http://www.dissidentworld.com Challenging the status quo Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:38:45 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   I'm looking forward to attending the UKGovWeb barcamp this coming Saturday 26th January - though  not quite sure what to expect, this being my first barcamp event. However, I'm encouraged by the fact that  the organisers (and primarily Jeremy Gould) have done this sort of thing before and have avoided ... http://www.dissidentworld.com/2008/01/22/ukgovweb-barcamp-event/ One for the kiddies... http://www.dissidentworld.com/2008/01/16/ive-found-nemo/ Dave Briggs has posted details of an event being arranged on 26th February as part of the Community of Practice for Social Media & Online Collaboration. This will be of potential interest to anyone working in (or for) the public sector who is using - or thinking of using - ... http://www.dissidentworld.com/2008/01/15/public-sector-social-media-meet/ I guess most people choose the conferences they attend with care. There’s nothing worse than having shelled out good money (my own in most instances since I work as an independent consultant) on a 2-day conference when you realise within the first day that the general level of knowledge and ... http://www.dissidentworld.com/2008/01/14/web-20-the-sharepoint-fallacy/ Euan Semple comments on the topic of social network analysis  (or measuring the immeasurable!). Euan identifies two points that make him nevous about SNA: "The first is because the activity is invariably couched in terms of one group - managers, the business - mapping the relationships of everyone else - the people ... http://www.dissidentworld.com/2008/01/05/social-network-analysis-measuring-the-immeasurable/ Slides from my recent presentation "Communities of Practice in Local Government" for the Online Information Conference are available on Slideshare. http://www.dissidentworld.com/2007/12/13/presentation-communities-of-practice-in-local-government/   Caught this item on a recent posting to Boing Boing. It shows the "security seal" tape that's appeared over all the fire-extinguisher boxes in the London Underground. Because no terrorist would be so fiendishly clever as to counterfeit a sticky label. That would require, you know, an inkjet printer and ... http://www.dissidentworld.com/2007/12/12/security-seals-on-london-underground/ Oops, missed this event in my 'Days That Change The World' diary, but apparently it was National Plain English Day yesterday, 11 December 2007. To mark the occasion, the Local Government Association (LGA) published a list of 100 words that public bodies should not use if they want to communicate ... http://www.dissidentworld.com/2007/12/12/100-banned-words/ Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg posted on the company blog last week apologising for missteps with the roll-out of their much maligned  Beacon advertising system. "We've made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we've made even more with how we've handled them. We simply did a bad job with ... http://www.dissidentworld.com/2007/12/10/beacon-saga-facebook-apologises/   A thought-provoking and highly entertaining presentation from Roo Reynolds (IBM's 'Metaverse Evangelist') at today's Online Information Conference. I came away with a resolution to spend some time getting to grips with  Second Life  with a view to seeing how 3D virtual worlds  might be used to support the development of ... http://www.dissidentworld.com/2007/12/08/online-information-2007-communities-of-practice-in-local-government/