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CONVERSATION MATTERS | SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2012 Why Knowledge Management Didn’t Save General Motors: Addressing Complex Issues By Convening Conversation There was a great book published in 2007 by Scott Page called, “ The Difference.” Starting about 2000 GM put together a vibrant KM program. At one point GM had 138 best practice teams and 33 centers of expertise working with identified subject matter experts. In 2008 KM was alive and well at GM. In the summer of 2009 GM filed for bankruptcy. -
Oh, MacROSTIE! A very happy Friday night with my wife, mother in law, and kids (and tomatoes, kale, wild rice, et al), made round by this MacRostie Pinot, 2007. Yippee, it’s the weekend! pinot noir wine macrostie Photos -
HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012 To learn, we must do In 2007 I started blogging with the intention of learning and trying to determine if blogging and other online tools could be useful for my organization. Anne Adrian, in My own serendipitous opportunities , talks about her experiences in online sense-making. did not ask my organization, I just did it. It is necessary for all knowledge work. -
THE BAMBOO PROJECT BLOG | THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2012 Taking Responsibility for What You Love Rosetta Thurman has long been one of my favorite bloggers--I've been reading her blog since she began in 2007. Today she has a 5-year anniversary post (Congrats, Rosetta!) that really resonated for me. People start to support you and help you in your quest to do meaningful work. Here's what gets me about Rosetta's post. Do you hear that? -
ANECDOTE | THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012 In communicating your strategy what do your projects say? Morgan, Levitt and Malek (2007) Executing Your Strategy, Harvard Business School Press. What's more important, what we say or what we do? think we all know that our actions reveal what's really important. Actions speak louder than words and all that. company's projects represent al large part of its actions. Strategic clarity
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JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 2012 CM Summit White Paper from 2007 I am in the midst of writing a post on the history of FM, and I thought it’d be fun to post the PDF linked to below. It’s a summary of musings from Searchblog circa 2006-7 on the topic of conversational media, which is much in the news again, thanks to Facebook. ” Enjoy. CMManifesto2007.01. -
PORTALS AND KM | TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2012 SXSW Notes: Content As a Means for Social Change One is the origin of Twitter and how it was helped by SXSW in 2007. When they came to SXSW in 2007 it became a big deal. Here is another in my series on SXSW events. am pleased to be attending SXSW for the first time. am grateful for Adobe Acrobat for enabling me to attend. will be attending some of the Adobe sponsored sessions. - In the future libraries may die, but they will be reborn
In 2007 I gained notoriety on the topic when Richard Watson and I put libraries at 2019 in our Extinction Timeline , and have been drawn into strategy sessions with a number of major libraries since then. The future of libraries is a rich and fascinating topic. sparked by discussion of the need for big new library projects in the region. -
HAROLD JARCHE | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, 2012 Making collaborative work work Here’s an observation from Ross Mayfield , founder of SocialText, in 2007: But I’ll also make one argument, about how the change in tools may be deterministic for changing culture and about cultural spillover. Tweet Everyone talks about collaboration in the workplace today but what does it really mean? Corporate cultures vary. -
JON HUSBAND | THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2012 "Go With The Flow". CIO Magazine (NZ & Aus.) Interview I was interviewed by IT journalist Beverley Head in the summer of 2007 about the early emergence of social networks and the networked knowledge workplace. This was shortly after the term Enterprise 2.0 was coined, and well before the term "Social Business". The core elements of wirearchy. knowledge, trust, credibility and a need for results. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2012 Obama’s Framework for “Consumer Data Privacy” And My “Data Bill of Rights” And now my “Data Bill of Rights” from 2007: - Data Portability. It sort of feels like “wayback week” for me here at Searchblog, as I get caught up on the week’s news after my vacation. thought I’d compare what I wrote with what the Obama administration is proposing. Data Editing. Data Anonymity. Data Use. -
INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2012 Information Literacy in LIS curriculum 2007). I found a copy of this book chapter, which had vanished from its original location (previously blogged): - Virkus, S., Boekhorst, A. Gomez-Hernandez J.A., Skov, A. and Webber, S. 2005) “Information literacy and learning.” In: Kajberg, L. and Lørring, L. Eds) European Curriculum: Reflections on Library and Information Science Education. -
