stephen blyth’s blog

In April and May I’m leading a couple of workshops at conferences for people using ICT in the tangata whenua, community and voluntary sector.
The topics are:
“Online project management tools: making choices and making it happen”
To run projects efficiently you need to keep track of minutes, tasks, share ideas and even co-produce documents. There are lots [...]

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I was looking through the 937 photos tagged webstock08 on flickr to find the perfect one. I gave up because, despite the many historical references at the conference, I couldn’t find a single photo with the past in the background. I choose this one because, well, I couldn’t resist the Gruffalo (thanks to Titine who [...]

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Don’t take my word for it. Even if I wanted I couldn’t cover everything to do with webstock.
Lots of other people have written something about the 2008 webstock conference, and I’m sure there will be more. After all the other webstock conferences there has been some form of audio or video recording, so the same [...]

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At the two day 2008 Webstock conference last week there was so much information, some many ideas and rich jargon and hype, I grasped for a way of staying in touch with reality. To get away from the highfaluting, I asked people about websites they worked on or liked, plus some tips. Here are some, [...]

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Yeeha!! I’ve just been awarded a scholarship to attend the 2008 Webstock conference. The 20 kick-ass speakers and truckloads of high energy talk and inspiration will cover just about everything to do with improving the standard of website design and development.
Topics include information architecture, writing for the web (including a presentation by Rachel McAlpine, whose [...]

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When I was away sunning myself in Arthurs Pass at the weekend, an unofficial e.govt participatory workshop was held in Wellington. Run on self-organising principles, ala open space technology, about 100 people attended to talk about things important to them in the e-government field. Called a barcamp, the event was similar to other (un)conferences (sic) [...]

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When I was chatting with Barbara Crump about the evaluation of the e-Rider IT service, she mentioned she was heading out of town for a conference.
Barbara is presenting a paper at the annual International Association for Development of the Information Society e-Society conference in Lisbon. The paper is based on her work with Eltahir Kabbar. [...]

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On 30-31 October 2007 a range of people will be gathering to share all they know about using technology for social action and community building at the Making Links conference. A call for papers is open until 2 July for oral paper presentations, practical workshops and interactive multimedia displays, as well as referred academic papers.
This [...]

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My mind is a bit foggy after three days in the sheltered conference land of government information system managers, IT policy makers and techies. And no, it’s not due to repeated use of the key ring pictured.
I’m foggy because of the hyping of Web 2.0 and too much riskease. Murky from the vendors touting expensive [...]

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I was looking forward to seeing what Kathy Sierra had to say about creating passionate users. She has been running websites that are ‘fun’ even when for serious for ages, and she spoke last year at the webstock conference to much acclaim.
Well, I was disappointed to find out today she’s not coming to Aotearoa New [...]

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