Author Archives: David

EVDB

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Rich just discovered EVDB. EVDB is a site for posting information about events. I got early word about the site via The Well since one of the founders posted about it there. I created an event record for the ASAE Annual meeting in Nashville a while back.

One way this could be used is for people blogging about an event to ping the event record in EVDB to keep a central log of all the activity. Here is the trackback URL for the ASAE Annual meeting record on EVDB: http://api.evdb.com/trackback/E0-001-000179291-2

Blogging for Educational Associations

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I am speaking to a lunch meeting of the Consortium of Educational Association Publishers today, along with Franklin Bradley who works for the Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development. I will be introducing the concept of blogging and how it might be used by associations. Bradley will be doing a case study on how his association recently used an event blog tied to their annual meeting.

I am going to ask the attendees to post their feedback on the session here after we are done.

Here are a set of links for some of the sites and services I will mention during the session.

I would also like to offer a big thank you to FeedBurner, SixApart, Ranchero, and NewsGator for contributing discounts and freebies for me to give away at the session.

Update: Here is the handout from today’s session. I moved it into HTML since the PDF ended up being rather large.

MIT Weblog Survey

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MIT is conducting a weblog survey. It takes only a few minutes to complete. It is targeted at the authors of weblogs and tries to understand how blogging has influenced their communication activities. From the survey site:

This is a general social survey of the greater weblog community being conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Our goal is to help understand the way that weblogs are affecting the way we communicate with each other. Specifically we are interested in issues of demographics, communication behaviors, experience with weblogs and other technology, and the meaning of various types of social links within the blogosphere.

The survey takes about 15 minutes to complete, and we are asking anyone with a weblog to participate. The larger the sample of individuals we can get, the better our picture of the community will be.

Mojave Airport Weblog

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Want to keep up with the latest in private space travel and experimental flight in general? Check out Alan’s Mojave Airport Weblog.

Welcome to the Mojave Airport Weblog. This is one of the most unique airports in the world, with a huge variety of different aviation and space activities centered here, from flight test to airliner storage, from spacecraft development to antique aircraft restoration. This blog is an attempt to provide a glimpse at some of the more exciting happenings. “

The 2 most recent entries are about a scrubbed X-37 flight and a junior rocketeers event. Most entries have excellent pictures as well. I was a model rocketry geek in my youth and hope my daughter has an interest. 🙂 Of course, I would probably need to take her about 100 miles out from DC so as not to attract the Cessna interceptor squadron.

(Via MAKE Blog.)

Knowledge Abundance

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Gerry McGovern opens a recent article with an incredibly clear statement about the current environment for KM:

We are in an era of knowledge abundance. Traditional management theory focuses on knowledge scarcity. We need new management strategies to deal with so much communication and so much knowledge.

This is why blogging, RSS, newsreaders, wikis and similar technologies are coming to the fore now. They are effective tools for communicating in an environment of abundance. Love that quote! This will definitely be making its way into my presentations (with attribution, of course).

Movable Tags

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SixApart recently released a plugin that adds tagging to Movable Type.

The tagging is only done by the author of the post so you don’t get the benefits of social tagging like you do on delicious. However, I think it is useful for creating simple categories without having to think much about it. If the tag is already used, it gets associated with other posts. If not, voila!, a new category. Much easier interface and probably meets the needs of most bloggers who are casual about their categories.