Conventions for Virtual Collaboration
I had a discussion this morning that introduced an interesting thought into my head. I assume we all have at least a cursory awareness of Robert’s Rules of Order. If you’re anything like me (and you probably are in this case), you tend to think of them as stuffy, archaic — even antique arbitrary rules about who gets to talk about what and when in a meeting. Procedural, top-down, forced — that’s how I’d look at this normally. I mean, hell — it’s got “rules” in the title, right? So the thought that occurred to me is… what if we’re not putting it in a proper context? Maybe Robert’s Rules are more about

Google Wave Invite Exchange
In the hopes that this will at least channel the buzzing on Twitter and other forms of communication, if you are connected to me in any way and are looking for a Google Wave invitation, please leave a comment here and list out where you participate in other networks (not just networks you belong to — but where you’re active).  Make sure you at least leave a url with the comment  so that people can find you. If you’re connected to me in any way, already in Google Wave, have invitations you can share, please leave a reply for who you’re inviting, starting from the top of the list on down.  No need to double-invite anyone. Thanks! No related

How Change Changes You
There was a time when there wasn’t Twitter.  There was a whole lot of time in my life before Twitter.  In the time since I “got” Twitter, I’ve changed in ways that can not be undone. Before Twitter, I was a pretty successful learning technologist.  I used and evangelized Flash. In a time before you could make a career in ActionScript, my career was ActionScript. I liked social media.  I thought a lot about the implications social media could have on a broader definition of E-Learning.  I blogged a lot.  I tried lots of betas.  If you asked any peers of mine to describe me, they would probably tell you that I was a talented content developer.Â

Guerilla Multimedia
As I’m packing up the last of our personal belongings while my family and I wait to get into our new house, it struck me that to move from stasis, you just need to be able to do something. At work, our team once had no skills or capability to produce media.  For less than $100, we were able to produce video and audio.  We’ve taken that train as far as it goes, and leaders grew discontent with the quality of the audio and video we could produce.  Still, we kept doing it.  Why? Because they didn’t care enough to want to pay for something better. I’ve spent the better part of two days re-evaluating the tools we have and what capabilities they provid

What BAQON Enables: Gaming
Have you downloaded a multiplayer game for your iPhone? Trying to play real-time multiplayer on the iPhone, despite its gaming power, is difficult for me.  When I think about playing multiplayer games on the Wii, it’s one thing if we’re all playing off my system in the same room — it’s another to try and play multiplayer online. The problem I run into more often than anything is that I don’t seem to have a lot of friends.  More to the point, despite how many hundreds of actual friends I have, we never seem to be online, playing the same game at the same time and aware of each other so we can play together.  The exchange of friend codes on the Wii