ICTlogy

As Marnie is asking for my opinion in his comment on my previous post, there goes my impression about the article (in fact, two articles).

Good points:

• build and update a website the easiest way: a blog as an easy to set up and manage Content Management System
• a blog as a means to show that you know and what you know
• very good point talking about the blog in the field of knowledge management and project management – I really liked this

Weak points:

• too much emphasis in Google and importance of blog in internet relevance: I guess there’s many other things to take in consideration such as meta tags, correct web design, content, etc.
• should include some explanation about syndication, RSS feeds and so to include not only the blog publisher point of view but the reader’s – maybe the article’s part III? ;)
• the example goes round and round in blog’s role in audience impact in different ways but same concept but should also cover dynamic information to members – I know this is more about intranets than blogs but… aren’t they that close one to another?

Weblogs: The Promise for Nonprofit Organizations, an article about NGOs and blogging at TechSoup.

The author’s blog, Extension 337, about technology and nonprofits, has just been added to my Bloglines’ blogroll.

BTW, already back from holidays :P

(tip by C

On Thursday, 23rd September 2004, 12:00 AM, I’m speaking at Tecnoneet 2004, 3rd Congress of Special Educational Needs and Information Society Technology:
“Challenges and realities of the Digital Inclusion” (23-25 September 2004. Auditorium and Conference Centre. Murcia-Spain)

When I first read its preliminary program, I thought the Campus for Peace had to be there. Now I’m not that sure. The definitive program (sent to me by mail by the organization but not yet uploaded to the site) is specifically focused to people with disabilities, instead of people behind the digital divide, as I thought.

After thinking about it, I’ll rewrite my presentation in this new key as, all in all, what I was talking about can easily be thought in plenty of ways.

Thus, the title is “Virtual Volunteering for e-Learning for Development” and deals with three pillars on which to build non-profit e-learning projects:

• F/OSS e-learning platforms
• Free (licensed) content
• Virtual volunteers

I have uploaded to my Articles section a very little article which, in fact, is the extended description of what I’ll talk about.

In Spanish only, for the moment.

At Slashdot.

Free content. That’s it.

It is my intention to get a copy of Wikipedia to every single person on the planet in their own language. It is my intention that free textbooks from our wikibooks project will be used to revolutionize education in developing countries by radically cutting the cost of content.

[…]

I frequently counsel people who are getting frustrated about an edit war to think about someone who lives without clean drinking water, without any proper means of education, and how our work might someday help that person.

[…]

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.

[via elearnspace]

Surfing through imabrokekid I got to TimeBank, a volunteering national campaing settled in the UK and funded by the BBC. It is sort of a “marketplace” such as Hacesfalta.org in Spain.

They have a Virtual Volunteering section. The intention is good but the info is quite poor (i.e. no reference to UN Online Volunteers at all) and their list of tasks you can do as an e-volunteer just skips the most – for me – important of they all: training.

I thing online volunteering still has to reach shape and weight as a concept. I’d like and help to it :)

Scott posts for help to gather some online volunteers and help him and the Peace Corps to build web sites for NGOs and other development organizations.

He’s now trying to build a site where to work with these volunteers.

Hope we could help somehow.