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| | CLARK QUINN MAY 3, 2012 Thinking well and, well, not so well A number of books have crossed my path for a variety of reasons, and there’re some lessons to be extracted from three of them. All have to do with looking at how our brains work, and some lessons therefrom. Still, valuable insight comes from all three. It’s a great tale well told, but the lessons were only cautionary. meta-learning | CHIEFTECH MAY 3, 2012 If Yammer fails, who is to blame? A very different experience here in South Australia (at least, in the department where I’m based). Rather than just an element of social networking, we went with Socialtext, an ESN platform that offers blogging, micro-blogging, wikis, groups, collaborative workspaces and a range of other features. Takeaway message? via delimiter.com.au. Permalink. | | | | | | | | |
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COLLABORATION 2.0 | THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012 Asana: speedy, stable and very well connected
Well funded and connected ‘task management for teams’ firm Asana could make waves through their Facebook roots, quality code and cultural fit MORE >> -
ANECDOTE | THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012  Jonathan Gottschall is turning business storytelling into a toothless tiger
Jonathan Gottschall, a literary scholar, has just written a piece for Fast Company called Why Storytelling is the Ultimate Weapon and in the process has set back the field of business storytelling with his emphasis on fictitious stories. Only then should they throw in one or two fictitious tales. Jonathan is focussed on Big 'S' storytelling. MORE >> -
WEB WORKER DAILY | THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012 Sponsor post: Where on earth is your data center now?
Today’s businesses require highly virtualized and services-on-demand environments. And that’s causing the network as we have known it to undergo a dramatic change. Soon we’ll even be able to do the same with your entire data center. The future is built in. MORE >> -
PORTALS AND KM | THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012 The Rise of Data Journalism and Related Tools
Liliana Bounegru discussed the state of data journalism and its growing influence through an interview with Alex Howard on O’Reilly Radar (see: The bond between data and journalism grows stronger ). This is a topic I have covered before for example, Progressive Mainstream Media Moving to News Aggregation. They are moving up the maturity model. MORE >> -
 he Informed Researcher Booklet and Information literacy lens on the Vitae Researcher Development Framework
They were produced in collaboration with other key bodies including SCONUL and the Research Information Network. They are both professionally produced and can be downloaded for free. Bent, M., Gannon-Leary, P., Goldstein, S. and Videler, T. 2012) The Informed Researcher. Vitae. link] (the picture here is the second page of this publication MORE >>
- The Week In Wine JOHN BATTELLE'S SEARCHBLOG | THURSDAY, MAY 3, 2012
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