In May and June, Harold Jarche and I will be running another series of our popular public online workshops at the Social Learning Centre. These take place over a 2-week period and involve 5-6 web-based assignments, some individual activities, as well as conversations and discussions with other participants. 14-25 May. Led by Jane Hart. ” . MORE >>

Photo by WhiteAfrican. Note from Beth: By the time you read this post,  I’ll be in the air enroute to Rwanda for a training project. As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. Here’s some great advice from my colleagues at CommonSense Media. Who knows what’s coming at us? MORE >>

A little while back I sat down with Martha Mangelsdorf , the editorial director of MIT Sloan Management Review , to talk about digital business. We covered the Cloud ; Big Data ; Enterprise 2.0 ; technology, skills, and jobs ; and lots else. Martha asked great questions; I hope my answers were in the same league. We’ll go until 3:00 pm. MORE >>

A few weeks ago I participated in a roundtable breakfast on Protecting Financial Markets in the Age of the Cloud.  Several participants cited the sharp rise in volume and speed of high-frequency trading over the past decade as an example of a current practice that is potentially increasing volatility and systemic risk in financial markets.  MORE >>

It's not just $4-a-gallon gas, he said. The suburbs were beautiful when only a few of us were living out there," he said. The romance with the automobile is fading.". The survey has tracked the attitudes of Houstonians for more than 30 years. NineShift picture of train while riding another train MORE >>