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Formation SAWI: Spécialiste en médias sociaux et communautés en ligne.
Rédactrice en chef et auteurActive Elsewhere
une autre voisine a aussi perdu sa connexion. je veux bien qu'on fasse des travaux mais qu'on envoie pas faire foutre les gens pdt 48h #sc
RT @sarah_marquis: Did you know a vessel make his desalinated water by evaporation more than 10'000 liter a day
RT @sarah_marquis: Did you know: take 2,16 miles to stop a cargo boat in full speed
.@Swisscom_Care internet en dérangement, encore une fois je trouve SCANDALEUX qu'on me dise qu'il faut patienter 48H avant de bouger #furax
Bookmarked a link: Gap Tooth Stickers - My name is Ashwin. I am 6 and I'm an entrepreneur!
wash-off stickers, isn't the idea great? http://t.co/OltDztfN by @GapToothKid et al.
for me, a blog going multi-author has jumped the shark and is on its way to a sure death some years down the line. anybody else?
Bookmarked a link: Path — Stephanie Booth
CTTS Weekly is out! http://t.co/XUsPjdNb
Smile (at Steph's Jungle) [pic] — http://t.co/12rv9KJc
Bookmarked a link: IKEA Hackers: A long one for cat lovers
argh cat-lover ikea hacks via @cvedovini, sorry http://t.co/a2zWwNjX
Blogroll
- Adam Tinworth
- Andy Baio
- Anil Dash
- Brian Kellett
- Corinne Stoppelli
- danah boyd
- Dave Winer
- David Weinberger
- Derek Powazek
- Doc Searls
- Elisabeth Stoudmann
- Fortuitous (Matt Haughey)
- Heather Powazek Champ
- Jason Kottke
- Jeffrey Zeldman
- Jeremy Keith
- Joi Ito
- JP Rangaswami
- Karl Dubost
- Kevin Marks
- Laurent Gloaguen
- Laurent Haug
- Leisa Reichelt
- Matt Haughey
- Meg Hourihan
- Plantgasm (Derek Powazek)
- Stéphane Deschamps
- Suw Charman
- Tara Hunt
- Wil Wheaton
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Headlines (Recent Posts)
- Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- More About the M-DEX, and a Cool Blog: Hack and Hear
- More About Hearing Aids (And Geeking Out a Bit)
- Post haineux de 3h du mat’ sponsorisé par Balelec
- Tounsi perdu et puis retrouvé
- Ailleurs
- Books Read in 2011
- A Plugin to Compensate for Flickr Broken Embed Suckage?
- A Week With My Superpower
- My Pallet Garden
- Having Cats
- Getting Your iCloud Photostream to Play Nice With Lightroom
- Trucs en vrac
- Three Weeks With My New Cats, Tounsi and Safran
- Drive, Practical Wisdom, Money and Congress, Alone Together
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- George Kedourie on Browser Language Detection and Redirection
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- Marie-Aude on Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- Martin on Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- mlle-cassis on Bye Safran: FIP is a Bitch
- Stephanie Booth on Browser Language Detection and Redirection
- George Kedourie on Browser Language Detection and Redirection
- Stephanie Booth on More About the M-DEX, and a Cool Blog: Hack and Hear
- Dring, venez vous faire fouiller ! « aeemtech on Outraged and Furious: First Encounter With a Full-Body Scanner (in the UK)
- When people refer to blog posts as “blogs”, I want to hurt them. | Geik on A Blog is Not a Post, Dammit!
Quote Me- "Time flies and the photos I’ve taken get left behind."
- "People always think getting dressed is about putting clothes on. It’s not. It’s a spell..."
- "I was outside, and the rain and the fog smelled nice. They smelled of hope, I think. They smelled..."
- "On apprend toujours mieux de ses propres erreurs que de celles des autres."
- "It’s like watching a train wreck and hanging around to see if there are going to be any..."
Tag Archives: learning
Plot Grows Out of Character
[fr]J’ai enfin compris comment écrire des histoires. Les histoires naissent des personnages. Il faut partir des personnages et les développer et les écrire à la vie, et non pas partir de l’histoire elle-même.[en]“Plot grows out of character,” says Anne Lamott, … Continue reading
Adapting to Budget: “on peut tout faire avec tout”
[fr]“On peut tout faire avec tout”, me dit une copine designer avec qui je parle d’un mandat pour ma conférence, Going Solo. Ce qu’elle veut dire, c’est qu’il y a généralement moyen de s’adapter au budget du client. C’est vrai … Continue reading
Diving Into Something New
[fr]Pour se familiariser avec un sujet nouveau, il faut lire, et même si on ne comprend pas tout, continuer à lire. Au bout d’un moment, les choses commencent à tomber en place, et on peut reprendre avec plus de succès … Continue reading
Most People Are Multilingual
[fr]Une clarification de ce que j’entends par “la plupart des gens sont multilingues”. Multilingues au sens large.[en]In a comment to my last post, Marie-Aude says I’m being a bit optimistic by stating that “most people are multilingual”. I’d like to … Continue reading
Sugata Mitra: Outdoctrination (Hole in the Wall)
As always, these are just my notes and I may have misunderstood stuff. And as always too, check out Bruno’s writeup. Build an argument for family eduction. 4 ideas. Remoteness of quality of education as you go further from the … Continue reading
“Learning Blogs”: GWNG Meeting Presentation
[fr]Présentation donnée vendredi passé au GWNG à UNAIDS.[en]Here are the slides I used as a backbone to my presentation of blogs as educational tools during the Global Net Manager Networking Group last Friday at UNAIDS. You can download them in … Continue reading
Group or Author Blogs?
[fr]Conversation hier avec Suw au sujet de la meilleure approche pour initier les gens au blog dans un cadre professionnel. Contrairement à mon intuition, elle recommande d’éviter les blogs “communautaires” à moins que le thème en soit très clairement défini. … Continue reading
First Steps in Second Life
[fr]Mes premiers pas dans l’environnement Second Life. En trois sessions (hier soir, ce matin, et ce soir) j’ai tout de même réussi à changer d’habits et de coupe de cheveux. Je trouve l’apprentissage difficile. Ce n’est pas habituel pour moi … Continue reading




Vidéo: nécessité d’une formation blogs
[en]I explain that it’s normal that most people don’t “get” blogging naturally. Active bloggers today “in the wild” are the result of a natural selection. You can’t turn a bunch of politicians or employees into bloggers (all the more good … Continue reading →