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The Internet Bill of Rights

If you don't focus regularly on topics related to networks and the Internet in particular, you might sometimes lose track of what the key issues are and how they relate to each other. Network neutrality? Open standards? Interoperability? What do all these things mean again? Well, you pretty much have one place to look and it's called The Internet Bill of Rights. It represents the culmination of a lot of thinking into what aspects of the Internet have given rise to so much freedom and innovation, and which therefore must be preserved. This document is actually starting to get some policy traction in Europe and you or your organization can easily add your support. If you or your organization have in any way benefited from the qualities that make the Internet what it is, then you should definitely participate in some way: add your name, print it out and post it, link to it, circulate it, advocate for it. Posted: 11/27/07; 3:17:47 PM #

Five Exercises in Listening

We usually associate teaching more with talking than with listening, which is unfortunate. In Exercises in Listening, Asher Bey tries to address that issue at least a bit by offering five incredibly simple pieces of advice to teachers: (1) Stop talking. (2) Stop thinking about talking when you are not talking. (3) Make an opening for the student to talk. (4) Seek moments of silence between you and the student. These are moments in which nothing need be said, and in which perhaps nothing is being said. (5) Ask questions. Posted: 11/27/07; 3:12:22 PM #

The Cuneiform Code: The Knowledge Management Three

In The Cuneiform Code (the first of two posts), Gavin Clabaugh presents the "three essential elements of effective knowledge management", which he calls the KM-3: (1) Have a clear idea of the things you want to keep. (2) Know where to keep things: have an organized, centralized place that everybody knows and everybody uses. (3) Have an EASY way to find it again, quickly and easily, without the need for some specialized knowledge or secret decoder ring. As usual, this is practical advice, delivered with Gavin's inevitable humor. I particularly liked the part about "feeding the beast" (getting knowledge into the system on an ongoing basis). Indeed, I would probably push this further and say that the best systems are the ones that are, at least initially, designed around feeding. Posted: 11/27/07; 3:09:06 PM #

Is Charity Navigator the 'National Enquirer' of Watchdog Groups?
	Michael Soper's recent comments about Charity Navigator - appearing originally in the Gilbert Author's Network blog Rare Medium - were picked up recently by Tactical Philanthropy and then the Chronicle of Philanthropy. The latter gave his critique a juicy title: Is Charity Navigator the 'National Enquirer' of Watchdog Groups? Posted: 11/27/07; 2:52:19 PM #