• INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012
    The ways that young people experience information
    Marian Smith gained her PhD from Loughborough University in 2010, with an interesting dissertation about children's perceptions of information (I was external examiner at her viva) entitled "Young people: a phenomenographic investigation into the ways they experience information".
  • CONVERSATION MATTERS  |  SUNDAY, MAY 13, 2012
    Why Knowledge Management Didn’t Save General Motors: Addressing Complex Issues By Convening Conversation
    In both 2010 and 2011 Ecopetrol was nominated for the MAKE award. 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. That’s stupid.”.
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2012
    Comedy facebook privacy video
    think the video dates from about 2010, so certainly not new. I had an interesting talk yesterday with one of our third year BSc students, whose dissertation I'm supervising. Coincidentally, I came across this spoof documentary from Bubblegum Comedy about a Facebook privacy action group that I found amusing.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012
    Two More Wines of the Week
    And I broke into my stash of Radio Coteau last night and tried the 2010 La Neblina Pinot. From our pals at Belle Gloss. This is reasonably priced and rarely disappoints. One word: Yep. Random, But Interesting
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  TUESDAY, MAY 8, 2012
    Sparqlight aims to save enterprise users from boring recurring tasks
    ” Sparqlight was founded in 2010 to address this market segment and has thus far been entirely bootstrapped. “There’s people at the bottom of the market that have products like Do.com , online to-do lists, and they’re useful but they don’t have automation. They don’t have analytics.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012
    Crocodoc rethinks PDFs for the mobile web
    Connected world: the consumer technology revolution Connected Consumer Market Overview, Q2 2010 12 tech leaders’ resolutions for 2012. I have often wondered why we have not seen a newer, more mobile and more touch-centric descendant of Adobe’s portable document format, popularly known by its acronym – PDF.
  • ANECDOTE   |  MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012
    Telling Stories Puts Our Brains in Sync
    Greg Stephens, Lauren Silbert and Uri Hasson are Princeton University neuroscientists who in 2010 conducted a series of experiments showing that an audience's brains light up (imagine they are all in a fMRI machine) the same way as the presenter's brain when she tells a story. More on that later. But let's start with what they did. Hasson, U.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012
    The Enduring Nature of Blogs and Blogging
    In 2010 50% of the Inc. Nora Ganim Barnes and her colleagues at the Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth have looked at business blogs for some time. 500 had a corporate blog, up from 45% in 2009 and 39% in 2008.    Now in 2011, the use of blogging dropped to 37%.  
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012
    Badgeville Offers Cloud- based Gamification Platform and Expertise
    " Founded in 2010, Badgeville is based in Menlo Park, Calif. Badgeville provides the Behavior Platform™ a cloud-based gamification platform that allows organizations to build custom gamification programs for their employees, business partners, and customers. Kevin said that he sees four main reasons. Badgeville is one of these.
  • VIZTHINK BLOG  |  THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2012
    VizThink Lille
    1st ViZthink Lille evening on Tuesday 10 March 2010. 1ère soirée VizThink Lille le mardi 10 avril 2012. Infos sur www.vizthink.fr. All details on www.vizthink.fr. Liked this article? You may also enjoy: VizThink Toulouse. The VizThink France community in 2 new cities, Toulouse (March) and Lille (April). Next VizThink Paris.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2012
    FuzeBox video conferencing ready for iPad’s Retina display
    Personal tools lead to practical business Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce Connected Consumer Market Overview, Q1 2010. Increasingly, devices like the iPad are enabling those workers to be just as productive anywhere they happen to be. Sign up for a free trial.
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2012
    Nurse educator leads discussion on infolit article in SL
    2010) “ Piloting a dedicated information literacy programme for nursing students at Waterford Institute of Technology libraries.” What: Journal Club in the virtual world, Second Life. You need a SL avatar and a computer with the SL browser installed, to participate. and Carbery, A. Library Review, 59 (8), 606-614. events
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2012
    SXSW Notes: Coding the Next Chapter of American History
    In January 2010 she asked cities to apply for this program.  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. did some of the Adobe sponsored sessions. Here is the session description. Recently, she ran the Web 2.0 and Gov 2.0 event.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2012
    SXSW Notes: Ambient Location and the Future of the Interface
    Case has spoken at TED on technology and humans and was featured in Fast Company 2010 as one of the Most Influential Women in Technology. 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 Adobe sponsored sessions.
