Been busy actually doing stuff…will be back soon with more of the same.

Shalom

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I’m sorry, my dear WordPress if ever I thought replacing you with Tumblr. SORRY. I have decided, I won’t go with Tumblr. It’s not for me ’cause I am for you. I LOVE YOU, WORDPRESS.

DARKCHEDDAR || CARLOS.

Am 13./14. November war ich beim „10. Tag des wissenschaftlichen Nachwuchses der Pädagogischen Hochschulen“, der dieses Jahr an der PH Schwäbisch Gmünd stattfand. Für mich war es nach letztem Jahr in Ludwigsburg die zweite Teilnahme an dieser Veranstaltung, die primär als Plattform für die Präsentation von Dissertationsprojekten und zur Vernetzung der Promovierenden an den Pädagogischen Hochschulen in Baden-Württemberg gedacht ist.

Im Vergleich zum letzten Jahr, hatten sich – zu mindestens nach meinem Eindruck – weniger Teilnehmer auf den Weg nach Schwäbisch Gmünd gemacht, was ich jedoch nicht unbedingt schlecht fand. So war die Größe der Veranstaltung überschaubarer und meines Erachtens besser geeignet, um mit anderen ins Gespräch zu kommen und sich intensiver auszutauschen. Hinsichtlich des Netzwerkaspekts also optimal.

Auch die Anzahl der vorgestellten Projekte ging gefühlsmäßig etwas zurück. In Bezug auf das qualitative Niveau kann ich mich nur dem Urteil anschließen, dass ich während den beiden Tagen öfters gehört habe – das war wirklich hoch. Zumindest in den Panels an denen ich teilgenommen habe, war ich von den wirklich spannenden Arbeiten echt angetan, selbst wenn sie teilweise aus mir völlig fremden Disziplinen kamen. Auch die Diskussionen im Anschluss empfand ich als sehr konstruktiv und denke, dass jeder Vortragende hier wichtige Hinweise zu seiner Arbeit bekam.

Zumindest ich habe für mein Vorhaben viele Hinweise und neue Ideen mitgenommen. Von daher an dieser Stelle nochmals vielen Dank an alle, die nach meiner Präsentation mitdiskutiert oder mir in der Zwischenzeit per Email ein Feedback gegeben haben. Ich denke, dass ich noch etwas damit beschäftigt sein werde meine Gedanken zu sortieren und die neuen Anregungen zu verarbeiten. Der ein oder andere Punkt wird sicher auch zu einem neuen Blogbeitrag führen.

Für alle die nicht dabei sein konnten, hier noch meine Folien zum Vortrag:

Über Hinweise, konstruktives Feedback, neue Anregungen oder einfach eure Meinung zum Vorhaben, würde ich mich wie immer freuen.

I’m really getting the fact that Tumblr’s blog designs are awesome. Okay. Yeah, it’s true. Their design is really awesome. You might want to check my Tumblr account. But what is a blog without any sense?? Designs are just additional tweaks. BLOG IS ABOUT THE WORDS of the author. Bakit ba pinagtitripan ko ang tumblr?? Hahahaha. So i’ll shut up. )

DARKCHEDDAR || CARLOS.

This is why I like Ubuntu, there’s an app for almost everything!

Okay, so if you have a blog like I do, and you have limited bandwidth or if you just dont want to use your wordpress editor, there’s a really cool Blog app called BloGTK Weblog Client (there are others such as Lekhonee etc. but none are as good as this one). This app allows you to post your blogs directly from your desktop.

To download it, go to Ubuntu Software Center and search for BloGTK Weblog Client.

Or if you want to use the terminal you can install BloGTK by typing the following command:

sudo apt-get install blogtk

You’ll be asked for your password and the software will be installed.

Now coming to the configuring part. BloGTK is intalled in the Internet tab of your GNOME menu. Start the application. It looks like this:

In the BloGTK application click on the “Edit” menu and then on “Accounts and Settings”. Now you’ll get a window similar to the pic given below:

As you can see you need to set the options as the following:

Enter your username and password and leave all other settings untouched. Now when you’re done open the “File” menu and click on the “Connect” option.

Thats it. Now write your post and and post it on your blog. Pretty simple eh?

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screen shot of the invitation wave within google wave.

