It’s a dumb technology that is only getting dumber. In short, the home phone was a social, shared, immediate technology, one that existed in rhythm with the physical expression of our lives in our most formative space: Our home. ” All of our friends and family know if they want to get in touch, they need to call our cels.

… The aim of the new technology is to bridge the digital gap, giving people access to the internet through a new platform, and also to encourage new forms of community news, communication and social engagement. Future of media Technology trends UncategorizedBut the developments in printed electronics do not stop there.

If the announcements and videos from startup Leap Motion accurately indicate the power of the technology, it will greatly accelerate the shift to new and better interfaces. Technology trendsIt seems as if the next generation of how we interface with computers may be here. There are already many great uses for a variety of people.

“There’s a little bit more of a warmth to this because you don’t have a lot of technology in the way. Reps can also lead prospects through the material, interacting with rich media such as calculators or live web pages within it and pulling up additional materials to answer prospects’ objections. The result?

Now the MIT Technology Review writes about: With New Look, Bing Gets More Organized, Social. I have been writing a bit about the invasion of social capabilities into all online tools. Fairly soon this will no longer be news. remember in 2004 bloggers were excited every time some big shot started blogging. Now that is a yawer. 

When I was writing my Master’s thesis on Learning in the New Brunswick Information Technology Workplace (completed in 1998) I based a part of it on a framework developed  in 1991. The SPATIAL model looks at how the physical and non-physical attributes of the work environment influence learning. Image by @gapingvoid. NetworkedLearning

Pundits have been chattering about enterprise social media for a while, but previous research showed that despite the hype these technologies had a long way to go before they were fully embraced by business. Some of the most encouraging findings about enterprise social concern exactly who is using the tools. would yield similar results?

” @RalphMercer – “the 4 horsemen of technology adoption: trust, curiosity, leadership and culture” The Automattic (WordPress) company creed starts with “ I will never stop learning “- by @photomatt. Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared  via Twitter  this past week. Which is it?

have quite a lot of other early-stage technology companies wanting to talk about how we’ve managed the business, and it’s just not seen as weird. Remote work may be going increasingly mainstream with more and more companies letting staff work flexibly, but as with any major shift in how we work, there are bound to be holdouts.

Communities TechnologyFor several years, there has been a rule-of-thumb, called “90-9-1″ , that 90% of online participation in groups/community consists of “lurkers” or more politely, “passive participants”, and only 1% are active creators. Often, they simply  lurk  in the background.

The technology lets stakeholders and target users “kick the tires” on new applications, including mobile apps, and give feedback while it’s still easy and less costly to make changes. iRise’s patented software visualization technology helps companies and government agencies meet these raised expectations of elegant design and ease of use.

The bigger picture is that digital technology augments our brain. Fortunately, digital technology is exactly the opposite, so combined we’re far more capable. But just because everyone has one, what does it mean ? I think the implications are broader, but here I want to talk specifically about work and learning. And more.

The examples of how to support informal learning do not require expensive technology or detailed needs analyses. The five informal learning methods described in yesterday’s post on Learning in the Workplace have one thing in common. They are all relatively simple. Most of today’s larger companies have a complicated structure.

Many of you are familiar with the McKinsey studies that provided concrete quantified benefits (see for example, How social technologies are extending the organization ). The basic premise of the book is “being a social organization goes beyond experimenting with social media technology tools—the "provide and pray" approach.

Some of the points I cover: * In the face of a highly uncertain future increasingly driven by extraordinary technologies, we have a choice whether to be optimists or pessimists. Below is a brief interview I did when I spoke at TheNextWeb conference in Amsterdam recently. See more on this topic.

The big message I got out of his talk is that the idea of competitive advantage - or greatness of a company - has nothing to do with the specific tools, technologies and techniques. Steven J Spear  was the opening keynote speaker at the Lean Software & Systems Conference. Interesting to see OpEx in the subtitle.