New! 2012+ Trends Map Our Trend Blend 2007+ map based on the London subway map spawned an entire genre of trend maps based on city train lines. Richard Watson of NowandNext.com and I have collaborated extensively over the years, including on numerous client projects. Enjoy! Click on the image for full-size pdf. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012 Americans starting to adjust to instability, studies suggest The Financial Times reports : Although 22 per cent of Americans described themselves as “very stressed”, this figure was slightly down on the previous year, when it was 24 per cent – and well below 2007, when it was 32 per cent. In 2007, for example, the mean stress level was 6.2 According to two new surveys, not quite. per cent. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012 What Happens When Sharing Is Turned Off? People Don’t Dance. when I was at Bonnaroo in 2007), everyone there had a cel phone with a camera. One of only two photos to emerge from last night's Wilco concert, image Eric Henegen. Last night my wife and I did something quite rare – we went to a concert on a Sunday night, in San Francisco, with three other couples (Wilco, playing at The Warfield). -
PORTALS AND KM | MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012 Shifts in 2011 Inc. 500 Social Media Usage In the first study of 2007, the smaller INC 500 companies outpaced the Fortune 500 in blog use (19% vs. 8%) and this trend continued as both group increased their blogging over the years. See my last post on them: Is Social Media Reaching a Plateau in America's Largest Companies? This new study continues the Center’s work on Inc. -
SOCIAL-BIZ.ORG | FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012 John Hagel on Social Technology Adoption | Collaborative Planning & Social Business December 2007. November 2007. October 2007. September 2007. July 2007. June 2007. May 2007. April 2007. March 2007. January 2007. Collaborative Planning & Social Business. Empowering office workers to be more efficient, adaptive, and effective. Skip to content. Enterprise 2.0 -
LINKED INTELLIGENCE | FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012 Nothing But Your Name, Please I originally wrote about this issue back in 2007, and while LinkedIn has occasionally (and inconsistently) manually cracked down on this practice, 5 years later they still haven’t really done much to curb it. This also wreaks havoc on contact management / CRM systems. Moreover, LinkedIn’s User Agreement (see 10.B.2) -
WWW.DACHISGROUP.COM | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012 101 Examples of Social Business ROI Communispace, 2007). Communispace, 2007). DellOutlet on Twitter generated $2 million direct sales, influenced $1 million addt’l (2007 – 2009). Despite product recalls, online community helped support Q4 2007 sales increase of 6%. Collaboratory. Social Business Index. Social Business Summit. What We Do. Events. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012 Predictions 2012: The Roundup 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. ( image ) As promised, here are all my predictions in one place. I’ve written a brief overview of each as well. Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media. Twitter will become a force as a media company, not just a platform for others’ media. Predictions 2012 #3: The Facebook Ad Network. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012 Predictions 2012 #7: Shooting From The Hip 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. This year I tried something new with my predictions, writing deeper posts on each one. got to six, but I underestimated how long it would take to write 1,000 or so words for each post. I’m pushing past 10,000 words for the past week, and “predictions season” is pretty much over. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012 Predictions 2012 #6: “The Corporation” Becomes A Central Societal Question Mark 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. Amidst all the chaos, tragedy, and tumult that was 2011, I noticed one very clear theme: Most of us are struggling with the role corporations play in our society. The 14th Amendment (yes, the one that banished slavery) established corporations, in the US, as “persons” in the legal sense. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012 Predictions 2012 #5: A Big Year for M&A 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. ( image ) One of the things that pops out of the “Big Five” chart I just posted, at least if you stare at it a bit, are the places where each company needs to get strong, quickly. Apple is weak in social and one dimensional in ad solutions. Amazon needs help in devices, social, and OS. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012 Predictions 2012 #4: Google’s Challenging Year 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. By some Mayan accounts, 2012 is not going to be a good year for any of us. But in this prediction, I’m going to focus on one company that will have a pretty crazy year: Google. It all adds up to a massive challenge that I think will come to a head in 2012. Yikes. Predictions 2011. 2009 How I Did. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012 Predictions 2012 #3: The Facebook Ad Network 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. For my third prediction of the year, I’m going with one just a tad bit less obvious than “Facebook will go public.” I’ve argued that Facebook ought to be a public company , if only to be held (somewhat) accountable given all the data it has on our lives. Predictions 2011. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012 Predictions 2012: #2 – Twitter As Free Radical, Swiss Bank, Arms Merchant…And Google Five Years Ago 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. My predictions this year will be pretty focused on the Internet Big Five (Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook) but the first two focus on Twitter. Because Twitter is poised to become a critical “free radical” whose presence affects the actions of all the Big Five players. