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BlogWalk Salons Rethinking
In the past two years, Lilia Efimova, Sebastian Fiedler and I have been organizing a number of day long workshops / salons under the name BlogWalk. With ten sessions on three continents, in eight...
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Announcing BlogWalk Amsterdam May 2007
After a long hiatus, it is my tremendous pleasure to announce BlogWalk Eleven for May 2007 in Amsterdam! Date, venue nor focus have been decided yet, so there is still plenty of opportunity to add your...
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BlogWalk Eleven: Amsterdam, May 18th
After a long hiatus, it is my tremendous pleasure to announce BlogWalk Eleven for May 18th 2007 in Amsterdam! The focus will be Digital Bohemiens. Digital Bohemiens are (relatively) young people, fully...
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Digital Bohemiens Coming to BlogWalk Amsterdam
This is a first attempt at collecting a few thoughts around the theme of the upcoming BlogWalk meeting in Amsterdam. With the list of participants being filled to capacity, I have a bit of time to try...
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BlogWalk: Appreciation and On-line Traces
Right from the very first BlogWalk in 2004, I have always been amazed about the effort in time, travel and money people are willing to make to attend a BlogWalk session. It was no different for me at...
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BlogWalk: Thoughts on the Format
(photo by James Burke) After each BlogWalk, in looking back, I not only feel the need to reflect on the theme and the conversations, but also on the format. All BlogWalk sessions are in a free format...
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BlogWalk: Digital Bohemiens, Part I
Speed Space and Scale are the three words that summarize the things that inspired me at BlogWalk in Amsterdam last week. But first some thoughts about the theme Digital Bohemiens. The theme of this...
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BlogWalk: Space, Speed and Scale
Taking Bohemianism to be a mindset more than a (forced or chosen) lifestyle, as described in the previous BlogWalk posting, I’ll now have a look at the things I took out of the meeting. Speed, Space...
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The End of BlogWalk
We have decided to formally end the BlogWalk series. After 11 sessions, bringing over 250 people interested in social media from all kinds of academic and business backgrounds together across three...
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The Indie Conference Organizer Handbook
Peter Bihr and Max Krüger have written a 43 page handbook on how to organize your own independent conference: The Indie Conference Organizer Handbook. You can download it for free as PDF, or an...
View ArticleThis Week’s Blogwalks: Belgium and Australia
Two Blogwalks will take place almost in parallel later this week: Coming Friday, BlogWalk 7 will be held in Mechelen (Belgium), focussing on civic journalism (and connections to smart mobs) Coming...
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Yesterday evening Elmine and I arrived in Mechelen for the 7th BlogWalk. We had a pleasant stroll around the old city centre, and a great dinner at Toko Karachillio. Our hotel Carolus has a wifi...
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BlogWalk 7 Mechelen
Yesterday saw the 7th edition of BlogWalk in Mechelen, Belgium. It was a pleasant gathering, although in my opinion it lacked some focus on the theme we set: civic journalism. The conversations were...
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BlogWalk Mechelen: the post-its
I have transcribed all the post-its we created during the BlogWalk session in Mechelen. They are posted in the wiki (including the original pictures) Elmine Wijnia and Jeroen Steeman check out the...
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Announcing BlogWalk Seattle
Ok, one more posting before going off-line It is our (Lilia’s, Sebastian’s and mine) pleasure to announce another BlogWalk in North-America: Seattle. Local hosts will be Nancy White, whom I had the...
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In a Real Democracy the Place of Power is Empty
During one of my first philosophy courses we talked about different systems of government, and how they deal with power. Democracy is different from other forms because the place where the power is, is...
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Smart Mobs Descending on Umea University
Thursday, after a pleasant early morning flight from Stockholm to Umea where Stephanie Hendrick met us at the airport, we enjoyed an afternoon seminar with Howard Rheingold. The seminar was organized...
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Howard Rheingold on Information Strategies
Next to the seminar and reception with Howard Rheingold we enjoyed last Thursday afternoon we also joined a more small scale workshop with Howard Rheingold on Friday morning. Our little Blogwalk group...
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Mobile Blogging at BlogWalk in Umea
The theme for the fifth Blogwalk in Umea was “Blogging on the Move”. It was loosely inspired by the fact that Howard Rheingold gave a seminar and workshop before the Blogwalk on SmartMobs and the...
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Announcing BlogWalk Chicago
It is our pleasure to announce a new edition of BlogWalk, the salon-like get togethers Sebastian Fiedler, Lilia Efimova and I are organizing. In cooperation with Jack Vinson, our local host (thanks...
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