The group of Occupational Therapy students at UNISA I spoke with yesterday about how to use tools to do life with disability. The course title is “Enabling Occupation” Occupation being any activity in this case. I like to simplify that to mean “Helping to do stuff”. Which ain’t a bad definition of what a toolContinueContinue reading “Talking about Tools to OTs”
Category Archives: Connection
Isolated isolation post on Lifekludger
Sometimes I have troubles deciding where something I write fits. I’m torn between this blog or lifekludger. There’s so much of me that overlaps both. So, for those who might read this blog but not the other, there’s something over on my Lifekludger blog I wrote titled “Isolation kills” you might be interested in. IsolationContinueContinue reading “Isolated isolation post on Lifekludger”
Isolation kills
Social Isolation kills – period. It kills a person’s hope, kills their spirit, and kills their potential. I know a little about this phenomenon but thankfully less than a lot in the realm of those people who are living with a disability. I know a lot more about it second hand too; the stories visitContinueContinue reading “Isolation kills”
inverted relationship management
Over on a post on Naked yak about what a FRIEND really means, Chris offers a comment that got me thinking: It gets even weirder, because of the friends blurring with business colleagues. Maybe the nature and title of the relationship needs to reside in the hands of the one making the connection, not anContinueContinue reading “inverted relationship management”
WE the people, WE the bloggers
The other day I read a post titled “Shared Cultures” on the Naked yak blog, the the ending part of which read… ….We should use the potential openness of social networks to make a difference, to shape the future into a much more intimate place – a world of ‘we’. This comment about ‘we’ resonatedContinueContinue reading “WE the people, WE the bloggers”
Walled Gardens or Walled Hearts?
I’ve never read Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Tipping Point” but something inside me feels on the edge. Some kind of epidemic at that intersection of technology advance and human desire seems to be going down. Facebook is all at once touted as saviour and villan. Dave Slusher points out what others are thinking. Cam’s talking aboutContinueContinue reading “Walled Gardens or Walled Hearts?”
Openness – Going Beyond Transparency
Openness is one of my pet things that’s been on my heart heavy for a few years and I’ve written about before. I read two things this week that conspired me to write some more. One was JP talking about his ‘self-editing’ actions when posting a list of songs he has been listening to andContinueContinue reading “Openness – Going Beyond Transparency”
Kent swivels
Here’s my submission of blogs for Kent’s Swivel feeds experiment.jp rangaswami – confused of calcutta – http://confusedofcalcutta.comjp is a kind of information hero of mine. something about how he sees things just clicks with me in totally perpendicular ways. he’s the cio of bt global services.nick hodge – mungenet – http://www.nickhodge.com/blog/Uncle Nick is a MungeContinueContinue reading “Kent swivels”
Back on the air after 48 hours
I don’t believe it. Mark of the beast?I’m actually back connected to the outside world after over 48 hours of two of my phone lines being out of order – one of them my ADSL connection.I felt helpless as I rang Telstra again and again with them saying that its a ‘major fault” (no shitContinueContinue reading “Back on the air after 48 hours”
What do YOU call community?
After events of recent times, like the podcast with Laurel, this blog post by Kent and my response here and the Facebook boom, I really like this following quote from Adam Fields, via Doc. “There’s really only one rule for community as far as I’m concerned, and it’s this – in order to call someContinueContinue reading “What do YOU call community?”
The Fourth Platform clarified – the Social Sector
Over on her blog, Laurel does as brilliant job of expanding on a very important penny that was dropped and jelled at the Connecting Up Conference earlier in the week. It’s reflected in the comment I jotted down here while liveblogging. During his keynote, Daniel Ben-Horin from Compumentor made reference to the emergence of aContinueContinue reading “The Fourth Platform clarified – the Social Sector”
My blog promotion advice for Ali in Kenya
Update: Tools and more tips here and here. Well, I got a signal in the ether from Beth Kanter about Alison Lowndes asking how Ali could best promote the AVIF Volunteers blog to get the message out about her work with children in Kenya. I’m no A-list blogger but have been pleased about connections myContinueContinue reading “My blog promotion advice for Ali in Kenya”
twitter fragmentation
I like Kent Newsome. Besides the fact he has good taste in the blogs he reads (mine!), he seems to carve out his own way amongst the goat tracks on paddock blogosphere and stick to it. Recently he developed another of his own guides to direct his twitter use and is only going to followContinueContinue reading “twitter fragmentation”
occupational therapy lecture
Just like last year, I gave my lecture about my life with disability and the things I’ve learnt along the way to a class of OT students at UNISA a couple weeks ago. Another big group and two hours trying talk loud as I could meant I was buggered aftewards but very fulfilled. I changedContinueContinue reading “occupational therapy lecture”
Death brings new life to supply
Doc says: III. Advertising is going to die. PR is already dead. Advertising has a problem. It’s not efficient. …………. But it’s still waste. The day will come when something new will connect demand and supply directly and efficiently. (Maybe Google will do that too… who knows?). Then advertising as we know it will beContinueContinue reading “Death brings new life to supply”
Lifekludger Haystack
In a previous post I mentioned I’d looked at the Haystack idea Chris Carfi is developing. I created a haystack for Lifekludger and now have put a Link from the sidebar of the Lifekludger blog page. This will enable you to add yourself to the Lifekludger Haystack. By doing so you you become a ‘Needle’ContinueContinue reading “Lifekludger Haystack”
Like trying to find a needle in a ….
When Doc quotes Christopher Carfi and within the context comments about the new service Haystack as an example of what Don Marti calls 2GI, or 2nd Generation Intermediation. Its a new form of mediation that gets older forms out of the way. It’s the shortest distance, for example, betwen users and the people who createContinueContinue reading “Like trying to find a needle in a ….”
Life on the edge
Doc talks about it, JP adds substance to it, now I want to give a Lifekludger view. Shift the context to a disability perspective. While Doc and co’s thoughts are around the Net Neutrality debate, it’s the humanity aspects outlined that perked my interest. JP says eloquently: The edge is about people. Control has passedContinueContinue reading “Life on the edge”
