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BlogWalk Five
Since we were joining the workshop from Howard Rheingold, we only had an afternoon of discussion in a BlogWalk session. Since there were only eight participants it wasn't necessary to split into groups and do an open space session. This time we discussed all together on mobile blogging. The notes I've taken pretty much sums up what we've been discussing. I added the last pointers since last time I blogged them from Umea. Although we were with so few I think we did some really good work on unraveling the term mobile blogging. We came up with several lists for motivations for mobile blogging, requirements for moblogging and the tools we need to be able to moblog. The list with tools isn't completed yet, but we're planning on discussing that a little further in the virtual world. Stephanie came up with a great idea to meet up in Traveler, an on line virtual space in which you can talk to each other via voice using a 3D environment and avatars. We're trying to meet with the same group as during BlogWalk and see whether it's a good way to virtually communicate in a group and be able to pick up where we left in the face-to-face meeting. I installed the program yesterday and you need only half an hour to get used to it and get comfortable with the environment. A very interesting experiment I think!
To me it was very worthwhile to come all the way to Umea. Meeting Rheingold was very interesting, I enjoyed the afternoon BlogWalk session, I loved the clean smell of winter and seeing a tiny bit of Swedish culture. A big thanks for Stephanie for letting us stay at her place and for getting us up there!
