Twitter FavesI’m not sure what the next year will bring but I’m certain that it will be as full of changes as 2008. Change is accelerating. Blogging, which wasn’t even in the dictionary when I started this one, is getting competitive: With all of this new competition, the future could be very interesting: Happy New Year!
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In Innovating in the Great Disruption, Scott Anthony suggests three disciplines necessary to foster innovation in difficult economic times – placing a premium on progress; mastering paradox; and learning to love the low end. He also discusses the importance of learning; Innovators will need to continue to find creative, cheap ways to bring their ideas [...]
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I’m going to take some time off work and writing over the holidays, with perhaps a post if the mood strikes me. What really interests me at this time is how The Great Disruption may be opening up possibilities for change that did not exist even six months ago. I have come to the realisation [...]
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I don’t usually get information about training and performance improvement in the Wall Street Journal but this article clearly spells out the benefits of linking training directly to the workplace. In Lessons Learned, Harry Martin describes two cases and provides several links for further reading. Basically, formal training is more effective if followed up with [...]
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We’re starting to see some interest in our TogetherLearn initiative and one of the main drivers seems to be cost-reduction. I came across this future-looking ZDNet article via Bertrand Duperrin and it sums up the situation nicely: However, for business-driven internal enterprise Web 2.0 collaboration projects, I see growth. Why? Because the business will find [...]
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Print media are in dire trouble – but blogs are no substitute says Andrew Sullivan in the Times Online: The terrifying problem is that a one-man blog cannot begin to do the necessary labour-intensive, skilled reporting that a good newspaper sponsors and pioneers. A world in which reporting becomes even more minimal and opinion gets [...]
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Mark Pesce’s post on Fluid Learning has been picked up several people and I like his four recommended processes for networked education: Capture everything [especially since digital storage is so cheap] Share everything [e.g. public feed readers, social bookmarks, blogs, photos, videos] Open everything [no walled gardens a.k.a. LMS] Only connect [less control allows for [...]
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Pawel Szczesny has decided to give up on his attempt to be a freelance scientist. Here are some of the hard lessons that this PhD candidate from Poland has learned: The consultant’s dilemma: when you’re working you’re not generating new ideas or business, and vice versa. It’s tough to launch a freelancing career outside the [...]
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Is the Internet a new technology that we have to integrate into our ways of working and learning or is it a transformational way of communicating that will change our society forever? The approach from existing software vendors and established organisations is that Internet technologies can help you become more effective and efficient in your [...]
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Our son, an actor who plans on majoring in drama at university, sent me this article on How Do Actors memorize their Lines? Anyone interested in how our brains and bodies function together should read this article. Michael Boyd and Oliver Sacks discuss some very interesting case studies about memory: [Oliver Sacks] What strikes me [...]
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