It is the way Ecopetrol continues to manage its knowledge using Communities, Technology Forums, Expert meetings, Knowledge Cafés, Conversation Circles, and Open Space to create new knowledge. Starting about 2000 GM put together a vibrant KM program. In 2008 KM was alive and well at GM. In the summer of 2009 GM filed for bankruptcy. Convening.

The vision is supported by a federated technology platform – and once you federate, you lose central control as a business. Last Friday Businessweek ran a story on Diaspora , a social platform built from what might be called Facebook anti-matter. – Facebook. Then, business models get very, very hard. Sign up here.

TechnologyOne of my earlier blog posts is still online, which I stumbled upon this week, much to my surprise. Note: Nine years ago I was warning how production jobs were leaving Canada and getting outsourced. Deep conversations about R&D in this Province never materialized though. It was easier than trying to manage a blog by myself.

Communities TechnologyMany people like to share things online. Twitter is full of links to other websites. For a long time you needed to use URL shorteners to ensure you stayed within Twitter’s 140 character limit. There are now many to choose from, including  open source  and  full-service analytics.

Last year we eliminated panels from our program, the move was met with great success – attendees love our fast-paced approach, which features short, high-value presentations from leaders in digital marketing and technology platforms, interspersed with conversations with CMOs from Fortune 500 brands and entrepreneurs driving change in digital.

It’s wrong to focus only on individuals or groups, because most opportunities for improvement involve systems, processes and technology. In The Paradox of Performance Pay , Allan Hawke shows how it has clearly led to decreases in organizational performance. Performance ratings are nothing more than a lottery, Deming said in 1984.

Technology might be collapsing distances and allowing folks spread across continents to work together, but no matter how good collaboration tools get, none of them can alter the course of the earth around the sun and eliminate the hassles of time zone differences. Meanwhile, an entire week has passed. “I wake up about 6:00am. can focus.

If you’re active in learning & technology, I reckon eLearning Guild membership makes sense as well. I’m happy to report that the eLearning Guild has just released this year’s mobile learning research  report I authored for them (after doing the same last year). mobile strategy

The internal and external social media strategies and practices need to be aligned, and where appropriate, the technology needs to be integrated. Awareness has released an interesting free report, 3 Keys to Influence: Understanding and Leveraging Social Capital. 90 percent of consumers trust recommendations from people they know.

Today, Google isn’t just thinking about the technology when it releases products, but also about things such as pricing and ensuring applications stick around. It’s also naturally limiting the products it rolls out, Rochelle said, always asking, even of cool technology, “Where does it live?” Or is it?

In fact, Lessig argues, the Internet is quite possibly the most regulable technology ever invented, and if we don’t realize that fact, and protect ourselves from it, we’re in for some serious pain down the road. But as I wrote in my review of his last book ( Is Our Republic Lost ?), It’s a worthy dive, but not an easy one. Lessig: Not at all.

They may tell you about technology challenges, they may tell you about working relationships, let them start where they are most comfortable then you can drill down. But even more important, according to Turmel, is understanding their approach to technology and communication. Handily, there are questions that can help. home office?

In essence, You Are Not A Gadget is a series of arguments, some concise, others a bit shapeless, centering on one theme: Individual human beings are special, and always will be, and digital technology is not a replacement for our humanity. don’t. Not entirely, anyway. But more on that in a moment. That’s some powerful stuff.

met many motivated educational change agents who are looking at how they can improve their learning environment, with and without technology. I really enjoyed my visit to Algonquin College in Ottawa today. The campus is home to a wide range of students, though I was surprised that most are under 24 years of age. It’s perpetual Beta.

Entrepreneurship Future of work Social trends Technology trends[This post first appeared on the Getting Results From Crowds book website ]. Over the last two weeks I have delivered 8 keynotes or workshops on crowdsourcing across Western Europe. Part of the intent has been to gather input from many participants on what to cover in.

