In an insightful piece , Harold Jarche puts together how collaboration and cooperation are needed to make organizations work ‘smarter’, integrating workgroups with the broader social network by using communities of practice as the intermediary. The transparency provides real value in developing trust among the constituencies. MORE >>

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. MORE >>

Dear Canadian Universities, You are, as the cool 4chan/Reddit kids say, about to get pwned. The dramatic entrance of elite US universities into online learning will change the education landscape globally. Where we, as Canadian higher education institutions, should be leading, we are laggards. We are not without examples of what happens. MORE >>

I started working in retailing, wholesaling, journalism and radio when I was 18-24. studied Nielsen and Arbitron ratings for radio and TV when I was 25-34. The radio station I did most of that work for was an album rock station, one of the first. It’s a country station now, target demographic, 25-54. Cruises. Even one’s own, sometimes. MORE >>

In the spring of 2001, I was finishing up the final chapter of my second book, Emergence: The Connected Lives Of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software. Emergence was not explicitly a book about politics or social movements, but I wanted to end it with a hint of those possibilities. That is the iconography of an earlier model of protest. In the U.S., MORE >>