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HAROLD JARCHE | SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012 Sharing is good for all of us In 2008 I wrote a blog post about SPATIAL as I had found a digital copy of the article. If I had not written a blog post on the SPATIAL model, I would not have been able to easily retrieve it. The SPATIAL model looks at how the physical and non-physical attributes of the work environment influence learning. Image by @gapingvoid. -
LINKED INTELLIGENCE | SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012 Tips from The LinkedIn Rockstars: Top Ten Annoying Behaviors of People on LinkedIn – Number 2 Huffington Post calls her a “Passionista for her ‘Great Business Expetise and Timeless Blogs’ ” Cheryl states: “ Success in modern business means fostering a spirit of collaboration and transparency at every level.” Are you Lazy or is it Fake? Why should I complete my LinkedIn profile? Everyone knows me! -
LINKED INTELLIGENCE | SATURDAY, MAY 19, 2012 Tips from The LinkedIn Rockstars: Top Ten Annoying Behaviors of People on LinkedIn – Number 2 Huffington Post calls her a “Passionista for her ‘Great Business Expetise and Timeless Blogs’ ” Cheryl states: “Success in modern business means fostering a spirit of collaboration and transparency at every level.” Are you Lazy or is it Fake? Why should I complete my LinkedIn profile? Everyone knows me! - Setting priorities
Blog this on Blogger. In academic libraries, there are usually so many levels of priorities. There are the priorities of the university. There are the priorities of the library. Each unit probably has its own priorities, as does each individual. However, it’s not always easy for the library to support all of those university priorities. -
9 years ago today I started this blog nine years ago on 18 May. Of course, I write less frequently, but that is because life interferes and I don't have a regular rhythm to the blogging any more. . self blogging blogiversaryAnd I am still going. And I still enjoy it! . Photo: "Nine" by Xurble ].
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HAROLD JARCHE | FRIDAY, MAY 18, 2012 “I will never stop learning” If a blog site has a Tweet button that goes directly to Twitter with no additional link shortening/tracking (like the one immediately below), that’s essentially the same. Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared via Twitter this past week. gapingvoid – “Marketing is not mathematics. Which is it? The U.S. -
PORTALS AND KM | THURSDAY, MAY 17, 2012 Gautam Ghosh: India's Social Media Thought Leader While it was a thrill for me, by then his blog had already connected him with people in about a dozen English-speaking countries.”. was actually one of those as I interviewed him in 2004 for my book on business blogging along with his country companion, Dina Metha. Every since then we have stayed in touch. I could not agree more. -
KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK | WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012 Day 2 and 3 of #LSSC12 - lots to learn have been happy to run into and chat with people that I have known through their blogs or other online interactions. Tuesday and Wednesday at the Lean Software & Systems Conference found me full of interesting thinking and ideas. Almost too full. And a few people who I've met in person previously. Some topics from the day. Communication. Throughout -
GREEN CHAMELEON | WEDNESDAY, MAY 16, 2012 Blog>> Google Finally Comes Out of the Closet on Taxonomies So for the longest while, Google has been the boogie bear of taxonomists, with senior executives lying in wait to pounce on innocent taxonomy projects with the battle cry “why do we need a taxonomy, let’s just get Google!” ” Is that taxonomy work or is that taxonomy work? The times they are a changing -
The ways that young people experience information Mark Hepworth, who supervised Marian at Loughborough, recently did a blog post in which he outlines the framework she identified, that could be used to guide information literacy teaching to children. His blog post is here: [link] and Marian's full dissertation is here: https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/dspace-jspui/handle/2134/6632 -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012 Design tips for home offices in small spaces Nexus Designs created what the blog dubs, “a top secret slide-open home office,” using a moveable door that’s artfully camouflaged to appear like just another wall when closed (pictured — check out Apartment Therapy for a full slide show of images ). But can space design also play a role? Sign up for a free trial. -
PORTALS AND KM | TUESDAY, MAY 15, 2012 The Social Organization According to Gartner You can see Catherine’s blog post for the case and the six basic principles for a successful cycle of mass collaboration. Here is a book that I recently put at the top of my business reading list thanks to a suggestion by my Merced Group partner, Catherine Shinners. She posted an excellent review, Social Business for Executives. -
HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012 Learning in the workplace Using internal blogs for any multi-recipient email is a start. Read blog posts/online articles (keeping up to date outside the organization). Jane Hart asked readers “ how regularly are you “learning” in the workplace? Notice that these are all informal. Email (keeping up to date inside the organization). Informal Learning -
GREEN CHAMELEON | MONDAY, MAY 14, 2012 Blog>> Orchestrating the Intranet for Knowledge Management Patrick’s taxonomy development infographic has sparked off a little friendly competition in the office. The infographic you see above is my attempt at explaining the different pieces of an intranet puzzle that KM practitioners may have to deal with, and how they all fit together. This is the link to the pdf version – Intranet_Poster.pdf. -
HAROLD JARCHE | SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2012 Thanks for the code One of my earlier blog posts is still online, which I stumbled upon this week, much to my surprise. It was easier than trying to manage a blog by myself. My self-hosted blog started in 2004 using the Drupal CMS and I later switched to WordPress , which made it much easier to manage. Drupal was too much for a mere blog. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012 How to make time zone separation work to your advantage He also recently authored a guest post on blog Workshifting boiling down his advice for those he calls “timeshifters.” The email chain begins when, in asynchronous communication, the sender initiates a message, and the receiver on the other side of the globe asks for clarification. Meanwhile, an entire week has passed. can focus. -
Jaron Lanier: Something Doesn’t Smell Right He worries about the fragmentation of our online identity, and warns that Web 2 services – from blogs to Facebook – lead us to leave little pieces of ourselves everywhere, feeding a larger collective, but resulting in no true value to the individual. don’t. Not entirely, anyway. But more on that in a moment. -
On Thneeds and the “Death of Display” Media/Tech Business Models facebook advertising models Internet Big Five Joints After Midnight & Rants blogs Book Related Independent Web display advertising Twitter Pinterest GoogleIt’s all over the news these days: Display advertising is dead. Or put more accurately, the world of “boxes and rectangles” is dead. Cough. -
FUTURE OF WORK | SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012 The Future of. (May 2012) The Future of Work (on Yammer: The Blog). This thoughtful, extended blog post by Maria Ogneva (Head of Community at Yammer) focuses on work as the intersection of customer, company, and employee. Here is a small sample of the stories and developments we are paying attention to these days. The Workforce of the 50s and Today. Share It! -
FUTURE OF WORK | SUNDAY, MAY 6, 2012 What’s Happened/Happening (May 2012) And check out the occupiers Journal blog over the next several weeks for summary reports of the most important sessions at the Summit. Brief announcements and notes about where we’ve been, and will be, holding forth in public conversations and other activities. Recent Activity. Raising the Bar". He serves as Global Research Director for OJL. -
HAROLD JARCHE | FRIDAY, MAY 4, 2012 Manual, not automatic, for sense-making Google Reader is my aggregator; I link my Delicious & Diigo social bookmark accounts together but mostly use Diigo; I write my half-baked ideas regularly on my blog; and I engage in many conversations on Twitter which I curate here. I started Friday’s Finds three years ago , in an attempt to make my finds on Twitter more explicit. -
HAROLD JARCHE | WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012 PKM live with Euan Semple started the conversation by mentioning the direct connection between PKM and the chapter on Literacy Re-discovered : Things to remember: Having somewhere to write like a blog or Twitter makes you more aware of what is happening around you. Writing an effective blog post or tweet is a literary skill. It was great to see this in action. -
No, we can’t do it all don’t have the answers, but I’ll be exploring these questions in future posts to this blog. Blog this on Blogger. So many of us struggle with determining priorities in teaching. Few of us have a workload that would allow us to do everything we would like to do. and we think: wow, I’d love to do that. But can we? -
PORTALS AND KM | WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012 The Eight Anniversary of Portals and KM Some good articles on blogs and blogs on blog s, and I s RSS TNBT ? Two people encouraged me to start a blog, Cesar Brea and Jack Vinson and they remain active bloggers. Writing an article on blogs for Portals Magazine is what got we started with this blog. On May 2, 2004 I did my first posts. -
GREEN CHAMELEON | TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012 Blog>> A Prezi on the Taxonomy Development Poster Here’s an interactive version of the Taxonomy Development Poster I posted yesterday: How to Build a Taxonomy on Prezi -
