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Comment on An Online Election… or not? Part 1 by Tentative steps on Facebook from main parties in Newbury | My Blog

Tentative steps on Facebook from main parties in Newbury | My Blog — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 16:38:03 +0000

[...] now have some data on how they are using Facebook. We are using his interpretation here and do take the time to check out his original post. [...]

Comment on Operation Payback – what’s the long term strategy? by Gary

Gary — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 19:57:28 +0000

Jim, I wholeheartedly agree with your measured stance on this issue. We are witnessing very important developments that may have a significant long-term impact on how ‘authorities’ respond. Direct action hijacked by violent or destructive fringes will de-legitimise the cause (witness Churchill’s statue in Parliament Square). Whilst I sympathise, those behind Operation Payback need to be much smarter about the action they take and in particular the PR that needs to go with it to get the message across.

Comment on Second Leader’s Debate by Jim Millen

Jim Millen — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 13:14:26 +0000

Elly – thanks for your comment! I hope it wasn’t anything on this site that lost your comment? If so let me know what happened and I’ll try to fix it!

I must admit I hadn’t thought about the effect of the tweets getting more people to watch the debates. I’d agree that’s a positive, for sure.

A genuine Twitter debate would be a very interesting experiment. It’s already starting to be used as a way to ask questions – for example, during Question Time – but that of course is still being filtered through a moderator. Maybe it’s something that we’ll truly see more of at the next general election!

I’m still concerned though that the Twitter 140 character format has a negative effect on discussion. All the advice about Twitter suggests that you need maximum “bang for the buck” in your Tweets to get attention, and with politics that inevitably leads to negativity, spin and divisive politics.

On the other hand, maybe just getting people talking – and keeping them talking – will eventually deliver results, even if it’s a painful process? I don’t know – but guess we’ll find out!

Comment on Second Leader’s Debate by Elly - fairywishes

Elly - fairywishes — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 06:43:14 +0000

Just left a long note, deleted – gutted so here it is again.

I agree with what you say. People are RT & commenting on individual things. I think people also just watch the debate to see what they want to see. People talk about the way the leaders replied when surely it’s about the policies their party has? It’s so easy to drop to meaningless tweets. With the debate, there were some issues, comments raised that it would have been good if they had been replied to or referred to but as everyone was tweeting too quickly they would have been missed anyway.

The only good thing about the #leadersdebate is it shows that people are at least watching it, and interested – even if they are tweeting about banal things. I think some of the twitter world felt pressured to watch the debate due to the tweets – which is a good thing.

It would be great if we could have a tweet debate amongst people & leaders or representatives where issues, questions are rasied and replied to. The problem is people don’t want to let others know what their true feelings are. That would really be interactive & responsive.

Comment on Lib Dem leaflet update by Newbury Lib Dem’s playing dirty | Blog | Ben Sutcliffe | Creative Blog Contact

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 16:22:17 +0000

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Comment on National Party Leaders Debate v Local UKIP Event? by Jim Millen

Jim Millen — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 13:06:24 +0000

Jeremy – thanks for the comment. I hope to speak to Adrian on Saturday and will certainly ask a question or two on the Green’s more controversial policies if I get the chance.

Comment on National Party Leaders Debate v Local UKIP Event? by Jeremy Hunter

Jeremy Hunter — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:27:04 +0000

I hope that, for the meeting with Green Party’s Adrian Hollister, you question him plentily on how he can morally back a lot of the Green Party’s rather dogmatic left-wing policies, such as legalising prostitution as opposed to fighting it’s criminal and drug-problem backing. I would love to, as a voter for Newbury, be there myself but logistics with education won’t allow.

Please look through the Green Party’s online manifesto, there are a fair amount of illogical policies and I think it’s only fair that a ‘minority party’ isn’t free from scrutiny.

Comment on Housekeeping – Blog Feed by Claire Baxter

Claire Baxter — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 10:22:13 +0000

Tut tut Jim!

You need to get on to that and clear it up ASAP!!

xxx

Comment on Christmas Shopping by Jezblog

Jezblog — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:01:35 +0000

Hey I think your doin alright at the panning mate…… pretty good even……hehehehe……. ) Thanks for giving me a name check and a Link…..br /br /Happy Holidays to you mate…….. )br /br /Cheers Jez XXXXXXX

Comment on Thoughts on Google Wave by chris b

chris b — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:34:03 +0000

At my college we use a different tool for working on our projects online.br /Its free and needs no installation since its online, go to http://www.showdocument.combr /pretty useful for me since i usually do my projects on the laptop. -chrisman

Comment on Corporate IT – Us vs Them? by Euan

Euan — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:15:15 +0000

Sadly I wasn#39;t even thinking of anything as fun and exciting as social software – just the basic ability to get business done!

Comment on KIN Autumn Workshop 2009 – Intro by Gary Colet

Gary Colet — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:15:34 +0000

Jim, I need to get back into Twitter (I abandoned it about 6 months ago). In the mentime, this KIN blog posting relates to what you and Phil were doing at the KIN event…http://ki-network.blogspot.com/2009/09/i-was-guest-at-idea-community-of.html

Comment on The much reported death of KM – my take… by lwm

lwm — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:34:20 +0000

Thank you from one of the organizers of the Boston KM Forum. We have sustained 24+ meetings a year for over 6 years and like you just move on the issues of leveraging knowledge in whatever form it takes to make our enterprises function more effectively and efficiently.br /br /I especially like you comments about how messy our thought processes are and will always be – a point I made at one of our meetings recently. Because of that messiness in our thinking and that of others we just have to keep working at the communicating and sharing processes. They will never fit into nicely constructed models because of our differences in behavior and thought.

Comment on The much reported death of KM – my take… by Helen Nicol

Helen Nicol — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:44:06 +0000

I#39;m bored of the terminology arguments, and don#39;t care one way or another what we call what we do. Making it easier for those we are supporting might help as KM is a totally inaccessible term. For me its about what we do. Forget the semantics, feel the business need.br /br /From my disseration at http://attachments.wetpaintserv.us/9B1%24UrkMWfly8urdFuk4ng%3D%3D686235br /br /Tsoukas (2005) finds Nonaka and Takeuchi’s description of the “conversion” ofbr /knowledge states erroneous, ignoring as it does “the essential ineffability of tacitbr /knowledge” (p410). He suggests that we cannot operationalise tacit knowledge, butbr /that we can begin to develop a clearer understanding of our practice and skills if webr /“re-mind” ourselves of how we do things, in order to find new ways of describing ourbr /practice. Tsoukas therefore advocates reflection as a way of understanding what itbr /is that makes our practice effective, in order that we may communicate thisbr /awareness to others. Reflection may therefore help us to understand how our tacitbr /knowledge affects our performance without the need to define tacit knowledge in abr /philosophical sense.

Comment on The much reported death of KM – my take… by Larry Hawes

Larry Hawes — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:34:22 +0000

This piece of your post says it all:br /br /quot;What I#39;m getting at is that at some level this is all a squabble about terminology. Call it what you will, but we#39;re all working towards the same end – improving the ability of people to be more productive, perform to a higher standard and make better decisions.quot;br /br /The tag we use to describe efforts to empower workers will change every few years. The tag isn#39;t important; what matters is that we continue the effort.

Comment on Books thread… by Phil Ridout

Phil Ridout — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:36:00 +0000

Have you read ‘The Sparrow’ by Mary Doria Russel ?BR/BR/If not, I can lend you a copy the next time we meet at KIN.

Comment on Books thread… by Boris Legradic

Boris Legradic — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:49:00 +0000

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