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Thursday, March 13, 2003
Computer Science and Social Science Converge in Christchurch
HCI Masterclass and Symposium Four of the world's leading researchers on human-computer interaction will lead a two day masterclass and symposium on 'Interacting With and Through Next Generation Computing Environments' at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand on the 20th and 21st of March, 2003.
And the following day: a Symposium and Discussion Forum on Social Creativity: What is it, why is it needed, and how can we support it?
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Mapping Complex Problem-Spaces
Knowledge Mapping for Complex Social Messes (PDF of 2.5MB) by Robert E. Horn shows an approach to mapping complex problems involving many stakeholders with diverse points of view.
posted by Dan Randow 2:57 PM permanent link
Virtual Architecture of Online Social Spaces and Software where the Users are Groups
Shirky: Social Software and the Politics of Groups. Clay Shirky says that with group collaboration software, even the "cc:" line in email, the user is a group. This raises some questions for useability.
He also reminds us that social software encodes bargains between the participants and owner.
posted by Dan Randow 1:03 PM permanent link
Tunable Social and Informational Context Interfaces
E-Commerce News: Blogging Goes Corporate. With Google buying Blogger, it's official. Now it's all over the media. Blogs are KM. In my mind, however, it is the _effect_ rather than the specific technology that is relevant. With blogs, people can easily tell their stories, providing contextual links to their particular 'competence'. Others can listen in as much or as little as they like. Once people identify others with shared interests and a discerning eye, watching their blog for new yields a flow of new and relevant ideas.
You find ideas through people. You find people through ideas.
By refining the blogs you follow, you can create a 'tunable' set of channels, each with a topic and 'volume control'.
For all that, blogs are not the only technology that can provide that. Good old email groups, for example can be used to achieve a similar effect. You can have one, two or more people posting and as many receiving the posts by email or simply able to search them online.
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