Theorizing Google Docs: 10 Tips for Navigating Online Collaboration | Collaboration
This sentence — this one right here — is the first sentence I’ve written in two months that wasn’t co-authored in a Google Doc. It’s the first sentence, outside of e-mails and tweets and notes I’ve written to myself, that has my name (and only my name) on both its front and back ends — the first sentence I can look at and say with certainty, “I wrote that entire thing without help and without anyone else watching it get written.” My Hybrid Pedagogy co-editor (Pete Rorabaugh) and I hatched the plan for this journal in a Google Doc, and we’ve since written 29,316 words in that document. Before the end of 2012, we will likely produce the equivalent of a lengthy academic book. We contribute ideas synchronously and asynchronously, writing together at specific times and taking turns in the document on our own. Words do work. My own work with Google Docs has been inspired by several other projects that use the tool in novel ways. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Some additional resources: 1.
» What I’ve Learned About Learning
‘We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.’ ~Lloyd Alexander Post written by Leo Babauta. I am a teacher and an avid learner, and I’m passionate about both. I’m a teacher because I help Eva homeschool our kids — OK, she does most of the work, but I do help, mostly with math but with everything else too. I’m a lifelong learner and am always obsessively studying something, whether that’s breadmaking or language or wine or chess or writing or fitness. Here’s are two key lessons — both really the same lesson — I’ve learned about learning, in all my years of study and in trying to teach people: Almost everything I’ve learned, I didn’t learn in school; andAlmost everything my students (and kids) have learned, they learned on their own. Those two lessons (or one lesson) have a number of reasons and implications for learning. Why Learning is Independent This is exactly how I learn as an adult, and so I know it works.
Social media that makes a difference: the Sall Myers story - The Business Journals
Think social media only works for companies like Starbucks and Ben and Jerry’s? Think again. A group of New Jersey doctors at Sall Myers Medical Associates who treat individuals in auto accidents are using social media platforms to make a difference. Their work isn’t glamorous, but their mission is admirable. Sall Myers -- a client of mine -- is a small business causing big waves in the community, and doing so with the help of effective social media. Its Facebook page has quickly grown to over a thousand likes, and the community is highly interactive. If safe driving wasn’t enough of a reason to sign their pledge, Myers also used another effective strategy -- a Facebook contest. Shama Kabani is CEO of The Marketing Zen Group, a social media and digital PR firm based in Dallas and servicing clients all over the globe.
Rheingold Interview
An interview with Howard Rheingold Janury 26, 1994 By Scott Rosenberg When Howard Rheingold sends out electronic mail these days, which he does a lot, he sometimes tacks on an extra line of type at the end, like a letterhead. "What it is," the message reads, "is up to us." A digital fortune-cookie riddle? What's up to us, Rheingold wants us to know, is the shape, design and capabilities of the so-called information highway - the communications networks into which our telephones, televisions and computers are rapidly mutating. In particular, what's up to us is whether the network turns out to be an open public space, like a town square or a civic forum, or a commercial enclosure, like a mall. And Rheingold emphasizes that it's up to us right now - during a brief window of opportunity, as the government bargains with the telephone companies, cable TV networks and other corporations to lay down new rules for the new roads. "Who knows what it is? That, in other words, is how it's up to us.
Preparing for the future of work with PKM
Hugh Macleod, one of my favourite cartoonists and someone who really understands the networked economy, recently asked; How Do You Best Prepare For The Creative Age? Image: Gapingvoid.com Chris Jablonski at ZDNet identifies five trends driving the future of work as we get virtual, online and global [I think he misses "local" though, especially as energy prices continue to increase]. Trend 4: Adaptive lifelong learning the norm -”Ten years from now, relevant work skills will be shaped by the continued rise in global connectivity, smart technology and new media, among several other drivers.” This is linked to the Institute for the Future‘s graphic of Future Work Skills 2020 identifying six disruptive shifts as well as the skills necessary to deal with them: Sense-makingNew media literacyVirtual collaborationCognitive load managementNovel and adaptive thinkingSocial intelligenceTrans-disciplinarityComputational thinkingCross Cultural competencyDesign mindset
4 Reasons Why Your Twitter Marketing Isn’t Working
inShare4 May 4, 2012 - Posted by Shama Kabani If you expected signing up for Twitter to be the most difficult part of implementing a Twitter marketing campaign, you’re in for a rude awakening: it’s all uphill from there. Even if you have put in the effort, you still may find yourself wondering what’s going wrong – why isn’t Twitter the answer to all your online marketing problems? More often than not, it’s for one of four major reasons: You’re boring. People don’t use Twitter because they want to sit by and idly receive marketing messages. Make jokes. You don’t offer value. Now that you’re not boring, you need to offer your customers some sort of reason to follow you on Twitter. You’re antisocial. “But how could I be antisocial? You don’t understand your audience. Your loyal customer base: is it predominantly male or female?
MR. RHEINGOLD'S NEIGHBORHOOD
The only online community I ever felt a part of was alt.tasteless, a Usenet forum dedicated to wretchedly sick humor. Mind you, I was never an active, rec.pets.cats-baiting member, just a lurker who enjoyed dropping by from time to time to see what the lads were up to. I soon tired of it, though. While I appreciate in theory the idea of people the world over communicating through their computers, it turns out that few of them have anything interesting to say. Still, the buzzword in cyberspace these days is community. Subscribe Now Get TIME the way you want it One Week Digital Pass — $4.99 Monthly Pay-As-You-Go DIGITAL ACCESS — $2.99 One Year ALL ACCESS — Just $30!
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Creating Blog Content that People Will Actually Read
inShare3 May 1, 2012 - Posted by Shama Kabani How many websites do you think there are on the Internet today? Go ahead, guess. If you answered approximately 644 million, you’re correct! With half a billion sites to choose from, how does your blog rank? Discover your voice If you’re writing a blog post, the last thing you want to do is come off as stiff and robotic – after all, this is your chance to humanize your business and connect with an audience. Brainstorm You know the saying: two heads are better than one. Use examples of the best — or worst Examples help demonstrate what you’re trying to explain, so gather up the companies or products that best carry out the concept you’re discussing and feature them in a post. Pay special attention to the title and first paragraph Imagine if the title of this blog post had been, “How to Write a Blog Post” and the first sentence had been, “Blog content should be interesting.” How do you keep your blog content relevant and interesting? Photo via Flickr
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