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IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER JULY 5, 2012 Towards a Hyperconnected, Digital Economy For the past couple of decades we have been talking about the evolution to a new, Internet-based digital economy. This transformation keeps gathering speed, as we transition from the connected economy of PCs, browsers and web servers to our increasingly hyperconnected economy of smart mobile devices, cloud computing and broadband wireless networks. | DAVID WEINBERGER JULY 5, 2012 The origins of information “You can ring me here tonight from Finland. If you’ve got the film, just say the deal’s come off.” ” “And if not?” ” “Say the deal’s off.” ” “It sounds rather alike,” Avery objected. “If the line’s bad, I mean. Say something negative. | | DAWN OF LEARNING JULY 5, 2012 Content as a Service For better or worse, the development of learning content has been a one-way push process. As instructional designers, we create our learning products, package them up with all the content and media, wish them well, and ship them off to the LMS’s – never to be seen again. There is no way to protect the IP from being copied or redistributed. | | | | | | | |
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TED | THURSDAY, JULY 5, 2012  6 very promising oil spill clean up innovations
Two years ago, a chance discussion with a group of Gulf of Mexico fishermen changed the course of Cesar Harada’s life. His mission : to create a boat better able to drag absorbent material through the spill area for more efficient clean up. Harada looked to ancient sailing techniques to inspire his design. robot that detects spills. Even better? MORE >> -
BETH KANTER | THURSDAY, JULY 5, 2012  Webinar Notes: Social Media Measurement Standards: Progress and Roadmap
Flickr Photo by Joel Goodman. I’m on a mission this year, with the publication of the book, to continue to evangelize about nonprofits should all become data nerds and embrace the joy of measurement. The Valid Metrics Framework, Updated to Include Social Media. But where to start? Well Katie calls that HITS = How Idiots Track Success. Agreed! MORE >> -
ROSS DAWSON | THURSDAY, JULY 5, 2012 Transforming clients and executives: How to enrich their mental models
When I wrote my first book, Developing Knowledge-Based Client Relationships , which came out in 2000 in its first edition, I thought of it in many ways as a stepping stone for me to gain credibility and move on to deal with broader issues. Yet still today the themes of the book are immensely relevant to my work. Rich and Impoverished Mental Models. MORE >> -
NINE SHIFT | THURSDAY, JULY 5, 2012 Sides Dopey on Marijuana Legalization
The sides lined up on legalizing marijuana demonstrate what we have said that the sides on the 21st Century are not always along political lines. . The evangelist Pat Robertson says we should legalize small amounts of marijuana. Opposed to this? President Barack Obama. Say what? Robertson understands one of the excellent reasons: 1.To MORE >> -
CHARLES JENNINGS | THURSDAY, JULY 5, 2012 The Higgs bosun of Training & Development?
Yesterday, scientists at Europe’s CERN research centre announced that they have found a new subatomic particle that behaves like the much sought-after Higgs bosun, the ‘god particle’ (or ‘goddamn particle’). The discovery of this elusive, ethereal particle represents a major breakthrough in our understanding of the universe. MORE >>
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