This was the point of RSS, after all – a technology that has actually been  declared dead  more often than the lowly display banner. For those of you too young to recall RSS, it’s a technology that allows publishers to share their content as “feeds” to any third party.) Twitter is valued at close to $10 billion.

Finally, of course, we’ve also included our sampling of interesting articles, websites, and workplace/technology futures that we include each month in our “ The Future of. May 2012. Do you think your work is strategic, or could be? Our feature article this month, “ Is Operational Strategy an Oxymoron (Part Two)? And now we need your help.

Here in Part Two we expand on that idea and offer a history lesson showing how information technology exploded out of the “back room” to become a strategic resource in almost all commercial and public-sector organizations by the beginning of the 21st century. Technology also has a deep and profound impact on talent attraction/retention.

It’s our way of helping you stay on top of developments in the worlds of technology, workplace and facilities design, the workforce, and work design—any and all of which are going to affect the future of work, often in ways we can’t even imagine. Here is a small sample of the stories and developments we are paying attention to these days.

Today, a new wave of technologies — collaborative or social technologies, most of which appeared only within the last decade — is entering the workplace. These new technologies hold out the promise of many business benefits. I started Friday’s Finds three years ago , in an attempt to make my finds on Twitter more explicit.

The second aspect of Sabga’s post worth pondering is the fact that she has both the awareness to notice her own excess of solitude and the freedom, due to technological empowerment, to correct it. Traditional business culture, with its emphasis on networking, meetings and pitching, doesn’t generally favor introverts.

Brocade has over 25 combined years in building data center networking and Ethernet fabric technology. 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.

On the learning side, she argues strongly for making learning active and meaningful (a view I strongly support ), and start using the technology. 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. Still, valuable insight comes from all three. meta-learning

Panel comments - focus on technologies that enable collaboration; depends on managment - rely on results, not activities. Technology helps. Update : what is the next disruptive technology? Update : Companies do have to provide some enterprise-level technologies, like networks, servers, HD telepresence, etc. Share It!

The best way to experience this technology is to click here and see this PDF document. Crocodoc is going to offer this technology as a service, mostly for large companies. Dropbox has been testing the technology for a while and is using it for its recently launched web viewer and easy link-sharing service.

Brocade has over 25 combined years in building data center networking and Ethernet fabric technology. 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.

Today’s video technology makes education more flexible, rich and accessible than ever before. Video collaboration offers sophisticated and seamless mobile access, on-demand connection and clear HD quality so students and teachers can create classrooms anytime, anywhere. www.PolycomMovement.com/gom1

Another point that stuck with me, as I had witnessed this, was Senge’s observation that the field of knowledge management had been co-opted by information technology vendors, and had become useless for organizational learning. In 2009 I listened to Peter Senge’s keynote address at the CSTD national conference.

remains one of the best opportunities in the technology market today. 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!” ” ). Multiple venture-backed Enterprise 2.0

Median wages for those with bachelor’s degrees are down from 2000, hit by technological changes that are eliminating midlevel jobs such as bank tellers. Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared  via Twitter  this past week. wwjimd: Resilience = Not having all of your eggs in one basket. population ages.

meta-learning technologyI’m a real fan of styles, ala Microsoft Word. If you don’t get  this concept, I wish you would. Let me explain. The concept is fairly simple. Then you define what a heading one looks like: bold, font size 14, with space before of 6 pts, and space after of 6 pts, etc. Why use styles? Several reasons.

Personal tools lead to practical business NewNet 2012: companies and technologies set to disrupt Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce. As far as collaboration tools go, Wiggio isn’t flashy. From the very beginning we’ve been really focused on streamlined simplicity.”

Technology offers empowerment, not automation. Sales guru Geoffrey James has a great article up on Inc. The best managers have a fundamentally different understanding of workplace, company and team dynamics," he says. I learned that the 'best of the best,' tend to share the following eight core beliefs." company is a community, not a machine.

