Starting to research VOIP. Using softphone makes it possible to use the same number wherever you are, while an analog telephone adapter (ATA) limits the phone to one jack. As VOIP uses broadband it's possible to fold in other simultaneous calls as well as other broadband applications like audio conferencing.

Global Voices Weblog Search

Am adding Global Voices Weblog Search - it may reveal blogs from NGO workers in the field and produce useful local and indigenous knowledge.

Lotus Notes & Domino 8

Am trawling through the IBM website for case studies. Lotus seems to have been going a long time, it's got that old-IBM feel. Not sure how much it has been affected by social software.

Taxonomies and their users

Interesting how James Kelway's User-centered taxonomies cites the way users tag websites on del.icio.us He also suggests examining competitor websites and actively avoid their mistakes - obvious, but amazing how that never occurs to constructors.

Series on Web 2.0 applications

Good series on Web 2.0 applications is available from EDUCAUSE. The series is "7 things you should know about" and the 7 points are compressed to two A4 sides. Each deals with the knowledge training potentila of the application.

Delicious

Glad to discover a new way of displaying links to frequently used websites. But the font size is big - why? Scrolling is such a fiddle and waste of time. Also the page cannot be configured as easily as Netvibes pages. Would be useful to be able to display an image of the website as a hyperlink.

Return

Coming back after a long break. Reading David Gurteens RSS feeds on KM, but I don't really want to see all his pics!