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So many documents are diversionary. Burying the final document on an obscure file server with the confident expecatation that it will never be seen by human eyes again. If you are tempted to write a document today, or asked to do so by your boss, resist. I remember the sinking feeling those words triggered. You knew that you had lost their attention and they were resorting to diversionary tactics. Putting off doing something by writing a templated bit of business fluff. MORE
If the state has to make the document available, it also has to make the metadata available. The Supreme Court of Arizona has ruled that the metadata included in electronic doucments is covered by the public records law. MORE
2013 the first year that documents that Boomers are starting to leave too Young people are leaving suburbs. MORE
This document provides an introduction to virtual worlds,discusses why virtual worlds are so well-suited to the study ofreal-world business, and describes how a platform could weave togethervarious types of virtual worlds and virtual spaces to achieve a varietyof research and educational goals. e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning (ed. MORE
Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Apr 24 2008 Doug Symington Mashes Us Up Published by Nancy White at 12:44 pm under events , visual thinking Doug uses A N I M O T O to mash up photos and music to document a panel Chris Lott organized at Northern Voice 2008 on “The blog is dead, long live the blog!&# MORE
Say we get this great idea to be able to create and store documents on the web (a la GoogleDocs). Rather than designing an entire web based document application, we start small. For our application, this would be the ability to create a simple document using a plain web browser over an average internet connection. I mean who wants a document processor that doesn’t support bolding and italics…I mean really! No massive requirements document. MORE
As I joke at conferences, at that point the only document of any use will be the Book of Jonah from the Old Testament, the only example I know of a self-help manual on how to escape from the digestive tract of a large carnivore. MORE
Instead, I keep pondering about how we can transform and redefine the way we do business through our day to day workflow(s) and if there is an idea that keeps coming back stronger by the day is that one of perhaps facilitating the transition from document-centric collaboration into a people-centric one. Apparently, it’s not happening, because we all keep being engaged on the influx of exchanging attachments, presentations, documents, spreadsheets, etc. MORE
However it struck me that in fact the vast majority of organizations represented in the audience still store most of their business documents on a hard disk somewhere. The number of documents being emailed between people inside companies today is still massive. Emailing documents back and forth is fraught with staggering problems, not least version control. The first step is moving documents into the cloud, whether it is an internal and external cloud. MORE
It can be very costly to reformat documents to handle language expansion or contraction. Companies like Dell are saving 30%+ with Xyleme. In her 2017 article, The Holy Trifecta: The Secret to Faster, Better, & Cheaper Global Content , translation expert Val Swisher explains that structured content is one of the three factors driving efficiency into the globalization process. MORE
My friend Frank Gilbane has unearthed an issue of my old e-zine from 1998 in which I proposed that documents are dead, and in which he counter-proposed that they are not. ” I will acknowledge that there is one itsy-bitsy way in which Frank was right and I was wrong: Documents are not dead. So, we still write and read documents. The finality of the document is serving as a forcing function for getting us literally on the same page. So, no, documents live. MORE
They create multiple documents (which swamp anyone with real work to do) and doctrinal statements with a high moral tone about what is permitted and what should be excluded. MORE
I’ve revisited the document again and again Stoos video interviews are up. See the Stoos Channel on YouTube. Before the gathering in Stoos, Steve Denning put together this comparison of approaches to transforming management. MORE
It is one thing for a working group to craft a document defining Knowledge Principles but how many people actually read it and understand it and of those, how many will actively engage with the ideas and put them into action. I always feel that documents, like this. Writing a document is the relatively easy bit, engaging people is the challenge By David Gurteen It is tremendous to see a resurgence in KM in UK Government in the form of a set of Knowledge Principles. MORE
Are they focused around information such as documents or other static content? I’m wondering if you have that as a downloadable document somewhere. MORE
An analysis of nearly 60 documents dealing with AI ethical issues revealed that attention has been focused on 12 key ethical challenges. Fairness, Interpretability and Explainability; and Transparency were mentioned in over 80% of the documents analyzed. Accountability; Data Privacy and Reliability; and Robustness and Security were mentioned in over 60% of the documents. MORE
