Author: Ben Werdmuller

  • Building the user-centered web

    The following post contains my notes for a talk I gave at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University on June 25, 2009. What is a social network? I would like to reclaim some language: Social is an adjective that means relating to human society and its members. A network is an interconnected […]

  • Adapting to the real world

    I’ve spent the last week in a series of very interesting mind-sharing meetings. First, the American Association of Colleges & Universities flew me into Washington DC to discuss the future of assessment in higher education with education professionals as well as new techsphere friends like Silona Bonewald and Amber Case. Second, Michael Byrne from Harvard […]

  • Beyond the echo chamber

    It’s exciting to see some of the big names in the Silicon Valley web scene shift gears from evangelizing about the power of the social web to explaining how it can be used to the outside world. For example, Robert Scoble, sometime Microsoft videoblogger and latter day net celeb has started Building 43: A few […]

  • Top 10 blogs about the social web

    Blogs.com just published a top 10 list of blogs about the social web that I wrote for them. People are already beginning to comment with blogs they’d love to see added to the list – if you know of one that I missed out, please feel free to add it or link in with your […]