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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

It started in 2004 when a legislative committee held a series of hearings on digital copyright reform. Hundreds of Facebook groups started cropping up indicating the issue was finding space in local communities. It carried out a national online consultation in which more than 8,000 Canadians took part. This was unprecedented.

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On Moving On

Ari Herzog

And I did… Each of them left their worlds of independent consulting and entered professional communities of workplaces and coworkers. I have highly developed skills in oral and written communications with a proven ability to explain complex concepts and gain consensus. My wife asked (urged!) me to start testing the waters.

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Make Your LinkedIn Profile Work for You | chrisbrogan.com

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Here’s the first paragraph of my summary: I show businesses how to use social media technologies for external community building and outreach, and for internal collaboration. For the bonus round, I recommend staying up to date via LinkedIn’s community superhero, Mario Sundar. December 2004. November 2004.

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The Life Cycle of a Social Network

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

With the launch of Facebook in February 2004, users got comfortable with the network and MySpace was a secondary destination. Varghese is the CEO of Social Media Outsourcing company Bobtweets.com , a social media consultant, and author of the blog www.twitterblogpost.com. Like this post?

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Announcing Bare Feet Pro Blogs

Bare Feet Studios

Though blogs have been around for many years (heck, this one here was built in 2004) they are still just getting attention from the small biz community – the people most benefiting from this utterly awesome business tool! Free Consult before purchase. Looks like you’re ready for your free consultation !

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Knowledge work as craft work

Buzz Marketing for Technology

As an aside, Etienne Wengers excellent work on communities of practice (e.g., Situated Learning or Cultivating Communities of Practice ) grew out of observations about learning in craft environments.) I started consulting before the advent of the PC. 2004 Jim McGee. Last update: 3/3/2004; 11:18:52 PM. Navigation.

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No Straight Lines / A conversation on the nature of knowledge work

Buzz Marketing for Technology

Matthew argues that Shawn misses an opportunity to communicate an understanding of knowledge work outward from the insider community to the larger workforce and organisational management who donâ??t December 2004. September 2004. August 2004. April 2004. s views are misplaced. December 2005. November 2005.