At Particletree there is a good list of articles on PowerPoint Presentation Tips. The Gates, Jobs and the zen aesthetic article is very good and very interesting. I always enjoy watching Steve Jobs give a presentation. His presentations often go on for a couple of hours but they are very clean and informative. The slides are minimalist and simple but very functional – very much like Apple products.
Category Archives: Work
Social Mining – Web 2.0 and Folksonomies
I have been talking about the impact of “Web 2.0”, social software and folksonomies in regards to their possible impact on enterprise knowledge management.
* The Web 2.0 movement is about empowering people to publish their own content quickly and easily with a minimum of knowledge. Flickr, Youtube, del.icio.us, Blogger et al allow people to publish content with little knowledge of apache servers, domain name registrations and the rest of the system admin knowledge usually needed to run a web site.
* Social software (which Clay Shirky put as, “the stuff that gets spammed”) allows people share their content with others, to learn who is interested in their content and to learn who has interesting content. It is the “who” part that is of interest. Social software enables the discovery of people of interest similar to how Google enables the discovery of content of interest.
* Folksonomies enable the loose classification of content. This classification is done by people and is not a rigid hierarchical taxonomy but a loose metadata based classification scheme. This classification scheme is great for informal content such as blog entries or URLs and content that may be interpreted differently by different social groups.
Xythos goes Open Source
I just returned from EDUCAUSE where I met with several people from Xythos. Xythos has just announced Developer at Xythos – a collaboration web site aimed at helping users do creative things with the Xythos software. Kevin Wiggen, the CTO for Xythos, also announced a new initiative to spawn open source development around the Xythos API.
2005 EDUCAUSE National Meeting
Tagging and Virtual Organizations
I have been espousing the idea that various conferences could choose a tag up front then implore their attendees to use that tag for their blog entries about the conference. This is a simple way to enable information aggregation from a virtual organization.
EDUCAUSE has just announced a tag for their upcoming conference. It looks like the will aggregate the various RSS feeds into a single page.
connect.educause.edu | Technology In Academia — Connect @ EDUCAUSE
Tagging the Annual Conference
If you’re blogging the conference or uploading photos from the show to a site that supports tagging (ala Flickr), please use EDUCAUSE_ANNUAL to classify your entries. We’ll be displaying aggregate information in the right-hand column at the url below:
http://connect.educause.edu/folksonomy/educause_annual
Getting ready to Present – a lot.
I’m getting ready to head out for my various meetings and presentations. I have just had another session added to EDUCAUSE – a joint presentation with Tom Barton of U. Chicago on Identity Management and Governance issues. I’m also presenting with Michael Gettes of Duke University on Identity Management and the work that Internet2 and the NSF Middleware Initiative are doing. Michael and Tom are both a kick so that sessions should be entertaining as well. It will be good to be through the next couple of weeks though. My schedule is pretty packed and things keep filling in the holes that I do have.
I guess this is what I get. When I first started working here at UW-Madison, I wished that I would get to present at these national meetings not just attend. My fairy goddog (I’m sure I have a goddog not a godmother) must have been watching and she waived her magic tail. Now I’m off to present at the Wisconsin Higher Education PeopleSoft User’s Group (WHEPSUG) on Wednesday, the CIO Council on Thursday, eInfrastructure on Friday and three times at EDUCAUSE next week. Six presentations in two weeks – that should keep me busy.
Oh, and they don’t have a hotel room for me at EDUCAUSE… yet.
Wheee.
– Jim
Projects 05 Oct 2005
Every so often, I need to list all of the things that I’ve got going on just so I can get a handle on them. This is that list:
Internet2 Collaboration Tools Phone Call 4 October 2005
### Attendees: George Brett, Steve Olshanski, John-Paul Robinson, Jim Phelps
George: Opening comment about presentation “Identity 2.0” at OSCON 2005
### Shift in Identity discusion
Students provide a lot of personal information on Facebook but they also turn on the FERPA flags to protect their information from “the institution”. Steve asked about Linked In.
Movement towards people being responsible for their own attributes and expression of their attributes.
### Agenda:
1. Review the notes from I2FMM on Jim’s blog.
2. Follow up from the I2FMM – what are the next steps.
3. Using the I2FMM and Internet2 tags.
4. Spring Member Meeting – a set of tags.
Identity Assertions, Extending Services and my Cell Phone
When my cell phone rings, I flip open the cover and check the phone number of the caller. If the caller’s number is blocked or is not in my address book, I usually let the call go to voice mail. If the caller leaves a message, I listen to the message and then decide whether or not I will call them back. This is a simple case of Identity Assertion, Checking Access Rights and Extending Service.
I2FMM Signet Grouper meeting 2005
Lynn McRae (Stanford) talking about the roadmap for Signet.
Tom Barton (U Chicago) discussing Grouper.
Jim Phelps 
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