FUTURE OF WORK | TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012 Corenet Summit – Workplace Community Live blogging the Corenet Workplace Community: What's the Future? Panel comments - focus on technologies that enable collaboration; depends on managment - rely on results, not activities. Managers still don't see parallels between remote teams and local teams working outside the office. Technology helps. But that means a need for more space. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, MAY 1, 2012 Tales from the Trenches: Harvest “It is just an internal WordPress blog, but it really helps people to feel like they’re part of the team.” Remote working is often about practicing what you preach. Sell an online meeting product? Of course your workers should put it to the test by working while traveling. Built your company during 3am coding binges ? Tools. -
HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012 How blogging changed my life for the better So I’m going to respond to Hugh MacLeod’s question about the importance of blogging to me. Like I said many times before, for those of us crazy enough to take it seriously, blogging matters, so does freedom, that’s why I wrote the book. Without my blog, nobody would ever have heard of me. PKM SocialLearning -
HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012 How blogging changed my life for the better So I’m going to respond to Hugh MacLeod’s question about the importance of blogging to me. Like I said many times before, for those of us crazy enough to take it seriously, blogging matters, so does freedom, that’s why I wrote the book. Without my blog, nobody would ever have heard of me. -
GREEN CHAMELEON | MONDAY, APRIL 30, 2012 Blog>> Taxonomy Development Infographic Here is a poster design I’ve been working on for a while – it summarises the empirical, evidence based taxonomy development process we recommend. This is the link to an A4 pdf version. This is the link to an A3 pdf version. Let us know -
Get Ready for Some Pictures, Folks Plus scores on Tumblr, which I used, briefly, as a kind of photo blog (the 500K image limit in email stopped that habit). Now, I can’t exactly replicate what Twitter and Facebook have created here on this blog, so I’ll continue to use those platforms as I have in the past. A wine we enjoyed last weekend. free service. -
FUTURE OF WORK | SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2012 On my way to San Diego will be tweeting and blogging frequently throughout the Summit - check back here, but also @jpwoccupiers and @thefutureofwork. I'm at Oakland airport, on my way the Corenet Summit in San Diego. This is my trip in over 20 years without my trusty laptop - am going "commando" with only my iPad and iPhone. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | SATURDAY, APRIL 28, 2012 Enterprise 2.0: Freemium first, enterprise second (Part 1 of 3) Venture investor Fred Wilson covered this in his blog post, “Mobile First, Web Second.” The mobile market is much larger too. The market for Enterprise 2.0 apps has taken off in the time since I first alerted consumer software entrepreneurs to this huge new opportunity ( “ Enterprise 2.0: Calling Consumer Internet Entrepreneurs!” -
FUTURE OF WORK | FRIDAY, APRIL 27, 2012 What does it mean to be an “expert?” Paul Carder, my co-founder at Occupiers Journal Limited, has just posted a very provocative note on his personal blog, PaulCarder.com. Paul's observations are terribly important if you are a facilities or corporate real estate professional (and even if you aren't). Share It! -
Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship IL special issue There is an interesting blog post about this article (particularly interesting to me as my library doesn't subscribe to this publication): Cramer, S. There's an information literacy focus to volume 17, issue 1, 2012, of the Journal of Business and Finance Librarianship. 2012) "Information Literacy: Academia v. - Reflections on year one at PSU
Blog this on Blogger. Yesterday was my one-year anniversary of working at Portland State. I’d wanted to write a post yesterday reflecting on it, but I was driving three hours (to Bend, OR) to give a four-hour preconference. didn’t leave for a promotion. left because I was looking for new challenges. And I have gotten a lot done. -
PORTALS AND KM | THURSDAY, APRIL 26, 2012 Social Media Marketing May Need to Adjust Measurement For example, I often use Twitter to drive traffic to my blog or to a company Web site. Adobe has released second Adobe® D i g i t a l I n dex report, which provides marketing, e-commerce and retail executives with digital marketing data. The research looked at how marketers measure the impact of website traffic from major social media sites. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25, 2012 Bosses are for slackers like Google When we spoke to GitHub’s Chris Wanstrath recently about how the company manages its partially remote team, he mentioned something about their setup that had nothing to do with telecommuters. The company has no managers, though Wanstrath does get the title of CEO. At Valve, that percentage is 100. But the decision is going to be up to you…. -
KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK | MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012 People naturally see across artificial borders Rawn Shah has (another good) article on his Forbes.com blog, this time on How To Move Away from the Industrial Age Company Model. While he is focused on social business , his comments remind me of things I see in knowledge management and continuous improvement projects. But what does this have to do with social business ? -
LIBRARY CLIPS | MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012 Microblogging or Macroblogging…or simply messages Facebook is similar in that it has Facebook Notes, which is a long-form, but only it has more a blog post like feel compared to the online page like feel of Neudesic Pulse Articles. Blogs are posts (I don’t consider Tumblr/Posterous microblogging, they are just really easy blogging via a bookmarklet and simple interface). -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012 Do we need WordPress for the enterprise? Jacob Morgan, co-founder of collaboration consultancy Chess Media Group, recently posted his answer to this question on his blog. The collaboration space is very crowded , especially if you consider research showing most organizations are still just dipping a toe into the concept of social tools. Image courtesy of Flickr user Phil Manker. -
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. Blogging and connecting led to Google Analytics, Delicious, Flickr, Slideshare, Twitter, and now Google Plus. did not ask my organization, I just did it. To learn, we must do. -
PORTALS AND KM | MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2012 The Enduring Nature of Blogs and Blogging 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%. In 2010 50% of the Inc. -
PORTALS AND KM | SUNDAY, APRIL 22, 2012 Images of Interior of Western Mountains at Samos Island said when they have it ready I would promote it on this blog as it deserves attention. I went with the same mountain climbers that I did the jeep tour that I posted on yesterday. Except one of the original guys was not available so the girl friend, Myrto of the other guy, Goerge Mathea, came to translate, She speaks excellent English. -
HAROLD JARCHE | THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2012 Using social media for onboarding Here are some of the highlights of what Mark had to say, via the Twitter stream that accompanied yesterday’s conversation: Getting new hires to narrate their work, through blogs and other social media, is a good practice. Two actions that can begin even before a formal offer is made: Providing access to an online knowledge base. Tweet. -
KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012 What does a feed reader need today? A reader of my blog asked me to update my thoughts on what I'd like to see in a news reader today. Below the list, I think some more about the nature of blogging now vs. the mid-2000's. Blogging and sharing. Make it easy to take the current post and write about it on my blog or one of the social media platforms. Basics. -
INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18, 2012 Welsh Information Literacy Project Phase 3 starts Phase 3 of the Welsh Information Literacy Project has been awarded to Coleg Llandrillo’s Library and Learning Technology Service (LLTS), led by Andrew Eynon. The main streams are concerned with Public Libraries, Schools/Education, and Information Literacy for Employability. Information Literacy - policy Wales Information Literacy -
Some changes to this blog haven't focused on my own Twitterfeed, as that mostly tweets posts on this blog! I have added a couple of pages (see the tabs above) with a list of my publications, and links to some of my other web-based content (Slideshare, Youtube etc.). Comments are, of course, welcome and I may have a user survey when I have tweaked the page a bit more. -
GREEN CHAMELEON | MONDAY, APRIL 16, 2012 Blog>> Visual Collections for Sharing and Collaboration Since a few months there is a big trend on the web: visualisation of data and information. It is definitely not a new trend, though it is accelerating fast; new tools like visua.ly have been launched and Pinterest has developed to the third most popular social sharing tool in 2012. In the past, overviews of news have been a simple list of headlines. -
Some more LILAC links #lilac12 Here are some more links to reports and content from the LILAC information literacy conference last week. 2nd photo by Ruth Stubbings (on Flickr) showing the LILAC team with speaker Tara Brabazon. target="_blank". lilac12 Information Literacy -
