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Archive for June, 2006

June 29th, 2006

A fantastic source for consultant ( )s in the field. Don’t forget to empower your app and customer with WYSIWYG ( ) and the right consultants (aka support) to implement it. What I don’t get is why they changed from TWiki to Socialtext.

Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein | Socialtext Enterprise Wiki: “We already had a wiki that was heavily used by IT,’ said Myrto Lazopoulou, Director of User Experience, ‘but we wanted to bring business people on board to enhance collaboration and communication between IT and the business. We wanted a platform for both groups, not something that’s used just by IT.’

BTW: some best practices from the work of Suw Charman will be presented at BlogTalk ( ).

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June 28th, 2006

I was asked only recently to peer review an article that was submitted to the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.

Just in case you wonder how something like that could look like. Here is what I sent back (slightly edited)

JCMC-Review, Thomas N. Burg

merits (how does it advance our understanding).
- General analytical model that relates the use of a specific tool/usage metaphor to aspects of computer-mediated information-, relation-, and identitymanagement.
- Differentiation of different usage scenarios

improvements:
- How can we understand „the constant reproduction (of structural dimensions - TB) in social actions“ practically, p1.
- the relation of the [...] and the individual [...] (or clusters of [...])
- with respect to p8.

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June 22nd, 2006

I just switched BlogTalk ( ) Reloaded from static pages to PmWiki ( ) based. There is now a page for participants as well as the possibility to create pages and groups for you own conference-related purpose.

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June 18th, 2006

More than 70 proposals from more than 80 people were submitted and only a few could make it. The base for the program of BlogTalk ( ) Reloaded is here.
We will have a broad but very focused range of topics based on geographic diversity - encompassing software demos, academic papers, and practitioner reports.

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