  • FUTURE OF WORK  |  SUNDAY, MARCH 11, 2012
    Measuring Office Space for the Agile Worker
    Bob is also the Publisher of Workspace Design Magazine , started in 2010. by Bob Fox, Fox Architects and Workspace Design Magazine. This article appears in the March 2012 issue of Future of Work Agenda ). Is there only one metric? Because of these developments, determining the efficiency of a person in a place has become a serious challenge.
  • KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK  |  MONDAY, MARCH 5, 2012
    Innovation is about diverging and converging and maybe some fun
    This was something Barbara Kivovitz had  talked about at the KM Forum symposium in December 2010. Last week, I attended my first  Agile New England meeting, partially for the networking opportunity and partially for the topic, which was Gamestorming with  Todd Williams from  Dachis Group (XPlane). Do the organizers know why they are there?
  • HAROLD JARCHE  |  FRIDAY, MARCH 2, 2012
    A mixed bag
    From today onwards, businesses around the world can pay a fee to access all of the tweets written on Twitter going back to January 2010. Tweet Here are some of the insights and observations that were shared via Twitter this past week. ” “ A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 2012
    February gets a new holiday: Anywhere Working Week
    The Future of Work Platforms: An Overview The Future of Workplaces Report: The Enterprise Videoconference Landscape, 2010 – 2015. February may be the shortest month, but as many in the Northern hemisphere can attest, it usually doesn’t feel like it. Luckily, we now have one. To be fair to the British government though, the U.S.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2012
    Snapshot: The many moving parts of enterprise mobility
    Updated: Forecast: global mobile subscribers, 2010–2015 Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce The rise of tablets in the enterprise. Going mobile in the enterprise sounds sexy, but there’s far more to it than just handing out smartphones and tablets to employees.
  • VIZTHINK BLOG  |  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2012
    The VizThink France community in 2 new cities, Toulouse (March) and Lille (April)
    After Rennes (NW) in 2010, Paris (well Paris is Paris) in 2011, Toulouse (SW) and Lille (N)  will begin their evening in Late March and early April respectively! All our events on www.vizthink.fr . Liked this article? You may also enjoy: InfoViz week in Rennes, France, soon a report. Visual, Experiential Walk in the Park.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012
    Rapportive officially bought by LinkedIn
    Rapportive had raised about $1 million in 2010 , with investors that included Charles River Ventures, Dave McClure, Paul Buchheit, Jason Calacanis, Gary Vaynerchuk, Shervin Pishevar and Venture Hacks. Contacts startup Rapportive has been acquired by LinkedIn, according to a  post on Rapportive’s blog  Wednesday.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2012
    2012 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Will Occur on May 22
    Here is what I wrote about the 2010 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. The 2010 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Notes: Enterprise 3.0? he 2010 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium Part Two: Solving the CIO Paradox. The ninth annual 2012 MIT Sloan CIO Symposium will occur on May 22, 2012 The theme is to “Explore Piloting the Untethered Enterprise.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2012
    Photos of New Orleans: Fairgrounds Area
      Here is a  summary of images  from my January 2010 trip when I provided a more extensive coverage of  New Orleans neighborhoods.  Here is another in my series on New Orleans neighborhood images. This one and the next posts were taken at the end of 2011. enjoyed their award winning gumbo, also seen.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012
    Wah! Wah! Mommy, Skype won’t play with me
    2011 NewNet Forecast Research Note: What a Skype-Cisco Partnership Could Mean Report: Web Worker Survey 2010. No big screens to buy, no big special Cisco boxes – just plain simple software and you were good to go. European Union has approved the deal and didn’t find any problems with it. Tandberg , anyone ?
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 2012
    Aligning Web Content Management with Digital Business Goals Inside and Outside the Enterprise
    Geoff notes that some of the major vendors are getting into this game, certainly IBM with its social business focus and Microsoft with its continuing investments in SharePoint 2010 and openness to third part add-ons. Web content management has way gone beyond the Web 1.0 role of publishing Web pages. and enterprise 2.0.    