A new book by Enrico Moretti documents that communities with more college graduates do better economically MORE
I was talking to my wife the other night about how we are thinking about using a wiki at work do develop some documents. You can share documents, comment on them, send them to others, embed them but no editing and that's OK. FM 20-11 Military Diving - Upload a Document to Scribd Read this document on Scribd: FM 20-11 Military Diving. I hope the embed code from scribd and docstoc both show up below alright. MORE
And… Honorable Mention: to round out the picture (10 is such an arbitrary number ;), sharing collaborative documents, e.g. Google Docs , is a major way to collaboratively process and learn together. MORE
The government is arresting and putting children in handcuffs for science projects, and charging researchers with espionage for exchanging legal scientific documents. An apt Huffington Post cartoon called it a High School Science Fear. . Combined with the recent fiasco where the FBI charged a university physics department chair of sending science secrets to China, it is clear that government officials are way over their heads in their lack of understanding about science. . MORE
I remember David Weinberger once saying that "documents are dead" Would that things were that simple! I watch people in business struggling with the persistent idea that documents are how we convey information. The result is a stressful mess for many people in business who write in one format then publish in another, mangle documents into PDFs - and don't even start me on forms written in Word that break when you try to complete them. MORE
Thus, the outputs can be videos, spreadsheets, documents, whatever captures the thinking, and appropriately if particular types of assignments. Twice out of three recent opportunities, I’ve been thwarted from my intentions by platform capabilities. And, once, I was supported. MORE
Instead, a ‘table-read’ narrative of not more than 6 pages is presented at the meeting and attendees start by silently reading this document. A common Strategic Narrative Table Read often involves mixing and matching the pieces below: Meeting Agenda: What is the purpose of this document and this meeting? FAQs: This is where Frequently Asked Questions get documented. MORE
The NineShift story, which predicted and then documented the transformation of society from the Industrial Age of 2000 into the Knowledge Society of 2020, has been complete. . Thank you all so much for your support of NineShift over the past 20 years! MORE
Home About Complexity Reading List Knowledge Management Reading List Free Yourselves from the Tyranny of the Document Metaphor! I believe a reasonable response is to roll one’s eyes at such talk – I don’t offer a useful alternative to documents (yet), so why attend? MORE
WebWorkerDaily » Archive 3 Ways to Edit Documents Collaboratively « WebWorkerDaily » Archive 20 Different Ways to Manage Your To Dos « SocialTech: Open Source Social Software. MORE
I got to think about the nature of documents, knowledge, etc., Interleaf had amazingly innovative software, decades ahead of its time, in large part because the developers had stripped documents down to their elements, and were thinking in new ways about how they could go back together. It had to be back in 1993 that I had dual cards at Interleaf. But it was only a couple of days ago that I came across them. MORE
Anyway, I’ve uploaded the pdf version of the document (the wiki is gone): Handbook of Emerging Technology for Learning In 2009 Peter Tittenberger and I wrote a handbook of emerging technologies for learning. We created a supporting website (wiki) for the book. Those fine folks at University of Manitoba (motto: we’ve never met a permanent link that we haven’t made unpermanent) have deleted the wiki and the website. MORE
Users can search and process billions of documents -- even create their own search engines -- using Alexas search and publication tools. MORE
Add QR codes to equipment, documents, or office banners. QR codes provide a direct link to learning content in Xyleme CDS and can be a single job aid or video, a performance support document, whole channel of resources, or a course. Embed links to content in forms, SOPs, or other work documents. Like QR codes, these links can direct the learner to a single document or a whole channel of resources. Sometimes we struggle to get started because the problem seems too big. MORE
“Estimates for the total number of historic documents in the city, some of them from the 13th century, range from 150,000 to five times that number,” says Pascal Fletcher, the article’s author. Brittle, written in ornate calligraphy, and ranging from scholarly treatises to old commercial invoices, the documents represent a compendium of learning on everything from law, sciences and medicine to history and politics. MORE
Sage advice from my son’s PE teacher is, have the kids document in a journal daily. Tips for Balancing Working & Parenting from Home. Who remembers this video a few years back of a reporter who was working from home and his kids unexpectedly popped in during his broadcast? Can you relate? MORE
