crisscrossedcrisscrossedThis blog aims to explore and develop social changes through communication. It focuses on tools such as internet, it's impact, potential and challenges it faces within different cultures around the world. It also approaches network learning and highl Articles
Online privacy in Germany is over
2008-01-03 00:21:00 This blog post veers a little bit from my usual topics, but in my opinion it is still quite important. Since January 1st, Germany has had a new online surveillance law. The result is an unfortunate wide scale intervention in the privacy of German citizens. Once again, it is another anti-terrorism law since 9/11. ... More About: Online Privacy , Privacy , Online
Top posts 2007 and my lessons learnt
2007-12-31 16:41:00 It is pleasing to reflect about the most visited posts, from this blog, during 2007. I wonder why some triggered more attention than others; and I am looking forward to applying some lessons learnt in 2008. 4 examples for innovative mobile phone use in Africa 10 challenges for web2.0 in organizations What is enterprise2.0? Five pillars for efficient ... More About: Posts , Lessons
Social software for social change
2007-12-24 17:29:00 Charles Leadbeater, well known for his book We Think, has released an interesting paper called “Social Software for Social Change .” The paper presents rich examples about civic action through the web and its impact on democracy. With the advice from Dan Mcquillan, Leadbeater greatly links different forms of activism and engagement; as well as elaborating ... More About: Social Software
Not English, but a multilingual social web is the key for collaboration
2007-12-18 00:00:00 The social web is quite separated in different language domains. English is a key language to bridge different cultures, but it can also be a dead end. Worldwide collaboration can only work in a multilingual network. English is one of the major languages on the net, whether it is on blogs, social networks or the ... More About: Social , Collaboration , Social Web
The private vs. the organizational approach to web2.0
2007-12-13 22:56:00 I have already written about 10 challenges for web2.0 in an organization, but this time I would like to highlight two decisive factors: Culture and a new paradigm of knowledge sharing. Furthermore, this post elaborates the differences between web2.0 in private life vs. in an organizational setting. Culture is a key factor. Blogs and wikis change ... More About: Private , Organ
Changes in work life: Employee2.0
2007-12-11 00:03:00 Leila Summa has given a great presentation called “Wanted: Employee2.0 - when technologies wait for their users.” She presented it in German but here I have translate some parts. (Complete presentation). It underlines again how fast this new forms of communication and opportunities evolve, how much faster organizations need to react, and how profound ... More About: Life , Work
Citizen journalism in Africa
2007-12-07 00:23:00 Most countries are far away from reaching the level that Koreans have on citizen journalism, such is the case of the famous Ohmynews: “The Net and Netizens Watchdogging Government.” A pioneer of citizen journalism was certainly indymedia.org, which got famous during the WTO protest back in 1999 in Seattle. In German language there is an ... More About: Africa , Journalism , Citizen
Notes from the web4dev conference
2007-12-04 00:12:00 Continuing with the web4dev conference in Nairobi, I wanted to add some more personal perspectives. During the conference, on the second day, twenty different workshops were offered. We, Nynke and I, gave a presentation that same day, and as with most other sessions, not many people showed up. We highlighted some lessons we had learnt ... More About: Notes , Conference
Start of the web4dev conference: Major issue connectivity
2007-11-28 15:40:00 I am at the Web4Dev conference in Nairobi, Kenya. The conference brings together people from all over the world to discuss how the web can contribute to development. One overarching topic are the Millennium Development Goals and how information and communication technologies (ICT) can help to achieve them. I will give a presentation tomorrow together with ... More About: Start , Connectivity , Major , Conference , Issue
Pitfalls of micro blogging via Twitter
2007-11-25 02:45:00 In my last post I described the potential for social networks by tweets and statuses, but now I would like to add to it some links of interesting blog posts about Twitter and its potential. There is, for example, Nancy White, collecting collaboration stories over Twitter. Another interesting post from Marshall Kirkpatrick, “Why Twitter pays ... More About: Blogging , Micro
10 reasons why statuses and tweets are a key for social networks
2007-11-20 00:07:00 For the past weeks I have been experimenting with Twitter and Facebook. I have checked out the value of statuses (Facebook) and tweets (Twitter) over these two social network tools. For those of you who do not know, Facebook is a social network platform which lets one not only to add friends and content, but ... More About: Social , Social Networks , Networks , Reasons
The difficulty of saying good bye to top-down communication
2007-11-15 23:55:00 Last Tuesday I took part on a discussion round in Düsseldorf, Germany. It was about the changing of the communication of enterprises due to web2.0. Reflecting the evening, I find it quite interesting what it might have meant in terms of the new web and its potential users in Germany. To put ahead, I share ... More About: Communication , Good , Difficulty , Diff
Open Source Life?