HAROLD JARCHE | SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 2012 Three Principles for Net Work It could be a regular blog; sharing day-to-day happenings in activity streams; taking pictures and videos; or just having regular discussions. This is where activity streams and micro-blogging have helped organizational learning. Work is changing. The nature of work is changing in our increasingly networked economy. It is now known. -
THE BAMBOO PROJECT BLOG | THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2012 "Preying on Our Own Better Selves" few days ago I read Umair Haque's The Great Collision on the Harvard Business Review blog. We hunger for inspiration, purpose, exhilaration — but mostly, we settle for lives of annihilating boredom, alternating with sheer panic. Welcome to the Great Collision. The boss who won't "let you" do what you know is right. Don't believe me? -
INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG | THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 2012 PRIMO (Peer Reviewed Instructional Materials Online) nominations I have blogged about PRIMO before and it is worth bookmarking for the links and reviews, including teh "site of the month". April 25th 2012 is the next deadline for nominations for inclusion in Peer Reviewed Instructional Materials Online (PRIMO). Information at: [link] Photo by Sheila Webber: my cherry blossom, April 2012. -
KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012 Forget you. and the list you rode in on Peter Bregman has an article from two years ago on the HBR Blog Network that got taken up on LinkedIn today, Two Lists You Should Look at Every Morning : List 1: Your focus list. Everyone claims to know what their priorities are. But do they know what to ignore? What to say "no" to? What NOT to do today? List 2: Your ignore list. -
INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 2012 Following the LILAC conference #lilac12 search/%23lilac12 and I have put up a widget on this blog for the Twitter feed for the duration of the conference (I am not attending it this year). The UK's major information literacy conference, LILAC, is on for the next 3 days. The hashtag is #lilac12 https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23lilac12 LILAC_2012. lilac12 events -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2012 The case for manager as urban planner But that didn’t stop Dave Gray , founder of XPLANE and SVP of strategy at consultancy the Dachis Group, from tackling the problem not too long ago on his blog Communication Nation. Yammer’s blog recently suggested another consequence of this shift , one that should sound familiar to regular GigaOM readers. - Up to my neck in… well, everything.
You know you’re a real blogger when, no matter how absurdly busy the rest of your life is, the thing you can’t do that you miss the most is blogging. Blog this on Blogger. It’s been a crazy almost two months and isn’t looking to get any better in the near future. The lovely Megan Oakleaf was the PI. Tweet This! -
CLARK QUINN | MONDAY, APRIL 9, 2012 Reimagined Learning: Activities elaborated If you’re an adult past college, you choose (with, perhaps, some guidance and support) what professional development you do: you choose books to read, conferences to attend, even perhaps choosing mentors whether agreed upon or stealth (people you follow via their blogs or tweets). Finally, activities can be individual or social. -
FUTURE OF WORK | SUNDAY, APRIL 8, 2012 What’s Happened/Happening? (April 2012) won’t be on stage at all, but will be tweeting and blogging about the speakers and sessions as a press representative—primarily in my role as Global Research Director for Occupiers Journal Limited. Recent Activity. Talking About Tomorrow. Now we have found a way. Please tell us your company name and position (to help us know who you are). -
WEB WORKER DAILY | FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2012 One collaboration-killing mistake you’re probably making Now author and HBR Blog Network pundit Tammy Erickson is adding another domain to the list of areas where less freedom and more structure is actually a good thing – collaboration. Poets sometimes claim that writing within strict formal structures spurs creativity, and parents are told that firm boundaries actually help kids flourish. -
PORTALS AND KM | FRIDAY, APRIL 6, 2012 My Favorite Tweets for March 2012 10 Reasons Business Blogging is Better than Facebook [Infographic] bit.ly/HkTDuo. Nielsen Report: Blogs Still on the Rise bit.ly/wFT24H. 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. -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2012 Larry Page Makes His Case Well, today marks a shift of sorts, with the publication of a lenthy blog post from Larry titled, quite uninterestingly, 2012 Update from the CEO. I’ve spent the past two days at Amazon and Microsoft, two Google competitors (and partners), and am just wrapping up a last meeting. Take that, Apple! -
JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 2012 Larry Page Makes His Case Well, today marks a shift of sorts, with the publication of a lenthy blog post from Larry titled, quite uninterestingly, 2012 Update from the CEO. I’ve spent the past two days at Amazon and Microsoft, two Google competitors (and partners), and am just wrapping up a last meeting. Take that, Apple! -
CLARK QUINN | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012 Social Learning, Strategically To empower workers, you want to have the tools for communication, e.g. video sharing, blogging micro- and macro-, discussion forums, etc as well as the tools for collaboration, e.g. shared documents and expertise finding, arranged around tasks and interests, not around silos. I’ll use social media as an example. Why not? - V&S acquired by Havas: A pivotal moment for crowdsourcing in advertising
John Winsor shares the history and background of the deal on his blog , saying: In the last couple of years, I’ve had the chance to talk with some of the best thinkers about the future of advertising. have written several times before about crowdsourced advertising agency Victors & Spoils. It will be a fun and exciting odyssey to watch. -
INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 2012 2012 Horizon Report Another report I should have blogged earlier is: Johnson, L., Adams, S., and Cummins, M. 2012). The NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition. Austin, Texas: The New Media Consortium. This is a collaborative publication from the New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI). Technology USA academic sector -
THE BAMBOO PROJECT BLOG | TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012 Physician, Heal Thyself So this blog post serves two purposes--one, to remind me that my career works best when I'm taking my own advice. I've also been telling people to quit thinking and start doing--to experiment and then reflect on what happens. And then devise new experiments to keep moving forward. . Other advice I've given: . haven't been taking it myself. -
WWW.FMYI.COM | TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012 Your online social workspace | Your collaboration software | FMYI Latest news and blog posts. We’ve hit another milestone – 100 blog posts. Older news and blog posts. FMYI | For My Innovation. Pricing. Why FMYI? Company. Username. Password. Or Sign up. Forgot your username or your password? love thy. inbox. Never bother filing emails again. Never worry about where the latest file is again. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012 Social business and the valley of disinterest Recent research that MIT Sloan Management Review conducted in collaboration with Deloitte reveals a striking pattern, according to an intriguing post in MIT Sloan’s Improvisations blog. But are all companies equally engaged in figuring out how to do social? percent. 1,000-5,000 employees: 13.6 percent. 5,000 – 10,000: 13.6 percent. - Media and Information Literacy Recommendations from IFLA
As already noted on theis blog, UNESCO has combined media literacy and information literacy into Media and Information Literacy (MIL). The recommendations will also be a topic at an international conference of Media and Information Literacy for Knowledge Societies on 24-28 June, 2012, in Moscow, Russia. -
GREEN CHAMELEON | MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2012 Blog>> Fads, Knowledge Management and Identity Angst Here’s the relevant section of Venkatesh’s post – sound familiar? “At any given technology conference, you will find the following types: People with chips on their shoulders about being marginalized by the new trend. Long-ignored people who suddenly find that they’ve turned into stars, blinking in the spotlight. -
ANECDOTE | MONDAY, APRIL 2, 2012 Story triggering - reinforcing beliefs I did a blog post in February about reconnecting with an old friend of mine, and how she is one of the most gifted storytellers I know. In that post I said I would be sharing some more of her stories, and here is one she shared with me recently. few years back, I attended a reception at Parliament. This is a classic case of story triggering. -
KNOWLEDGE JOLT WITH JACK | FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012 The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time Tony Schwartz has a great, short piece on the HBR blogs, The Magic of Doing One Thing at a Time. It was posted two weeks ago and has over 500 comments plus it's been retweeted and discussed in many other places. If you have some time to focus, peruse the comments along with the article. Good conversation. How to make this happen? -
THE BAMBOO PROJECT BLOG | FRIDAY, MARCH 30, 2012 How To Move When You Don't Know Where to Go Long-time readers of this blog know that I am a fervent advocate of the "Act/Reflect" cycle of career and professional development. Yesterday I stumbled across this article on the Harvard Business Review Blog on what to do when you don't know what to do. Boy, did it resonate! Career change is all about dealing with career uncertainty. -
INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG | THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2012 Planet Wikimedia & Wikilit: review of wiki literature Whilst googling to see whether I could find an open access version of the article I blogged yesterday, I came across a couple of interesting sites. Since it aggregates a lot of blogs, there is some duplication and some slightly baffling (to me) content, but also a lot of useful news, views and links. Firstly, Planet Wikimedia. -
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? -
GREEN CHAMELEON | THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2012 Blog>> Storytelling and Ignorance In this TED talk, filmwriter Andrew Stanton has an interesting turn of phrase about what makes stories compelling: “A well organized absence of information draws us in ” - Themes of the day: Consumerization of IT, Crowdsourcing for small business, Crowdsourcing in PR
These are frantically busy days, which is squeezing my ability to blog and capture some of the fascinating stuff flying by. In coming months I think I’ll try to do more ‘mini-blogging’, just capturing quick thoughts and impressions rather than writing up every interesting speaking engagement or media appearance I do. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2012 Virtual managers less effective, study finds Maybe not, suggests a new study appearing in Human Relations and highlighted on the British Psychological Society’s Research Digest blog. Researchers have reached a pretty strong consensus on telecommuting – it’s awesome for employees. But does this rosy picture of remote work extend to managers? Fortune 500 company. -
ANECDOTE | MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2012 An "I'm like you story" Shawn did a blog about them, full of examples, last year. One of the story types we believe you need to be able to tell is the "I'm like you story". This is a story you tell to build connection to your audience by showing them you are just like them in some way. great video and a very clever campaign. Changing behaviour -
LIBRARY CLIPS | MONDAY, MARCH 26, 2012 Enterprise activity streams…sometimes it is about the technology We may need to visit the group space to post to a blog, wiki, forum. “Many of the things we hated about email will be MULTIPLIED, not solved by stream-overload. People say email is not the problem, it’s how people mis-use it. Guess what, people misuse activity streams. The funniest part is “2.0 ” - Alan Lepofsky. -
GREEN CHAMELEON | SUNDAY, MARCH 25, 2012 Blog>> Social Media, Empowerment and Serious Research I had a fantastic time at the AIIM conference in San Francisco last week, and Clay Shirky’s keynote was one of the highlights. What I think nobody has noticed is the powerful role that a faceted taxonomy plays in this story. Underneath this is another emerging trend. -
FUTURE OF WORK | FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012 I’m attending the Corenet Global Summit I'll be blogging and tweeting about it from San Diego - will post reports both here and on the Occupiers Journal blog. I just registered for the Corenet Global Summit in San Diego on April 29-May 1. Please check out our new (and still evolving) website at this link. The Summit program looks exciting and timely. Share It! -
HAROLD JARCHE | FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 2012 Grappling with Knowledge in response to my earlier comment that when blogs were one of the few available social media, the curation included much more commentary and required more work]. Tweet Here are some of the insights and observations that were shared via Twitter this past week. Image: Mimi and Eunice. Why Britannica failed on paper by @dweinberger. -
INFORMATION LITERACY WEBLOG | THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012 Pew Internet reports: use of smartphones; hyperconnected millennials; privacy management I have a backlog of reports that I meant to read before I blogged, but I think I had better just blog them, starting with some Pew Internet and American Life project reports. On March 19th they published a report about Teens, Smartphones & Texting. Teens are fervent communicators. Photo by Sheila Webber: more forsythia, March 2012. -
HAROLD JARCHE | THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 2012 The PKM value-add It’s why so few people keep at blogging for years, because it takes work. The act of writing a blog post, a tweet, or an annotation on a social bookmark all force you to think a bit more than clicking once and filing it to an automated system. That is why I am not a fan of Paperli or Scoopit.” -
WEB TOOLS FOR LEARNERS | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012 Please Check Out My Most Updated Blog blogging communication e-learning learning education PLE teachingI now post almost all my updates on joanvinallcox.ca. Hope you can enjoy my posts there. -