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2012
    Photos of New Orleans Neighborhoods: Treme
      Here is a  summary of images  from my last trip in January 2010 when I provided a more extensive coverage of  New Orleans neighborhoods.  Here is another in my series on New Orleans neighborhoods taken in 2011. This post covers  Treme  located next to the French Quarter. Ann Street, 504.822.9503).
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2012
    Photos of New Orleans Neighborhoods: Bywater
      Here is a  summary of images  from my last trip in January 2010 when I provided a more extensive coverage of  New Orleans neighborhoods.  Here is another in my series on New Orleans images taken in December 2011. This post covers the Bywater neighborhood. There is also  The Joint , a greatBBQ place. 
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 2012
    Photos of New Orleans Neighborhoods: The Marigny
    Here is a  summary of images  from my trip in January 2010 when I provided a more extensive coverage of  New Orleans neighborhoods.  Here is another in my series on New Orleans neighborhoods taken in December 2011. This post covers the Marigny neighborhood. Frenchman Street is part of the Fauborg Marigny.
  • WWW.INFOQ.COM  |  SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2012
    InfoQ: Social + Lean = Agile
    Chakravorty, Wall Street Journal, January 25, 2010, “Where Process-Improvement Projects Go Wrong”, Article. The Corporate Executive Board Company, 2010, “The Future of Corporate IT”, Report. Clay Shirky, 2010, “Cognitive Surplus”, Book. Schmidt, May 2010, "Lean Integration", Book.
  • BOXES AND ARROWS  |  FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2012
    Integrating UX into the Product Backlog
    SVPG Press, 2010. Teams moving to agile often struggle to integrate agile with best practices in user-centered design (UCD) and user experience (UX) in general. Fortunately, using a UX Integration Matrix helps integrate UX and agile by including UX information and requirements right in the product backlog. The feedback loop is broken. 5, No.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2012
    Battling the dark side of coworking
    Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce A 2011 NewNet Forecast Report: Web Worker Survey 2010. But not every aspect of the change is rosy. What does she mean by this? Usually the strong partner is someone who is established and well connected. Image courtesy of Flickr user JD Hancock.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012
    IBM doubles down on mobile
    SAP  bought Sybase in 2010 for $5.8 IBM, which has quietly supported many telecom players, is now stepping up its mobile profile, buying up Israeli mobile app provider Worklight and releasing a new device management tool for enterprise customers. The acquisition is set to close in the first quarter. The terms of the deal were not announced. Worklight
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012
    Elance adds video chat to its virtual workrooms
    Report: The Enterprise Videoconference Landscape, 2010 – 2015 Connected Consumer Market Overview, Q1 2010 Q4 Wrap-up: SOPA and the future of digital content. Video chat is changing the way people communicate, which is becoming increasingly evident in the way it’s being used for virtual work. Sign up for a free trial.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 2012
    Shifts in 2011 Inc. 500 Social Media Usage
    In 2010 50% of the Inc.   At the same time I was surprised to see a drop in monitoring social media as the 2011 study found that 68% of companies do monitor, down from 70% in 2010, which was the highest percent of the past 5 years. See my last post on them: Is Social Media Reaching a Plateau in America's Largest Companies?
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 2012
    New Orleans Lives Music Samples December 2011
          Here are my music explorations in January 2010 , and New Orleans Lives Music Samples May 2011 , the last two times I was there. Here is what I found in New Orleans. went out every night but still missed a lot. On my first night I went to Frenchman Street for a nice dinner and some music clubs. See first photo below.
  • SOCIAL-BIZ.ORG  |  FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 2012
    John Hagel on Social Technology Adoption | Collaborative Planning & Social Business
    December 2010. November 2010. October 2010. September 2010. August 2010. July 2010. June 2010. May 2010. April 2010. March 2010. February 2010. January 2010. Collaborative Planning & Social Business. Skip to content. Home About Books Glossary Publications. Reply.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25, 2012
    Once Again, RSS Is Dead. But ONLY YOU Can Save It!