2007-11-12 01:35:00 As Japan is losing interest in the personal computer, Google announces recently the Android alliance to bring free and open source software to mobile phones. The revolutionary part of this is that proprietary software might be mostly for the personal computer; it will not longer be anymore for the mobile. This opens complete different opportunities ... More About: Life , Open Source , Open , Source , Open-Source
What is the outcome of new social network tools?
2007-11-05 14:12:00 I am quite impressed about the success of Facebook. The intimacy aspect, the clear design and usability combined with all sorts of applications are probably some of the success factors. However, I wonder what is the aftermath of this social network, and how many different results come out of it? I ponder how many people ... More About: Social , Tools , Network , Social Network
Blogs vs. Books for learning
2007-10-30 23:40:00 This post is rather abstract. It depicts me being puzzled about choosing between blogs or books. The question is if these two media could even be compared at all? Today I heard a presentation on which it was said that the internet is no medium, in the way that you absorb no knowledge from it, ... More About: Books , Blogs , Learning , Earning
From small to big engagement - big players are entering the web2fordev fiel
2007-10-27 17:29:00 This week two interesting web2.0 projects for development were released. One is a new website from Ebay called MicroPlace, and the other is a new blog called ideas 4 development. Slowly, big players such as development organizations or companies use web2.0 technology to promote discussions around development or to bundle their capacity to leverage ... More About: Players , Small , Engage , Erin , Engagement
Web2.0, knowledge sharing and IT departments
2007-10-18 00:22:00 Here in Germany, Web2.0 is in everybody’s mouth. Newspapers have been reporting about it lately, and some things are around the buzz word–blogs, wikis, social networks, wikipedia, facebook or youtube, get more and more attention. Whereas in the first wave most people wondered where and when will the next cool start-up spring up. The debate ... More About: Knowledge , Departments , Sharing , Shari , Hari
Blog action day: E-waste, the downside of the growing web
2007-10-15 15:25:00 Today is blog action day and this year’s topic is environment. Thousands of bloggers will devote their writing skills to create more awareness to our threaten environment. I decided to write about e-waste (electronic waste). As Internet grows everyday, so does the demand for electronic equipment that preserves and extends the access to ... More About: Action , Blog , Growing , Waste , The G
3 different conversations: blogs to fight poverty
2007-10-08 16:19:00 Thanks to Tom L. and Peter Ballantayne for their very interesting remarks on my post “an overview of blogging for development.” Peter argued that there are a lot different blogs in development aid or international cooperation out there and “must be loads more, just not very visible.” And Tom had a great point: What?s probably as ... More About: Blogs , Fight , Poverty , Vert , Diff
The web comes closer - the magic of tag clouds
2007-10-04 22:19:00 As you might have already noticed, I am a pretty big fan of tagging. I think tagging is often underestimated because it is trivial, but at the same time intuitive and meaningful. A tag cloud (or weighted list in visual design) is a visual depiction of content tags (keywords) used on a website. Often, more frequently ... More About: Magic , Clouds , Closer
Development aid 2.0
2007-10-03 00:39:00 I was interviewed by the Deutsche Welle (German version) last week during the web2fordev conference. As a result from the interview, an interesting article was published (Entwicklungshilfe 2.0) in which not only the potential of web2.o in the context of development is discussed, but it is also questioned whether web2.o will do a shift to ... More About: Development
web2fordev conference impressions (2)
2007-09-30 17:53:00 Complexity Another key lesson was the big question of ‘how to best combine all these web2.0 tools to obtain better results.’ Everybody is still experimenting –this might be what web2.0 is all about. Nevertheless, I understood the importance of taking a holistic approach and use a combination of blogs according to the objective. So, experimenting still ... More About: Conference , Impressions , Impress , Impression
