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I’m asked to participate as an expert in the finnish conversation around an upcoming online talk by Stephen Downes on 14th of February (one week!). Please join us.

Stephen Downes will talk about Knowledge 2.0 in upcoming online Venus seminar. I’m a bit tired of all the insert_random_word_here 2.0 talk, but I hope Stephen knows what he is doing. He coined eLearning 2.0 in 2005, which soon turned into a buzzword thrown around by men in impressive looking suits. I’ve been following his conversations around connectivism and his entertaining and insightful ways of applying philosophical analysis on the psychological/neurological views of what it means to learn and know today is very interesting. As a primer to his Knowledge 2.0 I suggest you look at Stephen’s introduction to connective knowledge. Is the apple red?

Downes will also talk today online at OCC2007, an online conference about connectivism. He has written some interesting posts in the thread “a challenge to connectivism“.

If you are from Finland and would like to see the presentation live online and participate in online chat with other people from Finland discussing the presentation in Finnish with other viewers afterwards, please register here. The seats are limited so be quick.

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I delivered a keynote at CORESMA 2007 (real estate development conference). Sorry folks, this one is in finnish. My title was “inhimillinen teknologia älykkään organisaation johtamisessa”. The presentation went quite well, I was able to wrap up the conference and connect my ideas with the field. I recorded my talk and you can find the presentation here:

• Screencast, video/audio [finnish, 17.1MB] (takes a while to load, be patient)
  


• Slides [finnish, 2.6MB]

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I had a lunch today and two journalists Paula Javanainen and Eero Liesimaa from Iltalehti dropped on the scene to interview me and Lotta about food smells refering to the relationship between Susanna Kuronen and Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen (latest cheap mockery in finnish politics). They asked to take pictures of me and Lotta in close positions so I asked the same from them. I didn’t get the kiss, though

I told them I would blog this. It was the first time in their journalistic career when an interviewee would do that. A true two-way conversation, as it should be. Democracy is about voice, not vote. Democracy is about two-way conversation, not one way broadcast. Democracy is about multiple points of view, not just one side of the issue. What is great about blogging is that you can easily publish your side of the matter in your own voice.

We had a brief conversation on blogs. Paula thinks that blogs are a great source of material for journalists. Her understanding of blogging changed after the Tsunami. I told them that finnish understanding of blogging doesn’t yet cover organizations and knowledge work as much as it covers citizen journalism and politics. My point was that all organizations should have internal “dating systems”, a way for every individual in the organization to express their own voice and to get to know other people in the organizations by following their voices. Innovations happen when two people from different domains meet in the intersection. Increasing the density, randomness and intensivity of communication inside organizations produces a fertile ground for innovations to prosper. We need technology that supports informal interaction as much as we have technology that supports formal business processes. Paula agreed and proposed that what I said about knowledge sharing was something that could be useful in their organization. I of course, would be glad to be helpful.