Main | Framing Contests: Putting Decisions In Context » January 23, 2008 Lotusphere 2008: Social Computing Keynote Rough notes from this mornings session: Theme: evolution of collaboration, information is power, importance of sharing, social computing and need for control from an enterprise perspective, connecting to people, etc. need to have a set of tools attractive for members. how to get 23,000 people to get to know 17,000 people. MORE >>

link] International Conference on Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (TLHE) was held December 3-5, 2008 in Singapore, Singapore. link] January 2010 January 3-4, 2010 New Presidents Program , sponsored by the Council of Independent Colleges, Marco Island, Florida, USA. link] January 3-6, 2010 International Conference on Distributed Computing and Networking (ICDC), Kolkata, India. link] January 8, 2010 Higher Ed Tech Summit, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. MORE >>

« LinkedIn Useful, But Requires Investment LinkedIn Blog to Feature User Case Studies » How to Avoid LinkedIn Account Restrictions It would be nice to think that if you just followed LinkedIn’s User Agreement , you’d never have any problems with account restrictions, but that’s not necessarily the case. Whenever you send an invitation to connect, one of the possible responses is “I don’t know [sender]“, or “IDK&#. MORE >>

is more about culture and people than technology » Logo competition for DataPortability.org: how to get the best Ross Dawson, February 23, 2008 1:39 AM US PT I love this kind of thinking. Redhat claims that its existing logo is too similar to theirs. Chris Saad , the chair of DataPortability.org, has launched an open competition to design the new logo, with the winner determined by open voting on the web from a short list selected by the steering group. MORE >>

Executive Forum » Enterprise Twitter – or how to tap social networks for expertise without using email Ross Dawson, April 10, 2008 11:34 PM US PT In organizational network analysis circles, an MIT study on how people find information is often cited. The research showed that in an organization, people were five times more likely to go to people than to databases to get answers to their questions. MORE >>