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Came across this really interesting presentation from Chris Messina on designing for the Social Web. The new assumptions are:
And then, some more:
Here’s his presentation on Slideshare - there are some good lessons spelt out in there for each of the assumptions.
New Assumptions for Designing for the Social Web
This morning, I set up an Open Phweet around the Future of Social Computing, triggered by Jan Chipchase’s paper called Future Social, and my subsequent feeling of reinforcement and validation around a study we recently did around the future of Mobile Social Computing. It’s been an interesting day, talking to a few people who [...]
Thought I’d share something we worked on last year - almost at the same time Twitter came into its own. and before we thought up Twitter for Ethnography.
We spent some time developing an SMS-Blog research prototype with Srinivas Mogalapalli at Netcore (Rajesh Jain’s company), built upon the MyToday SMS platform.
This was a module in a [...]
Rob Paterson alerts me to Jeremiah Owyang’s social media experiment in a comment at my post a few days ago on Twitter for Ethnography:
From Rob’s post at the Fast Forward blog:
This is how Jeremiah framed it:
I’ve created MicroMedia events before, this time, I want to frame it as an overlay to the multi million dollar [...]
Mahatma Gandhi once said: “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.”
My recent experience with the Learning Journey we organised for Clients actually reinforced to me that given the right balance of content with experiential immersions and a focus on ‘how’ learning would take place, learning-to-be can begin even with [...]
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Great piece on Social Learning titled Minds on Fire: Open Education, the Long Tail, and Learning 2.0 by John Seely Brown and Richard P. Adler. The supercool text illustrations are by Susan E. Haviland.
Some snippets I really enjoyed:
What do we mean by “social learning”? Perhaps the simplest way to explain this concept is to note [...]
There’s a discussion on at the anthrodesign group around how best to approach a diary project. An excerpt from the initial query:
“We’ll be fielding a diary study trying to understand people’s initial experiences with a new mobile phone, particularly understanding the set up experience and the first few days of use. We are interested [...]
I am just back from a week-long Learning Journey my colleague Shubhangi and I organised for a group of 10 very senior health-care professionals from the US who are on a Futures Task Force … it was intensive, immersive and really very rewarding. It’s been a Learning Journey for all of us - we formed [...]
Marshall Kirkpatrick over at ReadWriteWeb shares, with some optimism and a lot of caution, the Reality Mining project, being conducted by the Human Dynamics Group at the MIT Media Lab. They are processing more than 350,000 hours of data collected from peoples’ cell phones. More than just who calls who, Pentland is also [...]
Like for Jon Husband, this article by Dion Hinchcliffe really resonates. I’ve always been a huge fan of Dion’s visualizations of models and frameworks - check them out at Flickr - and I couldn’t resist just reposting these two here:
from SLATES:
to FLATNESSES:
Read the full post called The state of Enterprise 2.0 for detailed explanations [...]
Got this link from Tara Hunt’s links - a good primer on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Motivational Model originally developed in the 40’s and 50’s with adaptations from the 1970’s (cognitive and aesthetic needs added) and 1990’s (transcendence needs added). The basic premise of the model is:
Each of us is motivated by needs. [...]
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