Are you happy with learning at work? If you have five minutes to spare, Elliott Masie wants to know. More
Why design? Philippe Starck does his turn at TED. Don’t look up, it’s a trap. [Via Richard Sambrook] More
Facebook as intranet – healthy hype Bill Ives at FastForward blog writes about how the software company Serena has adopted Facebook as its corporate intranet. They’re using it to take their 800 global employees through a big change programme. They’ve created a few custom apps that staff can use in their private network on Facebook. Apparently it’s boosted staff morale. This... More
Dust to digital dust Before the internet, dying was a simple business. What you said, wrote, created in your lifetime lived on in people’s memories, passed down the generations and turned to myth. And sometimes these had more tangible manifestations, in letters, books, works of art, buildings and of course children. Nowadays more and more of us have digital... More
With Facebook friends like these Someone once asked “If you died, how many of your Facebook friends would come to your funeral?” Rather morbid, but they had a point. I said “How would they know I’d died? I wouldn’t be able to update my status. Talking about this – on Facebook – with a friend recently. They added: Yes, I’ve... More
Intranets. I’ll show you mine if you show me yours. Yesterday about thirty Intranetters (thanks to Andrew for pointing me towards the yahoo group) got together in central London. It was a really good event – a kind of intranets anonymous. Big thanks to Simon Hill and Rod McLean for their warts’n’all stand-up routines. It certainly seemed quite a cathartic experience for all involved. Intranutters.... More
links for 2007-11-29 What the Google Intranet Looks Like Google inside. Via tracking “intranet” on Twitter. (tags: google intranet) More
links for 2007-11-26 FreeRice will donate 10 grains of rice for every correct answer 3,664,079,450 grains since 7th October. “WARNING: This game may make you smarter. It may improve your speaking, writing, thinking, grades, job performance…” Via my Mum. (tags: rice freerice vocabulary charity unitednations) Londonist: Going Green at Goose Green Saturday 1st December “eco-bonananza” in Dulwich. Via... More
Keeping up to date with East Dulwich on the internet: Part 4 – Delicious RSS feeds This series of short articles explains some simple and free ways to use the internet to keep tabs on the subjects you’re interested in. I’m using East Dulwich as the example subject. Previously: Part 1 – Google Alerts, Part 2 – Technorati Watchlists, Part 3 – Twitter tracking. This article is about following Delicious bookmark... More