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2012 Predictions 2012: #1 – On Twitter and Media 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. 2012 is going to be a year of contrasts – of consolidation of power for the Internet Big Five , and fragmentation and disruption of that power due to both startups as well as government and consumer action. Well, because I’d like to dig in a bit on each. Let me break this into two parts. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2011 2011 Predictions: How Did I Do? 2007 Predictions. 2007 How I Did. ( image ) For many years now I’ve made predictions, and for just as many years I review how I did. This is the week I do the reviewing, my predictions for 2012 should arrive around the New Year, assuming I find the right inspiration. 2011 was a strange year in many ways. Why no angry nerds? -
WWW.THECONTENTECONOMY.COM | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2011 The Content Economy: Social Collaboration vs The Existing Communication Culture ► 2007. The Content Economy. Pages. About. Speaking. Presentations. Writings. Contact. Wednesday, December 14, 2011. Social Collaboration vs The Existing Communication Culture. Tightly controlled communication flows. Hence it is unthinkable that an employee will communicate directly with the CEO, and vice versa. By Oscar Berg. SUMMIT. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2011 Coworking: the pivot in today’s transformation of work? In a 2007 Businessweek report , it was estimated that as much as 60 percent of offices space is “a dead zone of darkened doorways and wasting cubes,” and some have estimated that $600B is wasted in direct costs, leaving aside the externalities like impact to the environment, and the costs that employees incur commuting. Connecting The Dots. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2011 Should mobile operators give up on voicemail? Visual voicemail made a big splash when Apple launched it on the first iPhone with AT&T (then Cingular) in 2007. Viaero Wireless has taken a “if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em” approach to voicemail. YouMail CEO Alex Quilici said Viaero isn’t the first operator to see the value in an independent voicemail provider. YouMail Android client. -
TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2011 Yelp leaps into the underserviced consumer review space in Australia Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO of Yelp , is in Australia for the launch of Yelp Australia. was invited to interview him on Monday (embargoed until today) as part of a major media campaign to kick off the site. Australia is the 13th country where Yelp has launched, with up until now all the action outside North America being in Europe. -
PORTALS AND KM | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2011 Maybe Enterprise 2.0 Is About the Technology conferences in 2007, titled “ It’s 90% Percent People 10% Technology ” that made the same point as Ted did recently. I have been reading about the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Santa Clara. was sorry to miss it but did attend the June version In Boston. People are the weakest link ). was also part of a panel at the one of first Enterprise 2.0 -
COLLABORATIVE THINKING | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2011 Literature Review: Improving Work Practices in Times of Change related line of thought looks at the concept of “social objects” within social networking environments (Engeström, 2007). related foundation for understanding the cultural aspects of a SNS does exist in the consumer market where boyd and Ellison defined the term “Social Network Sites” (boyd & Ellison, 2007). 2007). 2007). -
INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG | FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2011 People from the Augustana seminar: Clarence Maybee 2007) "Understanding our student learners: A phenomenographic study revealing the ways that undergraduate women at Mills College understand using information." To start with, this is one of the delegates at the seminar: Clarence Maybee (pictured right). Reference Services Review , 35(3), 452-462. Maybee, C. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011 Iongrid brings Office apps securely to iPad Crosby is CTO of Bromium (and founder and former CTO of XenSource, now part of Citrix); Stokes is chairman of AppZero and former CEO of DataMirror (acquired by IBM in 2007.). That’s no small feat. That worked okay except for two things. First, PowerPoint slides et al. did not display well on iPads without a third-party reader. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2011 oDesk CEO: The future of work approaching quickly alone, we’ve seen wages go from $19 an hour on average in 2007 to $30 an hour on average today,” he says. Work used to be a place. Increasingly, thanks to tech, we can get stuff done from nearly everywhere. Today though online labor marketplace oDesk is announcing numbers that show this shift may be happening more quickly than many expect. -
COLLABORATIVE THINKING | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011 Annotated Bibliography: Background For Literature Review Project 2007). Due to the storm and subsequent outages that hit CT last week, my annotated bibliography is not as complete as I originally intended but it's almost there. There are several additional resources I plan to add. References. Albrechtslund, A. 2008). Online Social Networking as Participatory Surveillance. First Monday, 13(3). boyd, d. -
