Archive for 2008
The 9th Habit of Highly Effective People – Look after your data!
Stephen Covey has already published the The 8th Habit, so I’ll have to put this down as the 9th habit of highly effective people. These days we have more knowledge than we can comfortably fit in our heads, so we depend on our trusty computers to keep all of that overflowing information safe. From important e-mails, to irreplaceable family photos, [...]
WordCampUK, Communities and Goops
This has happened before, but this ‘goops‘ is rather timely. What’s a ‘goops’? It’s my favourite term for semantic/contextual errors: Searching without sufficient attention to context. Let’s say I’m looking for information on Birmingham. I might head over to Google and do a search on ‘Birmingham’. If I’m after a picture, I could click [...]
Open Learning – Determined People with Tenacious Goals
The Open University learning environment is a technology-mediated communication role model. Even so, the OU still brings learners together for ‘real-world’ events. That has been the reason for a no blog posts this last week – I have been working my little socks off at Bath University, conducting research projects with a few hundred other people. I [...]
July Top 10 and Wrap Up
There is one consistent item on the editorial calendar of the WOWNDADI Blog: The end of month round up. Reviewing is a great productivity habit and sometimes it can be fun too. This month’s certainly has been! Some highlights: MediaCamp London and lunches with the Social Media Mafia. TechCrunch Pitch! My signature low-light photography turned up on TechCrunch [...]
Do Your Employees Dance?
Bees are viewed as hyper productive, industrious creatures, working away industriously. The bee hive is the very model of business, full of busy bees. But what do they teach us about business?
Living in the Cloud – Computing
This is a long overdue post, following on from CloudCamp London, which was the second ever CloudCamp, and the first in the UK. It’s been a couple of week’s of firsts, what with WordCamp as well.
WordCamp UK 2008 – A Qik Look Back…
One of the great things about blogging is you can still do it when you are unable to talk! I had an unscheduled visit to the dentist today, having woken up in intense pain. Now the anesthetic is wearing off, I am remembering what happens when you get over 60 WordPress bloggers and developers in [...]
