Talo. The Conversation Prism by Brian Solis and JESS3. Public speaker worried about losing control? Don’t have lectures – have conversations » sacha chua :: enterprise 2.0 consultant, storyteller, geek. Backchannel book. How tweet it is in this fight to the Twittering end. AS if websites, blogs, Facebook, emails and SMS -- oh, and the impact of the global economic crisis -- weren't complicating matters enough, Australia's media brands are all a-Twitter. Actually, not all. Not even most. And often not by choice. But many of the country's media companies have made their first 140-keystroke appearances -- or tweets -- on social networking website Twitter, with some unexpected results.
The commercial television networks were tweeting before they realised it: the channel Seven, Nine, Ten and even Channel Ten Press feeds on Twitter are unofficial accounts set up and managed either by fans or squatters, with Seven collecting 116 followers as of yesterday. "Twitter presence not official Seven," Seven's corporate affairs chief Simon Francis wrote in a tweet-like email.
"Appears a fan is enthusiastic. " A search for Nine News sends you to the twitter feed for the band Nine Inch Nails. Publishers are also trying Twitter on for size. The Value of Conversation. Photo by Maren Yumi A couple of years ago, riffing off Nancy White, I wrote that Life’s meaning, and an understanding of what needs to be done, emerges, most often, from conversation in community with people you love. It is the key to changing anything, whether it be the political or economic system, or yourself, or whether you want to save the whales, stop global warming, reform education, spark innovation or change anything else.
Now (thanks to Tree and my colleagues at Art of Hosting for the link) a new study suggests that when we have deep, meaningful conversations with others, we are happier people. The authors of the study say the result was counter-intuitive (“don’t worry, be happy” and “I don’t want to know”) but it really doesn’t surprise me. It’s better to know. Yes, I know, lately I’ve been down on language because while it’s a passable tool for intellectual understanding it’s a poor one for communicating emotion. No wonder conversation makes us happy. Welcome to the World Café! "Knowledge work" or a conversation? News in Science - Blogs help students think for themselves - 02/09/2005. Blogging is helping students to think and write more critically, says an Australian researcher, and can help draw out people who would otherwise not engage in debate.
These are the preliminary findings of PhD research by Anne Bartlett-Bragg, a lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney, who has been using weblogs or blogs in her own teaching since 2001. "[The students] are thinking more critically," she says. "They are learning to be responsible and they're communicating outside the boundaries of the classroom and the institution, and they like that. " Bartlett-Bragg says in conventional teaching, students often rely on the lecturer as the main source of ideas and critique for their work. "I'm a bit over listening to my students giving me back in an essay what I've told them in class," she says. "I want them to think for themselves and get different perspectives. " What makes blogs useful is their interactive nature, she says. Let's ping Responsible self-publishing.