THE BAMBOO PROJECT BLOG | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011 Stepping Back to Move Forward Most recently, in 2007, when his department was eliminated, he turned down a couple of promotions to take a lower-paying staff job in his employer's corporate university. Fifteen years ago, after a weekend career retreat I ran for myself, I walked into my full-time job and quit. would actually save money at that point by not working. . -
HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011 So you (still) want to be an elearning consultant? 2007) I showed the different types of work, and associated remuneration , available in the field. This trend has not changed since 2007 and will continue. Tweet Last week I commented that many people in the “learning” field are too absorbed in their own interests and not the businesses they are supporting. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 2011 Are freelancers putting a crimp in small biz hiring? Hiring by small firms is very slowly creeping up but hasn’t neared 2007 levels , which sounds like just another gloomy data point in a depressing year of economic news, but what does that have to do with the future of work? No segment of the economy looks exactly buoyant right now, and small business hiring is no exception. The culprit? -
WWW.REDBOOKS.IBM.COM | WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2011 IBM Redbooks | Supporting Innovators and Early Adopters: A Technology Adoption Program Cookbook Publish Date 28 December 2007. -->. Skip to main content. Country/region [ select ]. Redbooks. All of IBM. Home Solutions Services Products Support & downloads My IBM. IBM Redbooks Infrastructure Solutions. Supporting Innovators and Early Adopters: A Technology Adoption Program Cookbook. An IBM Red paper publication. View online. context. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2011 Psychology for web workers: Self-promotion is more fun than you expect 2007) had participants in long-term relationships predict how pleasurable it would be to interact with: Their partner; an opposite sex stranger. Remote work, nearly everyone agrees, requires greater conscious effort from management and team members to keep the lines of communication open and build connections with colleagues. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2011 Help Me Interview Michael Dell, CEO, Dell (And Win Free Tix to Web 2) Back in 2007, Dell was losing marketshare to HP, Apple had not yet proven the monster it has since become in mobile, and tablets were something used on factory floors. Not unlike Steve Jobs back in the 1990s, Michael Dell returned to the helm of his company at a crucial moment, when his namesake was seemingly rudderless. -
ROSSDAWSONBLOG.COM | MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2011 Compulsory viewing: A CEO perspective on the business value of internal social networks | Trends in the Living Networks Future of Media Report 2007. Trend map 2007+. December 2007 (17). November 2007 (17). October 2007 (19). September 2007 (13). August 2007 (34). July 2007 (19). June 2007 (22). May 2007 (7). April 2007 (7). March 2007 (23). February 2007 (18). AHT Group. Web 2.0 -
LIBRARY CLIPS | MONDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2011 The future of work is to freelance within an organisation - choose your task, assemble to work, then dissolve His key points echo my 2007 book: These teams are best for “fast-changing contexts in which surprise is the rule” They often emerge in emergencies (There’s a lot of research showing the role of improvisation in emergency and disaster response; in Group Genius, I begin Chapter 2 by telling a story about the 1980 Naples earthquake). -
TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2011 Angry Birds and productivity at work: why distractions can help While many companies soon reversed their hastily-enforced bans on Facebook back in 2007 and 2008, someone told me that their employer had just a few weeks ago rescinded their ban on Facebook. On Friday a journalist from the Herald Sun called me to ask for my response to an ‘analysis’ suggesting that $1.4 -
JON HUSBAND | SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2011 "Do You Know About Wirearchy". Interview (From 2007) Earlier this year (2007) Traci Fenton (founder of Worldblu.com) had the opportunity to talk with Jon Husband , founder of a blog on “ wirearchy , a term he coined and defines as “ a dynamic flow of power and authority based on trust, knowledge, credibility and a focus on results enabled by interconnected people and technology. . -
PORTALS AND KM | WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2011 FastForward Blog Says Farewell - Keep Connected He began in July 2007 and asked himself what were all these new tools going to be about? After over fours years of posting the FastForward blog has closed. We started in December 2006. did my last listing of posts recently (see: My Fast Forward Posts for August 2011 ). have greatly enjoyed the past four plus years writing for it. -
THE BAMBOO PROJECT BLOG | TUESDAY, AUGUST 30, 2011 Positive Professional Development Tool: The 30-Day Trial In 2007, I embarked on a 31-Day "Building a Better Blog" learning experimen t where I pledged to go through Problogger Darren' Rowse's daily series of activities to build a better blog.Over the next month, about 40 other brave bloggers (including a class of 9 year-olds from Australia!) All of us built a strong bond to one another. -
