Giving Chocolate Online

Last week I did an Elluminate session for the Knowledge Tree about my article, "Blogs and Community – launching a new paradigm for online community? One of the participants knew my weakness for chocolate, and found a way to "share" it online.

You have to see this wonderful example of "gesture" online by Mike Seyfang, Giving Chocolate Online.

Recording of the "Blogs and Community" presentation can be found here. This will be one of the topics I'll be toting around with me in Australia. Just a week away now!

Thanks, Mike! (view the screencast).

Ignore this post. Just doing a little "bloghousework"

First Workshop: Melbourne VPS CIN

My friend and colleauge Shawn Callahan of Anecdote and I will be offering a workshop on 11 October in Melbourne for the Victoria Public Sector Continuous Improvement Network. We'll be talking about some of the issues around the adoption of new social computing software, from adoption issues to competencies of online interaction. Shawn and I have had a number of very interesting conversations via Skype, so it is going to be fun to take this face to face and public. If you are planning to attend, please post a note here introducing yourself and any questions or issues you think we should raise. This will help our workshop be more interactive and locally relevant!


Details here.

Tags: australianoctober, Anecdote, ShawnCallahan, SocialComputing, Competencies

Chocolate in Australia

Many of my Australian friends already know about my dark master, chocolate. They know me as choconancy. So they have been sending me links to chocolate places to visit while in Australia. This one is already driving me crazy with desire.

Max Brenner

Tech and Tools for the Trip

I've been encouraged to keep a journal of this Australian October Adventure so I figured I might want to add some tools and techniques to my repertoire. The first is mapping, mostly so my relatives can track me! Today I played with the trip mapper at Wayfaring. I'm not sure the new Blogger beta allows iFrames, but I'm about to try and find out! I put the first leg into the map to experiment - we'll fly out of Seattle and to Melbourne via Los Angeles.



I am thinking about what else I might use besides a blog. Pictures.. flickr, etc. Audio? Video? It has to be easy. My focus will be on interacting with people, not with my laptop and gizmos.

What would you suggest?

It's Official - My Speaking Tour is Announced

This makes my trip all the more real: Nancy White National Speaking Tour.

I'm trying to think about how to best use this blog for the trip - not just as my own trip journal, but to engage folks who I'll be meeting along the tour. Ideas?

Priming for the Adventure

In October I'll be spending much of the month in Australia, going to every Territory for workshops on a variety of topics, mostly around online interaction, communities and other such good stuff. In preparation, I'm starting a fresh blog. Hopefully the folks who I'll be gathering with will have a chance to log in here prior to my arrival at their "neck of the woods" and we can do a little online ramp up before we are face to face!