Last week I wrote about giving wholeheartedly and freely – or deciding not to give at that point in time – and tried to give some pointers as to questions you can ask yourself to check whether you can actually give freely what is being asked. This time I want to share some thoughts about the other side – the asking. It seems this is not as easy as we [full post]
Most people don’t like to feel as if they are manipulated into something. When it comes to business transactions we have all learned (I hope!) to read the small print. But when it comes to personal transactions most of us are much less aware of the small print – on either side of the transaction. More often than not it is not so much the hidden expectations of others than [full post]
I wrote about Delicious before, and I do not want to repeat myself telling you how useful I find this social bookmarking tool. However, Delicious has changed a bit in how it looks and functions since I blogged about it, so in this post I will focus on how it works now. Delicious is a tool you can use to bookmark web pages for yourself. You can tag them with [full post]
Recently I was part of the facilitators team of a webinar on First Impressions Online. In a previous post I described the tools we used. As part of preparations for the webinar we conducted an online survey among participants. We asked them to remember the first stage of our course Social Media for Learning & Change in which we all got to know each other online and have one of [full post]
Yesterday evening a threesome of which I was part facilitated a webinar in the frame of the Curriculum Social Media for Learning & Change in which we all participate. Since we had used BigMarker a few times already (as participants, not as facilitators though) we decided to try something else for a change. We came up with a combination of Skype and SynchTube, since we wanted to watch videos together, [full post]
Until recently I was 100% convinced that transparency is good. Authorities, NGOs, companies – they all should be open and transparent about what they do, how they do it and why they do it. They should allow outsiders access to key documents like strategies, internal and external evaluations and audits, and financial statements. The more others could see, check and verify, the better. For instance, I thought it was very [full post]
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Writing a sound project proposal is not easy, and getting project funding is becoming more and more like winning a lottery. However, once you do win that lottery not all your problems are over! Why not, you may wonder. After all, getting money for something you want to do is not a bad deal at all. Well, to a certain extent that is indeed true. However, project proposal writing has [full post]
Communities are formed by persons – even if they represent organisations. So if you want to support a community in its development, you have to focus on the needs of the actual people involved. This is for me one of the eye openers of the webinar Digital Habitats of Communities with Nancy White, organised by En nu online on 21 February 2012. So what are those communities that we spoke [full post]
Content curation is not new – in fact it is at least as old as concepts like libraries and museums. So why is it so hot these days? Why are there all sorts of tools, like Pinterest, the hottest new kid in town, that can help you curate content? It must have something to do with the widespread feeling of information overload in combination with an ever increasing number of [full post]