So I’ve started a wave within Google Wave and what this waves job is to bring people together.

As most know, you have to be invited or “nominated” to be part of Google Wave. Most people don’t know where to begin. If you are lucky enough to know someone on Twitter or another service that invites you, then you’re set. What about everyone else? Well hopefully my wave idea will help out.

I’ve started a wave that all of my contacts are a part of and all of their contacts and so on. When they have a friend that needs to be invited they simply add that persons email to the wave. Once done, anyone that is a part of that wave with invites will hopefully pop the email address into the invite wave and BAM, nominated!

As the wave grows so does the potential for invite. The more people that are part of the wave the more names will be added to the growing list of people to invite.

The wave also contains some helpful information on how to update your profile on Google Wave.

For more information or to get your name on the list, just send me a message from one of the following services with your name, email (gmail account), your favourite networking service (twitter/facebook) and I’ll add the emails!

Happy Waving!!!

Wie ihr sicher bemerkt habt, war es in letzter Zeit recht still hier auf dem Blog. Zwar habe ich an einigen Beiträgen gearbeitet, diese aber nie wirklich fertig gestellt. Irgendwie symptomatisch für meine Produktivität in den letzten Wochen. Aber das ist nun vorbei und vielleicht wird auch der ein oder andere Beitrag hier in nächster Zeit noch erscheinen.

Aber erstmal will ich heute einen Rückblick auf den ZEW-KMRC-Workshop on „The potential of social software for knowledge creation and economic performance“ werfen. Ich hatte hier ja bereits darüber geschrieben. Auf Einladung des Instituts für Wissensmedien (IWM) durfte ich am 6./7. November an diesem teilnehmen und meine Gedanken zum Fördern von Wissensmanagementkompetenzen bei Schülern durch den Einsatz von Weblogs im Schulunterricht vorstellen.

Obwohl – oder gerade weil – die Workshopteilnehmer aus recht unterschiedlichen Disziplinen kamen, fand ich die präsentierten Studien und vor allem die Diskussionen im Rahmen der Gruppenarbeiten beziehungsweise beim Abendevent sehr spannend und ergiebig. Vor allem die Arbeiten rund um das Thema NetIdentity und die vorgestellten Projekte am IWM gaben mir viele Anregungen, von denen sicher die ein oder andere (z.B. das Co-Evaluation Model) auch in meiner Dissertation Einfluss finden wird. Aber auch viele erfrischend neue Ideen gehen mir seit dem durch den Kopf, die durchaus auch zu neuen (Forschungs-)Projekten werden könnten.

Insgesamt fand ich den Ansatz Nachwuchswissenschaftler unterschiedlichster Fachrichtungen zum Gedankenaustausch zu versammeln ein echt gelungenes Konzept. Es hilft definitiv die eigenen Scheuklappen abzulegen und wieder über den Tellerrand des eigenen Themengebiets zu schauen. Unterstützt wurde die inspirierende Atmosphäre durch die wirklich super Organisation und die optimalen Räumlichkeiten des Zentrums für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) in Mannheim. Hier wirklich auch ein großes Lob an die Ausrichter. Vor allem der Abendevent im Skyline Restaurant des Fernsehturms bot neben einem atemberaubenden Ausblick auch das richtige Ambiente für den informellen Austausch.

Bei allem Lob darf aber auch die Kritik nicht fehlen. Hier fällt mir allerdings nur ein Verbesserungsvorschlag ein – die Einbindung von Social Software in den Workshop. Ich fand es schon komisch, dass man sich zwei Tage zum Austausch über solche Anwendungen trifft, aber keine davon aktiv nutzt. Symptomatisch hierfür vielleicht die Tatsache, dass meines Wissens kein Hashtag für den Workshop festgelegt wurde. Hier würde ich mir wünschen, dass die Organisatoren bei künftigen Workshops der Integration von Twitter, Weblogs und Social Networks – auch bereits im Vorfeld des Treffens – mehr Beachtung schenken. Ich denke es würde die Diskussionen und die Zusammenarbeit während der beiden Tage wirklich befruchten. Aber sonst schaue ich auf eine wirklich spannende und inspirierende Veranstaltung zurück, bei der ich viele interessante Leute kennen lernte. Hoffentlich werde ich bei einer Neuauflage auch wieder eingeladen.