THE FASTFORWARD BLOG | MONDAY, AUGUST 22, 2011 Leading and Managing (Networked) People Must Evolve World-renowned organizational effectiveness guru Gary Hamel set out the fundamental challenge(s) in his 2007 book “ The Future of Management “ Others, such as John Hagel and John Seeley Brown’s “ The Power of Pull “, have weighed in with equally sharp and challenging premises and theories. change, or die. -
THE FASTFORWARD BLOG | SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 2011 So what happened in 4 years of writing for Fast Forward Blog? In my first post in July of 2007, I asked myself - What were all these new tools going to be about? So back in July of 2007, that is the context that I asked the question “What’s it all about?. So most large enterprise is really no different than it was back in 2007. But steam changed the world. It is Darwin. -
WWW.DUPERRIN.COM | TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 2011 Enterprise 2.0 : adoption through social routine | Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad Bertrand Duperrin's Notepad Thoughts on management, HR, social networks…and enterprise 2.0 Home About Contact Categories About blogosphere about france About me About this blog Books I read Case management Collaborative practices Communication Communities Corporate blogging economy enterprise 2.0 entrepreneurship HR & Management 2.0 -
UNESCO Media & Information Literacy: report 3 2007) Understanding Information Literacy: a primer. This continues my report from the meeting, held on 11th August in San Juan, Puerto Rico, about developing Media and Information Literacy indicators (the meeting was organised by IFLA and UNESCO). Some of the related statistics (e.g. governance), public health (e.g. Catts, R. and Lau, J. -
INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG | THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011 UNESCO Media & Information Literacy: report 1 The process started in 2007 with the publication by Lau and Catts: Towards Information Literacy Indicators , then in November 2010 there was the first meeting of MIL experts, then some further conceptual work, and now two separate meetings (one with media literacy experts, held in July, and one with IL experts i.e. the one I just attended). -
PORTALS AND KM | THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 2011 Social Media Use Continues to Expand in US Higher Education They began to look at this issue in 2007. The most study found the trends first reported in 2007 are still in place and even expanding. For example, with blogs 37% of blogging schools did not accept comments in 2007. A new study by Nora Ganim Barnes and Ava M. Podcasting is also up rising from 22% to 41% in just one year. -
WWW.SLIDESHARE.NET | TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2011 IBM Connections statistics 2011 forum presentation 2930 views LotusPhere Istanbul 1130 views Using a social media platform in FE/HE 3046 views NCLA 2007: Web 2.0 SlideShare. Present yourself. Copy Old embed code ? Copy Close We have emailed the verification/download link to " ". Login to your email and click the link to download the file directly. To install it, go here. -
WWW.SOCIALTEXT.COM | TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2011 Companies Aren’t Communities | Enterprise Social Software Blog | Socialtext Contact Sales +1 (650) 331-7307 | Login Enterprise Social Software Blog Try Socialtext Today All Posts Application Development Customer Success Enterprise 2.0 News & Events Product Updates Tips & Tricks Enterprise 2.0 They aren’t forums. Companies are companies. Why does the difference matter? Let’s look at the numbers. deploy -
ANECDOTE | THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2011 Different ways to envisage the future These were 2 day courses, and we ended up running them for nearly 5000 leaders, over a two year period in 2006 and 2007. By 2007 the profit stood at a very impressive A$15.33bn and the share price stood at $A8.94. There is no way in 2006 or 2007 that we could see this downfall happening. Strategic clarity -
BROWSE.WORKLITERACY.COM | SATURDAY, JULY 23, 2011 Knowledge Work Emergent Collaboration - Work Literacy Home | Blog | About Participate Services People | Subscribe Subscribe to Aggregated Feed + Links Top Keywords [?] Top Keywords are determined based on what terms are used in the content represented by this source, keywords, dates as compared to other sources. 360 Degree Reviews. Making social learning work. Work Teams need to get things done. An -
PORTALS AND KM | SUNDAY, JULY 10, 2011 New Orleans Lives Music Samples May 2011 There is a regular group of dancers and I saw many of the same people who were there in 2007 when I last went. One of the great joys of going to New Orelans is all the wonderful live music in a wide variety of music styles, most of which originated here or in the country side to the southwest of the city. Carrollton Avenue for Zydeco night. -
PORTALS AND KM | SATURDAY, JULY 9, 2011 New Orleans Restaurant Update May 2011 Willie Mae Seaton's great-granddaughter Kerry Blackmon took over the kitchen when the Scotch House reopened in 2007 following an extensive post-Katrina repair job. Here is another of many New Orleans restaurant updates. We went to a selection of old school and new school places. They are presented in order of our visits. 504) 861-9600. -
