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Skillswap videos now online

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

We have now got most of the Skillswap videos sorted and streaming from the Watershed's servers. These include: Microformats Basic book-keeping Conversational interfaces Css workflows Copyright Basic networking Plone skinning Good work all! Thanks at large to Oliver Humpage for getting on top of it all, and The Watershed and its servers for hosting it. Bristol skillswap videos listing ...

Back from holiday post

Monday, March 19th, 2007

Back at the desk after a wonderful holiday - daffodils blooming in the garden, Magnolia blossom down the street - it looks like winter is over. Hurray! In my absence, there has been some great conversation in the Gurteen Knowledge group, and our Skillswap usability session booked out so quickly that ...

I am on holiday until 20 March

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

I might be thinking of you all, but I won't be answering any emails. Have a good three weeks.

Social tools debate: review from Peter Anthony

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Peter Anthony (member of the Gurteen google group and IT director for Richemont) wrote a review of the social tools debate at the knowledge cafe recently: On the whole, the majority agreed that the spread of Web 2.0 tools inside the organization was inevitable. It was only a matter of time. ...

Skillswap March: Usability

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Joe Leech is going to give us the 'howto' of usability on March 29th. He promises it won't be all about web standards, nor long videos of hapless punters in usability studios trying to work photocopiers with iPhones, in fact, it's all getting rather groovy these days. Joe is going to talk ...

The social tools debate: Barbican, London

Monday, February 19th, 2007

Here is what we will be discussing at the knowledge cafe on Wednesday 21 February after the first day of the Unicom conference: "Social Tools and Web 2.0 are a lot of hype and will have little impact within organizations". Ooh ha. Interesting topic - and we get a debate as well ...

Unbla photos

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

How the doctors Patricia Wolf, Sami Kazi and Peter Troxler approach regional innovation in photos: Unbla photo pool on flickr

Skillswap: Microformats workshop report

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

As hoped for, Tim Beadle rose to the occasion with much aplomb, with an excellent presentation on Microformats, which I gather (I was busy doing a bike maintenance workshop so Joe Leech kindly compered) went down well and generated some good questions. I see from Underscore (the mailing list that gave ...

Gurteen group discussion: KM: what are the bottom line benefits?

Thursday, February 15th, 2007

The decision was reached via a vote; we're off on discussing: 1. What are the bottom line benefits of being knowledge-driven in an organisation? 2. What would this mean operationally? There are holes in these questions, which will be interesting to pick out. We chose to leave it un-specific deliberately in keeping with ...

Gurteen group: voting for next discussion topic

Friday, February 2nd, 2007

During January 2007, members of the Gurteen Knowledge Forum suggested topics they would like to explore further in on-line discussions. We chose one of each member’s suggestions and present them below (in no particular order). Anyone who wants to get involved is welcome to vote and join in the discussions. Topics ...