I recently received a review copy of Business Goes Virtual: Realizing the Value of Collaboration, Social and Virtual Strategies by John P. Girard, Cindy Gordon, and JoAnn L. Girard.  The book examines four virtual business strategies that are showing promise. The book provides case examples and best practices.     MORE >>

My friend and fellow futurist Gerd Leonhard , who runs The Futures Agency (which I am part of), was recently in Sydney for a speaking engagement. We took the opportunity to record a series of conversations on the future. Here is our conversation on the future of money. Facebook credits are becoming an important alternative currency. MORE >>

To which Karen responded, “which is why I’m glad I had dance lessons when I was young … always dancing, negotiating the next step&#. This is an important metaphor. Supporting communities of practice is a lot like dancing, there’s constant give and take. Another useful metaphor is to think of social media as languages. MORE >>

Another report from the Developing Educators Learning and Information Literacies for Accreditation (DELILA) project dissemination day in London, UK. Jane Hughes (an Educational Developer/ Technologist at University College London) talked about her project CPD4HE: Digital Literacies in disciplinary learning & teaching. The website is at [link]. MORE >>

I heard Francis Gouillart speak a couple months ago about Co-Creation ( post ), and I finally took the time to read his HBR article with Venkat Ramaswamy, Building the Co-Creative Enterprise. My world these days is all about process improvement, which can be a very focused effort of "here is my solution, implement it." Why should we restrain them? MORE >>