THE BAMBOO PROJECT BLOG | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012 Meditations on Career Generosity A blog post this morning by Walter McKenzie got me thinking about career behavior--more specifically do we approach people with a "what's in it for me?" mentality or do we look beyond transactions? One traveler ahead of me in line bought one caramel apple and ran off to his gate to catch his flight. walked off processing his cynical comment. -
PORTALS AND KM | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 2012 Introduction to Google Analytics – Online Workshop As a disclosure I have no business connection with this firm except that I have been a close personal of the owner, Don Lesser, for years and have written about his food writing on this blog before. Readers of this blog please do not send me similar requests to promote your products. It can take a bit of time to uncover its full use. -
LINKED INTELLIGENCE | MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012 Loose LinkedIn Connections Sink Security Over on the LinkedIn Personal Trainer blog I’ve previously dealt with “super-sekrit” information ). Sure, this is a shameless takeoff on “Loose Lips Sink Ships” , but hopefully you’ll forgive me – because the saying makes sense. Those shark infested waters. Trolling for information on LinkedIn. -
HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, MARCH 19, 2012 Working on Internet Time One of the earliest knowledge guilds was the open source community which developed many of the communication tools and processes used by knowledge artisans today: distributed work; results-only work environments (your code speaks for you); RSS, blogs & wikis for sharing; agile programming; flattened hierarchies, etc. -
ANECDOTE | SUNDAY, MARCH 18, 2012 Staying alive - again Following on from the blog I did last week, a friend of mine from the UK let me know about this advert from notorious football hardman, turned actor Vinnie Jones on exactly the same topic. Enjoy, and try getting this song out of your head for the rest of the day! Changing behaviour -
HAROLD JARCHE | SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 2012 Building an alliance For example, we were early to blogging and Twitter. Tweet A study of international alliances found that two-thirds of the alliances between equally matched partners were successful but where there was a significant imbalance of power almost 60% of alliances failed. Managing Collaboration. We learn from our mistakes by talking about them. We’ve -
WEB WORKER DAILY | FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 2012 Tips for virtual team leaders: Teach your employees to manage up Blog Workshifting recently came up with a list of seven. The blog suggests: Tell them how to manage up. Managing a virtual team is like managing a traditional team on steroids. What are these essential tweaks for managing virtually? Telework team members aren’t in the office all the time learning how you work. - Explorer le futur en France et en français
Ceci est le premier billet de blog que j’écris en français. En outre, je vais de temps en temps àcrire des billets de blog en langue française. Je suis Australien, né à Canberra, mais mon père travaillais pour l’ONU et j’ai passé presque tout ma jeunesse à Genève. Français General Global economy -
PORTALS AND KM | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 2012 SXSW Notes: No Brochures: Digital Storytelling for Nonprofits Many non-profits started with brochure like Web sites and added blogs. People want a social layer beyond the blog. 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 a number of Adobe sponsored sessions. -
HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2012 Net Work Skills The people who blog or connect on social media can get things done quicker, find answers faster, get advice and just be more effective. Without some persistent point of presence (blog, Twitter, LinkedIn), one is invisible online unless he or she is already famous. Blogs enhance serendipity. This is life in perpetual Beta. -
WEB WORKER DAILY | MONDAY, MARCH 12, 2012 Gas prices up? Time to remember remote work again That’s what a recent post by Switchbord, the blog of the Natural Resources Defense Council , suggests. If you’re feeling squeezed, no wonder,” reports the NRDC blog. Gas prices are once again high enough to warrant a flurry of media coverage. Prices shouldn’t control our interest in telework. Sign up for a free trial. -
Using network perspectives to visualize changing culture and meaning Without having seen anything about them other than the content in this blog, I can’t judge their value, but they certainly look fascinating. I’m a big fan of Tim Stock ‘s work, which weaves together a deep network perspective with a rich view of how culture is changing informed by semiotic analysis. -
PORTALS AND KM | SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2012 SXSW Notes: The Curators and the Curated Many curators have started their blogs as a bookmark for themselves. use both Twitter and my blog for this same purpose. Twitter bookmarks things and then some of them become the source for blog posts. My blog primarily serves as my personal knowledge system, like the notes for this session. | |