When you upload photos Google will use Google Goggles’ technology to look inside the photos and help you discover relevant photos by the search keyword. The OCR technology that has powered the Google Books effort will turn a PDF or a photo of a document into text for you to manipulate. On Tuesday, the Mountain View, Calif.-based

This effort involved learning new technology and new business processes and attitudes. Social learning in a big deal now. See for example, my review of The New Social Learning. Most people it has been around since the cave people but new social tools have opened up new possibilities. We decided that we were not going to train people at all.

As Jane Hart mentioned to me in a Skype conversation today, the individual’s role in social learning is as important as the technology or getting people to collaborate. Anne Adrian, in  My own serendipitous opportunities , talks about her experiences in online sense-making. did not ask my organization, I just did it. Tweet.

Crowdsourcing design Technology trendsI am giving keynotes this Wednesday at TheNextWeb CxO Summit and on Friday at TheNextWeb Conference. However one of the most interesting aspects of my keynote is that my visual presentation will consist entirely of motion graphics, 3D, and video – there will be no still images.

Likely because it is a specific function, and not a technology, and no one could come up with a better term, whereas portals are simply an IT front end to many things. Blogs are both a technology and a style and I think it is the latter that has caused the term to survive. In 2010 50% of the Inc.  

21st Rome : Client technology leadership workshop. I am currently in transit in Hong Kong on the way to London for a few days with my and my goddaughter’s family at the beginning of a five-week speaking tour. Below is my itinerary in case you’d like to get along to any of the events. APRIL. 25th Amsterdam : CMO breakfast briefing for Ketchum.

The full spectrum of how digital technology, even desktop, can be supporting performance. So I guess I’d reframe the conversation, and say that mlearning is helping us see what technology support for performance is, and that’s helping us revaluate elearning. Depends, of course, on what you mean by elearning, to start with.

Technology is certainly enabling the ability to work from everywhere, and both the media and a certain segment of freedom ( or surf ) loving business people have jumped on the trend, boosting remote work as the way of the future. One such remote work doubter just proclaimed his skepticism loudly on VentureBeat. Company culture is key.

With companies squeezed for cash, technology improving and teams increasingly spread out geographically that’s really no surprise. Men throughout the ages have pondered what women really want. Chocolates, they wondered? Roses? Someone to do their fair share of the housework? That’s a hint, guys.) Only 52 percent of men agreed.

There was an added benefit to this technology. I am on a Greek island today but can listen to such great live music shows for South Louisiana online ( Great Louisiana Radio for Zydeco, Blues, and Cajun Available Online ). It is a common accepted practice now but a few years ago it was not possible.    

blogs technology aggregators feedreader newsreader rssA reader of my blog asked me to update my thoughts on what I'd like to see in a news reader today. I've taken several days of thinking about the topic and reflecting on my current reading habits (and desires) to put this least of desired features and capabilities together. Navigation.

Technological disruption is one way – watch the “ white spaces ,” for instance. Neon Indian at Coachella last weekend. Last weekend I had the distinct pleasure of taking two days off the grid and heading to a music festival called Coachella. First, let’s set some assumptions. ”). But what of bits?

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

Now, with continuing increases in bandwidth and other advances, corporate stories could become more recognized as a major source of organizational learning able to be managed through technology. “Sometime reality is too complex. Fiction gives it form.” Jean Luc Godard. Stowe was referred to as the old lady who started the Civil War. Roud, R.

“They don’t realize they’ve already been blinkered – a subset of possible new technological possibilities has already been removed that they are not even aware of.” A few weeks ago I ventured to our nation’s capital to steep in its culture a bit, and get some first hand reporting done for the book.

“They don’t realize they’ve already been blinkered – a subset of possible new technological possibilities has already been removed that they are not even aware of.” A few weeks ago I ventured to our nation’s capital to steep in its culture a bit, and get some first hand reporting done for the book.

