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Archive
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August 2010
July 2010
June 2010
- What we can learn from farmers about ICT4D and trust
- Your address book is the future of social networks
May 2010
- Talking with the audience: Development organisations and social media
- Presentation: A journey to the world of Maptivism
- A personal six month experiment: Pros & cons of digital reading
April 2010
- Twitter analysis: Development organizations and their listening skills
- The long journey to transparency and open data in the development aid sector
- What makes people want to join an online community?
March 2010
- Feasibility vs. constraints - learning with mobile phones
- Digital publishing and local content in Africa
- Frankfurt gestalten: Open data for transparency and engagement in local politics
February 2010
- A transparent world through face recognition and the great challenge for privacy
- Cairo, Johannesburg, Mumbai - 24 hrs Google Buzz and location-based information pops up everywhere
- SMS Uprising: Mobile Activism in Africa
January 2010
- The social web and the challenge of finding expertise
- 5 inspiring examples for worldwide Maptivism
- When do we trust an information source?
December 2009
- A shift in information sharing: Faster, more intensive and direct
- Organization 2.0 - what you should avoid saying
- Culture of social networks in Africa on the example of trade
November 2009
- Blog change – work change
- From global to local: Mobile, mapping and action
- The many potential channels for mobile services
October 2009
- Network overload: The burden to deal with too many social network sites
- Combining open innovation and crowdsourcing?
- The Internet of Things: Open intelligence through citizen action
September 2009
August 2009
- Citizen scientist - how mobile phones can contribute to the public good
- Mapping the 400+ ICT4D Twitter members
- Social media literacy: The gap between normal Internet users and social media enthusiasts
July 2009
- Social networks for a good cause – growth, culture and impact
- Exploring the potentials of blogging for development
June 2009
- Information silos vs. open data in development organizations
- Google Wave: Real-time trouble and the persistent belief in tools
- The race to map Africa and ethical issues around online mapping
May 2009
April 2009
- What does local content have to do with low-bandwidth applications?
- Micro-voluntarism a new form of international cooperation
March 2009
February 2009
- Metrics for Social networks: What does really happen?
- From A-Z to Organization2.0: F - Flexible staff and members
January 2009
- My take on the state of mobile phones for developments
- The participatory web – new potentials for ICT in rural areas
December 2008
- From A-Z to Organization2.0: Q - Quality takes time
- Flu alerts and what it says about the future power of information
- Future trends of mobile activism
- Reach your audience – don't talk about Web 2.0 or social media
November 2008
- Mobile phone innovation may not happen where you think it does
- Virtual Forum: Mobile Telephony in Rural Areas
October 2008
- The limits to filter feeds and gain more relevance
- Blog action day: The limited view on poverty in Western societies
- Africa, Asia, Europe: Web enthusiasts for social innovation
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
- Mobile phones for development = grassroots innovations
- From A-Z to Organization2.0: B - Blogging examples and success factors
June 2008
- First Socialcamp in Germany
- Social media for development in the local context
- From A-Z to Organization2.0: C - Cafeteria — catching the informal
- Digital divide: Connectivity and the different dimensions of literacy
May 2008
- A - Adaptation: From A-Z — the long trail of web2.0 in an organization
- Wisdom of crowd: Bottom up measuring of development results
- Complexity trap: Local vs. global knowledge in development work
- 6 innovative grassroot mashups for transparency
April 2008
- Mobile everything: 3 new dimensions of citizen engagement
- Collaboration for change: Reflections on the Social Innovation Camp
- Impressions from Re-publica and Social Innovation Camp
- Spoil the user? Why are not always the WYSIWYG Editors the right way?
- United Nations mashups: Visualizing world challenges
- NGO2.0 is all about learning and ideas (2)
- Metrics: What is the impact of social media on organizations?
March 2008
- Search the web for global development topics
- Web2.0 - potentials or obstacles for connectivity?
- NGO2.0 -- the end of the organization? (1)
- Is mobile development repeating ICT4D errors?
- Tired of PPT: Start power point karaoke
- Organizations can be democratic, flat and passionate
- Contribute to the combined ICT4D news feed
February 2008
- One, Two, Three: The digital order and the end of hierarchy
- How does social software get in an organization?
- When is the collaborative mobile web coming?
- Web2.0 and development studies
- A network of ideas - development 2.0
January 2008
- 7 concerns about the web in 2008
- How Can Nonprofits Use Twitter? Should They Even Bother?
- Kenyan bloggers need your support
- When will we be freed from the intranet?
- Widgets: Pimp your blog
- Online privacy in Germany is over
December 2007
- Top posts 2007 and my lessons learnt
- Social software for social change
- Not English, but a multilingual social web is the key for collaboration
- The private vs. the organizational approach to web2.0
- Changes in work life: Employee2.0
- Citizen journalism in Africa
- Notes from the web4dev conference
November 2007
- Start of the web4dev conference: Major issue connectivity
- Pitfalls of micro blogging via Twitter
- 10 reasons why statuses and tweets are a key for social networks
- The difficulty of saying good bye to top-down communication
- Open Source Life?
- What is the outcome of new social network tools?
October 2007
- Blogs vs. Books for learning
- From small to big engagement - big players are entering the web2fordev field
- Web2.0, knowledge sharing and IT departments
- Blog action day: E-waste, the downside of the growing web
- 3 different conversations: blogs to fight poverty
- The web comes closer - the magic of tag clouds
- Development aid 2.0
September 2007
- web2fordev conference impressions (2)
- web2fordev conference impressions (1)
- web2fordev conference has started
- An overview of blogging for development
- Search your own information web
- Weekly links: Blogging for democracy and African ingenuity
- Innovative online activism mashup
- Few steps to a powerful social software application
- 10 arguments for web2.0 in an organization
August 2007
- 4 examples for innovative mobile phone use in Africa
- Weekly links: About Twitter and the future of the social web
- Why to blog? What difference does blogging make?
- Open public relation - a contradiction?
- Local blogs for politics, media and activism
- Feed Mashups: RSS 1 + RSS 2 = RSS unlimited
- Does Twitter make sense?
- Weekly links: Advocacy2.0, development2.0, knowledge worker2.0 and office2.0
- E-democracy: participation next? (2) Germany
- An Email alternative: four dimension of feeds (RSS) in organizations
- Weekly links: ICT4D, TED in Africa and enterprise2.0
- 10 lessons learnt from ICT4D
July 2007
- E-democracy: participation next? (1)
- Weekly links July (4): Africa and ICT
- Connect lessons learnt through tagging
- Can free and open source software make a difference in developing countries?
- Weekly links July (3)
- Good practice: Group blogging in an organization
- Implications of knowlegde sharing through the web
- Weekly links July (2)
- Social webs in Africa
- The open source approach for organizations
- 10 challenges for web2.0 in organizations
- Weekly links July (1): politics and the web
- What effects does web2.0 have on development aid?
June 2007
- A learning story: My way to web2.0
- Weekly links June (4)
- KM4DEV workshop 2007 - peer learning as its best
- Challenges of web2.0 in Africa
- An overview on Egyptian bloggers and activism
- Weekly links June (3)
- NPK4DEV – a collaborative tagging experience
- What is enterprise2.0? Five pillars for efficient knowledge sharing
- Weekly links June (2)
- How can Web2.0 contribute to development?
- Do new web applications benefit the poor?
- Weekly links June (1)
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