    Anyway, to test my theory that my RSS feed was Potemkin in nature, I wrote a December, 2010 post asking RSS readers to click through and post a comment if they were, in fact, reading me via RSS. About 14 months ago, I responded to myriad “RSS is Dead” stories by asking you, my RSS readers , if you were really  reading. Twitter!
  • WWW.ACCMANPRO.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012
    KPMG’s social story AccMan
    Effective January 1, 2010, we adopted new consolidation. January 1, 2010, we recorded the assets and liabilities of the. At December 31, 2010, we had undistributed foreign earnings. 31, 2010, approximately $3.1 December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively. for 2010 and a net benefit from interest income and penalties.
  • ITSERVICES.CBRONLINE.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 2012
    Electrolux deploys IBM social software - Computer Business Review
    CBR 2010. Jump to page content. Accessibility. Log in or Register for enhanced features | Forgotten Password? Software. Enterprise Applications. commerce. Business Intelligence. Content Management. App Dev and SOA. Open Source. Middleware. Operating Systems. Service Management. New Media and Search. Malware. Systems & Networks. Desktops.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 2012
    Hands on with OnLive Desktop: Windows works surprisingly well on the iPad
    Still, those pre-installed apps include Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2010, as well as Windows Media Player and some basic utilities. I like my Macs, but I also won’t turn my nose up at Windows. OnLive Desktop brings Windows 7 to your iPad, streamed remotely from powerful servers. The price tag is the best part. Sign up for a free trial.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
    More businesses turning to contract workers, survey confirms
    30 percent for 2010. From the rise of sites like Elance and oDesk to the opinions of workforce researchers and even the anecdotal evidence of knowledge workers on the ground , evidence is mounting that the future will feature a whole lot more independent and contract workers. That’s up from: 34 percent for 2011. 28 percent for 2009.
  • TRENDS IN THE LIVING NETWORKS  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
    In the global talent economy over 50% will be mobile workers
    The forecasts suggest that the bulk of the growth will be in Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan), which will see 838 million mobile workers in 2015, up 237 million from 2010, representing well over half the global mobile workforce. [This post first appeared on the Getting Results From Crowds book website]. of the global workforce.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012
    Looking Deeper into Getting Social Business Right
    Finds Its Pay Day – McKinsey for 2010 and McKinsey: Social Business Software Continues to Improve Organizational Performance for 2011).  Yesterday I offered some high level requirements for making enterprise social business work. Is About the Technology ). I do not doubt this and have even been guilty of doing it myself.   
  • WWW.DACHISGROUP.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11, 2012
    101 Examples of Social Business ROI
    Forrester, 2010). Communispace, 2010). Barnraisers, 2010). Barnraisers, 2010). Communispace, 2010). Barnraisers, 2010). Bazaarvoice, 2010). WPP Team Detroit, 2010). RPA, 2010). Forrester, 2010). Forrester, 2010). Barnraisers, 2010). Barnraisers, 2010). Events.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2012
    Predictions 2012: The Roundup
    Predictions 2010. 2010: 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
    Predictions 2010. 2010: 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
    In 2010, Citizens v. Predictions 2010. 2010: 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. Usually, at least in practice, the answer is yes. Speaking out against it would be folly. It could happen.
  • FUTURE OF WORK  |  SUNDAY, JANUARY 8, 2012
    You’ve Got to Know the Territory
    As a start on thinking about your own job, embrace this definition that came from Corenet’s CRE 2010 project a full decade ago: “supporting work wherever and whenever it takes place.” These comments are directed at what I call “operational managers.” You know who you are: the people who make large organizations “tick” and move forward.
  • LINKED INTELLIGENCE  |  FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 2012
    Imaginary LinkedIn Connections
    took a great deal of time in 2010 to “ Expose LinkedIn Connection Myths ” and that link points to the overview article at the end of the series. Just this week I received yet another invitation from someone I didn’t know. The graphic when I reached this profile was priceless… A Rose by any other name. Your call.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012
    Predictions 2012 #5: A Big Year for M&A
    Predictions 2010. 2010: 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  |  THURSDAY, JANUARY 5, 2012
    The Internet Big Five By Product Strength
    Because it just bought a company in the space, just like Apple did with Siri in 2010. Other characters include “The Government” and “Corporations,” so expect predictions about those players in the next few days. But today, I want to focus on the Big Five as a whole. Why on earth did I go to the trouble of doing this?
