Social Media Tools for Work & Learning

Transliteracy – Digital Divide – Higher Education

November 26th, 2008

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An article from Times Higher Education discusses the digital divide within higher education. One of my goals is to provide training and support for students and faculty in learning how to effectively use social media tools for work and learning. This article resonates with my new career aspirations very closely. The article introduces a new term for me – “transliteracy” This term points to the ability to use a variety of skills to interact with everyday life and a person’s capacity to contribute to society (or conversely to be excluded from society). Read more…

Brent Uncategorized divide e-literacy

The Social Non Profit – My Lens

A social non profit is attuned, responsive and adaptive to the complex factors affecting its constituents and communities. In a social non profit there is an alignment between staff, services, governance systems and online communications. Social non profits value learning and innovation and believe in working smarter by using social tech tools to enhance communication, collaboration and learning amongst staff, volunteers, partners and service users. These organizations believe that strategic use of social media empowers staff, improves services and strengthens governance practices.

Social Web Partners

I'm very pleased to have a number of very capable and talented consultants as friends and partners that work with me from time to time.

Alain Hurtubise (iAutomate.ca) designs and developments web 2. 0 platforms. Alain has over 20 years experience in web design and enterprise systems programming with large corporations. Alain's passion is paying it forward through his work with me in the non profit sector.

Peter Levesque's company, Knowledge Mobilization Works (based in Ottawa) is dedicated to building the capacity of people to create value through knowledge mobilization.

Mark Holmgren (Mark Holmgren Consulting - Edmonton AB) contributes his extensive organizational change expertise along with an array of social media integration expertise.