Fortis. Long-distance knowledge sharing network expands in Indonesia | Making development work for all. Earlier this month in Jakarta I participated in the inauguration of the expanded Global Development Learning Network (GDLN) Indonesia. GDLN, for those who may not be familiar with the network, is a World Bank initiated partnership dedicated to the use of information and communications technology to facilitate learning and knowledge sharing for people working in the development field.
Its programs include formal courses as well as multi-country dialogues and virtual conferences, delivered via a blend of videoconference, web, and other modes of distance learning. Indonesia’s participation in GDLN began several years ago with distance learning centers at the University of Indonesia and three other universities around the country having been connected to the global network, via satellite, under a World Bank loan.
Through this link-up, GDLN Indonesia now covers more than 220 public and private universities across the archipelago. Let’s hear from you. Op-Ed Contributor - End the University as We Know It. Social networks and statehood: The future is another country. Noded working – a new way to do journalism? « Adam Westbrook. As the BBC’s top journalists wrote in a newly published “Future of Journalism” document [PDF], the age of closed cup journalism is over. “…the fortresses are crumbling and courtly jousts with fellow journalists are no longer impressing the crowds” writes Director of BBC World Service Peter Horrocks. People like Charlie Beckett have been promoting the idea of Networked Journalism for some time now, encouraging an openness throughout the entire journalism process.
Well, I was introduced recently to the idea of Noded working, by marketing consultant Jon Moss. It’s about connecting and working with people across the world, and it’s becoming more popular among other digital creatives, so I wondered – what could journalists do with it? Here’s how Noded‘s creators Andreas Carlsson and Jaan Orvet describe it: Noded is a new and better way of working. It runs off the idea that working in offices (or newsrooms) is rubbish. Then you need a web designer, and know a good one in India. Like this: T N T — The Network Thinker: Network Structure of Swine Flu Pandemic. Socinfotech / FrontPage. Saturdays, September 11 - December 18, 2010, 11a-1p, SLT/Pacific Time on Harvard's virtual island in Second Life - Course homepage - World University and School: Questions?
Instructor: Scott MacLeod (not on Harvard's faculty) = Aphilo Aarde (in Second Life) Welcome to the 'Information Technology and Society' on Harvard's virtual island course web site, a course about how the Network Society has developed, vis-à-vis long-time Berkeley and USC Professor Manuel Castells' research on the Information Technology revolution. This virtual course is 'placeless.' *Class in Second Life (how to get 'there,' etc.) Getting Started in Second Life - Watch this video tutorial. Create a Second Life avatar. Class participants may add to this wiki to shape the course together. * Society and Information Technology MacLeod Course Video Lectures. CONNECTED - The Power of Six Degrees. Asynchronous or synchronous in online communities. StreamJam 1.0 Launch and CMJ October 4, 2011 The Electric Sheep Company has launched version 1.0 of StreamJam, allowing artists to make live video broadcasts more engaging and social for their fans and more easily revenue generating.
With version 1.0, ESC has added to StreamJam the ability to scale to many thousands of people at a single event and Continue Reading... StreamJam Update: New Artist Tools and SXSW April 7, 2011 We’re proud to announce the launch of a major new update: the web tools and website that go along with StreamJam. The web tools allow artists to: • Schedule, edit and delete their own events through the web; • Enhance their profile, change their location or stream, and personalize their event details; • View their coin balances and Continue Reading...
StreamJam Update: Partnership & New Features October 29, 2010 As anyone who’s been following our StreamJam blog knows, we’ve been hard at work making many updates to our StreamJam Facebook app over the past few month. Twitter for journalists, lots of interesting links. Finally thinking of testing out Twitter ? Online Journalism Blog posts why journalists should use Twitter , and I think new new media reporters could use a resource list. So grab your Twitter posse and start checking out these Twitter tools and resources: What is Twitter!?!?! Twitter is a micro-blogging service for messages of up to 140 characters that can be updated via SMS, Email, Web, Browsers, Desktop clients and whatever else. To truly understand Twitter, you have to use it.
Get an Account Twitter Home : It’s easy to set up an account and customize your page. Twitter Clients Twhirl : By far the best Twitter client I have ever used. Find Twitterers! TwitDir : Find everything from most-followed users, to top posters to top 100 followers – I wonder who that is? Tracking Memes Summize : The most powerful twitter conversation tracker I’ve seen. Twitter Metrics and tracking Post Multimedia, Photos, Files Polling PollDaddy Twitter tool : Probably the best polling Twitter integration.
Fun Stuff. Journalists and understanding the web. Reading Colin Mulvany explain how he’s come to understand the dynamic nature of online content distribution through his own experience blogging, and Howard Owens advocating that this is why every journalist should start a blog, I realized that the problem isn’t just a lack of understanding about blogging, or social networking, as Colin frames it. The problem is, framed more broadly, an inability to understand what I like to call “web-native publishing” — but let’s just call it web publishing, because complexity is the root cause problem here. Here’s Colin’s aha moment: I now understand. I have been a producer of web content for years on a creaky CMS that only partially takes advantage of the Web 2.0 tools available on any WordPress blog.
I just didn’t see the big picture of why this is important for all of us in the newspaper industry to grasp. If I didn’t get it, then how will my non-blogging co-workers, who are already apprehensive about change, ever understand? Linear Print Publishing. Congres cross media mechelen. Twitter clients. Stumble it add to del.icio.us When I first discovered Twitter, my reaction was much like many peoples'. I thought it sounded stupid. I, like hundreds of thousands of other people, have changed my mind. For all its downtime, UI awkwardness and challenges for the uninitiated, Twitter is a paradigm-changing communication platform that cannot be dismissed. Call it ambient intimacy as the video at the end of this post does, call it persistent social intelligence as I often do, call it the hive mind as I'm afraid it might be - there's something really powerful going on.
The service itself is simple enough, but hundreds of other applications and interfaces have been built on top of the all-too often shaky Twitter API. The 3rd party publishing interfaces alone could easily be the entire basis of an college class on contemporary interface design. A few weeks ago I decided I wanted to write a blog post comparing the top Twitter interfaces available. According to my count: Web 49.5% (355) Twit 1% (7) Online book from counter culture to cyber culture. Global business network. The economist about marketing and networks. Wealth of networks book.