Blogs as Reflective Practice
Teemu Arina
CEO, Dicole Ltd.
01.12.2006

Collaborative, networked learning
Distributed knowledge intensive work
Interaction technology
Entrepreneur
Consultant
Changing industrial production logic
Speaker
Teacher
Social read/write web Programmer
Blogger

Best Practice?
Best practice = Past practice
Reflection = Future practice
Image: Felippe Torres

Path to Wisdom
“By three methods we may learn wisdom:
reflection = noblest; imitation = easiest; experience = bitterest”
―Confucius

Why?

Bottom Up
“Knowledge-push
knowledge-pull”
- Ambjörn Naeve
Teacher Student
Doctor Patient
Provider Customer
Politician Citizen
Producer Consumer
T. Agent Traveler
Journalist Reader
Image: Tommi Arina

Core ~ Context
“Sustainable success demands technology
enhanced collaboration”

Humanity Inc.
“Local information,
global production”

Reflection Switch
Local closed
information
Global open
reflection
Global mass-production
Local mass-
customization

Information
Image: rogiro
Harvesting
“Information overload is a
symptom of future shock”
―Alvin Toffler, 1970

Information Flow
“Information is like
electricity or water”
―Stephen Downes

“Information overload is an opportunity for
pattern recognition” – Marshall McLuhan Image: jbum

IT is
Interaction
Technology
“Starting point is interaction and by-
product is information, not vice versa”
―Esko Kilpi
Image: Thomas Hawk

HumanMachine
Individual intelligence
Computer intelligence
Integrated:
Collective intelligence
(networked)
Image: uscfan

Image: lucasd2009
Company
How?
Creates Value
Customer
Creates Value

Nokia 770

Blogs as a Social Network
“There are 60 million blogs”
―Technorati, 2006
“Not a journal, because social”
“Blogs are part of building
our identity. Web is an
extension of our identity”
Image: GustavoG

RFID and QR Codes

Ubiquitous Identity
Teemu Arina
CEO, Dicole Ltd.
Blog

Obsession for Efficiency

OCD of
Organizations
“OCD: Obsessive-
Compulsive Disorder”

Diversity Promotes Change

Chaos, insecurity
Personalization
Informal
Internalized
Situational Petrification
Turbulence Formal
Tacit Pendulum Static action
Dyn. action Defined
Process flow Repetition Rituals
Learning
Explicit
Project /
Product
Coding
Order, security

“Follow effective action with
quiet reflection.
From the quiet reflection will
come even more effective
action.”
― James Levin
Galaxy image: Chris Lasley

Experience
Networked
Action
reflection
Blog
Connecting
reflections
Wiki
Galaxy image: Chris Lasley
Reflecting on: D. Kolb, D. Schön

Sharing
Links
“53 million posts
on 25 million links”
―del.icio.us, 08.2006
“100+ million websites
in the world”
―Netcraft, 10.2006
del.icio.us
Image: Iguana Jo, del.icio.us

Sharing
Voices
“2+ million podcasts”
―Odeo, 10.2006
Image: flyzipper, Odeo

Sharing Experiences
“100 million views and
65 000 new videos every day”
―Youtube, 2006
“60% of all videos watched
online are from Youtube”
―Hitwise, 2006
Image: astrovine, Youtube

Sharing Moments
“24.2 million pictures “100 million pictures;
under Creative Commons” 1 million uploaded daily”
―Flickr, 11.06 ―Flickr, 02.06
Image: jbum, flickr

Finland USA/World
Sweden Korea

The Turk
Wolfgang von
Kempelen, 1769

Past: Future:
Intel inside Human inside
Core is
Core is
human interaction
automation

CEO Teemu Arina
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Dicole Oy (Ltd)
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+358 - 50 – 555 7636
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teemu@dicole.com
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Blog: tarina.blogging.fi
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www.dicole.com
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