Northern (Voice) Reflections

Update: Added photos from my Flickr set from Northern Voice. I've been meaning to make the time to put together some reflections on Northern Voice 2007 before the memories start to do that thing that memories do. Life intervened, and so here I am, almost a week afterward, trying to remember with as much clarity as I can muster, the defining moments of NV2007 (for me). First, the openness and generosity of the Lamb/McPhee family continually blows me away....

March 1, 2007 · 7 min

Moose Fever

It sounds like the dreaded Moose Fever has afflicted nearly everyone who attended Northern Voice 2007. Some nasty flu bug got circulated through the cavernous halls of the Forestry building at UBC, infecting everyone there, then being carried across the continent as the attendees returned home. I had my flu shot before Christmas, so I wasn't completely laid out (as many folks apparently were), but it still sucks pretty badly....

February 28, 2007 · 1 min

MooseCamp "More than just a Blog" session

I just finished presenting a session with Jim Groom called "More than just a blog" where we where showing some things we've done with WordPress and Drupal that might be a little outside the box for a pure blogging platform. Jim's done some really amazing and cool things with WPMU at MWU. The session was a total blast for me. It evolved into a pretty lively discussion that wandered around a very wide range of topics - I hope it wasn't too scattered....

February 23, 2007 · 1 min

Links for Social Software for Learning Environments session at Northern Voice 2007

Some social software learning environments: U of C Faculty of Education Master of Teaching eJournal Community Practice Enhancement Achieved through Knowledge (PEAK) weblogs.ucalgary.ca blogs.bcit.ca  

February 22, 2007 · 1 min

Dynamic Relationship Mapping for a Defined Set of Websites

I'm sitting in the kitchen here at Casa del Lamb, and we're bashing around some ideas for mashups and cool ways to display data for MooseCamp and Northern Voice. We just had (what I think is) a really cool idea. What if we could take the OPML file from the planet.northernvoice.ca aggregator (which contains a reference to many/most of the blogs representing the people attending the conference), and run some analysis on that to figure out what the relationships and subgroups are within the larger group of Northern Voice Attendees....

February 21, 2007 · 2 min