La industria de la información quiere seguir siendo monopolio.

Muchos y muchas desde aquí defendemos la Neutralidad de la Red, con el sano objetivo de que no existan limites a la libre creación ni a la Libertad de Expresión.  También al unísono desde el oficio periodístico,  se nos ofrecen sesudos análisis, escritos, conferencias y congresos de todo tipo que nos hablan de la “crisis del periodismo”.

¿Crisis del periodismo o crisis financiera de la industria de la información con la aparición de la Net? En este contexto hay quien ha reaccionado, pero hay más formas de reacción.

Por ejemplo esta:

El artículo sobre la basura acumulada en el Pacífico recogió en este sitio 6.000 dólares de unos cien donantes entre los que figuran el fundador de Craiglist y Jimmy Wales, de Wikipedia.

Regresamos  al Renacimiento…mecenazgos, filántropos, o dicho en lenguaje políticamente correcto “Bussines Angel’s” que hasta el Estado tiene que intervenir.

Pero ( hoy a la gallega) ¿Qué sucedería si las fuentes de la información dejasen de ser de dominio público? Pista:  hablo de las fuentes no de la industria.

Avisé de que Leire Pajín desconocía lo que es el “Efecto Streisand”.
http://etc.territoriocreativo.es/etc/2009/11/gestion-comunidades-partidos-politicos.html

Muy recomendable su lectura de la que estoy completamente de acuerdo. Cuando pase un tiempo, daré una opinión mucho más amplia que esta recomendación o micro entrada.

Mientras tanto el debate y la opinión fluye en Internet, con logos, marcas sin derechos de autor, sin copyright ni cortapisas…estos forman parte del pasado.

… is not using typographical tricks like placing an ellipsis at the end of a headline to “lure” the reader in.

I mention this because I have just received another marketing/spam email offering me the opportunity to learn the ‘Top Tips’ of a master sales copywriter. I’ve already learned the craft of copywriting from some of the legends of the industry; writers who can take the smallest or most seemingly insignificant benefit of a product or service and create a big idea to entertain and persuade their audience to change their behaviour. No easy task.

In the email I received there are at least another 30 “Top Tips” that the so called expert copywriter is willing to teach ordinary people. (I’ve never meet an ordinary human especially as there are 6 billion unique models running around the planet).

Let’s be very clear; the best copywriters in the world work for the best advertising agencies in the world. They do not write spam emails about how to write spam emails under the guise of Internet marketing.

So here is my three top tips for spotting scam copy online or in an email;

1. It’s very, very, very long – You’re halfway through it before you have any idea what it’s about except you’re promised that your salary or penis will be much larger for little cost and/or effort just by clicking a link.
2. It’s too good to be true – turn your annual salary into your monthly, weekly or daily salary. Quadruple your profits overnight. But you only get to the ‘offer’ after reading a type of prose which is a written is a style that is half evangelical and half brain washing.
3. It’s full of praise – Typically the praise is for a person or system that the sender is trying to convince you to use.

What I really hate about this kind of Internet marketing is that it preys on the naive, gullible, simple or desperate. And for this reason alone I will do my best to educate people as to the different types of deplorable tricks that the majority of Internet marketers use.

Please don’t laugh at my niavete or scorn my belief without basis. (The real word that should be inserted here is prejudice but I just couldn’t bring myself to say it.) We used to live in an historic neighborhood. Some renters. Some restoring old homes to their glamour of yesterday. A mixed neighborhood of  color and money. It’s what we wanted. We’re a mixed race family. We’re educated but chose professions that don’t bring in tons of money. We made the conscious decision to be where we were. And most of the time, we loved our neighborhood. But the school system wasn’t stellar. And my husband’s business was growing. And, frankly, I just didn’t feel safe anymore. I was tired of going to neighborhood watch meetings and talking about the latest gang markings. I was home alone with two infants and my daughter was starting high school - no longer to be homeschooled. We decided we wanted idyllic suburbia with people “just like us.” Ha!

