Has Google replaced your website?

Posted on March 2, 2010 by communiq

If you perform a search for your organisation’s name in Google, you may be directed to a new results page containing links to the main sections on your website accompanied by a site search box within Google.

Google will drive your potential user directly to their page of interest without passing through your website home page.  This [...]

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Social reporting: Lessons from the Rights and Climate Conference

Posted on May 9, 2009 by Stephan

Here, finally the lessons from the social reporting experience we had at the Rights and Climate Conference in Oslo last October. Our objective was to create a live account of the conference, so people could access and search all materials (including power points, videos and photos). A second objective was to allow interested people who [...]

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Experimenting with Social Media for Change

Posted on May 4, 2009 by Stephan

I just posted some background on an online event I am helping to organize to the SustainableTeams blog.
The conference will happen this coming Saturday (May 9, 2009) and is an experiment in realtime virtual collaboration and will try to answer the question What tools and principles do we need to help change to unfold? Social [...]

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Why researchers should embrace social media

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Stephan

Great introduction to social media, and why everyone should take advantage of these tools by Simone Staiger.
Let’s Really Go Online! The Potential of Social Media for Improving Organizational, Project and Personal Impact.

IAALD also wrote and interesting commentary on social media for agricultural research.

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Project Management 2.0: It’s not about the tools

Posted on May 31, 2008 by Stephan

Looks like flooding our colleagues with information about new ways of working together is showing effect. More and more of them are asking for help to improve the way they share information and to take down the email and network drive silos we have been building up over the years.
Several projects are trying to deal [...]

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Taking del.icio.us for granted

Posted on May 21, 2008 by Pete Shelton

Thanks to Chris Addison’s teachings and some serious futzing on my own, I’ve been able to learn over the past year and a half about many of the things del.icio.us can do. Namely, it can help you create an online database of your favorite resources, generate collaborative lists, share links with other del.icio.us users, and [...]

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Crafting an Intranet 2.0: If you build it, will they come?

Posted on April 11, 2008 by Pete Shelton

First, a disclaimer: we haven’t built anything yet. Unlike other posts, I can’t share any examples of what we’ve done so far toward building a collaborative intranet since we still are very much in the planning phase. That being said, however, I think it’s still an opportune moment to reflect on some lessons learned and [...]

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The mobile revolution starts now?

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Pete Shelton

In spite of the recent hype surrounding the iPhone and Gphone, I have serious doubts that mobile phones will become the primary access point to the web anytime soon. According to a recent study by the Pew & American Life Project, 58% of adult Americans have used a mobile phone or PDA for what they [...]

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eldiscommunity offers groups web2 spaces

Posted on January 23, 2008 by Stephan

The information sharing platform Eldis has started eldiscommunity where groups can create spaces for information sharing and dialogue including discussion forums and blogs.  To make it more accessible for people with poor internet connection the site can also be view in low-band-width mode.
There are already quite a number of groups among which a blog of [...]

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Why is my neighborhood in the twitter village not growing?

Posted on January 20, 2008 by Stephan

Many things have been written about twitter, what it does, different ways one can use it, what users get out of it, and if it can serve organizations. Several blog posts (for example here, here, here and here) are pointing out the utility twitter can have for non-profits and, recently, the post Twitter is [...]

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