  • MIKEG.TYPEPAD.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012
    Are We In A "Post E2.0 Era"? (Collaborative Thinking)
    November 2010. Collaborative Thinking. Perceptions on collaboration and social networking by Mike Gotta. The opinions expressed in this blog are my own views and not those of Cisco. « Missing Pieces: The Activity Stream Aggregator | Main. January 02, 2012. Are We In A "Post E2.0 Era: Social in the Context of My Work "). And No.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012
    Predictions 2012 #4: Google’s Challenging Year
    Predictions 2010. 2010: 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.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 2012
    Predictions 2012 #3: The Facebook Ad Network
    Predictions 2010. 2010: 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
    Predictions 2010. 2010: 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
    Predictions 2010. 2010: 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.
  • WWW.ALANLEPOFSKY.NET  |  SUNDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2011
    In The Next Version - A Look Back At 2011 In Social Software
    but nothing jumps out at me as a real innovation the way streams and microblogging changed things in 2010. cant think a major new player that emerged in 2011, but I guess Im hearing more about Tibco, Moxie and Podio than I did in 2010. In The Next Version. Alan Lepofskys blog about technology, travel and the occasional golf post.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2011
    SpringCM Enhances Its Mobile Capabilities and Offers Enhanced Support for Salesforce.com
    Over 15 million iPads were sold in 2010 and the numbers are increasing.  SpringCM provides a cloud based enterprise content management platform. It was founded in 2005 and I have covered it before (see SpringCM Goes Beyond Content Management ). recently spoke with Roger Bottum of SpringCM on their latest moves.    
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2011
    2011 Predictions: How Did I Do?
    “Apple will attempt to get better at social networking…” Check – Apple introduced Ping late in 2010 and then updated it throughout the year.  ”…fail…” Check. Predictions 2010. 2010: How I Did. 2011 was a strange year in many ways. Doc Searls:  Broadband vs. Internet. No way. As if.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2011
    ExpertBids: Online labor platforms go niche
    An online labor platform that aims to connect small- and medium-sized businesses looking for help with accountants, lawyers and consultants hoping to build independent practices, Chicago-based ExpertBids launched in November 2010. What we needed to do was find lawyers on different issues across the United States,” he explains.
  • WWW.THECONTENTECONOMY.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2011
    The Content Economy: Social Collaboration vs The Existing Communication Culture
    2010. personal retrospective of 2010. posts from 2010. The Content Economy. Pages. About. Speaking. Presentations. Writings. Contact. Wednesday, December 14, 2011. Social Collaboration vs The Existing Communication Culture. Tightly controlled communication flows. Overreliance on traditional communication technologies.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 2011
    Rypple teams up with Spotify to re-imagine goal setting
    The social performance management company ( a Net:Work 2010 Future Ideas Lanchpad finalist ) worked with the digital music firm to develop Social Goals 2.0, Goal setting is traditionally one of the most top-down aspects of business. Now Rypple is teaming up with much buzzed about company Spotify to re-imagine all that.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011
    If you want to get consumerization right, get emotional
    Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce A 2011 NewNet Forecast Report: Web Worker Survey 2010. If there’s one thing Claudia Kotcha will tell you about building apps that employees want to use, it’s to think about your employees really want. It’s worth getting it right.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011
    Coworking: A window into the future of work
    Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce A 2011 NewNet Forecast Report: Web Worker Survey 2010. First there was bring your own device, now there’s find your own office — and both trends could be equally revolutionary for the enterprise. Photo by Pinar Ozger. Sign up for a free trial.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011
    Want to make the enterprise social? Learn from Excel.
    Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce A 2011 NewNet Forecast Report: Web Worker Survey 2010. Bringing social networking and sharing tools into the enterprise is great, said Podio CEO Tommy Ahlers at GigaOM’s Net:Work conference, but it also can make things really complicated.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011
    Examining the dark side of the remote worker
    Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce A 2011 NewNet Forecast Report: Web Worker Survey 2010. The growing global remote workforce has had a big impact on business, giving employees more flexibility to slice and dice their personal and business lives and make the most efficient use of time. 
