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DOPA update

The DOPA bill has been entered into the GovTrack system. Click the link if you want an RSS feed for monitoring events on the bill.  I spoke with a congressional staffer today in Rep. Fitzpatrick's office. (202-226-9928). It seems the congressman has an undying faith in filters. It also seems the congressman believes CIPA does not protect children from information on the Internet enough. I tried to make the point in the phone conversation that we should be promoting responsible use. Also, children and adults, for that matter often find ways to circumvent filtering systems. Filtering typically does not work.
Maybe the staffer needs a few more calls?

Blogging and Podcasting class May 18 2005

• Blogs
  
  • Wordpress.com
  • Edublogs.org
• Newsreader
  • Newsgator
• Blogging defined
  
  • A weblog (usually shortened to blog, but occasionally spelled web log) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally in reverse chronological order). Initially, weblogs were manually updated, but tools to automate the maintenance of these journals rapidly developed. These tools made the creation of weblogs accessible to a much larger population, and the use of some sort of browser-based "blogging" software became a typical aspect of weblog publication.
  • The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger in December 1997. The shorter version, "blog", was coined by Peter Merholz, who, in April or May of 1999, broke the word weblog into the phrase "we blog" in the sidebar of his weblog. [1] (http://www.peterme.com/archives/00000205.html) This was interpreted as a short form of the noun [2] (http://www.bradlands.com/weblog/1999-09.shtml#September%2010,%201999) and also as a verb to blog, meaning "to edit one's weblog or a post to one's weblog". Usage spread during 1999, with the word being further popularized by the near-simultaneous arrival of the first hosted weblog tools: Evan Williams and Meg Hourihan's company Pyra Labs launched Blogger (which was purchased by Google in 2004) and Paul Kedrosky's GrokSoup. As of March 2003, the Oxford English Dictionary included the terms weblog, weblogging and weblogger in their dictionary.
• Trends and Ages
  

  • IBM PC – 1983 (1981). Revised  The IBM PC XT came out in 1983.

    Macintosh PC – 1984

    World Wide Web – 1989
    

    Weblogs – 1997

• Why should you care about blogs?
  
  • They act as information filters to help keep you current and help you handle information overload
  • They allow you to disseminate your own thoughts, ideas and information
  • Community, Networking & Publishing
• Benefits of blogging
  
  • # Fostering the fringe - ideas are evaluated based on merit - not on source of origin.
    # Filtering - ideas with merit are filtered through various blogs. Significant thoughts or posts receive multiple-links and spread viral-like across the blogosphere.
    # Multiple perspectives - one-sided perspectives of newspapers are replaced by passionate debates exploring virtually every facet of an idea or concept.
    # Barrier elimination - society is about barriers - actual or unspoken. For example, I don't run in the same circle as Bill Gates - a socio-economic barrier (at the absolute minimum!). In society, this generally means that I do not have the benefit of Mr. Gates' wisdom...blogging, however changes that. Opportunities now exist to hear regular thoughts from people like Ray Ozzie, Mitch Kapor, and Larry Lesig.
    # Free flow - any idea can be expressed...and accessed by any one. The process of blogging separates good ideas from poor ideas. The process itself has built in quality control - try that in traditional media!
    # Real time - discussions and interactions happen right NOW. Waiting for tomorrow's newspaper or radio program seems like an eternity compared to real time blogging. # Links and connections - the complexity of an information heavy society requires specialization. Yet specialization is futile if a process is not created to link specialties. Blogging serves this purpose extremely well. Disparate fields of interest and thought are brought together (and dissected) in the machinations of bloggers.
• Good practice
  
  • Edublog Awards
• Questions for consideration
  
  • How much of your website changes frequently? 10%? more?
  • Do you want some of your website to be more dynamic?
  • Is there information you would post to your website if it were easier?
  • Do you want to distribute the workload for maintaining content?
  What do you get from blogs?

  • Continuing my discussion of why blogs are different than other instructional technologies...
    Lets start with Liz Lawley's discussion of one of the key events that got her started blogging.

    Link: mamamusings: you may ask yourself "how did i get here?".

