Archive for the ‘Thoughts’ Category

Shirky says Lifekludger needs a clear, shared goal - what says you?

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

Listened/watched a couple videos of Shirky's on group forming. Here's my notes on them. More discussion via my podcast with Mike over here. Shirky on group forming Ted - http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/clay_shirky_on_institutions_versus_collaboration.html Berkman centre - via youtube - http://www.youtube.com/v/A_0FgRKsqqU&hl=en&fs=1 Sharing Conversation Collaboration Collective action Sharing - old way before group forming was easy was gather->share; new share->gather - sharing has in-built identity [personality] ...

Clay Shirky on why Lifekludger hasn’t taken off

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

In the first 2 minutes of this interview from Supernova, Clay touches on the reason why Lifekludger as a collaborative eco system for good hasn't yet got traction. So far most of the action on the net has been to organise group activity around STOP actions (eg: protests) not START ...

Lifekludger vision from outside

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

The other day my vanity feeds came up with another connection - this time in the shape of a photo on flickr that references Lifekludger being used in a blog post. The post was by Mike Poole who'd used a photo of a drawing Roy Blumenthal had started for me when ...

ConnectingUp - Get ConnectED: Weaving A New Social Web for People with Disabilities.

Monday, May 19th, 2008

The following is fro the Blog of Beth Kanter, a friend who's up in Brisbane at the ConnectingUp Conference for Non-profits. Big thanks to Beth. I am posting her notes on this breakout session as it highlights some of the key Benefits and Barriers for people living with disability participating in ...

Connection, participation and real innovation to solve big problems

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

I've had a hard time getting motivation to get stuff out on Lifekludger of late. I seem to have an unplugged energy drain somewhere.  However recently the following produced a spark in the Lifekludger engine room....not sure there's fuel to make it combust, but it's more than I've experienced recently so ...