Now that I have been pointed in the correct direction I found plenty to read at his web site http://www.openspaceworld.com/literature.htm.

One of his early works “Riding the Tiger – Doing business in a transforming world” which contains his Brief user guide is available as a free pdf file.

jay

I find that the easiest aggregator to use on a personal basis is Bloglines. You can always export your OPML file to another system if you don’t like this web-based aggregator.

Not sure about delicious, as I started with Furl and now have over 600 articles Furled. Like you, I haven’t really got into tagging.

I think that Elgg is a great system, but unless you host your own system, you’ll have to use their free service. This is OK until you get to a point, with several hundred posts, when you want to own your own data. If I had to start anew, I would probably use Elgg, and recommend it to all my friends.

In terms of wikis, I’ve tried a few, and am currently checking out a very different one – http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

eLearningCentre is great, one of my all time favorites. Jane and I have become fast friends. As soon as this unworkshop ends, we’re going to meet in Barbados. Not as suspicious as it sounds; her new husband will be there, too.

Kolabora is one of many outlets of Robin Good (AKA Luigi Cardinali). Godfrey Parkin is a trip; we see eye-to-eye on many things. elearnopedia is your tax dollars at work, a spinoff of the ADL Co-Lab, a DoD thing. Oh, sorry, not your tax dollars.

I don’t know how I would keep up to date without an aggregator. So far, Bloglines works for me.

In the short run there’s probably no good alternative to knowing a little HTML, though you can try and acquire that in small doses.

Trust me, I am not even a power user, let alone an expert. I found it helpful to learn a little about the code so I could understand the results that software like Dreamweaver accomplished. It’s a lot like knowing how to touch-type; not an essential skill but not one to avoid.

I see an analogy with Front Page, a Microsoft application that lets people create web pages without knowing hardly any HTML. The problem, from the technical side, is that FP tends to load up the code with stuff you don’t really want, and many hosting services don’t want to put up the pages since they require (or at least used to require) a dedicated server.

For me, all my life, my goals have affected what I choose to learn (as opposed to the things I’ve been required to learn). So I got out of Latin class in order to learn French; I skipped ahead in my teach-yourself-guitar book so I could learn bar chords so I could play the song I wanted to play; and I hopped around in Alan Levine’s excellent HTML tutorial (http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/) because I had a mental image of the pages I wanted to build.

My Cousin Agam Fhéin site was my first experience with a blog, and I kept fiddling with things because I didn’t want the usual blog format. I’m still tinkering, but it now has all the basic features I first sketched out on a sheet of paper.

I found it helpful when I started with HTML to remind myself that there were thousands of 10-year-olds with their own web sites.

– Dave Ferguson