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The Ed Techie: What value is blogging to your organisation June 28, 2007

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I am currently writing a document on how Social Software is implemented in companies (e.g. for marketing purposes, for internal knowledge managment, etc.). Within the context of the network of excellence PROLEARN we are performing some case studies on how Social Software is currently entering different working environments.

So it was very interesting to read about this offer that Martin Weller received for blogging:

Today I received an email with an offer to become a paid blogger for Wide Open Education (I’m sure they approached a few people simultaneously). They, very wisely, want to raise their profile in the blogosphere and were happy to pay someone a reasonable sum to do this…..

The Ed Techie: What value is blogging to your organisation

2 days out of the office June 25, 2007

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together with most of my colleges from the Centre for Social Innovation – ZSI I spent 2 days going on an excursion to the North of Lower Austria and to the Czech Republic.

It was a very nice event and I have the feeling that all of us enjoyed it very much. Team building in canoes, when walking through the moor and especially in the evening during dinner and at the whine bar.
My college Sebastian Fiedler was testing his new camera and the results can be viewed on his Flickr site:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/sebastianfiedler/tags/zsiausflug2007/

European discussion on social software and the inclusion of immigrants and minorities June 1, 2007

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The European Commission has recently started a discussion on whether and how social capital and ICT (Web2.0, social software) can contribute to the inclusion of different marginalized groups (e.g. marginalized youth) and minorities.

Apart from f2f workshops there is also a portal now, where people are asked to share their ideas, to point to relevant examples and to enter the discourse on this issue: http://www.ipolicy.eu/

Together with my college Rossalina Latcheva, who has been researching on migration and national Identification and ethnic exclusion for many years now we have started to brainstorm some project ideas on the provision of social software services to support the inclusion of marginalized young people, especially with migration background. The ideas are still very crude, but we are taking it up again now and hopefully we will be able to set up a research project within the next half year or so.

what it takes to have an original website:

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for some it only takes a fridge, a marker and a camera:

http://noonebelongsheremorethanyou.com/

Thanks, Joaquín, for pointing me to this inspiring website.