Technology can mediate some of that sharing, of course. A classic quote from George Bernard Shaw that sits in the cannon of knowledge management. If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. And where are those ideas? knowledge+management georgebernardshaw qotd quotes

Is About the Technology). Second, tibbr provides the option for cloud technology or on-premise installations. I have covered TIBCO before (see:  TIBCO Spotfire Brings Self-Service Data Analysis to the Enterprise with a Social Twist ). TIBCO has been a leader in making the digital world connect for quite some time. 

“Everyone who has a hand in running the coworking space or teaching a class, does something else for a living and is a master of their own craft so we are able to deliver classes on the bleeding edge of the industries and technologies we focus on,” he said. Should we go back to an apprentice system ? Is online learning the answer?

Jon Husband defines “wirearchy” as; “a dynamic two-way flow of power and authority based on information, knowledge, trust and credibility, enabled by interconnected people and technology.” Work is changing. The nature of work is changing in our increasingly networked economy. Known Problems and Exceptions. It is now known. Conclusion. Tweet.

Personal tools lead to practical business Connected world: the consumer technology revolution Millennials in the enterprise, part 1: strategies for supporting the new digital workforce. The number of freelancers is on the rise with estimates of their eventual numbers ranging from more than 50 percent of the U.S. workforce by 2020 to 1.3

But the same shifts in technology and the economy that are rearranging things for individuals and teams are also changing what works for whole companies. Organizations are such a large and steady feature of the landscape that imagining a fundamental shift in their nature is a bit mind-bending– sort of like seeing a mountain flex.

On 11 May at Leeds Trinity University College , UK, is the event Reflecting through a digital lens: how can Libraries support learning? Cost £20 (includes lunch). Organised by the Yorkshire Universities Information Skills Group To book the event email Janice Lavigueur at j.lavigueur@leedstrinity.ac.uk events

It’s called “Participatory technologies, pedagogy 2.0 Here’s the official citation if you want to grab it from Library Hi Tech’s site: Meredith Farkas, (2012) “Participatory technologies, pedagogy 2.0 It’s been a crazy almost two months and isn’t looking to get any better in the near future.

that highlights provocative research, stories, and ideas that are affecting the future of work, the workplace, the workforce, technology, and business processes as we all march forward. April 2012. What is strategy? What does it mean for a business function to be “strategic”? Please read this month’s article and let me know what you think.

Are the workplace designs consistent with the business’s technology needs and strategy? By Jim Ware (with assistance from Paul Carder of Occupiers Journal Limited). Oxymoron (from the Greek ????????, sharp dull"): a figure of speech that is self-contradictory. Common examples include “jumbo shrimp,” “living dead,” and “open secret.”].

How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work. This article, from McKinsey Quarterly , describes how many organizational leaders engage in four specific destructive behaviors that kill their subordinates’ creativity, productivity, and commitment to helping their employers succeed. How to Stay Ahead of Tomorrow’s Job Market. Learning on the Move. Share It!

Our company, Layer 7 Technologies , and competitors such as Apigee and Mashery , are providing API management solutions to support mobile integration for the consumer app market. Matt McLarty is vice president of client solutions for Layer 7 Technologies , a provider of API management solutions. This API proxy plays a dichotomous role.

Trend 4: Adaptive lifelong learning the norm -” Ten years from now, relevant work skills will be shaped by the continued rise in global connectivity, smart technology and new media, among several other drivers. Image: Gapingvoid.com. New media literacy. Virtual collaboration. Cognitive load management. Novel and adaptive thinking.

” In 15 years of helping business, government and nonprofit leaders make strategic choices about digital technology, I’ve yet to hear an executive utter those words. Here are some of the observations and insights that were shared  via Twitter  this past week. Why Thinking About Averages Can Be Disastrous  - by @timkastelle. Tweet.

There are pros and cons to this new way of work, but it is not going away and technology can become the key to resetting those boundaries,” she says. Telecommuting is hardly the most new fangled idea out there. Why is that? Why were managers less than crazy about remote work? The same percentage complained about lack of focus.

