International Information Design with Web 2.0 Techniques

Time flies when you’re having fun, or in this case working like a busy bee to get the projects done before the summer holiday season begins. Add shopping for a new job and for a new apartment and finalising a degree at the University to the list and see how the “remember to blog” post-it [...]

Emerging technologies and human nature

The WritersUA annual conference is quickly approaching. One of its tracks is Emerging technologies, and this year six of its ten sessions have a web 2.0 theme. (You’ll be seeing me in most of these sessions.)
In one year, web 2.0 has moved to mainstream. I heard my first web 2.0 & technical communication presentations in the [...]

Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and all that Future Stuff

After getting two projects into translation and the third into reviews, I spent my lunch break reading various blogs to catch up on things. (And enjoying a sandwich at my computer. There’s no need to stop working while you eat.)
This is what caught my eye. Financial Times (19 Feb 2008) reports of a completely different [...]

Happy Valentine’s day!

Happy Valentine’s day to all of you!
Here’s a tip for those visitors who need to explain wikis and blogs and social bookmarking, for example, to their managers. You can find this and other wonderful videos from Commoncraft both from YouTube and Commoncraft website.

If we build it, they will come – or will they?

In December, just after Season’s Greetings and before I headed home to have a Merry Christmas, I was asked to come up with a proposal on how we should organise our org’s communication in the brave, new, 2.0 world.
I have received very good ideas from my colleagues in e-mails and waiting-water-to-boil-so-that-we-can-get-some-tea discussions in the kitchen; [...]