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11 Nov 09

Eapen thomas

More significant that utility, social media has changed what it means to “be together.”
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- The internet was connecting me to people far beyond my personal geography and so enhancing my life, I wanted more. I was on an email list about online communities when someone in Turkey asked if anyone wanted to come to Turkey and talk about online communities. I said yes. The universe answered. Then it was Azerbaijan, Georgia (the country), Armenia, Kenya, South Africa, Indonesia, Columbia, Ghana, Ethiopia, and a multitude of international NGOs based in Europe and North America who gave me the opportunity to apply online interaction and collaboration practices in the field of international development.
- When the door to connection is open, watch who walks through and follow them, not those who stand at the doorway and naysay! And I’m not just talking about social media early adopters. I’m talking about people passionate about getting something done.
- Social media keep networks, their content and activities knitted together. Networks weave across people and organizations. So social software + networks = change and even transformation. (One of these days it would be worth writing about the difference between change and transformation!)

29 Sep 09

xavier delengaigne

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25 Sep 09

Thomas Chaimbault

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Eric Delcroix

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maike online

I can't imagine doing 90% of the work I do now without social media. Like it has for me, social media has enabled a wave of small and entrepreneurial business. I'm grateful.

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01 Sep 09

Imparafacile Runo

Diversi modi di utilizzare un social media:\n> creare una comunità\n> imparare assieme on line\n> comunità di pratica e di apprendimento\n> condivisione di reti e di conoscenze globali\n> disegnare\n> bloggare e fare business\n> scrivere un libro

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Roger Zuidema

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een steeped in community work all my life. All of a sudden I was in the midst of amazing, deep and human conversations with people from across the US and the globe.
Social media is a great place to fail. You can try something and if it doesn’t work, learn, adjust and try again. This is true of both the technology and the practices.
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- Thanks to social media we have everything from formal courses to networks on Twitter to facilitate “here and now” learning at any moment we desire (and some we may not desire!) But regardless of the technology, how we use it always matters.
- watch who walks through and follow them, not those who stand at the doorway and naysay!
- opportunities to link up the best and often most diverse minds to address a problem or opportunity.
- visual methods and practices, particularly in synchronous online work, made possible by new visual tools such as shared mind mapping, and better online whiteboards.

25 Aug 09

anja c. wagner

I can’t imagine doing 90% of the work I do now without social media. Like it has for me, social media has enabled a wave of small and entrepreneurial business. I’m grateful.

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18 Aug 09

Mike Nall

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17 Aug 09

Sara Kajder

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14 Aug 09

maarten cannaerts

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12 Aug 09

Gene Roche

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11 Aug 09

Ruby Vine

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08 Aug 09

Nigel Robertson

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07 Aug 09

Gregory Louie

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George Roberts

A long but fascinating account of a personal/professional development journey over the past 12 years - learning and growing online.

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06 Aug 09

Rafael Parente

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Philippe Scheimann

excellent post on social media, over the years. Worth reading again and again

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Fernando S

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Amy Tucker

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monika hardy

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Jon Aston

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JP Bosman

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How I use social media

Jo McLeay

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Charles Nelson

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Lori Sandberg

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05 Aug 09

Michelle A. Hoyle

This afternoon I’m spending a half hour on a Skype video conversation to share a bit of how I use social media. I figured it would be good to exercise my memory a bit and unearth some of the key stories that led me to to my social media use today, and perhaps surface some of my patterns. The history approach also shows that while the term “social media” was not in play when I jumped in, the social use of online media has been growing for many years - well before my online time. These roots are significant because our patterns of use, our ways of embracing or rejecting technology are grounded in this history.

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Rudy Godoy

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Jimmy Breeze

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“Eminds” was where I learned that online relationships can be real, how they get real, and how they break and fail.
“Eminds” was where I learned that online relationships can be real, how they get real, and how they break and fail.
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- “Eminds” was where I learned that online relationships can be real, how they get real, and how they break and fail.
- The second seminal experience was taking part in George Por’s “Knowledge Ecology University” or KEU as we called it, and the relationship forming event of the KE Fair.
- Through KEU I met Etienne Wenger and John Smith, who opened my eyes to the fact that I have been embracing community learning and communities of practice most of my life. I was simply unaware of the label, the research and scholarship around these things we call “CoPs.”
- As I dove deeper into knowledge management and knowledge sharing in international development, social software was growing, changing and evolving. Through this work I also connected with a specific community, Knowledge Management for Development or “KM4Dev” which turned out to be one of my most important CoPs.
- After years of words, words, words, something was beginning to dawn on me. I missed pictures. I missed art. I realized that all those little drawings and head shots I inserted into forum posts meant more to me and others than I had realized. Then I took a massive tumble offline to learn about visual thinking and visual practices, specifically graphic recording and graphic facilitation. These new practices not only transformed my offline work, but have impacted how I use social media. Specifically,
- I’m consciously including visual methods and practices, particularly in synchronous online work, made possible by new visual tools such as shared mind mapping, and better online whiteboards.
- Appreciating and including visual and aesthetic elements in any social software deployment work I do. A case in point was the impact of the “baby friendly” redesign of the hugely successful ShareYourStory online community for parents with babies in the neonatal intensive care unit.
- Writing a Book
  
  As I noted, communities of practice gave a language, a name for so much of what I do. In 2004 Etienne came to John Smith and I and asked if we’d help him update a little report he wrote in 2001 on technologies for CoPs. We said sure. What started as a report revision grew slowly (and sometimes painfully) into what is now Digital Habitats: stewarding technology for communities which will come out this month. The book was written by the three of us primarily at a distance. Without Skype, email, Google docs, Flickr, and publishing on demand, this book would not have been born. We had only three face to face sessions.
  
  Social media provides an amazing research, testing and writing environment.