LIBRARY CLIPS | TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2011 Facebook and Twitter are broadcast design models; Google Plus is a sharing design model Google Plus is very impressive…it’s a shot at being a Facebook/Twitter hybrid and more…I pointed to a mashable post in Jul 2007 (4 years ago) to hints of Google social networking, then it was called Socialstream. This post is about my first couple of days experimenting with Google Plus. Twitter. Facebook. Google Plus. Wrong? -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, JULY 5, 2011 Google plans to open Hangouts for interoperability He also revealed that Hangouts was in part built by the people who came to Google after the company acquired the video conferencing provider Marratech in 2007. Hangouts, the group video chat component of Google Plus that everyone’s been raving about , could eventually be usable with other video chat clients and services as well. -
PORTALS AND KM | FRIDAY, JULY 1, 2011 My Favorite Tweets for June 15 - 30 2011 Bruins join Patriots (2001, 2003 and 2004), Red Sox (2004 and 2007) + Celtics (2008) as World Champs #Boston. Here is another in a series of posts that provide access to my favorite tweets that contain links to useful information. spot tested the reduced shortened urls and they all should work. hope this is also useful for you. -
i3 report: Opening keynote #i3_conference He cited a paper Wuchty et al (2007) "The increasing dominance of teams in the production of knowledge." I am attending the i3 conference at the Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen [link] and I'll be doing some reports from it. The first keynote was from Dr. Eric Meyer, on Engaging with Information: Knowledge in the Digital Age. 37-48). - Why crowdsourcing should (and maybe will) be the future of government
similar but less ambitious project was the public redrafting of New Zealand’s Police Act, which was done on a wiki in 2007. You may have seen the marvellous news that Iceland is crowdsourcing its new constitution. Draft clauses are put up on the Internet for people to comment on below, or on the Council’s Facebook page. -
BLOG.SEMANTICFOUNDRY.COM | SUNDAY, JUNE 12, 2011 The Social Software Primer: 13 Books You Must Read | Semantic Foundry, LLC Further, to discuss strategy and design patterns in social media site architecture/design and their impact on human behavior requires at the very least a general understanding of the writing on topics concerning sociology, social networking theory, anthropology and marketing. Until now, at least, I have not seen a list compiled of essential reading. -
We (Will) Live In A Small Big Town The consensus was that yes, brands in fact are publishers of conversations (finally, my 2007 ideas are happening.). Earlier today I moderated a panel at an energetic and well-attended event called the " Newfront ," produced by Digitas, an innovative agency which counts American Express, Kraft, P&G, and GM as clients. Indeed. Or is it? -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 2011 How to manage innovative ideas in the modern enterprise Enabled in April of 2007, the site is described as being “ created to empower TSA employees to suggest and promote ideas to improve their workplace and the way TSA does business. When was the last time you saw someone open up a locked suggestion box? Organizations from the U.S. Two ideation process examples. Event-focused ideation. -
WWW.GAUTAMBLOGS.COM | TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011 Building Social Business: ROI of Enterprise 2.0 at Accenture Building Social Business At the intersection of Enterprise 2.0 and Organization Development. Facilitating Social Collaboration with Enterprise Social Networking. Leveraging Community thinking. at Accenture Tweet My friend Karthik S recently shared a very interesting page on Accenture about their Social Software and how it benefit them. enterprise2.0 -
WWW.GAUTAMBLOGS.COM | TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011 Building Social Business: Social Intranet: Collaboration in the social context of Enterprise 2.0 using Qontext Building Social Business At the intersection of Enterprise 2.0 and Organization Development. Facilitating Social Collaboration with Enterprise Social Networking. Leveraging Community thinking. using Qontext Tweet The week before last I was given a demo by the folks at Qontext on their social intranet and social sales product. Whats Your Cause? -
WWW.GAUTAMBLOGS.COM | TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011 Building Social Business: Thoughts on Enterprise 2.0 and the Social Intranet Building Social Business At the intersection of Enterprise 2.0 and Organization Development. Facilitating Social Collaboration with Enterprise Social Networking. Leveraging Community thinking. and the Social Intranet Tweet Image by Ed Yourdon via Flickr What is the difference between Enterprise 2.0 and a "social" intranet? While E2.0 India License. -
WWW.GAUTAMBLOGS.COM | TUESDAY, JUNE 7, 2011 Building Social Business: Next Step for Social Business - Making ERP social and collaborative Building Social Business At the intersection of Enterprise 2.0 and Organization Development. Facilitating Social Collaboration with Enterprise Social Networking. Leveraging Community thinking. One key aspect of Social "contextual collaboration" is that it often creates silos - ironically. Posted by Gautam Ghosh at 08:01 Email This BlogThis! -
