If the combination of the Web and commercial enterprise IT really was a ‘game changer’ for the competitive game of business, then the introduction of these technologies should be accompanied not by a decrease in variation in performance, but instead by the opposite—an increase in performance spread among competitors. MORE >>

It's always interesting to look back at the past year - 2008, think about what has changed for me during the year, and think about what that means for the next year - 2009. To do my review, I first looked at what I was writing about and what people were reading on my blog in 2008. June 1, 2008 was when Work Literacy Launched. MORE >>

Wordle.net provides a cool way to analyze the frequency at which words occurred in a text. See this page for word cloud s of all the major speeches from the Democratic and Republican national conventions. love this application of something that's been around since people could count. MORE >>

For a year-end post I’d rather not try to recap the year in technology, or in anything else. Let’s be honest—with the exception of our truly historic presidential election much of the noteworthy news of 2008 was bad to really bad. technologies, there’s a good bit more of it than there was previously. MORE >>

It’s just that the work I was doing years ago now has the technology infrastructure to be brought to life in a viable and ubiquitous way.  In preparing a presentation for an organization on the learning value of Web 2.0, I realized that the development I’m looking forward to is web 3.0 and the learning possibilities.  MORE >>