    The second event Dan cited was the occasion last summer at Esther Dyson’s PC Forum, held in Arizona, where Joe Nacchio, CEO of Qwest was, in Dan’s words, “whining about how hard it was to run a telephone company these days.” Dan blogged this while he was listening, and immediately got email from a reader in Florida who sent him a link disclosing that Nachio had sold $300 million of stock in the company he was helping to kill. Dan blogged it, and another participant in the Forum, Doc Searls, who was contemporaneously blogging the event, took Nachio to task for it, while Nachio was still standing at the podium.

    On hearing this she was intrigued by the feedback loop that Dan had described. And then she realized that everything I was hearing at Pop!Tech was also being blogged by people in the room.

    Quoting Liz once again, It’s not about weblogs replacing journals, or becoming mass media outlets, or creating a huge personal audience. It’s about finding and maintaining a community of like-minded thinkers—inside and outside of academia—who can be part of an ongoing conversation. As Anil points out, it’s not about popularity, or being at the top of the power law curve. It’s about being part of a community, part of an ongoing conversation.

    Technical reasons for blogging  from the community wiki

  • low barrier to entry -- easy to start, low cost, little knowledge required
  • easy connectivity -- link to other pages, link exchange with friends
  • ubiquity -- post from home, school, the office, WiFi zone

Psychological reasons for blogging

• no need to reorganize the info -- time-ordered sequence it is and that's it
• no need rework older comments with new comments on the same topic
• no need for careful discussion -- instead of accumulating knowledge and discussing it, the main point is to write what's on your mind, now; like small-talk, you just say stuff you find interesting and hope other people may find interesting, too

Motivations for online publishing

• People like talking about themselves
• Sharing information If you've found some interesting or useful information, why not share it with others?
• Group Building. People often have difficulty finding good friends with whom they can discuss what is on their mind; the web facilitates finding like-minded people
• Reputation. In online communities, it is sometimes important to offer more personal information in order to build trust (ie. link to your blog from your signature when posting to Usenet or a MailingList)
• Fame. In a society where your basic needs are fulfilled, some start to strive for fame
• Coordination. I can say on my blog, "I'm going to be at the Pacific Science Center. If anyone else want's to see Asimo, come on over." My friends are likely to see it, regardless of which cliques they are part of.
• Less Redundancy. Because who has the time to call up 100 friends and relatives and keep them all informed of what you are doing all the time? People almost always ask, "Hey, how you doing? What you up to these days?" Now we can keep up with each other from afar. Great!
• Plain Talk, Personal Freedom. You are held to your own standards. Your friends are your friends. You can talk naturally. You can be yourself.
• Off-Topic. People need off-topic so that they can build the human interest needed to work together in trust. But off-topic is off-topic, and doesn't belong in work mailing lists, and on some wiki. So what you do is you put your off-topic thoughts into your blog. Problem solved.
• Half-Baked Thoughts. Nobody's going to pounce on you for putting your half-baked thoughts on your blog. People may disagree, or help you see some flaws, but almost always with the understanding that they are in your house as a guest.
• Purely Artistic Self-Expression. Whatever. Draw a picture and put it on your blog. Who's going to get mad at you?

Lillia Efimova lists several reasons as to why she started  blogging.

I always need a conversation for growing my ideas. This is the main reason I blog. Even if no one comments, blogging makes it a conversation: I come to the idea next day and I can discuss it with "yesterday's Lilia" :) Of course, articulation helps growing ideas as well.

Another reason to blog is to make some free space in my memory: I can easily come back to it later. The Social Life of Paper says it well in describing the use of paper by air-traffic controllers:

By writing on the strips, they can off-load information, keeping their minds free to attend to other matters.

I also blog to keep a feeling of “coffee-table dialog” with my far-away colleagues: “You know, I’ve just read this article and was triggered with these ideas. What do you think?”

These were the reasons to start blogging. Later I discovered other great things:

• blogging builds my own (customised! :) network of like-minded people without almost any effort from me
• it is great for filtering links
• it improves my English
• it gives me a better face on-line that any profile I could think about (it allows googling me as well)
• it's easier to search than any other "notes" I make
• more nice things in the story about blogs in research by Sébastien Paquet

I post when I feel like it (often) and when I have time (not always). Sometimes I don't post things I'd like to because of confidentiality (something internal) or copyright reasons (blogging conference if presenters are not aware of me blogging). I hope that those two problems will be solved soon with conference blogging becoming usual and my work to encourage internal blogging pilot :)

