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Using technology for family communication

My colleague, Anna Alderson, and myself, Marie Martin, established Learning Conversations as a company working with families, teachers, schools and the community to learn through conversations. We facilitate conversations about learning, organisational development and curriculum.

In a few months I am providing an overview of blogs and wikis to seniors, trying to give them ideas about ways in which technology can support social communication with families and friends. This conference will, I hope, give me some tools to share with them.

It occurs to me at this point that blogs and wikis might provide ways of collecting and sharing knowledge. Supposing I am arranging a funeral with family who are scattered over the world, or disconnected in time. I set up a blog as a vehicle for sharing thinking. I set up a wiki as a respository for information.