Blogging your bliss – Lesley Orchard gets it.
Suw Charman’s done a great job of capturing the 11 core themes from the Blogwalk ‘Window Wiki’. As people reflect on the event there is discussion about how to best develop the ideas from this session and how to ensure better learning next time.
I’ve updated all the feeds for this site to use Feedburner: Blog + Linklog Comments Latest Oddments Wiki Recent Changes Please point your reader at the new links. I’ve also updated all the <link></link> tags in the page header to point to these feeds, so autodiscovery tools like the Bloglines Toolkit from Chad Everett and the new Firebird Live Bookmarks feature will also pick up the correct feeds.. (What do you mean you don’t use those tools yet?
Thanks to Johnnie Moore for pointing out that my style sheet was broken on IE6 IE6 doesn’t seem to recognise the max-width tag, so I’ve added an overflow:hidden to the right-hand menu bar that stops it splurging all over the page in IE6 if one of the text items is too long.
In the same post that I just blogged Johnnie Moore goes on to say: Traditional models of group thinking seem based on me trying to cement my well-formed brick of thought to your well-formed brick. Increasingly, I find much more satisfaction in sharing the less-formed ideas and responses I have to conversations. I sense that by doing so, it’s possible to create some sense of joint intelligence that can get beyond existing mental models.
Johnnie Moore is thinking about changing mental models , in particular how to ensure that group work really does take advantage of the collective intelligence of the group rather than falling back to s simple comparison or accumulation of everyone’s individual world view. This reminded me of the work published by Chris Argyris, Peter Senge and others on the [bliki]LadderOfInference[/bliki] . I wonder how we could encapsulate this thinking into the world of the blog?
As requested by various people at Blogwalk, details of a couple of content tools I use / am investigating “Wikidpad”:https://www.jhorman.org/wikidPad/ is a personal wiki-like notepad for Windows. I use the registered version of this every day as my main personal note-taking tool at work. “Qumana”:https://qumana.com/ is currently in beta – a microcontent editing / publishing tool that is designed to make it easy to pull together links and text then post to various destinations.
The physics of high heels
The theme of Blogwalk IV was the use of social software inside the firewall. We noted that there were certain technological barriers to be overcome before the tools were sufficiently invisible to support a wide acceptance of corporate blogging / wiki etc.
Yesterday was Blogwalk IV – a very enjoyable and mind-stretching day talking with other bloggers on the theme of “How will the world of work change as a result of social software use inside the firewall”. Thanks to the excellent “light touch” facilitation from Lilia Efimova and Johnnie Moore we covered a range of topics technical, cultural, managerial, commercial and more… (there will be more posts over the next few days as I and others get on with our agreed actions!