The Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) movement has gained unstoppable momentum. And thanks to the burgeoning mobile app market, employees have high expectations for these tools. They want an attractive user experience tailored to their devices. In other words, companies need to invest in building apps, period. This API proxy plays a dichotomous role. MORE >>

Hear first hand accounts of the UK's information literacy conference: for the 5th year running we will have an hour of reports and discussion in Second Life! All welcome! When: 12 noon SL time (8pm UK time, 5pm US Eastern, see [link] for times elsewhere), Tuesday 1st May 2012. MORE >>

In 2009 I listened to Peter Senge’s keynote address at the CSTD national conference. His research findings showed that the average life expectancy of large companies is about 30 years, but some are over 200 years old, and the key driver for their longevity is organizational learning. Value is created by teams and mostly by networks of people. While MORE >>

Karl Kapp’s written another book, this time on gamification , and I certainly liked his previous book with Tony O’Driscoll on Virtual Worlds. This one’s got some great stuff in it too, and some other ideas that raise some hackles. With that caveat, I think there is a lot to like here. ”  Exactly! There are flaws. MORE >>

Yesterday I ran Getting Results From Crowds and Crowd Business Models workshops in Sydney, the first in a global series of crowdsourcing workshops. In opening the Crowd Business Models workshop, I ran through some of the driving forces that are shifting business models to crowds. We cannot expect that this trend is going to stop and turn around. MORE >>