Via the folks at Common Craft comes a pointer to a brilliant paper and stop action animation with a great beat to start the week. Talk about visual thinking! WOW
Bubblicious on Vimeo
Bubblicious from Rex The Dog on Vimeo.
Watching the Inaguration from Overseas
Last Tuesday I was in Rome at the FAO Headquarters for a three day “Share Fair” event. I was able to have the last session free so I could keep an eye on the inaguration, 6 time zones behind me, via the Internet. I frankly was a bit sad that I would be watching alone and sent a few tweets to that affect, only to be beautifully reminded by many of my Twitter friends that I was not alone.
But soon as the last session ended, a few of my fellow Americans (there weren’t too many here!) collected in the KM4Dev corner of chairs at the fair and we began to huddle around a couple of laptops. Soon other friends from other countries joined us. The ultimate experience was wonderful for me, to be able to experience this event with my global colleagues. As an American who works mostly with people from around the world, the last 8 years have been difficult. I have had the privilege of regularly experiencing American from outside our borders and learning others’ feelings and experiences. But it has been difficult for me, with my own political beliefs.
It was beautiful to agree with the incoming beliefs and agendas of my new president. It was one of the FEW moments in the last 8 years where I wanted to make my own political joy visible, and not try and diminish my political sorrow. So thank you to all my global friends, online and in Rome that day, for sharing the moment. I’m glad my community was with me. And the photo above is a great community indicator!
Photoo: Facebook | Photos of You
In Memoriam — Peter Kollock
In Memoriam — Peter Kollock / UCLA Today
Peter Kollock, 49, a professor in the Department of Sociology, was killed Saturday, Jan. 10, in a motorcycle accident near his home in Calabasas. Trained as a social psychologist in experimental methods, he was an exceptional teacher who provided his students with the analytical tools and life wisdom to reach new levels of personal and social understanding.
Peter, we never met, but through your writings, you were a teacher to me and your writings on how we are together in cyberspace has informed so much of my work and online life. You will be missed than perhaps by more than you could imagine.
How do you share your knowledge?
More getting ready for the Knowledge Share Fair in Rome
knowledge eye chart on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
Knowledge sharing: for doing complex work in a complex world
Here’s what I’m up to this week – today prepping for the FAO/CGIAR/BIOVERSITY/WFP/IFAD joint 3 day knowledge Share Fair, with a close focus on KS in global development as it relates to agriculture and food security. One of the activities is a 90 second challenge to talk about what IS Knowledge Sharing…
“Knowledge sharing is necessary to do complex work in a complex world”
There is also a blog, Flickr pictures, etc. I’ll try and reblog so of my “social reporting” activity as time allows.