What can social network analysis techniques offer policy makers? Masters of Networks (which I picked up on via E-mint, although @curiousc, part of my PLN, was a participant) aimed to explore this and related questions. Organised by INSITE, an EU coordination action on innovation, sustainability and technology, it took place on 21-22 January in Venice, taking the form of an interdisciplinary [...]
Over a year ago I wrote Video video, a post about my uneasy relationship with video. I’ve been watching loads lately, mainly for the MOOCs I’ve registered for, and I’m coming to the conclusion that often ‘just’ one medium is not enough. Two examples of what I mean…for me, the video experience at events works better [...]
Update, 20 Nov: lengthy review in ALT-N, highlighting a preso on network analysis, always welcome…with a graphic representation of ALT-C tweets “underlining the fact that with online content, only “2% of people contribute, everyone else consumes”. Another old favourite, ALT-C, the annual conference of the (UK) Association for Learning Technology, has just rolled round (12-13 Sep). [...]
Events about events…via Lanyrd’s latest week notes I discovered Encampment London, an unconference about events which took place on 20 August. It’s attracted some decent coverage, including: Content sharing discussion – People want content but don’t want to do any work to share it. If you want great content get someone to curate it, with responsiblity [...]
Updates: read Videos as knowledge products for another video-sceptic take (20 May 2011). In defence of video, I’d Rather be Writing makes the point that the more familiar you are with something, the less instruction you need (19 August 2011) . Two tweets popped up in my stream this week on the topic of preferring reading to watching [...]