is that they can grow and develop with us. My current one is: Research and Practice..

» Custom Cheating
04/11/09 21:13 from Shirley Williams : Activity
I just deleted a comment on a post that said: Whenever i see the post like your's i feel that there are helpful people who share information for the help of others, it must be helpful for other's. thanx and good job. The link with it was to..

» WeAreMedia: Nonprofit Program Delivery and Social Media
04/11/09 20:34 from Beths Blog
Photo: Bread for the World The most common application of social media is for fundraising and marketing. But what about using social media as part of program delivery. Do we have examples of using nonprofits using social media for: Volu..

» WeAreMedia: Help Us Crowdsource A Hollywood Ending
04/11/09 19:20 from Beths Blog
It's NTEN appreciation month and I can think of no better way than to say thank you to all the NTEN members (and non-members) who have contributed to the WeAreMedia project. It is time for the community to write the Hollywood ending ! I ..

» A as in ADDIE
04/11/09 12:48 from Silence and Voice
I asked my students in my a PPOCCID class to do some searching for online references / discussions about the ADDIE (Analyze, Design, Develop, Implement, and Evaluate) instructional design model. I find this model very useful in many applic..

» Preparing for Turandot
04/11/09 01:43 from Silence and Voice
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» APA 6 REVISED (and Replaced)!
03/11/09 21:07 from Silence and Voice
No sooner am I starting to get used to the new version of the APA Style Manual (APA 6), but there are now so many errors and corrections that the American Psychological Association is offering TO REPLACE the first versions of APA 6! Not su..

» Can A Public Nonprofit Dashboard Be Your Organization's Best Friend or Worst Enemy?
03/11/09 18:49 from Beths Blog
Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog Many of us have a love and hate relationship with nonprofit dashboards . We know the power of numbers that tell us where we are headed or how well we are doing. But we also know that numbers..

» Book #42 Centuries
02/11/09 08:12 from Shirley Williams : Activity
"Centuries" by A. A. Attanasio was first published in 1997 and has the tag line "The towering novel of the next Millenium", and indeed goes from the late 1990s to the year 3000. Fiona lent it to me after I reviewed Cloud Atlas ( Book #30 th..

» Tools for Online Engagement and Communication ~ Blog
01/11/09 16:57 from Silence and Voice
One of the weekly assignments I have for the online class I am teaching, Principles and Practices of Online Course Creation and Instructional Design (#PPOCCID), is for my students to have a weekly blog post about something to do with the c..

» Halloween 2009 Renaissance Merchant Outfit
31/10/09 18:40 from Silence and Voice
At long last, here is my outfit for the 2009 New York City / Greenwich Village Halloween Parade. I uploaded a bunch of pictures in a my Renaissance Merchant outfit to Flickr . Let’s just hope for no rain!

» Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1
30/10/09 17:49 from Beths Blog
See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve. 2005. A Learning History of the CARE LAC - Institute for Strategic Clarity Guatemala Poverty Project . Institute for Strategic Clarity, March 15 Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at t..

» Make Harry's 10th Birthday Wish Come True and Help Children in Cambodia
29/10/09 23:05 from Beths Blog
My son, Harry, who some of you have watched grow up on this blog celebrated his 10th Birthday! It seems like just yesterday when Harry's tooth was loose and Wanna, a Cambodian blogger, taught us about the Cambodian tooth fair..

» Twitter Lists
29/10/09 22:40 from Shirley Williams : Activity
Twitter are introducing lists and today I found an introduction to the beta trial. I decided to make a list of people I know on Twitter who are associated with the University of Reading, the list is currently publicly available at http://t..

» Silence
28/10/09 23:38 from World of Webheads
I have to admit that for the time being, my attention is elsewhere. This does not neceessarily mean that this blog will never be continued - only that there is a break in between thoughts, snapshots and projects.

