Pamela's Blog

2011 and I'm experimenting with writing a blog for dadamac – about once a week. Last week started late at Dadamac because of the New Year holiday. Spring cleaning our admin I'm doing things slightly differently with our administration this year–so a bit of “spring cleaning” is underway. It'll take a few weeks to see how the new approach shapes up - Dadamac is constantly reshaping itself as different things emerge. I'm encouraged that “emergence” seemed to be one of the key words at ICTD 2010. Another keyword was “openness”– and I hope this weekly blog will contribute to Dadamac's...

Events Business Fights Poverty meeting June 2nd How can we better apply the results of impact measurement to drive improved business performance and greater development impact? http://businessfightspoverty.ning.com/events/how-can-we-better-apply-the Emails through posterous Great news about Barefoot Power: http://dadamac.posterous.com/world-bank-recognition-for-barefoot-power-pro Continuing to explore overlapping intersts with Mike Gurnstein's Community Informatics Students: http://dadamac.posterous.com/online-course-intro-to-community-informatics-3 http://dadamac.posterous.com/first-thursday-general-information-for-monthl

Over the last eight weeks I have been experimenting with Posterous - so now I am reflecting on the experience. Posterous can be used for blogging, but I already have a blog, so I wanted it for something different. I was attracted to it because it is so easy to use - as easy as an email. Midway between private and public My first entry said "I think it [Posterous] might help me with those emails that are "half private half public". I mean the ones where I start to write the email then realise that I need to add...

Dear Ismael Thank you for your rapid response to my initial comment on your blog. I am glad that you know first hand the differences in the two cultures (ie of academics and of practitioners). I agree completely that “bridging these two realities (which they are) is usually not an easy thing to do”. If there are to be any bridges it seems we have to be active bridge builders. I feel that, like you, I am sometimes in one culture and sometimes in the other, and at present my journeys between the two realities have to be made without...

Hi Vijay I was interested to read your impressions of social media - and glad you enjoyed the twitter session. (All the teaching tips are in the Second Thursday twitter session achive . ) It was the first time we have tried anything quite like that - just a handful of us agreeing to meet onine to learn about something as specific as twitter ( Second Thursday twitter session invitation ). Do you still like Facebook? I joined Facebook because Chris Macrae often sent me information that I wanted to read - but increasingly he sent it through Facebook. For...