An invitation to present a paper and a workshop at a conference focused on intranet and knowledge management led to setting up this site [http://intranet.for-better.biz/]. I chose to speak about intranets for small business, and also elected to give a workshop on the solution paths available for small businesses considering intranet solutions, because I am convinced that small to medium sized businesses can benefit from such technologies. I will present three solution paths:


   1. Microsoft Small Business Server with Sharepoint
   2. Open Source solutions with emphasis on Drupal
   3. Google Apps solutions

I hope these three solution paths will allow delegates to understand the main streams available to them to start building intranet solutions for their small to medium size businesses.

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I Ching for the 'African Renaissance' on ISSUU

A part of I Ching for the 'African Renaissance' was uploaded to ISSUU.

It is not complete and the conversion did not work for the cover page and the last page of the introduction.

I Ching for the 'African Renaissance' link

I hope it helps those who found the archive.org download and decompression troublesome.

Links

My ISSUU home link

My nomadicexploration collabourative community link

The community is a Google Apps Portal for thinkers.

It provides every tool imaginable to collabourate and publish your thinking.

Come out and play!

The Art of Flying Sideways

The %Project is nearing completion for the http://www.trans-end.org.za/ constellation exhibition.

For some time now the trailers for the 6 DVD series have been displayed on YouTube.

Today the 6 book series was uploaded to ISSUU. Each book contains 6666 colour graphics and will soon have cover designs. ISSUU limts the ebooks to 500 pages. The links are below:

The Many Faces of Me
Dark City
Fluid FWD Modern
The Will to Escape
Flying Sideways
oN eLEMENT

I am looking for sponsors to publish the illustrated books.

If you are interested in realising 6 x 6666 page illustrated books in full colour for the physical exhibition please contact me at andre@nomadicexploration.net

Trans-end collabouration in cyberspace

Trans-end has just launched its collabourative cyber studio.

This project is growing from strength to strength with team members jet setting all over South Africa to move the work along.

www.trans-end.org.za

Archaeology of business practices (MBA short course)

This short course presented as part of the MBA program relates directly to the method and role of case histories, produced in this course of study, focused on business practices.

This short course is concerned with a style of reasoning which identifies systems of thinking, acting and saying in business practices through an analysis of an archive of evidence.

The analytical criteria proposed to construct insights about a business practice (through a case history) are: the formation of objects, the formation of a unique subject position, the formation of concepts in the practice, the formation of techniques in the practice and the formation of strategies employed by the practice. The elements of the archive are identified for their communicative functions, not for their meaning within the practice. Thus each element offered up for analysis is interrogated in its context, in order to reveal its role in the definition and limitation of the business practice.

This method is aimed at establishing systemic relationships between the symbolic practices and material practices of a business, and to reveal what limits the former establishes for the imaginary practices of the enterprise.

The course objective is to show how this style of reasoning may be used to stimulate innovation in business practice.

Having said that, this course will refer to the writings of Michel Foucault to find evidence of the application of such a style of reasoning or attitude – which is not exactly a method – toward the production of case histories related to business practices. In that sense, it is not a course for readers but a course for doers. Reading - a core activity preceding each lecture - is not directed at what was said by whom, but focused on the function and effects of the style of reasoning employed while producing case histories.

The primary question asked throughout the course is: how does it function? This course is not concerned with another question often asked: what does it mean?