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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. I mean who wants a document processor that doesn’t support bolding and italics…I mean really! MORE
Apparently, it’s not happening, because we all keep being engaged on the influx of exchanging attachments, presentations, documents, spreadsheets, etc. Lately, I have been thinking quite a bit around the topic of Social / Open Business Transformation. 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
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
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
5.History anew; Parallel with 1800-1820. NineShift has documented the parallels with 1900-1920. Now a new movie, Peterloo, documents the 1819 inflammatory rhetoric spurring on violence as the English society moves into the Industrial Revolution of the 1800s. MORE
The media has documented this, but has not covered our contention that Gen Y is also buying fewer tangible products. . Nine Shift has predicted that nine of your twelve waking hours each day would be spent differently in this century than in the last century. . MORE
Instructional design, as is well documented, has it roots in meeting the needs for training in WWII. User experience (UX) came from the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) revolution towards User Centered Design. MORE
Air Force employees and contractors are uploading large amounts of data about the acquisition processes, including the thousands of documents describing the Federal Acquisition Regulations and the equally daunting Defense Acquisition Supplements. 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
We’ll cooperatively create mind maps and create a documents together. Google+ Learning Hangout. Thursday, February 14, 2013. 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern. Our starter topic will be online collaboration. Be there or be square. Newbies welcome. Join the Learning Community. MORE
134 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
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
They were briefly documented by Jay here. This is a re-post of an article by Cal Wick of Fort Hill. The original is on the 70-20 Blog site. There are a few observations from me at the bottom. first published August 2016). 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. 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. 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
You can download the entire series as a singular PDF document. During the week of June 3, I wrote five posts in five days centered on “The Leadership Tonic Scale” I defined five types of leadership styles found in organizations today: The Moronic Leader. The Ironic Leader. 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? 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
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
Apparently, it’s not happening, because we all keep being engaged on the influx of exchanging attachments, presentations, documents, spreadsheets, etc. Lately, I have been thinking quite a bit around the topic of Social / Open Business Transformation.
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.
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?
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Clark Quinn
AUGUST 21, 2019
Instructional design, as is well documented, has it roots in meeting the needs for training in WWII. User experience (UX) came from the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) revolution towards User Centered Design.
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.
Jay Cross
FEBRUARY 10, 2013
We’ll cooperatively create mind maps and create a documents together. Google+ Learning Hangout. Thursday, February 14, 2013. 11:00 am Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern. Our starter topic will be online collaboration. Be there or be square. Newbies welcome. Join the Learning Community.
Nine Shift
MAY 3, 2019
5.History anew; Parallel with 1800-1820. NineShift has documented the parallels with 1900-1920. Now a new movie, Peterloo, documents the 1819 inflammatory rhetoric spurring on violence as the English society moves into the Industrial Revolution of the 1800s.
Nine Shift
MARCH 14, 2018
The media has documented this, but has not covered our contention that Gen Y is also buying fewer tangible products. . Nine Shift has predicted that nine of your twelve waking hours each day would be spent differently in this century than in the last century. .
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.
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.
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. .
Charles Jennings
JULY 10, 2017
They were briefly documented by Jay here. This is a re-post of an article by Cal Wick of Fort Hill. The original is on the 70-20 Blog site. There are a few observations from me at the bottom. first published August 2016).
Dan Pontefract
JUNE 10, 2013
You can download the entire series as a singular PDF document. During the week of June 3, I wrote five posts in five days centered on “The Leadership Tonic Scale” I defined five types of leadership styles found in organizations today: The Moronic Leader. The Ironic Leader.
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. I mean who wants a document processor that doesn’t support bolding and italics…I mean really!
Irving Wladawsky-Berger
OCTOBER 28, 2019
Air Force employees and contractors are uploading large amounts of data about the acquisition processes, including the thousands of documents describing the Federal Acquisition Regulations and the equally daunting Defense Acquisition Supplements.
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