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Slavoj Žižek - What does it mean to be a revolutionary today? Marxism 2009. Our Methodologies - Knowledge Must. Training Must offers a wide range of comprehensive training solutions, covering a vast variety of skills, sectors, and cultures, and suited to many different audiences and learning styles. That is why it is so important that all our courses are designed specifically for each individual client. After coming to us with your request our team of intercultural experts will analyse your demands, identify your core needs, and tailor your training programme accordingly. Our Pre-Training Needs Analysis provide us insight into the areas that require addressing during training. We acquire this understanding with a mix of quantitative and qualitative assessment instruments such as scenario-based assessments. Based on a thorough understanding of your training needs and objectives we design our training solutions in close collaboration with the client, thus ensuring that they are 100% relevant to client needs.

Sustainability of our trainings is key to us. What is Joomla? Joomla is an award-winning content management system (CMS), which enables you to build Web sites and powerful online applications. Many aspects, including its ease-of-use and extensibility, have made Joomla the most popular Web site software available. Best of all, Joomla is an open source solution that is freely available to everyone. What's a content management system (CMS)? A content management system is software that keeps track of every piece of content on your Web site, much like your local public library keeps track of books and stores them.

Content can be simple text, photos, music, video, documents, or just about anything you can think of. A major advantage of using a CMS is that it requires almost no technical skill or knowledge to manage. Since the CMS manages all your content, you don't have to. What are some real world examples of what Joomla! Joomla is used all over the world to power Web sites of all shapes and sizes. Who uses Joomla? I need to build a site for a client. Mapping workshop: Three levels of Socially responsive communication | Memeblog @ Memefest. Oliver 3 years, 1 month ago In the last blog post we have been discussing some aspects about mapping possibilities of socially responsive communication and the difference between such communications to (social) marketing.

Thanks for all the comments, i believe we are getting closer to a start of understanding what needs to be included in the concept of our workshop in a few months. Experimental geography has inspiring aspects, especially the urge to go beyond specific disciplines and through its practice constitute a political discourse that questions the »how« in the perspective of social construction of reality. Not taking this reality for granted it seems to be interested in the very power relations that constitute what they call »space«.

Here concepts of culture and society are included- especially the point that society and culture is in a inter-relational relation, meaning we produce and what we produce produces us. This time i am posting about another group that works with maps. BarCamp. Participants in the first BarCamp simultaneously comment, listen, and follow along on their screens. BarCamp is an international network of user-generated unconferences primarily focused around technology and the web. They are open, participatory workshop-events, the content of which is provided by participants. The first BarCamps focused on early-stage web applications, and were related to open source technologies, social software, and open data formats. The format has also been used for a variety of other topics, including public transit, health care, education, and political organizing.

History[edit] The name BarCamp is a playful allusion to the event's origins, with reference to the programmer slang term, foobar: BarCamp arose as an open-to-the-public alternative to Foo Camp, which is an annual invitation-only participant-driven conference hosted by Tim O'Reilly. The first BarCamp was held in Palo Alto, California, from August 19–21, 2005, in the offices of Socialtext. Influence[edit] Open Space Technology. Open Space Technology (OST) is an approach to purpose-driven leadership,[1] including a way for hosting meetings, conferences, corporate-style retreats, symposiums, and community summit events, focused on a specific and important purpose or task — but beginning without any formal agenda, beyond the overall purpose or theme.

Self-organization[edit] Seen by proponents as especially scalable and adaptable, the OST event format has been used in meetings of 5 to 2,100 people (in self-discovery work for smaller groups or even individuals[2]). The approach is characterized by a few basic mechanisms: The approach is most distinctive for its initial lack of an agenda, which sets the stage for the meeting's participants to create the agenda for themselves, in the first 30–90 minutes of the meeting or event.

Hundreds of Open Space meetings have been documented.[4][5] Harrison Owen explains that this approach works best when these conditions are present,[3] namely high levels of Outcomes[edit] Openblog @ Memefest | International festival of radical communication. Why Would You Twitter Yammer. Tip 24: Yamming it up with Yammer | Elearning Tips.

Twitter + your company – rest of world = Yammer? Previously we wrote about Twitter. Hard to miss Twitter these days, it’s the talk of the town. As you, and probably your mother knows, Twitter is a 140-character microblogging platform. It’s different from an instant message system which lets you talk in real time with one person. With Twitter, you talk in real time to a whole crowd. This is great when you’re sharing the love with the big wide world and want to seek expertise and input from those outside your company’s walls. But sometimes you want to tap the expertise inside your walls. At Kineo, we’ve started using Yammer. This means you can get ideas bouncing around your organisation quickly, but not overwhelm the email channel.

So think about all that information floating around your company or organisation. Micro-tips for Yammer In true Twitter/Yammer style, here are some micro-tips for how you could use it in your team or business: "I’m writing a proposal. Institutional Memory — ISCAR. Translations\03 speaker teasers. Participatory Learning and Action. Announcement on the future of the PLA series The Participatory Learning and Action (PLA) series is 25 years old this year. At this important milestone, IIED is taking stock of PLA to look at its legacy and its future direction. The series will be put on hold, pending this review, after issue no. 66. For more information read the future of the series. Independent review of Participatory Learning and Action In the summer of 2013, we contracted independent consultants Mary Myers and Mary Hobley to evaluate PLA and outline possible options for its future. Latest issues PLA 66: Tools for supporting sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods Edited by Holly Ashley, Nicole Kenton & Angela Milligan We are pleased to announce the publication of PLA 66, which includes general articles submitted by readers on participatory approaches to sustainable natural resource management and livelihoods.

PLA 65: Biodiversity and culture: exploring community protocols, rights and consent Recent issues.