Defensive Teaching
Building a culture where faculty share teaching tips is one of the goals of USF’s new Center for Teaching Excellence. (Why I would be invited to help build such a center is a source of…
Humans in Jeopardy!?
Watson’s easy victory against the best humanoid Jeopardy! players in the world has prompted completely opposing visions of the future. One version is Terminator around the corner: self-aware machines enslaving the human race even sooner…
JAIS special issue on “Expanding the Frontiers of Information Systems Research”
I’m excited to be part of the Editorial Team of a JAIS (Journal of the Association for Information Systems) special issue on expanding the frontiers of IS research. The objective for this special issue is…
Want a great sabbatical? Portugal!
My fond memories of three months in the Azores made it to this online article (from ioline.pt) about foreign academics coming to Portugal for their sabbaticals. Fire up the Google Translate, unless your Portuguese is…
“The Future of Open” seminar
Why is everyone in the tech industry claiming they are ‘open’, and their competitors aren’t? Is this merely a war of buzzwords and PR? Or is building proprietary products on top of open technology, while…
Guest lecture video updating the Web 2.0 knowledge sharing paper
I gave my Web 2.0 knowledge sharing paper (written around August 2008, though published recently) an update in this guest lecture video for Örebro University’s Web 2.0 and Social Media class. Two years later, 9…
Joining the editorial board of Journal of Information Technology
I’m happy and honored to be joining the editorial board of the Journal of Information Technology, starting this month. Not only is JIT one of the top journals in Information Systems, according to the AIS…
Moodle 2.0 is coming – look busy (with a hub strategy)
Using Moodle for my MBA class on Innovation and Technology Management here in the Azores has me thinking about the upcoming Moodle 2.0 release, scheduled for this summer. (Portugal is #6 on the global list…
Three strategies for open source deployment
I’ll be presenting my short paper on “Three Strategies for Open Source Deployment: Substitution, Innovation, and Knowledge Reuse” at the Open Source Systems 2010 conference this May. I wrote the paper because I see a…
“Knowledge-Sharing Successes in Web 2.0 Communities” to appear this Spring
My paper on how Web 2.0 sites deal with ‘bad’ behavior will be published in the Spring 2010 issue of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine. (Fear not, accreditation freaks! Despite the ‘magazine’ name, it’s a…