Responding to this item in KairosNews wherein it is argued, regarding documentation problems, that users should "revise the existing documentation or provide new text as needed and negotiate with the project to have your changes included." The problem is not that the help documents do not exist, mostly. And therefore we cannot fix the documentation problem. But there is a lot more to simply writing some decent documentation needed to solve these problems. MORE
It means the time when L&D and managers no longer think they need to turn everything that moves into e-learning – classroom training, presentations, documents, etc. The “Post E-Learning Era” – what does that mean? Well, it doesn’t mean when e-learning no longer exists. It means the time when e-learning is seen as just one possible […]. Social learning MORE
NineShift''s Julie Coates documents the evidence that STEM camps, and in fact all intervention, fail to increase the numbers of women in STEM occupations MORE
I was thinking about working openly recently and decided to document my workflow, such as it is. As you can see I need to devise a way to make my projects and courses more transparent. There's also a PowerPoint version of the image with working links. No HTML version, sorry MORE
In a document shared with me recently, there was this statement: “The assumption that there will always be a managed learning function” I find that interesting to contemplate. The predisposition could and should again be developed in schools, but until then… And one final opportunity is facilitating communities of practice to become responsible for development paths, resource curation and creation, and documenting and developing ongoing domain expertise. MORE
The Demon-Haunted World View more documents from Matt Jones A beautiful and haunting story about the future of cities by Matt Jones. MORE
Document Related Topics Euen Semple
MAY 17, 2018
I remember David Weinberger once saying that "documents are dead" Would that things were that simple! I watch people in business struggling with the persistent idea that documents are how we convey information. The result is a stressful mess for many people in business who write in one format then publish in another, mangle documents into PDFs - and don't even start me on forms written in Word that break when you try to complete them.
David Weinberger
MAY 22, 2012
My friend Frank Gilbane has unearthed an issue of my old e-zine from 1998 in which I proposed that documents are dead, and in which he counter-proposed that they are not. ” I will acknowledge that there is one itsy-bitsy way in which Frank was right and I was wrong: Documents are not dead. So, we still write and read documents. The finality of the document is serving as a forcing function for getting us literally on the same page. So, no, documents live.
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Luis Suarez
MAY 13, 2013
Instead, I keep pondering about how we can transform and redefine the way we do business through our day to day workflow(s) and if there is an idea that keeps coming back stronger by the day is that one of perhaps facilitating the transition from document-centric collaboration into a people-centric one. Apparently, it’s not happening, because we all keep being engaged on the influx of exchanging attachments, presentations, documents, spreadsheets, etc.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
APRIL 25, 2007
Responding to this item in KairosNews wherein it is argued, regarding documentation problems, that users should "revise the existing documentation or provide new text as needed and negotiate with the project to have your changes included." The problem is not that the help documents do not exist, mostly. And therefore we cannot fix the documentation problem. But there is a lot more to simply writing some decent documentation needed to solve these problems.
Martijn Linssen
AUGUST 31, 2010
Home About Complexity Reading List Knowledge Management Reading List Free Yourselves from the Tyranny of the Document Metaphor! I believe a reasonable response is to roll one’s eyes at such talk – I don’t offer a useful alternative to documents (yet), so why attend?
David Weinberger
NOVEMBER 5, 2009
If the state has to make the document available, it also has to make the metadata available. The Supreme Court of Arizona has ruled that the metadata included in electronic doucments is covered by the public records law.
David Weinberger
APRIL 15, 2012
“Estimates for the total number of historic documents in the city, some of them from the 13th century, range from 150,000 to five times that number,” says Pascal Fletcher, the article’s author. Brittle, written in ornate calligraphy, and ranging from scholarly treatises to old commercial invoices, the documents represent a compendium of learning on everything from law, sciences and medicine to history and politics.
Mark Oehlert
JULY 25, 2008
I was talking to my wife the other night about how we are thinking about using a wiki at work do develop some documents. You can share documents, comment on them, send them to others, embed them but no editing and that's OK. FM 20-11 Military Diving - Upload a Document to Scribd Read this document on Scribd: FM 20-11 Military Diving. I hope the embed code from scribd and docstoc both show up below alright.