Social Media for Social Change — Inside the Organization? Home Contact Previous Posts About Work With Me SheShouldTalkAtTED Campaign Subscribe Authentic Organizations Social Media for Social Change — Inside the Organization? by cv harquail on February 15, 2011 This post is featured on Social Media Today. How has the activity of organizational change been changed, with the advent of social media? -
Launch of Digital Sydney: Ideas, energy, success stories, and massive potential apps in BRW in 2007), and in turn to see the opportunity that led to Spreets. I am at the launch of Digital Sydney , part of the Vivid Sydney and Creative Sydney festivals. Certainly over the last 2-3 years the Sydney tech entrepreneur space has soared, making it arguably now in the top dozen tech startup cities in the world, or close to it. -
NETJMC.COM | SUNDAY, MAY 29, 2011 Social media are challenging the intranet - Intranet & Digital Workplace Strategies - NetJMC Clients Blog Digital Workplace Trends Contact Home » Blog » Social media are challenging the intranet Subscribe to posts Social media are challenging the intranet November 9, 2010 | Comments(3), | Categories: 2011 Intranet Trends | Social media are triggering fundamental questions about intranets and their role in the organization. -
ANECDOTE | WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2011 Changing behaviour: loss aversion and the "Anti-charity" The concept of the Anti-charity comes from stickK a website started in 2007 by two Yale University professors, Dean Karlan and Ian Ayres. "If, when you think of one, you get a sharp intake of breath and start to feel a steely resolve inside to follow through, it's probably the right one". The answer - an Anti-charity. 1) Kahneman, D. 1979). -
Systems of Engagement: Technology for Social Organizations Home Contact Previous Posts About Work With Me SheShouldTalkAtTED Campaign Subscribe Authentic Organizations Systems of Engagement: Technology for Social Organizations by cv harquail on April 13, 2011 “Systems of engagement. Isn’t that an evocative term? So at the end of this post, I’ll propose a definition. were created. -
7 Reasons To Rethink Social Scoring Inside Social Organizations- Before it’s too late Given her low influence score, it looks like she’s not as good a leader as Manager B. know that Manager B has been with us only two years, and hasn’t yet finished Program Y, but look– her Klout score is 65! That’s huge! Clearly, she’s a better leader than Manager A. can imagine it, and the prospect scares me. Uh huh! -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 2011 Set The Data Free, And Value Will Follow More on this in my 2007 post The Data Bill of Rights , not to be confused with the " Commercial Data Privacy Bill of Rights ," introduced last week. (NB: Much has been written and said on this topic, and this post is in no way complete. We'll be exploring this issue and many others related to data at the Web 2 Summit this Fall). - Keynote speech in Beijing on How Technology is Transforming Business
AICD has usually held its annual conference in Australian cities, but when in 2007 it held it in Shanghai they actually had far more attendees than usual. In a few weeks I will be in Beijing to give a keynote to the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) annual Company Directors conference. Cloud Enterprise 2.0 -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, APRIL 18, 2011 When to Use Video for Remote Team Communications 2007 study from the University of Calgary showed that remote teams socialized at the beginning of a videoconferencing session, mimicking face-to-face encounters. It’s easy to assume that remote team communication will be better with video. But does video really perform as well as face-to-face interaction? Technical Tasks. Negotiation. -
PORTALS AND KM | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 2011 Useing Semantic Technology and Machine Learning for Consumer Advice; Retrevo 10 18 instructions per second that human kind can carry out on its general-purpose computers in 2007 are in the same ballpark area as the maximum number of nerve impulses executed by one human brain per second.” Of course, I think that is not really the question to ask. However, this takes considerable effort. It uses math algorithms. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 2011 Do the Best Web Workers Think Like Gamers? Primary among these advocates is FedEx CIO Rob Carter who famously told a conference back in 2007 that the best training for those who want to succeed in the future is the massive multi-player game. The player who contributes most gets to lead the team — until someone else contributes more. The Future of Workplaces. -
PORTALS AND KM | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 23, 2011 US Charities Outpace Other Sectors in Social Media The new study compares organizational adoption of social media in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 by the 200 largest charities in the United States based on a list compiled annually by Forbes Magazine. Here is more great work by Nora Ganim Barnes at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2011 How to Deal With “Bacn” Email Without Using Gmail’s Smart Labels exe) for Windows 7, Vista or XP, and Outlook 2003, 2007 or 2010. It’s a great feature and works really well, but if you don’t use Gmail, or perhaps aren’t comfortable with Google analyzing your emails, there are some options for dealing with bacn in desktop email clients, too: Inbox Rules. Outlook. Apple Mail. Thunderbird. -