Adobe Social builds on the social media management technology Adobe acquired earlier this year as part of the Context Optional/Efficient Frontier acquisition, as well as the social media monitoring and analytics of Adobe Social Analytics. These included the following. Adobe Social is a new product within the Adobe Digital Marketing Suite.

Increasingly, as I look around, I see folks addressing learning technology tactics; they’ll make a mobile app, they’ll try out a simulation game, they’ll put in a portal. And there’s nothing wrong with doing each of these as a trial, a test run, some experience under the belt. I’ll use social media as an example.

SME Technology[Originally posted on Getting Results From Crowds book website ]. As awareness of crowdsourcing increases, there is a rapidly increasing appetite for learning how to do it well. wrote Getting Results From Crowds because using crowdsourcing well is not as easy as it may seem. We’ll be sharing what we learn along the way.

The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based, and our notions of IT support are decentralized 3. Technology USA academic sectorAnother 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.

As the announcement last year stated: WHAT WE HATH WROUGHT will give us a forecast of the interconnected world in 2040, then work backwards to explain how the personal, economic, political, and technological strands of this human narrative have evolved from the pivotal moment in which we find ourselves now. So here we go.

As the announcement last year stated: WHAT WE HATH WROUGHT will give us a forecast of the interconnected world in 2040, then work backwards to explain how the personal, economic, political, and technological strands of this human narrative have evolved from the pivotal moment in which we find ourselves now. So here we go. ”).

The concept extends beyond communication and information technologies to encompass learning, critical thinking, and interpretative skills across and beyond professional and educational boundaries. As already noted on theis blog, UNESCO has combined media literacy and information literacy into Media and Information Literacy (MIL).

But with seven years of working on the core, proprietary technology, CEO Ralph Shaw said it was time to figure out a way to also offer a new service directly to end users. The latest example is iSimplyConnect, a pay-as-you-go VPN service specifically built for the iPad and aimed at smaller companies. Risk factors and the iPad. with No.

“At any given technology conference, you will find the following types: People with chips on their shoulders about being marginalized by the new trend. Here’s the relevant section of Venkatesh’s post – sound familiar? Long-ignored people who suddenly find that they’ve turned into stars, blinking in the spotlight.

have written about them before see NetBase Provides an Expanding Set of Social Media Monitoring Measures and NetBase Provides Next Generation Semantic Technology for Brand Monitoring and Understanding for more details about their offering. Here is a useful idea for taking advantage of the transparency within social media.    

Is Wall Street’s current enthusiasm for profit from enterprise social technologies good for the end user, and will the old guard vendors outflank the challengers with feature offerings

Like everything else in the world of technology, collaboration is going mobile. As mobile technologies continue to mature, the focus of these applications will shift from being second-tier clients of cloud-based applications to being the main point of interaction between users and the collaboration services. Collaboration mobilization.

But as Lessig points out quite forcefully in Code v2, the Internet is, in fact, one of the most “regulable” technologies ever invented, and it’s folly to believe that only regimes like China will be drawn toward leveraging the control it allows. Something to do with my hair being on fire for four years running …).

But as Lessig points out quite forcefully in Code v2, the Internet is, in fact, one of the most “regulable” technologies ever invented, and it’s folly to believe that only regimes like China will be drawn toward leveraging the control it allows. Something to do with my hair being on fire for four years running …).

Technology has blurred them beyond recognition. 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.

ISBN: 978-1-85604-762-3 "Part 1 explores the most recent trends in technology, consumption and literacy, while Part 2 is a resource bank of international case studies that demonstrate the key trends and their effect on information literacy and offer innovative ideas to put into practice. Godwin, P. and Parker, J. London: Facet. web 2.0

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have tried to find a better term than Consumerization of IT but so far have been unsuccessful, as it does capture what is perhaps the most central theme in how enterprise technology is shifting today. In many ways the drive to cloud and big data is being fueled by consumerized technologies. Cloud Crowdsourcing Enterprise 2.0

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