From the monthly archives:

November 2007

Take Back the Tech …

November 23, 2007

November seems to be full of online activism days and weeks! Today’s the Buy Nothing Day, here’s another one – to end Violence Against Women: Cheekay Cinco of APC Women writes to inform me of this campaign to end violence against women. This is a collaborative campaign by ICT users, advocates, collectives and organisations that [...]

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Somewherein using SMS to raise funds for Sidr Victims

November 23, 2007

Aparna Ray, in a post at Global Voices Online links to several blogs that are trying to garner aid and resources to help victims of Cyclone Sidr. [Image on right courtesy BBC News]. Towards the end of the post, she shares this simple yet cool use of SMS to get people to donate: Bangla blogging [...]

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links for 2007-11-22

November 22, 2007

Patients per Doctor Map of the World Interesting visualization! (tags: visualization health maps statistics doctors patients world) Ethics in Visual Ethnography – Illinois Wesleyan: News “The best visual anthropology is collaborative in nature and allows members of the society under study to participate in their own representation.” (tags: ethics research ethnography visualethnography) Building Your Brand2.0 [...]

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links for 2007-11-21

November 21, 2007

World Cafe Community: Conversation as a Radical Act ” …….While I was there I saw a quote by Chilean biologist Humberto Maturana in a talk by Fritjof Capra: “We bring forth our worlds through the networks of conversation within which we participate.” An awesome conversation about conversations at (tags: conversations theworldcafe pegasus2007) apparel emerging markets [...]

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The difference between journalists and bloggers …..

November 21, 2007

… according to Clyde Bentley, who’s guest-blogging at Mark Fraser’s MediaShift is .. Comments. Here’s the quiz of the day for 21st Century Journalism 101: What makes news critics howl, able reporters swoon and strong editors weep? (Hint: The great unwashed and untutored of the blogosphere consider them pure manna.) If I could squeeze another [...]

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links for 2007-11-20

November 20, 2007

The Long Tail of Pain | Gauravonomics Blog Heh … my new favorite idea is The Long Tail of Pain – how social media allows us to find pain anytime, anyplace, in any form (tags: gauravmishra longtail web2.0) The battle isn’t against technology but for relevance. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos A [...]

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Freelance Blogger …?

November 19, 2007

…. does this breed exist? I got a call today asking whether I would like to blog on a freelance basis for an Indian software start-up, on their site. They sent me this email when I turned it down, and requested that their name is kept out because “we don’t want to advertise we outsource [...]

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links for 2007-11-19

November 19, 2007

Microsites A Growing Trend | WATBlog.com – Web, Advertising and Technology Blog in India examples of microsites from India being used to promote brands (tags: microsites brand2.0 enterprise2.0) Johnnie Moore’s Weblog: See what happens “It’s interesting to try small interventions and see a ripple effect. Sometimes when coaching, I’m tempted to give the client several [...]

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Variations on a theme – the long tail of pain

November 19, 2007

 Hehe … this is funny … and real!

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links for 2007-11-17

November 17, 2007

Guide to Twitter as a Tool for Marketing and PR Twitter tips – “From a personal brand building and networking standpoint, the key is not to look at microblogging as individual posts, but think of the overall impressions and value that can be created over time. Each 140 character or less entry serves as (tags: [...]

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links for 2007-11-16

November 16, 2007

Mathemagenic: learning and KM insights – 14 November 2007 Lilia on Beyond Blogging Lessons Learnt – “Information overload exists, but mainly inside our heads. The world have changed from information scarcity to information abundance, but our habits and information strategies still have to adjust to it.” (tags: mathemagenic blogging) Acknowledging Consumption: A Review of New [...]

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links for 2007-11-15

November 15, 2007

Andrew McAfee — How to Hit the Enterprise 2.0 Bullseye Prof Andrew McAfee has a cool post on the intersection of the strength of ties and Enterprise 2.0 technologies. Neat way of framing the discussion with organizations venturing into social media, and helping them understand and navigate the social technol (tags: enterprise2.0 brand2.0 socialmedia andrewmcafee) [...]

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Thought for the day ….

November 15, 2007

[Image courtesy: Secret Path] In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the straight road was lost. Translated from Dante’s La Commedia Divina

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Blogging Conferences – Personal and Social Motivations

November 15, 2007

I’ve enjoyed Stuart’s perspectives and reflections on Why Presenters are Failing the Social Media Communications Test, on how presenters and conference organizers can encourage, share better and benefit from the content created through social media (twitter, blogging, flickr etc), are invaluable. What’s interesting too, are the comments there. This post from Dave Snowden seems to [...]

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