Genres of weblogs

• Filters
• Individual blogs/Personal
• Subject/Theme blogs
• Edu-blogs
• Project-Event blogs
• Community blogs

NECC 2004 Educational Weblog Link

Podcasting

• Podcasting
  • Definitions
• History
  
  • 1887
    
    • Edison - 1st commercially available phonograph
  • 1896
    
    • Marconi - patents radio
  • 1989
    • Tim Berners Lee - invents the web
  • 1997
    
    • Weblogs appear
• Developing
  
  • Preshow preparation
  • Setup studio
  • Edit/Mastering
  • Encoding to MP3
  • Uploading
  • Updating your feed
• Examples
  
  • AceKids
  • Education Podcast Network
  • Google search
  • ESL and Podcasting
• Services
  • Odeo
  • Audioblogger
  • Itunes

• Podcasting
  • Definitions
• History
  
  • 1887
    
    • Edison - 1st commercially available phonograph
  • 1896
    
    • Marconi - patents radio
  • 1989
    • Tim Berners Lee - invents the web
  • 1997
    
    • Weblogs appear
• Developing
  
  • Preshow preparation
  • Setup studio
  • Edit/Mastering
  • Encoding to MP3
  • Uploading
  • Updating your feed
• Examples
  
  • AceKids
  • Education Podcast Network
  • Google search
  • ESL and Podcasting
• Services
  • Odeo
  • Audioblogger
  • Itunes

The mess is the message...

The Mess is the Message

Gave a keynote at the National Trainers Conference around new tools on the web for training (Beyond Blended Learning). The web is giving us e-learning tools and content formats that we never dreamt of just a few years ago. Here’s a few off the top of my head:

Blogs – senior exec blogs, expert blogs, trainer blogs, learner blogs – takes minutes and reinforces learning.

Vlogs – track your team training exercise with a video log – will crystallise and reinforce learning.

Wikis – twiki’s a good start for a company knowedge-base or for a project or team.

Blikis – combine a blog and wiki for projects that need both knowledge gathering and dynamic reporting.

Podcasts – audio learning gets round literacy and dyslexia – everyone can listen, many don’t like to read – MP3 palyers are cheaper than lunch.

Videocasts – don’t worry too much about quality – interviews, talks, discussions - make them short and get them distributed.

Syndication – syndicate gets the right stuff to the right people at the right time – efficient distribution.

Messenger – step above email and, with a webcam, gives you most of the functionality of a virtual classroom.

Webcams – want to see the instructor/learner – cheap and works a treat.

MMOGs – get a life in Second Life and do some avatar-based learning – there’s lots of classes online – weird and wonderful.

Digital photography - so easy to take photographs and get them into training materials, get every new employee to take a picture of themselves and various locations and people as part of their induction.

Google Sketch – build 3D images – easy as pie.

Google Earth – will blow your mind – try it then use it to find international locations of your company – or mash-up some training applications.

Amazon – give everyone a budget and a booklist – follow up with book club meetings.

Wikipedia – fantastic knowledge base with discussions, links and lots of other wiki sources such as Wikiquotes, Wikispecies, Wiktionary and so on. Use it, link to it, do print outs.

Youtube – search for education and training video clips – growing like topsy.

Basecamp – free community project management software that can be used for team-based project management training.

Moodle – free open source LMS, very popular and now adopted by some serious organisations.

This is real learning, knowledge management, creation and distribution and it’s mostly free!

THE MESS IS THE MESSAGE

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Pupils to sit first online exams

Pupils to sit first online exams

Pupils will be able to use computers for their exams
School pupils in Scotland are set to sit exams online for the first time as this year's exam season got under way.

The first of the 140,000 candidates turned over their Standard Grade papers at 0900 BST on Tuesday.

And later this month 120 pupils and students in schools and colleges across the country will use computers to sit a multiple choice exam in biotechnology.

The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) said the move was a "significant milestone" in modernising exams.

A spokesman stressed that while a mouse would replace a pen for candidates, the other aspects of the exam would remain the same as normal.


EXAM FACTS
More than 750,000 exam entries
140,000 candidates in more than 500 schools and exam centres
More than 7,500 markers
Three million exam scripts to be marked
575 question papers prepared
Almost 100 music and language tapes recorded

Only the candidate and the invigilator will be able to see individual screens, while the answers will be submitted directly to a secure SQA area.

