Here is something I have meant to post about for a while. It is a metaphor in the book 'Dangerous Undertaking' by James Harlow Brown. Shawn has previously blogged about the extensive use of metaphor in the book. The metaphor is in a story about a NASA engineer who discovered something that took him off his 'autopilot' and helped him realised the

As I have mentioned in a previous blog post this is Part II from the series of blog posts put together as a follow up from the various reactions from the Lifehacker blog post Can Social Tools Really Replace Email? This time around focusing on four different comments from various folks that I would try to explain further how they affect to my new

Continuing further with the nice momentum of the large number of reactions that the recent article I published in the NYTimes, I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip, has been creating over the last few days I thought I would touch base today on one of the blog posts, and its extended commentary, that I have enjoyed the most from the perspective of

Photo by Kalabird (Michaela Hackner) Johanna Bates, an extraordinary nonprofit technologist, has launched her blog with a very thoughtful post called "Walking the Line Between Web 2.0 and Old Skool in Nonprofits" This adds beautifully to the conversation over at NTEN Wiki (name coming soon). A number of insightful comments have led to the

Photo by Travelin' Librarian On Monday, we started down the road to build Module 1: What is Social Media and Why It is Important To Nonprofits. If you have kids and have ever taken a long road trip, you've heard that question. Sometimes a long trip feels like you'll never get there, but little by little you do

Will Allen (PhD) http://learningforsustainabili… Supporting dialogue, collective action and reflection Learning has to be uncomfortable enough that it keeps you on your toes, yet comfortable enough that you are happy to remain involved. The social value added (by communities of practice) is not based on (prescribed)

Just because I thought about it while taking a break from writing on PIM and GTD - a quote from Communities of practice: Learning, meaning and identity by Etienne Wenger that explains in a very nice way the troubles I have with finding confidence while trying to bridge multiple research practices (bold is mine)

We went again to Reboot, with all three of us. Although I really wanted to go, I have a bit mixed feelings after that. Because the people and the topics looked so exciting, but I couldn’t go to listen and to talk as much as I wanted to. Going with a baby to a conference was a great experience (especially since it was the first one after my