Scott Gavin

I’ve posted over at the Whatever Company blog about the social collation and annotation of learning resources. I talk about how I’ve been using web 2.0 tools to prepare for teaching and packaging course content for learners. I even did a bit of wizardry in Keynote in an attempt to visualise what on …

…I find myself agreeing with this excerpt from http://beyondgrowth.net/social-criticism/social-media-moving-towards-a-brave-new-world/ .
Twitter is a Little Bit Distracting
One place where thousands of people have taken this to heart is the social network known as Twitter.  Twitter is a social media site where users can post short, 140 character messages known as tweets that their friends can receive notifications …

This a good post on why SharePoint isn’t the social solution it was hailed to be.  Jim Goings covers a lot of ground with real world examples of how SP does not foster a social workplace……SharePoint: Not the Social Answer — Jim Goings

These are my links for August 9th:

OmCollab – MIKE2.0, the open source methodology for Information Development – omCollab is a powerful, Enterprise 2.0 collaboration product completely built on open source software. It provides a web portal environment to create, share and search Microsoft Office content, files, shared bookmarks, blog posts and wiki articles across the …

See this post by Sam Lawrence: 10 Fantastic ways to f*ck it up

So what’s been keeping me from blogging lately?
It’s been a funny, yet exciting couple of months.  On the good side things, I have been really busy working on some very exciting projects.  One such project is managing the redevelopment of an Enterprise 2.0 start-up’s product interface.  They have a great product and great team, yet …

The following is a recent article I submitted to a marketing publication.  Guess I may as well blog it!
Embracing Web 2.0 and social networks is becoming a key component to the success of many firms, especially those in the marketing industry.
Participation in social networks, blogging and online collaboration is no longer limited to the under …

Coverage of the SharePoint session at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference on Twitter:
MS guy: “Sharepoint is between major versions, so we can’t do all we want to out of the box”
WTF squared. that Microsoft guy just said its strategy for master data management was to integrate an acquisition into Sharepoint????
MS failing dismally at showing off …

Ben Gardner and team have been raising eyebrows at the global Pharmaceutical giant by combing two Microsoft products to create a neat collaboration tool. They are rolling out OneNote to their customers in conjunction with SharePoint to create…..OnePoint ! Yes, they thought of the name all by themselves.
We have combined OneNote 2007 with …

It’s something I’ve seen a few times now. If you’re the or one of the first people in your organisation to start an internal blog, you can leverage much more influence than if you’re late to the party.
I’ve seen people get the ear of the board, senior Vice Presidents, influence company policy, gain exciting …

These are my links for June 1st:

Phoenix to Earthlings: I’ve Landed! Awesome! – A great example of how anyone can use social tools such as Twitter: Whoever thought a NASA spacecraft could be so adept at social networking and Web 2.0?

The kind people organising the Enterprise 2.0 conference have released one FULL PLATINUM PASS (worth $2,195.00) and one $100 OFF DISCOUNT (or a free Demo Pavilion pass- unlimited) code for me to give away.
I’m not attending the conference this year (boo hoo) as I just can’t free up the time at the moment. However, …

These are my links for May 19th:

Hershey Forms Social Network for Scientists – Simon continues to rock E2.0! In 2006, employees of global pharmaceutical company Pfizer began blogging, thanks to the work of Simon Revell, the company’s manager of Enterprise 2.0 technology development.
IT Pros Called Upon to Leverage Web 2.0 – Enterprise demand for IT …

Louvain La Neuve, 35 minutes south of Brussels hadn’t featured on my Enterprise 2.0 radar. However, nestled away on a brand new science park, a stone’s throw from the bustling university town is start-up Whatever, and their product Knowledge Plaza.
I spent two days at their San Francisco style offices meeting the team, looking at …

These are my links for May 12th:

Teenagers to take embarrassing ailments to Second Life doctors | Technology | The Guardian – Pharma’s Pay Attention! : Spanish health authorities launched a virtual portal through the Second Life website yesterday designed to help young people too embarrassed to speak to a doctor about sexually transmitted disease or …

For MediaWiki fans: A colleague noticed that when entering search terms in WikiPedia it is auto suggesting as you type. This is a massive enhancement as often you need to search an exact term/title to retrieve the desired results.

I’m hoping this is being rolled into the general MediaWiki package.

These are my links for May 8th:

London Web Week – Seven days of web design and development events, taking place in central London from 26th May to 1st June, 2008.

Earlier on today, I was at home looking in vain for the little usb cable for my new camera (Lumix TZ3).  I couldn’t find it so thought I must have left it in my office.   The trouble is I seem to be collecting office space at the moment and I’ve been at each of them in the last week.  …

Just a quick note to say I’m still here! It was a busy end to 2007 and 2008 has started off just the same. I have a ton of stuff (that doesn’t fall under a NDA) to blog about so need to get some down time to get it out of my Moleskine …

Ok I gave in, and opened a Spock account.  When I started receiving requests to joins people’s Spock network I honestly thought it was a hoax as the name sounds like a spoof networking site.  Today after another bunch of requests I finally clicked ‘accept’ and now have an account. 

I don’t know if I will …