The idea will be trialled by volunteers sitting the Intermediate 2 and Higher biotechnology exam on 16 May.

"This first use of technology in a formal exam is a significant milestone as we continue to modernise Scotland's exam process," said SQA chief executive Anton Colella.

"Candidates involved in previous internal assessment pilots have told us they enjoy this way of working.

"We still have much to do before reliable, secure electronic exams become the norm, but this is an excellent start."

Other countries

The first exams to be sat this year will be Standard Grades in administration and Italian.

A total of 575 different exams will be taken at Standard Grade, Intermediate 1 and Intermediate 2, Higher and Advanced Higher levels between now and 9 June.

SQA national qualification exams will also be sat in 11 other countries, stretching from Argentina to Hong Kong.

BBC NEWS | Scotland | Pupils to sit first online exams.

Anil Dash - What is a blog?

Index-card drawings from Meshforum 2006
Originally uploaded by dgray_xplane.

Tony Buzan On Learning

Tony Buzan On Learning
5/16/2006 10:53:09 PM [The Committed Sardine Blog]
Tony Buzan On Learning
Date Created: May 16, 2006, 09:51 PM

Tony Buzan was working in London as Editor of the Mensa International Journal and successfully teaching 'impossible learners' when the BBC asked him to host a ten-part educational series called Use Your Head. This innovative programme began a successful 25-year collaboration with the BBC, including television and radio programmes, corporate books and videos. Use Your Head, first published in 1974, is a million-copy, perennial bestseller with editions in 17 languages. Visit www.buzancentre.com for more information.

"Learning is important to me because it's the prime function for every human being. It is the source of infinite pleasure and delight. It is a thing that we are designed to do. There is no end to the way in which the human brain can learn. And there is no end to what it can learn. We've got this magical capacity.

We have discovered 95% of what has ever been known about the human brain in the last 10 years. When the brain learns, the body responds positively. The immune system gets stronger. The smile gets bigger. The brain cells are happy. The whole thing zings and buzzes with energy and literally electricity. Learning is ecstasy.

Learning is the art and science of asking questions. And who are the best learners? Who are the best memorisers? Who are the most creative? Children. They ask the most questions. They do almost nothing everyday but learn, learn, learn.

The more you actually learn the more you begin to realise, because you're on higher platforms, what else there is to learn. When you stop learning, your brain and your body physically stagnate. Your blood circulation slows; your heart grows weaker; your brain cells don't fire. You're not motivated. You're dying.

Learning is something that has been assumed to be natural but you've got to learn how to do it. All we've done, society, globally for the last 200 years or 100 years, is teach people what to learn. Here's the English - learn it. Here's the History - learn it. Here's this, learn it. We haven't taught them how to learn.

Most people tend to think that working well is working hard. When it should be working smart. Look at most people's notebooks, their diaries. Monochromatic. Boring. So the poor brain is thirsting, lusting for colour and some kind of sensory stimulation. It keeps on getting blasted with these linear, boring, dull, monochromatic things on which it is supposed to base its existence."

Tony's tips for learning:

1. Always use different colours in your notes. Taking notes in one colour is a monotone - a 'mono' 'tone' is monotonous and monotonous is boring. When the brain is bored it tunes out. It has nice little daydreams, fantasises, goes to sleep, switches off.
2. Use little codes or pictures or images when you're learning. A picture is worth a thousand words. Colour and image totally transform the brain's ability to understand and comprehend.
3. In your notes make connections. Put little arrows. Put things on lines and link them to other areas that are linked.
4. Only use key words. Why note all the other stuff - all the verbal rubbish - when all the brain wants are the key words. We don't remember in sentences. We don't even think primarily in sentences. We think and remember in images, smells, sensual things.
5. Learn to manage your time better.
6. Make your brain your hobby. When you invest interest in your brain it pays you back a much greater interest. It's the best investment you can make.
7. Stay physically fit. When you're physically fit, your brain gets as much as 50% more oxygen per second every day of your life.
8. Learn at least one new subject every year. Could be astronomy - go to the planetarium and drift around in the stars for a while. It could be Chinese archaeology. It could be the guitar. Could be learning about a different profession that you'd never really thought about before, like mushroom growing. But learn something new to keep the brain stimulated.

The Tony Buzan interview,as told to by Cristín Bell can be found at this link.

NewsGator Online.

Implications of learning and attention...