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011
    By 2020, independent workers will be the majority
    Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce A 2011 NewNet Forecast Report: Web Worker Survey 2010. He said this new era is forcing employees, employers and the government to confront a new reality as solo workers become the norm. Watch live streaming video from gigaomnetwork at livestream.com.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011
    How to turn a document-centric work force into a human-centric one
    Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce A 2011 NewNet Forecast Report: Web Worker Survey 2010. Are any “naked intellectualists” running around at your company? Of course, this assumes a company wants and benefits form having a human-centric model. Sign up for a free trial.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011
    Net:Work live video coverage
    Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce A 2011 NewNet Forecast Report: Web Worker Survey 2010. For many of us, work is no longer a place that we go to. Our livestream of the event begins at 8:25 a.m. PT on Thursday, December 8, and we will be live-blogging the onstage sessions.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2011
    Researchers Find Twitter Effective Way to Monitor Breaking News
      They developed devise a SportSense software program which monitored and analyzed tweets made during football matches in 2010. The BBC reports that Rice University researchers monitored tweet s made during National Football League games. Through Twitter they could tell within seconds when key actions occurred.    
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2011
    Elance’s impressive growth: Good news for its US users?
    Elance’s look back at the year reveals that online hiring has soared more than 100 percent from 2010, and the number of professionals working on the site is up more than 120 percent. The economy might not be booming, but online labor platforms sure are. Cumulative earnings this year should surpass $500 million. What is? Not really.
  • WWW.HEADSHIFT.COM  |  TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2011
    Social layering can help bring IT and the business together :: Blog :: Headshift
    19 July 2010. Projects where internal IT and IT procurement add 500% overhead to technology delivery, and yet still manage to make the delivery worse in many respects, simply should not be happening in 2010. By Martin Böhringer on July 20, 2010 at 8:50 am Link. By Stefan Hauptmann on July 20, 2010 at 1:13 pm Link. Follow.
  • CLARK QUINN  |  SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2011
    Slow Learning – #change11
    2010). 2010). This is a longer post launching my week in the #change11 MOOC (Massively Open Online Course).  . Our formal learning approaches too often don’t follow how our brains really work.  Our limitations are no longer the technology, but our imaginations. The question is, what are we, and should be, doing with this technology?
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2011
    Cohuman + Mindjet = Idea management from inception to execution
    The new product is still very similar to the one that won raves at Net:Work 2010. brainstorming cohuman mind mapping MindJet Net:Work 2010 Net:Work 2011 task managementA year ago at Net: Work the audience crowned social task management product Cohuman with the people’s choice award (here’s a screencast explaining how it works ).
  • COLLABORATIVE THINKING  |  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2011
    Literature Review: Improving Work Practices in Times of Change
    Organizations that promote the concept of social networking to employees will find that people become disillusioned if benefits fail to materialize (Burt, 2010). However, visible and transparent network structures can also create ambiguity (boyd, Golder, and Lotan, 2010). 2010). 2010). 2010). Introduction. 2008).
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2011
    Is telework feeling the economic squeeze?
    When compared with a recent report from WorldatWork , which indicates that the overall number of teleworkers declined between 2008 and 2010, a trend emerges. For exactly all of its obvious benefits to productivity , the environment and even the bottom line, telecommuting has experienced explosive growth. According to 2009 U.S. as well?
  • TONY KARRER  |  THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 2011
    eLearning Conferences 2012
    Past years eLearning Conferences 2011 , eLearning Conferences 2010 , eLearning Conferences 2009. The 2010 website was [link] or [link]. Clayton R. Wright has done his 26th version of his amazing list of conferences again this year and has asked me to post again. You can contact him at: crwr77@gmail.com. Private? Personal? What’s Next?,
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011
    Survey: For enterprise workers, iPhone beats BlackBerry
    From the report: Today 95 percent of mobile employees have smartphones, up from 85 percent in 2010, with 91 percent using their smartphone for work — a 26 percent rise compared to 2010. Enterprise has long been the bastion of RIM and its BlackBerry devices, but its been infiltrated by Apple and its challenger, the iPhone.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2011
    Is Social Media Reaching a Plateau in America's Largest Companies?
