I’m happy to announce that Andreas Raith, a colleague of mine, finished his Master-Thesis on “E-Testing at Austrian Universities” (the thesis in only in German available). He is completing his Master of Sciene in Online Education. He participated in our corporate educational program and invested a lot of private and corporate time - for the benefit of all of us.

Building Sustainable Communities through Network Building: This article by by Valdis Krebs and June Holley elaborates understandable and enlightening (word of the day the use of social network analysis derived from it’s maps. It anwsers questions like: who are the most influential nodes in a given network. Knowing that gives you an idea how to diffuse innovation, rumors, alerts or whatsoever.

Enlightening report on the conservative or protective attitudes of corporate IT departments in face of employee created workarounds and self-determined productivity tools. Jim Louderback presents his list of disruptive applications to IT-dpts. along with recommendations for the IT (to get rid of it) as well as for the users (to get away with it). Good read.

Nice comparison of default design elements (templates) of the relevant blogsoftware. Texpattern (btw: more of a CMS than simple blogsoftware) does best for Makiko.

Spotting Weblog Software through Design?

Makiko Itoh on “Spotting weblogging systems through design” - an interesting approach, observing similarities in (sometimes heavily tweaked) templates. Do we chose our weblogging system based on our aesthetically inclined minds? I am not sure, but it’s an interesting read nonetheless

This is especially interesting to me, being I get a lot of “yours doesn’t look like a Drupal site, Jonas” comments

[a preponderance of evidence blogs]