» Guest Post by Aspen Baker: Friend or Foe? UC Berkeley Investigates the Legal Landscape of Social Networking
28/10/09 15:58 from Beths Blog
Note from Beth: As I listened to the NPR story this week about online privacy, it is becoming very important for us to understand the implications. I really wanted to attend the " Social Networks Friend for Foe? "at UC Berkeley earlier thi..

» Networked Learning 2010 – Hot Seats Discussions
27/10/09 14:38 from Silence and Voice
I am hoping to attend the Networked Learning 2010 conference in Denmark in May of 2010 (as long as my paper gets accepted, of course!!), and this conference is doing something different from most other conferences — it is actively en..

» Guest Post by Michael Hoffman: Why Nonprofits Should Be on YouTube
27/10/09 12:29 from Beths Blog
YouTube for Nonprofits View more documents from See3 . Note from Beth: Michael Hoffman recently presented a webinar filled with useful information for nonprofits about how to make the most of their YouTube presence. I'm honored to repu..

» A Social Media Strategy for Scientific Research or Policy Impact
26/10/09 17:44 from Beths Blog
I encounter a lot of social media skeptics who ask me pointed questions. I can answer most, but sometimes I get hit with a question that I can't answer (adequately) on the spot. I love those questions - they are a real gift. Recentl..

» How can we work out our corporate values and help everyone know what they really mean?
25/10/09 22:44 from Anecdote
Most organisations I know have a set of stated values. You know what I mean, things like integrity, professionalism, respect for the individual. And in most cases they've been developed for the wrong reasons. And when developed for the rig..

» The Last Blogpotomac: A New Community Rises from the Ashes
25/10/09 01:03 from Beths Blog
Flickr Photo by Ghbrett I'm writing this post from 30,000 feet aboard Virgin America as I fly back to California from a whirlwind week on the East Coast. I started off in Camden, Maine to teach at the PopTech Fellows program, New Jersey C..

» The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers ~ Review
24/10/09 16:58 from Silence and Voice
A few months ago I blogged about Johnny Saldana’s new text, The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers , and I just read a great review of it by Robin Cooper at The Weekly Qualitative Report . It may be worth a look if you face an upcom..

» Social Media and the Performing Arts: Engagement First, Ticket Sales Second
22/10/09 19:06 from Beths Blog
Arts and Social Media View more presentations from kanter . This morning I gave a presentation for a group of senior marketing people from performing arts centers around the country on social media. I've done a number of presentations an..

» Social Media and the Performing Arts: Engagement First, Ticket Sales Second
22/10/09 15:14 from Beths Blog
Arts and Social Media View more presentations from kanter . This morning I gave a presentation for a group of senior marketing people from performing arts centers around the country on social media. I've done a number of presentations an..

» Bayeux Tapestry
22/10/09 12:08 from Silence and Voice
A colleague on Twitter Tweeted about this, and I thought it was just wonderful! As I love things Medieval, I wanted to share this animated version of the Bayeux Tapestry . This is quite a clever and engaging way to show something so richly..

» Degree of Separation - or do I know you?
21/10/09 21:00 from Shirley Williams : Activity
Today I gave a seminar at Bath University on the work of the This Is Me project. As usual when I talk about Digital Identity I asked if the attendees had ever Googled themselves, of this group less than half admitted it. We had a single int..

» Blog Posting Rubric
21/10/09 11:46 from Silence and Voice
I created a simple blog rubric for my online class , and am interested in some feedback on it. The assignment, as stated in my syllabus: Reflective Practice is a critical aspect of teaching and learning, and a fundamental element of teachi..

» PPOCCID Online Class Began Tonight
21/10/09 03:15 from Silence and Voice
My new online class, Principles and Practices of Online Course Creation and Instructional Design (#PPOCCID) at NYU’s SCPS, began this evening. I am glad to see that there have been some nice improvements to the Epsilen online class platfor..