Nancy White
JANUARY 27, 2010
Are they focused around information such as documents or other static content? I’m wondering if you have that as a downloadable document somewhere.
Steven Berlin Johnson
DECEMBER 13, 2005
Users can search and process billions of documents -- even create their own search engines -- using Alexas search and publication tools.
Nancy White
APRIL 24, 2008
Home About Full Circle Contact Resources Wiki Full Circus Full Circle Associates connections for a changing world, online and offline… Apr 24 2008 Doug Symington Mashes Us Up Published by Nancy White at 12:44 pm under events , visual thinking Doug uses A N I M O T O to mash up photos and music to document a panel Chris Lott organized at Northern Voice 2008 on “The blog is dead, long live the blog!&#
Nine Shift
DECEMBER 18, 2013
A new book by Enrico Moretti documents that communities with more college graduates do better economically
Nine Shift
DECEMBER 18, 2013
2013 the first year that documents that Boomers are starting to leave too Young people are leaving suburbs.
Euen Semple
OCTOBER 18, 2015
So many documents are diversionary. Burying the final document on an obscure file server with the confident expecatation that it will never be seen by human eyes again. If you are tempted to write a document today, or asked to do so by your boss, resist. I remember the sinking feeling those words triggered. You knew that you had lost their attention and they were resorting to diversionary tactics. Putting off doing something by writing a templated bit of business fluff.
Xyleme
MARCH 4, 2019
Add QR codes to equipment, documents, or office banners. QR codes provide a direct link to learning content in Xyleme CDS and can be a single job aid or video, a performance support document, whole channel of resources, or a course. Embed links to content in forms, SOPs, or other work documents. Like QR codes, these links can direct the learner to a single document or a whole channel of resources. Sometimes we struggle to get started because the problem seems too big.
Jay Cross's Informal Learning
AUGUST 24, 2010
Seminal documents. Three dozen wonderful presentations, free books, and funny videos about how people learn. You might also be interested in these links.
Mark Oehlert
FEBRUARY 27, 2008
This document provides an introduction to virtual worlds,discusses why virtual worlds are so well-suited to the study ofreal-world business, and describes how a platform could weave togethervarious types of virtual worlds and virtual spaces to achieve a varietyof research and educational goals. e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning (ed.
Nine Shift
DECEMBER 18, 2013
NineShift''s Julie Coates documents the evidence that STEM camps, and in fact all intervention, fail to increase the numbers of women in STEM occupations
Clark Quinn
OCTOBER 1, 2008
WebWorkerDaily » Archive 3 Ways to Edit Documents Collaboratively « WebWorkerDaily » Archive 20 Different Ways to Manage Your To Dos « SocialTech: Open Source Social Software.
Nine Shift
DECEMBER 13, 2019
The NineShift story, which predicted and then documented the transformation of society from the Industrial Age of 2000 into the Knowledge Society of 2020, has been complete. . Thank you all so much for your support of NineShift over the past 20 years!
Clark Quinn
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Thus, the outputs can be videos, spreadsheets, documents, whatever captures the thinking, and appropriately if particular types of assignments. Twice out of three recent opportunities, I’ve been thwarted from my intentions by platform capabilities. And, once, I was supported.
George Siemens
MAY 21, 2012
Anyway, I’ve uploaded the pdf version of the document (the wiki is gone): Handbook of Emerging Technology for Learning In 2009 Peter Tittenberger and I wrote a handbook of emerging technologies for learning. We created a supporting website (wiki) for the book. Those fine folks at University of Manitoba (motto: we’ve never met a permanent link that we haven’t made unpermanent) have deleted the wiki and the website.
Dave Snowden
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
They create multiple documents (which swamp anyone with real work to do) and doctrinal statements with a high moral tone about what is permitted and what should be excluded.
Stephen Downes: Half an Hour
DECEMBER 19, 2016
I was thinking about working openly recently and decided to document my workflow, such as it is. As you can see I need to devise a way to make my projects and courses more transparent. There's also a PowerPoint version of the image with working links. No HTML version, sorry
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
MARCH 30, 2020
An analysis of nearly 60 documents dealing with AI ethical issues revealed that attention has been focused on 12 key ethical challenges. Fairness, Interpretability and Explainability; and Transparency were mentioned in over 80% of the documents analyzed. Accountability; Data Privacy and Reliability; and Robustness and Security were mentioned in over 60% of the documents.