THE FASTFORWARD BLOG | FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 2011 Social Media Usage Pervasive in Major US Charities, Ahead of Other Sectors The new study compares organizational adoption of social media in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 by the 200 largest charities in the United States based on a list compiled annually by Forbes Magazine. Here is another useful study by Nora Ganim Barnes at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research. FASTforward'09 -
PORTALS AND KM | TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 2011 World's Total Combined CPU Power Now Equals One Human Brain Breaking down the results by devices, they found by 2007 94% of our technical memory was in a digital format and that phones held six percent of world processing power, but the big story was gaming hardware, which shot up to a quarter of the total computational capacity, pushing the PC back down to a two-thirds share. Congratulations. -
INCREDIBLYDULL.BLOGSPOT.COM | TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2011 Incredibly Dull: What Knowledge Management Can Learn from Small Groups Incredibly Dull Sunday, January 9, 2011 What Knowledge Management Can Learn from Small Groups I used to work for a large multinational corporation. now work for a small startup consisting of 12 people who work in one room together. There is not much "knowledge management" needed with a group that size. But that behavior is only a target. Finally. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2011 Google Docs Viewer Now Supports 12 More File Formats Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 / 2010 (.PPTX). Google Docs Viewer, the handy online document viewer that enables you to view Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and PDF files online without having to download them to your machine, now supports 12 new popular file formats. The list of supported file types now includes: Microsoft Excel (.XLS XLS and.XLSX). -
HAROLD JARCHE | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2011 Seven years and 95 theses 2007 – One of the main forces of change that will affect how we learn is the weakening of the industrial command & control organisation. Do hyperlinks really subvert hierarchy? recently asked on Twitter. They can when people outside the organization take advantage of ridiculously easy group-forming. There are no secrets. At them. -
PORTALS AND KM | THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 2011 The Inc. 500 Continues to Embrace Social Media in Increasing Numbers Seventy percent report they actively monitor, up slightly from 68% last year, 60% in 2008 and 50% in 2007. Here is the latest in the very useful series of longitudinal studies on social media use by The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth led by Nora Barnes. Magazine to the Inc. 500 list. -
ANDREWMCAFEE.ORG | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2011 The Great Decoupling His 1984 novel Neuromancer popularized the term ‘ cyberspace ,’ was prescient about how people would be using computers and networks 20 years later, and remains a fantastic read. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. -
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ROSS.TYPEPAD.COM | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2011 Decoupling Decision Rights and Decentralization - Ross Mayfield's Weblog Un-Conference | Main | Catalytics » September 01, 2007 Decoupling Decision Rights and Decentralization Andrew McAfee has an interesting post that challenges the trend of decentralization in organizations. flick r.com « Office 2.0 would be sent to these few people, who would apply their specificknowledge to it and made decisions. -
TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS | SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2011 It is the structure of social networks that shapes influence… and the structure is changing As I commented in a 2007 post about other research on online influence, What interests me in particular is how the structure of these influence networks will evolve – we are absolutely in a transition phase, and the way social opinion is formed will quickly change. Beyond that point the key topic becomes how this structure is changing. -
INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG | THURSDAY, JANUARY 27, 2011 Journal club on 2nd Feb: IL strategy 2007). The next meeting of the journal club that takes place in the virtual world Second Life (SL) is on 2nd February 2011, at 12 noon SL time (see [link] for times elsewhere). We will be discussing Corrall, S. Benchmarking strategic engagement with information literacy in higher education: towards a working model". events -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2011 Remember Googlezon? Microsoft would create this social news service by 2007, EPIC predicted. Lately I've become a bit obsessed with predicting the future. Not the present future, as in one year from now - I do that every year , after all. But the long-ish future, as in ten to twenty years out. want to think more about the long future. possible. Google buys Tivo. -
COLLABORATIVE THINKING | TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2011 Enabling Participation: More Art Than Science In earlier posts (see " The Era Of Volunteerism ", " Why Is Social Software Important ", and " Categorizing Collaboration " way back in 2007 ), I've argued the degree to which an employee participates above and beyond what their job entails is a daily decision. initiatives. the value of participation). High-Level Bootstrapping. Summary. | |