Esther Dyson on the Evolution of Marketing, and Attention vs. Intention

"jangjusa" has posted a copy of a recent interview that the Wall Street Journal Online recently conducted with Ester Dyson and Vint Cerf on the next ten years of the Internet. (Note that there's no link to the original, nor can I find it by searching the WSJ's site--I'm assuming it's somewhere behind their paywall. Here's the original WSJ article, courtesy of Scott Karp at Publishing 2.0.) Esther had two comments in particular that caught my eye. First, on the evolution of marketing (and the future of free content):

I think you'll see a fundamental shift in the balance of power towards individuals. Individuals will declare what kinds of vendors they want sponsoring their content, and then those vendors will have the privilege of appearing, discreetly, around the user's content. There will be much less "advertising" and much more communication to interested customers. Advertisers will have to learn to listen, not just to track and segment customers.

So the message to marketers is: If you can't sell your product (assuming it's already in the market), fix the product! Don't try to change the situation by advertising.

Consumers will publish wish lists for marketers to scan. Also, their choices will be influenced by their friends' comments much more than by marketers' messages.

On the other hand, it will be much harder for consumers to get free content anonymously, because advertisers will want to know more about the people they are paying to reach. In many cases, whether email or ads, users may even get a share of the marketer's payments. (See AttentionTrust.org or my op-ed on Goodmail or my post on Release 1.06.)

This makes sense from advertisers' point of view, but it has a social downside: People who buy Porsches can earn more from marketers than people who buy used cars. People without money will find it harder and harder to get free content -- which means a role for nonprofits in funding access to content for all.

And second on "attention" vs. "intention":

There's a lot of, er, attention being paid right now to the so-called "attention economy." Indeed, O'Reilly [Media Inc.] subtitled its recent (March) Web 2.0 conference "The attention economy." It even featured author Michael Goldhaber, who wrote about the concept some 14 years ago for my newsletter Release 1.0.

But people are generally missing the point; Mr. Goldhaber has trouble getting attention for the mirror he is holding up. Most commentators see the attention economy as the intention economy, where attention = intention (to buy). That version of the attention economy is all about sales leads and monetization of attention, and radical ideas include the notion of users getting paid for their attention, as I mentioned earlier, whether in the form of surfing behavior or a willingness to read email.

But Mr. Goldhaber's thesis is far more radical, and people aren't really paying ... attention yet. It's that attention has its own intrinsic value, independent of money. People go on the Web in search of attention; they don't want to give it as much as get it. People judge their own worth by their number of friends (Friendster) or fans (MySpace) or business contacts (LinkedIn). They may tell you that they're seeking business success, but oftentimes they seem to value contact lists in the thousands for their own sake.

While adults worry about privacy, kids seek attention. They post poetry, photos, exaggerated tales of personal exploits, music in order to create an online presence that garners attention.

Doesn't this all come down to money in the end? you might ask. Don't kids buy things in order to get attention? Sure. And in the same way, the new financial-industrial economy all came down to food and shelter as we made the transition from an agrarian, feudal economy. But there are new dynamics worth noting. Most users are not trying to turn attention into anything else. They are seeking it for itself.

For sure, the attention economy will not replace the financial economy. But it is more than just a subset of the financial economy we know and love.

tags: attention attentiontrust esther dyson michael goldhaber

The attention of learning...

Read  below, consider the relevance of the following for learning…

Scott Karp on Getting Attention, MySpace and the Economics of Poetry

In What If No One Will Pay for Content?, Scott Karp quotes from the same Esther Dyson interview that I referenced on Wednesday and goes a step further:

In media 1.0, brands paid for the attention that media companies gathered by offering people news and entertainment (e.g. TV) in exchange for their attention. In media 2.0, people are more likely to give their attention in exchange for OTHER PEOPLE’S ATTENTION.

This is why MySpace can’t effectively monetize its 70 million users through advertising — people use MySpace not to GIVE their attention to something that is entertaining or informative (which could thus be sold to advertisers) but rather to GET attention from other users. Why is it so appealing to MySpace users to be able to post messages publicly on other users’ sites? Because they can GET attention as a function of GIVING it.

This make perfect sense in a world of participatory media — the value flow has reversed itself. MySpace can’t sell attention to advertisers because the site itself HAS NONE. Nobody pays attention to MySpace — users pay attention to each other, and compete for each other’s attention — it’s as if the site itself doesn’t exist...