    This is the same as 2010 and only one more than 2009. In 2011, 91% of the F500 blogs take comments, have RSS feeds and take subscriptions and this is an increase of 1% since 2009 and 2010. This study continues their annual research started in 2008 they released one of the first studies of the Fortune 500 (F500) adoption. million fans. 
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011
    Iongrid brings Office apps securely to iPad
    Iongrid was founded in 2010 by Triantos, Rothrock and Ben de Waal, who is CTO. That’s no small feat.  C-level execs loved Apple’s iPads from day one, almost immediately forcing their IT departments to support the devices whether they wanted to or not. That worked okay except for two things. First, PowerPoint slides et al.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011
    Connected workaholism: global edition
    Report: The Enterprise Videoconference Landscape, 2010 – 2015 Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce The rise of tablets in the enterprise. Being constantly connected to work via your laptop or smartphone has huge advantages. percent today). Of those surveyed, 21.3
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 2011
    DocuTicker Offers Tips on Knowledge Management
    The report contains a series of postings such as Orientations for EU ICT R&D & Innovation beyond 2013 : 10 Key Recommendations (2011) and 2010 Best Practices in the Use of Information Technology in State Government. Free Pint Limited  is a UK-based publisher serving different niches within the global information industry. 
  • TONY KARRER  |  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2011
    Flash Dead for eLearning
    I've been warning about this since January 2010 in Still No Flash , and called it out further as the signs became more serious in May 2010 with Beginning of Long Slow Death of Flash. My words then: We are hitting a tipping point where you have to question building anything that uses Flash as the delivery mechanism.
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 2011
    Sheffield University, Information Literacy and IBL
    2010) Inquiry-based Learning and Information Literacy: a meta-analytical study. At the moment I am in Edmonton, Canada, preparing presentations for the Augustana Information Literacy workshop at the University of Alberta, Canada. This is why there has been a couple of days gap in my blogging. 2008) Information Literacy. link] - Parker, L.
  • COLLABORATIVE THINKING  |  MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2011
    Annotated Bibliography: Background For Literature Review Project
    2010). 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) (pp. Presented at the 2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), IEEE. 2010). 2010). There are several additional resources I plan to add. References. Albrechtslund, A. 2008). First Monday, 13(3). boyd, d. video).
  • WWW.GURTEEN.COM  |  SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2011
    Social Media versus Knowledge Management: A false dichotomy (Gurteen Knowledge)
    David at KM Egypt, September 23, 2010. × Close. Blog Post. Social Media versus Knowledge Management: A false dichotomy. Posted to Gurteen Knowledge-Log by David Gurteen on 27 October 2011. Tweet. Gurteen Knowledge on Facebook. -->. Title Social Media versus Knowledge Management: A false dichotomy. Weblog Knowledge Log. Links [link].
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2011
    Will good economic tidings kill coworking?
    survey of coworking spaces by Emergent Research in 2010 found that their desks and sofas are mostly filled by well-educated male techies who are under 40, with 55% working for small companies and 44% of them freelancers or sole proprietors. But will this enthusiasm outlast the tough economic times? She also quotes fellow skeptic Paul V.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2011
    The future of work looks union free: Does it matter?
    percent of private sector workers belonging to a union in 2010. The future of work, a lot of commentators seem to agree, is shaping up to have many more independent contractors, contingent workers, freelancers and the like, and a lot fewer regular full-time, office-based employees. Does this matter? And our laws respond to that.
  • INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG  |  TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2011
    New articles
    Martin: "Librarian Perceptions and Information Literacy Instruction Models" (the "models are "for-credit courses and course-integrated library instruction") - Michelle Kathleen Dunaway: "Connectivism: Learning Theory and Pedagogical Practice for Networked Information Landscapes" This journal is priced: the home page is here.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2011
    Socialtext Continues to Focus on Workplace Integration
    As I wrote in my 2010 interview with Ross Mayfield, it is fully integrated with the complete Socialtext platform. I have admired the capabilities within Socialtext for some time. It was one of the early enterprise 2.0 providers, well before the term was coined. Recently, I spoke with their CEO, Eugene Lee, on their latest offerings. tools.