Jane Hart
JANUARY 28, 2015
It means the time when L&D and managers no longer think they need to turn everything that moves into e-learning – classroom training, presentations, documents, etc. The “Post E-Learning Era” – what does that mean? Well, it doesn’t mean when e-learning no longer exists. It means the time when e-learning is seen as just one possible […]. Social learning
Clark Quinn
MAY 12, 2020
In a document shared with me recently, there was this statement: “The assumption that there will always be a managed learning function” I find that interesting to contemplate. The predisposition could and should again be developed in schools, but until then… And one final opportunity is facilitating communities of practice to become responsible for development paths, resource curation and creation, and documenting and developing ongoing domain expertise.
Unmanagement
JANUARY 20, 2012
I’ve revisited the document again and again Stoos video interviews are up. See the Stoos Channel on YouTube. Before the gathering in Stoos, Steve Denning put together this comparison of approaches to transforming management.
David Gurteen
OCTOBER 26, 2016
It is one thing for a working group to craft a document defining Knowledge Principles but how many people actually read it and understand it and of those, how many will actively engage with the ideas and put them into action. I always feel that documents, like this. Writing a document is the relatively easy bit, engaging people is the challenge By David Gurteen It is tremendous to see a resurgence in KM in UK Government in the form of a set of Knowledge Principles.
Harold Jarche
JUNE 25, 2019
Instead, a ‘table-read’ narrative of not more than 6 pages is presented at the meeting and attendees start by silently reading this document. A common Strategic Narrative Table Read often involves mixing and matching the pieces below: Meeting Agenda: What is the purpose of this document and this meeting? FAQs: This is where Frequently Asked Questions get documented.
Xyleme
JANUARY 17, 2012
Say we get this great idea to be able to create and store documents on the web (a la GoogleDocs). Rather than designing an entire web based document application, we start small. For our application, this would be the ability to create a simple document using a plain web browser over an average internet connection. I mean who wants a document processor that doesn’t support bolding and italics…I mean really! No massive requirements document.
Dave Gray
APRIL 2, 2009
The Demon-Haunted World View more documents from Matt Jones A beautiful and haunting story about the future of cities by Matt Jones.
Dave Snowden
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
As I joke at conferences, at that point the only document of any use will be the Book of Jonah from the Old Testament, the only example I know of a self-help manual on how to escape from the digestive tract of a large carnivore.
Nine Shift
SEPTEMBER 29, 2015
The government is arresting and putting children in handcuffs for science projects, and charging researchers with espionage for exchanging legal scientific documents. An apt Huffington Post cartoon called it a High School Science Fear. . Combined with the recent fiasco where the FBI charged a university physics department chair of sending science secrets to China, it is clear that government officials are way over their heads in their lack of understanding about science. .
Xyleme
JULY 9, 2019
It can be very costly to reformat documents to handle language expansion or contraction. Companies like Dell are saving 30%+ with Xyleme. In her 2017 article, The Holy Trifecta: The Secret to Faster, Better, & Cheaper Global Content , translation expert Val Swisher explains that structured content is one of the three factors driving efficiency into the globalization process.
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 18, 2020
And… Honorable Mention: to round out the picture (10 is such an arbitrary number ;), sharing collaborative documents, e.g. Google Docs , is a major way to collaboratively process and learn together.
Xyleme
APRIL 22, 2020
Sage advice from my son’s PE teacher is, have the kids document in a journal daily. Tips for Balancing Working & Parenting from Home. Who remembers this video a few years back of a reporter who was working from home and his kids unexpectedly popped in during his broadcast? Can you relate?
David Weinberger
JANUARY 12, 2015
I got to think about the nature of documents, knowledge, etc., Interleaf had amazingly innovative software, decades ahead of its time, in large part because the developers had stripped documents down to their elements, and were thinking in new ways about how they could go back together. It had to be back in 1993 that I had dual cards at Interleaf. But it was only a couple of days ago that I came across them.
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