We searched and searched. We thought that by living in a neighborhood where the homes were of a certain worth we’d fit in and feel comfortable with everyone. We looked high. We looked low (but not too low.) The higher we looked the more promising we felt the neighborhood would be. One woman (a neighbor) saw us looking at a home and she came over and introduced herself. She alerted us to another home down the street from her. The husband was being transferred to Singapore. “I want neighbors who are moving to Singapore!” I said to my husband. I felt that if you were willing to move to exotic locales you would be worldly, educated, open-minded and interesting. We looked in another neighborhood where the price point for the homes was wide. The only homes we could afford were in a section called The Commons. “Oh look, Honey,” my husband exclaimed, “We can be commoners!”

Ultimately, we chose a beautiful neighborhood with lots of amenities, homes priced close together so we’d be with like minds (ha! again), sidewalks, front and back porches, neighborhood activities and get-togethers. It’s also closer to a major city and a large Korean population which is what we wanted for our kids. Don’t get me wrong, we love it here. We’ve met some amazing people who are now close friends (Hi K and A!) but some of my neighbors are not what I bargained for. One neighbor gets caught up in gossip and helps to spread it like wildfire on Facebook. One neighbor gives my daughter the creeps with his leering and creepy comments  (don’t worry, we stay away). One neighbor bragged about cheating the bank/government/us by walking away from their mortgage. Another grabs a  few clubs and he and his kid sneak onto the golf course at the 5th hole at dusk without paying. So much for like minds. Another lesson learned.

I’ve called this place where we, the bloggers,  reside as Blog World. And a dear reader commented in a private note to me that I’d make a great neighbor. I thought, this is what I’ve created here for myself – a neighborhood! And I LOVE my neighbors here. And I like it that we all live here together. How cool is it that we get to pick and choose our neighbors? Our neighborhood here can be as homogenized or eclectic as we want it to be. In case you’re wondering, mine is pretty eclectic and I like it that way! I thought I might introduce you to some of my favorite neighbors! I won’t be able to get to all of them today so I’ve decided this is going to be a series of posts, hopefully without end because I seem to meet kind, creative, interesting, and amazing people every day. This neighborhood is as large as I want to make it and we’re all within walking distance of each other. How perfect is that?

Submom at Absence of Alternatives - This is the kind of neighbor when you go next door to borrow a cup of sugar, you start talking and talking so she invites you in. You keep talking. And talking. You finish your conversation. Go home and realize you didn’t get the cup of sugar. So you go back, laugh about the forgotten cup of sugar. It reminds her of this funny story so you start talking again. And talking. You go home and guess what? Yep. But it’s a great excuse to go next door again for more great conversation! When she moved in I found my new best friend!

Steve at The Planet Harris Blog - There is a pond in my neighborhood and he lives across it. (Smiling at my feeble little  joke) As you enter his home to the left is the library. To the right is the dining room but the table is covered with books and a laptop and has been turned into an office. You step into the family room and there are floor to ceiling bookshelves with a handy little ladder on wheels. His wife is baking biscuits. You can smell sweets baking and coffee and tea brewing. They are warm, welcoming people. The couches are comfy and there are always interesting people popping over for good conversation. I like it here!

TKW at The Kitchen Witch - She lives right next door, too. Which is a good thing because when I’m in a pinch and have NO idea what to bring to the neighborhood BBQ - she’s got the recipe. Snowed in with the kids for three days? She’s got the recipe. Husband home sick and whiny and you just want him to shut up  get a good night’s rest? She’s got the recipe. But better than her recipes are the stories behind them. She’s the best kind of neighbor because she doesn’t judge, she laughs at herself and she’d look out for your kids like they’re her own.

I have two neighbors (they live in the bungalows just up the street, downsizing since the kids have moved away) that I go to for advice, Robin at Passions and Soapboxes and Mary Lee at MerrilyMaryLee’s Weblog. They’re wise and they’re hip. They’re sweet and they’re funny. But they’ve been there, done that with child rearing. They’ve lived it and they’re willing to share what works and what doesn’t. And they’re living a life right now that is packed with fun and interesting adventures.

Five houses in my neighborhood. I’ll tell you about more of them another time. But to all of you out there – thanks for living in MY neighborhood. Thank you for allowing me to live in yours. I never realized how attached I would become to my bloggy friends. What started out as a little experiment grew into something I never imagined. I’m glad I live here!

(P.S. Don’t forget about our get together Friday, November 13th. Collect the craziest search terms for your blog and we’ll all share them on Friday. You can write them in the comment section or blog about it – but don’t forget to link/comment here so we can all see them! See you Friday!)