  • PORTALS AND KM  |  FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2011
    IBM's Mike Rhodin on the Convergence of Social Business, Analytics and Commerce: Part Two
    In the last decade, IBM Software profit has tripled, driving more than $9 billion in profits in 2010. This is the second part of my interview with IBM’s Mike Rhodin, SVP, Software Solutions, about their moves in the software space. We continued our discussion by covering IBM's smarter commerce initiative. This makes a lot of sense to me.
  • ANECDOTE   |  SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16, 2011
    HP's CEO loses his job for want of a strategic story
    Mr Apotheker was appointed CEO of HP in October 2010 less then a year before he was let go. It's quite possible you'll lose your job as CEO if you are unable to persuasively communicate your company's strategy. Léo Apotheker, the recently fired CEO of Hewlett-Packard, has just learned this lesson. This should have rung some alarm bells.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  SATURDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2011
    5 ways to keep your rockstar employees happy
    Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce A 2011 NewNet Forecast Report: Web Worker Survey 2010. The Googleplex, Google’s corporate headquarters in Mountain View California, is legendary for its perks. Neither did salary. So how can your company keep its stars engaged? Sign up for a free trial.
  • TONY KARRER  |  THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011
    LMS Low-Cost Webinars Hosted eCommerce Subscriptions
    What’s hurting the LMS market 2010 LMS Products of the Year LMS Satisfaction Features and Barriers Low Cost LMS - Help Needed Why it’s hard to find an LMS LMS Spotlight: Topyx LMS vendors: R u hearing us? They will only convert a portion of the audience to the new service. They are early stage, so low-cost would be good.
  • VICTUS PRO SCIENTIA OPUS -- FOOD FOR THE KNOWLEDGE  |  THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2011
    Impressions of the 2011 SharePoint Conference, Part 6 (Expert Best Practices)
    The second “Best Practices” type of session I attended was SPC245, “Making SharePoint 2010 Collaboration Rock by Increasing Findability” presented by Jornata’s Scott Jamison.  Although he is a principal at a competitor, he is also a top-notch presenter, and I always enjoy and get value from Scott’s presentations.
  • VICTUS PRO SCIENTIA OPUS -- FOOD FOR THE KNOWLEDGE  |  TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011
    Impressions of the 2011 SharePoint Conference, Part 5 (Expert Best Practices)
    One of her areas of expertise, and the topic of this session (SPC 248), is “Measuring the Value of SharePoint 2010 Investments.”. There is a vast amount more content to tap into, and that which cannot be found Susan’s website can be explored in more detail in her book:   Essential SharePoint 2010.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011
    Help Me Interview the Founders of Quora (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
    It grew quickly after its public launch in 2010, inspiring some to claim it was the best structured Q&A site ever. Next up on the list of interesting folks I'm speaking with at Web 2 are Charlie Cheever and Adam D'Angelo , the founders of Quora. They've also snagged funding led by Benchmark. I'm also curious about its business model.
  • JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG  |  TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2011
    Help Me Interview the Founders of Quora (And Win Free Tix to Web 2)
    It grew quickly after its public launch in 2010, inspiring some to claim it was the best structured Q&A site ever. Next up on the list of interesting folks I’m speaking with at Web 2 are Charlie Cheever and Adam D’Angelo , the founders of Quora. They’ve also snagged funding led by Benchmark.
  • WEB WORKER DAILY  |  MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2011
    9Slides combines video with slide presentations online
    Report: The Enterprise Videoconference Landscape, 2010 – 2015 Players and Strategies for Real-Time In-Stream Advertising Connected Consumer Q1: The Over-the-Top vs. Pay TV Battle Heats Up. But there are few good ways to share both after a presentation is given. That leaves the market wide open for 9Slides. Sign up for a free trial.
  • ACTKM  |  MONDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2011
    Parsons Brinckerhoff wins actKM's Gold Award
    In September of 2010 Cory Banks handed over the reins to Christine Harding who has lead the team into the next phase of evolution. Last night Parsons Brinckerhoff Asia Pacific was awarded actKM’s Gold Award for excellence in knowledge management. PB’s KM capability grew from the drive and motivation of its staff. Cory Banks enjoying his win.
 

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