Social media meetup in Stockholm
Robin Teigland at the Stockholm School of Economics and Anders Lundkvist were kind enough to organize a meeting of local social media experts at the offices of Springtime, a Swedish PR and communications firm. I…
Open source platforms: An information systems ‘miracle’
In partnership with the Department of Technology at the City and County of San Francisco, I’ve been studying the deployment of new applications using open source. We looked at three projects (including the recoverysf.org site),…
Open Source Business Applications: Most Active Communities
The open source platforms I admire the most, and are most useful for business, are the ones with the largest communities behind them. For open business platforms, it’s not just the contributions to the core…
Social Networking/Online Community class projects – Spring 2009
The second installment of our new Freshman Seminar class, “Social Networking and Online Community”, wrapped up this week. Check out these great projects from our first-year business majors: San FREEcisco A user-generated collection of free…
Sabbatical plans coming along – 4 university visits
The sabbatical year plans are coming along nicely. You can follow the latest updates on our Allen World Tour 2009-10 Itinerary page. So far, I have four official university visits lined up: Swedish Business School,…
Fulbright scholar in Portugal, 2010
It’s official. I’ve been named a Fulbright scholar during my 2009-10 sabbatical year. The host country will be Portugal, specifically the Azores islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. At the University of the…
How Web 2.0 sites deal with ‘bad’ behavior
In our review of 10 leading Web 2.0 sites (Craigslist, Digg, Facebook, LinkedIn, PlentyOfFish, Prosper, TripAdvisor, Wikipedia, WordPress, and Yelp), we found the most commonly reported challenge they faced was coping with deceptive and destructive…
Academic blogging and Moodle: Two educational technology talks
I gave two Instructional Technology talks recently, one formal and one spontaneous. The formal one was a presentation to our USF Wikis and Blogs group on “Pro Blogging for Dorks Academics”. I talked about the…
JP called a “computer whiz” for the first time in years
Everyone with a computer science degree gets hit up for free tech support. Now, thanks to a column in the Corpus Christi (Texas) Caller-Times, my knowledge of tech help for neophytes is finally given its due….
Projects from the new Social Networking/Online Community seminar
After the first run of the new Social Networking/Online Community seminar for 1st year business students at USF, we’re ready to do it again in the spring. Curious minds can find the updated syllabus and detailed…