What if the economics of media in the 21st century begin to look like the economics of poetry in the 20th century? — Lot’s of people do it for their own personal gratification, but nobody makes any money from it.

tags: attention attentiontrust scott karp

Boeing Bloggers

Into The Wild Blog Yonder

The once-secretive Boeing opens itself up  -- to employees, customers, and the public

      

Defense contractors and aerospace companies aren't known for their openness. After all, this is an industry built on security clearances and classified government projects. But today Boeing Co. (BA ) is embracing a kind of management glasnost that would have been unthinkable a few years ago.

The evidence? Boeing's use of blogs. The Chicago aerospace giant -- no stranger to recent and well-publicized ethical and political scandals -- is among a small but growing group of large non-tech companies such as Walt Disney (DIS ), General Motors (GM ), and McDonald's (MCD ) that are embracing the power of blogging. That means Boeing has learned to cede some control and expose itself to stinging criticism in exchange for a potentially more constructive dialogue with the public, customers, and employees. "Companies are nervous about creating external blogs because they fear the negative comments," says Charlene Li, an analyst at Forrester Research Inc. (FORR ). "But negative comments do exist. A company is better off knowing about them."

Boeing's early results suggest that the rewards outweigh the risks. The company's two public blogs give Boeing a direct link to the public, something the 91-year-old company has never had before. And executives are starting to use internal blogs to get conversations going and allow employees to raise issues anonymously. "I've always been a big believer in open and honest dialogue that gets the issues on the table," says James F. Albaugh, the chief executive of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems (IDS). He championed using blogs at the defense unit's meeting of 1,000 executives in February. "I was a little concerned and I had no idea how it would turn out, but I'm sold on it."

HEAVY FLAK
Boeing's entry into the blogosphere got off to a rocky start. Eighteen months ago, Randy Baseler, vice-president for marketing at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, started a Web log to talk about the company's view of the commercial airplane world. Almost immediately, he was blasted by the blogerati for not allowing comments, considered to be a key component of blogging. And he was dinged for the perception that his posts gave more of a marketing spin than an inside perspective. In one e-mail, an outside reader wrote: "Take down your blog. You embarrass us, everyone who reads it, and you make the world a dumber place."

Instead of backing down, Baseler responded. As the blog evolved, he found his voice. He began to offer insights into the industry that would be hard to find elsewhere, such as a post about emerging airplane markets in Latin America, called "Latin Rhythm." His explanation of the differences between Boeing's and Airbus' strategy, particularly an ongoing controversy about how they handle seat width, has been light on emotion and heavy on facts. The site drew 30,000 visitors in April, a new high for a blog that started with low expectations.

Boeing took a different tack when it launched Flight Test Journal in May, 2005. For seven months, engineers, managers, and test pilots gave the public a rare look at the process the jetmaker and federal regulators went through to certify Boeing's newest 777 airliner, called the Worldliner. Tens of thousands of people visited the blog each month to watch videos of the new jet airborne and learn about how test pilots prepare for flights. Says Forrester's Li: "They were very open to explaining how you test fly the jet. It gave me, as a passenger, better assurance that it was going to be a good airplane."

Boeing's latest experiments have focused inward. In February, Boeing's senior IDS leaders set up blog kiosks at the annual strategy meeting in Los Angeles for the company's top 1,000 defense executives. During a series of briefings, managers went over new company policies and the division's top strategic and business priorities for the year. While Albaugh and his team discussed hot topics such as ethical compliance rules and a new management compensation plan, executives responded at the kiosks located outside the conference room. "As each exec talked, they would talk about comments from the blog," says DL Byron, a blogging consultant to Boeing.

In the end, the blog helped air questions about the unit's strategy and made sure everyone understood the human resources and diversity policies. It also let Albaugh understand what his top people knew or didn't know. For instance, he asked how many executives were actively using the division's Vision Support Plan software that helps managers track how their units are doing. About 30% said they weren't. Thanks to the blog, Albaugh can now try to create converts.

     

By Stanley Holmes

DOPA Links

Andy Carvin's Teacher Source
Ripon Society Suburban Agenda
Doug Johnson
Information wants to be free
Ars Technica
Politech -Targeting MySpace and social networking sites
BlogSafety.com
Will Richardson