Earlier this year I joined the first group at Howard Rheingold’s MindAmplifiers course. It was a seminal learning experience that continues to this day, in the Alumni group that formed spontaneously after to explore and change how we learn on the Web. Howard’s just announced a new course, called ‘Toward a New Literacy of Cooperation’, […]
Be helpful
Chris Brogan recently wrote an excellent post about why community really matters. And then Valeria Maltoni waded in that ‘being helpful’ should be ‘the new black’. If you’re in Melbourne on the 22nd and 23rd September, you can catch my friend Stephen Johnson and social media luminaries such as Darren Rowse and David Armano over […]
Why Wilfing is good for you
The recent survey commissioned by Britain’s YouGov for moneysupermarkets.com about wilfing was widely reported and threw a lot of people into soul-searching about what appears to be a national pastime. More than two-thirds of the 33.7 million internet users in the UK admit to at least the occasional “wilf” while browsing the internet. Thousands of valuable […]
The Knowledge Game is only just starting
When you find yourself one of over 2,000 participants from 93 countries packing Online Educa in Berlin, the first sensation is one of chaos and deja’ vu. People rushing from one forum to another, crowds around the exhibitor stands, the usual mobile phone brigade and smiling girls clutching brochures and freebies. But after a while, your brain kicks […]