stephen blyth’s blog

There’s always something that you forget to mention when you’re doing a lecture or presentation. I’ve just got back from running a guest lecture slot with students on the stakeholder communication and image management course run through the Unitec Graduate Diploma in Not for Profit Management, and realise I didn’t talk about creative commons (amongst [...]

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I had a disasterous lunchtime session yesterday when I attempted to demonstrate the potential of web 2.0. I could rant and rave about how unfair the world is technology is not foolproof, or perhaps mull on a lesson or two.
My personal guided tour was going to take in social networking, wikis, blogging, social bookmarking, and [...]

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As I sit down to write this Simon Berry and his companions will be cycling some between Hengrove and Bristol city centre. The route through Bristol is just one of 48 stages on a 12 day ride from Land’s End to Severn Beach, Scotland.
Even though I have never met Simon, after reading the trip [...]

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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 can’t imagine what horse trading took place behind the scenes before the management at the State Services Commission (SSC) agreed to run a wiki for people interested in using the web for public participation.
If you believe the myths, wiki are risky as people can write what they want without regard to truth or honestly, [...]

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On the same day I attended the CIMS project workshop with a smattering of New Zealand community sector leaders (see my post “Collaboration in motion - CIMS”), UK not-for-profit ICT enthusiasts, leaders and technophiles were participating in the second ICT Hub National Conference in London.
Over the last four to five years the UK government has [...]

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At a very vibrant meeting of an online participation community of practice meeting on Thursday, Jasmin Callosa-Tarr gave a presentation on participatory 3d modelling. From what I picked up GIS is being used to create real-life scale models of physical environments, then, using skilled facilitation, locals describe land-use, vegetation, infrastructure or even social patterns. The [...]

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“Aggregation, Alerts, Asynchronous communications, Archive, Authenticity, Avatars, Back channel, Blogs, Blogosphere, Blogroll, Bookmarking, Browser, Bulletin boards, Categories, Champions, Chat, Collaboration, Collective intelligence, Comments, Commitment, Communities, Community building, Conference, Connections, Content, Content management systems, Control, Conversation, Copyright, Crowdsourcing, Culture, Cyberspace, Default, Democracy, Download, Ego searches, Email, Email lists, Face-to-face, Facilitator, Feeds, Folksonomy, Forums, Friends…..”
This is just [...]

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The revolution promised by the Internet of turning people into producers of information, rather than merely being consumers of it, is coming true with the advent of the weblog or online journal. We no longer need to passively absorb content served up by the media barons as the technology now easily allows us all to [...]

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