» PopTech Fellows Program: Reflections
20/10/09 22:26 from Beths Blog
PopTech Slides View more presentations from kanter I have been near Camden, Maine for the past few days at the PopTech 2009 Fellows Program as part of the PopTech 2009 conference ( streaming live ), which starts on Wednesday. PopTech is..

» Guest Post by Gordon Mayer: Playing Learning Games to Spread Nonprofit Social Media
19/10/09 18:43 from Beths Blog
Even at 4 p.m. on a gray day with drinks just 30 minutes away, philanthropic communicators enjoyed the social media game (photo by Thom Clark) Note from Beth: I'm at Pop!Tech in Maine where I did the beta version of the social media stra..

» June Holley and The Art of Being Rhizomatic (The Practice of Network Weaving)
19/10/09 18:13 from Beths Blog
Meeting June Holley for the first time! Last week, as part of my work at the Packard Foundation as visiting scholar I had the opportunity to participate in a face-to-face convening of the "Network of Network Funders," facilitated by the Mo..

» Can Networks Have Social Impact?
19/10/09 10:57 from Beths Blog
This video is from a local site in Louisville , part of the Annie E. Casey Foundation's " Making Connections " initiative Part of the Making Connections core approach uses (offline) social networks. You can read more in this series of fi..

» Google Wave
18/10/09 19:51 from Shirley Williams : Activity
Google wave is the latest offering from Google. As the invites to the beta release came out there was a lot of people anxious to try it, and thanks to the Reading connections on Twitter I got one on Friday morning. Chris Alexander has prod..

» The Art of Teaching
18/10/09 17:18 from Webbed Feat
This is a professional development opportunity at SCoPE for EVERYONE interested in teaching. It is free and open to the public. This event is organized as part of the Professional Learning Series , a collaborative partnership with eCampus ..

» Catching Up Today
18/10/09 13:23 from Silence and Voice
Hard to imagine how fast time flies. I have been away for a few days due to a recurring food poisoning episode, a demanding work week, a much slower Windows Vista now with Norton 2010, and the reminder that I am teaching a new online cours..

» What do Twitter, Books, Wine, and Fundraisers have in Common?
16/10/09 19:51 from Beths Blog
Yesterday, Twitter announced its first corporate social responsibility effort on its blog: We're just getting started as a company, but we believe thinking long term about making a positive impact will allow us to grow in the right directi..

» Can the Real Time Web Let Me Be in Two Places at the Same Time?
16/10/09 19:37 from Beths Blog
Yesterday, the Real Time Web Summit hosted by Read/Write Web took place in Mountain View, CA. What's the Real Time Web? Here's a good basic definition from the introductory post on the Read Write Web Blog: Real-time information delivery ..

» Blog action day
15/10/09 20:15 from Anecdote
On Tuesday morning this week 27 members of the Creative Performance Exchange (CPX) met to work out what we could do to make a difference to climate change. Georges McKails and I facilitated the session and the group developed ideas for wha..

» Happy Blog Blog Action Day 09
15/10/09 18:45 from Beths Blog
Blog Action Day is an annual event held every October 15 that unites the world’s bloggers in posting about the same issue on the same day with the aim of sparking discussion around an issue of global importance. I've been participati..

» The World is Open
15/10/09 07:09 from Shirley Williams : Activity
I am currently reading Curtis Bonk's "The World is Open - How Web Technology is Revolutionizing Education" I'm in to the second chapter and while I agree with a lot of what things a few things are annoying me, and I thought I would share th..

» Technologies for a farming community in Africa
14/10/09 19:28 from Learning Alliances
Last week at the KM4Dev conference in Brussels , I struck up a conversation with Joseph Sikeku, who talked about community leadership and technology stewardship in a radically different setting: a radio station in Tanzania. Sikeku's proje..

» Twitter: Shall I Follow You? Take 2
14/10/09 11:53 from Shirley Williams : Activity
Last October I posted Twitter: Shall I Follow You? in which I mused about whether to follow students who followed me, and there were some interesting comments. At the moment I am only following some of the Reading students who follow me, an..