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    Online timelines

    Have been looking at solutions for creating timelines, initially I was thinking offline but how primitive would that be… I want my timeline to be social and very open… What I’m looking for is something like the stock tracker at Google. It’s so much more...

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    Apple Motion Certified

    Woohoo!! I passed my Apple Motion certification this weekend. The training was held at the Media City campus in Dubai, where we were locked in for three days with attendees from Jordan, Egypt, Saudi, USA, India and the UAE. The course content was excellent and...

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    Visualizing the forums

    Being a visual/active learner, I find long pages of text tough going. Have been trying out techniques that visualize our forums. This is created using Wordle and generated from a forum RSS feed. Based on a forum thread called ‘Change’, also created with Wordle

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    Trying to remember the milk

    First two weeks on the masters program have been filled with things I didn’t quite expect… Not really the focused start I imagined myself having, back in September… From the left field was – conference in Atlanta, training on a new CMS, business case for...

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    Hang the professional advocate, I mean DJ…

    This week I spoke with my good friend and colleague James Piecowye and asked him to consider being my professional advocate. James, (self proclaimed Idea Rock Star), local radio talk show host and Assistant Professor of Communications at Zayed University has kindly agreed. Now I’m...

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    Forum fix…

    Resolved the php BB forum problem this week… My profile was set to Arabic Standard Time (GMT+4),  which was causing my local session to time out. The fix is not ideal, as it requires me to post in GMT although it does give me 4hrs...

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    Truth & Knowledge in my industry

    We have been investigating the origins of truth in our industries and challenging them epistemically. The most difficult part of this was the question, ‘what is my industry‘. (oh yeah and the ‘ology stuff, but more on that later). Thinking about my industry and work...

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    Writing tips anyone?

    We are into the first week of the program and whilst I’m managing to find extra time for studies. I’m having technical problems with the forums. I did try logging in through a UK VPN and it works fine, so it’s probably a local caching...

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    Preparing for your Masters

    Trying to get uber-organized for studying, whilst staying afloat at work and enjoying Charlie, my lovely little baby… This is what I have done so far: Document store – Created folders in Google Docs for the phases & units of the program, Knowledge Base –...

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    The dreaded first post

    Not only is this the dreaded first blog post, but also the first step in a journey I have deliberated about for far to long. I really don’t know why it took so long to choose a Masters, but it did, so here I am…...

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