Schon vor zwei Jahren hat Karl-Heinz Wenzlaff eine Liste aller Blogs mit  Google Pagerank 6 oder 7 erstellt. Damals schafften das 36 Blogs. Nun hat er wieder eine Liste erstellt, diesmal auf der Basis des deutschsprachigen Blogverzeichnisses Blogoscoop, in dem aktuell 3.7077.385 Blogs aufgelistet sind. Aktuell weisen dort, so schreibt Wenzlaff in seinem aktuellen Beitrag, 66 deutschsprachige Blogs ein Pagerank 6 oder 7 auf. Drei davon kommen aus Österreich.

Dass ich mit dem Kulturmanagement Blog zu dieser illustren Runde gehöre, freut mich natürlich sehr. Deshalb lehne ich mich heute zurück und schau noch ein paarmal auf diese schöne Liste.

Und dazu höre ich mir eine sehr spezielle Coverversion an, die von Klaus Karlbauer stammt.

Klingt gut, oder?

… it has ‘You are here’ written all over it.” (Stephen Wright)

Maybe that’s what Google Maps needs to shoot for, seeing as how a search for Canton, Ohio – while correctly labeled itself – once  again leads to Massillon.

You are here. Or not.

It’s also been brought to my attention in the comments on a previous post about this that at least the error is balanced somewhat:

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Die Zeitschrift “Publik-Forum” hat in ihrer heutigen Ausgabe (2009) 21 einen kritischen Aufsatz zum Thema Web 2.0 und soziale Netzwerke veröffentlicht. Mehr zum Thema ist in der Papierausgabe zu finden.

I am guessing ya’ll heard about those new FCC rules re: bloggers and disclosure? So for the record…

At this point, I buy all of my product. I am not swanky enough to get inundated with swag (please oh please click the link PLEASE), and I am not chasing it either. Although it would probably be more financially responsible for me to ask  for free product to try. But I have never been terribly responsible.

You will notice I don’t  product review much these days. Times are tight at the mo, and I can’t buy as much product as I would like to try. It’s hard for me to justify buying something right now that may very well end up in the trash.

If it’s a free sample, or something I received as a gift (yes family members buy me product!), I will disclose that.

I try not to blog about the product that I use in my treatment room and/or retail, which is hard because I obviously adore those products but I am not here to be all sell-y. If I do mention any item I professionally work with, I disclose it.

Since this blog is a free WordPress blog, I can’t accept any forms of advertising. If I migrate to my own site someday, that may change. But for now, we are ad free (though I think WordPress may stick their own ads up from time to time-these have nothing to do with me). This includes “sponsored posts.” I wish I had someone who would sponsor me for just being fabulous, but I married for love, not money, which was, once again, irresponsible (see paragraph 1).

So, basically, I don’t make money from this and I don’t get free product or invited to swanky lunches, product launches, or press junkets to exotic locations.

I think disclosure is fine, and I was doing it anyway. But I am not terribly thrilled that the government thinks this blog may require federal oversight. Where’s the oversight on the health insurance companies who jack up rates and deny claims? Where’s the oversight on Wall Street? I really don’t understand why, with all the flailing around going on in this country right now, they decided that the bloggers need a babysitter. But whatever. Disclosure is easy enough.

However, if the FCC is really interested in crack downs, I would recommend they do not forget that traditional media has an awful lot of pay-for-play that going on as well. When I worked at the glossies, companies that advertised always had their product first in line for an editorial mention. And when it came time to ID the makeup worn by the cover models, we used a rotating list of advertisers. We would send them the cover image and asked them to color match everything with their products and give them the credit, regardless of what the makeup artist used. Just sayin…

So thank you FCC. I hope I am in compliance. Please don’t fine my ass.

World peace is something that almost everyone dreams of. This is what our planet needs today. From across the globe, people fight against each other. Why? I think it’s because people have different opinions, and different perspectives, and everyone needs to be heard.

I wonder it there will still come a time when everyone would just live in harmony, that all will just respect each other’s differences. I really wish that this time would come.

Today, I support Mimi’s Blog Blast for Peace project. Thousands of peace globes will be flagged on blog sites today. Dona Nobis Pacem means “Grant us peace!” Let everyone hear our voice!