web2fordev conference impressions (1)
2007-09-30 01:56:00 Unfortunately, I did not have the opportunity to blog during the web2fordev conference. Organization work was more than what I expected, and of course there were so many interesting people to talk to around, I just couldn’t let go. Favourably, we got about 50 blog posts mainly from our journalists, who came from different ... More About: Conference , Impressions , Impress , Impression
web2fordev conference has started
2007-09-25 11:26:00 A great first day on the web2fordev conference lies behind me. I arrived on Sunday and already had the pleasure to sit around with my fellow bloggers - journalists from Africa. Lately they already made some very interesting podcasts and during the conference we will have video interviews, but also direct video coverage from selected ... More About: Conference
An overview of blogging for development
2007-09-19 13:33:00 Background As some of you might already know I work for GTZ (German Technical Cooperation), and I am of course very interested in the potential of the web towards development aid and international cooperation. Surprisingly–and correct me if I am wrong!–but to me, it seems there are not many blogs out their in this field yet. There are of course a lot of portals –and two of the big ones are the development gateway or eldis.org. However, in my opinion, the development sector has yet not grasped the potential of web2.0. I already argued in a post that the result is that this shift, so far, is challenging traditional development agencies. What is there in the world wide web? One interesting website is aid worker network, which contains personal blogs from all around the world. There are also individual blogs that describe in an authentic and provoking way how it is to work in this field. Check out these examples from Afghanistan and Sudan. The science world is also b... More About: Blogging , Development , Overview
Search your own information web
2007-09-17 00:51:00 I just stumbled over deliGoo, a great new search mashup. It combines del.icio.us and Google’s custom search. That means, it can search for a keyword through all the websites of the 2829 bookmarks in my del.icio.us account. This gives me amazingly relevant results because my del.icio.us bookmarks represent my own web of topics–those I am ... More About: Information , Search
Weekly links: Blogging for democracy and African ingenuity
2007-09-15 23:14:00 Two articles on mobile for development Mobiles for the ‘world’s poorest’ is a new article from BBC, which describes how Jeffery Sachs Millenium village project applies mobile phones. Another article describes how PDAs are saving lives in Africa. Blogging for democracy around the world Interesting interview with Antony Loewenstein, who talks about his trip to various countries to ... More About: Links , Democracy , Weekly , African
Innovative online activism mashup
2007-09-09 14:10:00 Ethan Zuckerman presents a great example of on-line activism; this time on the President of Tunisia. It is a video made by Astrubal about the Tunisian presidential airplane. Although the President has been only out of the country three times in the last years, the airplane has been sighted all over Europe. As people all ... More About: Activism , Online , Mashup , Innovative , Inno
Few steps to a powerful social software application
2007-09-08 15:15:00 I have been dealing with different kinds of content management systems for some years now. What I find fascinating lately it is how applications became powerful and how easy they are to handle by non-experts. Through these applications, creating social media and networking is possible for everybody. Wikis and blogs can be set up in ... More About: Software , Social , Application , Social Software , Steps
10 arguments for web2.0 in an organization
More articles from this author:2007-09-04 01:18:00 It is not always easy to argue in favour of web2.0 tools when you are faced with these arguments: More information? My mailbox already drives me nuts! The content written by some people is often so irrelevant and just for entertainment. I spent ... More About: Organization , Organ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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