Immigation and technology were hot issues - - 100 years ago, in 1911. Just like today, the issues 100 years ago moving from one economic era into another were the same as today Just like today, people 100 years ago worried about the immigration of Poles, Italians and other new immigrants. . Just like today, people 100 years ago worried about the new technology replacing face-to-face human communication. MORE

I'm glad the confederate flag came down in South Carolina, but is this issue meaningless? Here in River Falls, Wisconsin, it's hard to find a confederate flag, but it is easy to find police racial profiling and harrassment. . Our African American grandson, Xaiver, recently discovered some new fatty McDonald's product and tweeted, "It can take down more people than the cops." . Translation: the kids are still worried about their safety, even without the confederate flag flying. MORE

See below: This is a complete non-issue. The real issue is not with data collection. Apparently Apple is being secretive (and by default, bad). If you own and iPhone, it will track where you’ve been , roughly every few minutes. MORE

Made a dawn run to the nearby Peets for some dry cappuccinos, and was bathed in glow on my return by one of the most spectacular sunrises I have ever seen. It was post-peak when I got back (to the place where I’m staying in Gold River, California), but with some underexposure and white balance tweaking, I was able to get the shots in this set here. Alas, the shot above is not in that set. MORE

The post Unarticulated needs: deep issues appeared first on Cognitive Edge. My post of yesterday made the point that it is difficult to get anyone to state what they need in the absence of knowing what a new capability can achieve. MORE

And, per our design, issues emerged. The post Learning Strategy Issues appeared first on Learnlets. The other thing that I was involved in at Online Educa in Berlin was a session on The Flexible Worker. Three of us presented, each addressing one particular topic. MORE

Sometime last year, Grainne Conole and I managed to convince Terry Anderson to issue a call for papers for a special IRRODL issue on connectivism. Today, we’re pleased to announce the publication of the IRRODL Connectivism special issue. From our editorial: This special issue of IRRODL provides an opportunity to step back and reflect on how these dramatic social and technological changes impact education. MORE

I’ve just sent out the August 18, 2009 issue of JOHO , my newsletter. (It’s It’s completely free, so feel free to subscribe.) It’s all new material (well, new-ish) except for one piece. Cluetrain@10: Recently, the tenth anniversary edition of The Cluetrain Manifesto came out, a book I co-authored. Here’s some of what we got wrong in the original version. MORE

Fantastic 21st century issue being tackled in Germany. Europe, of course, is where many if not most of the 21st century issues are being addressed, including energy credits (getting paid by the electric company), congestion pricing, whether someone can receive a work email after 6 pm; monopolies by Google; democracy; paternity leave; gender equity; trains; and hacking. . Should you be able to choose to work fewer hours? MORE

These are the key issues I think need to be considered in this venture. MORE

Great post by Denham Grey - Perennial KM issues that are very similar to the core problems that we deal with in eLearning: How to speed learning, increase awareness and share experiences. We have made little progress in preventing those repeating errors, as firms grow in size and complexity, building relationships that enable knowledge flows, keeping in the loop and finding stuff becomes a huge issue. MORE

The Democrats care about it, but don’t want to make a big issue of it. That’s the issue. Geologists have an informal name for the history of human influence on the Earth. They call it the Anthropocene. It makes sense. MORE

So many fundamental issues of society, media, and our future are tied into this that it is difficult to disentangle. Here are a few compact thoughts and critical issues on what is at the heart of this extraordinary situation. - This is just one more case when national legislations differ on issues that span boundaries, as is the case whenever information flows. MORE

It's not too surprising that employee engagement is such a big issue with less than one-third of Americans are engaged in their jobs. By David Gurteen Here are three interesting Harris Poll statistics from an HBR article The Top Complaints from Employees About Their Leaders by Lou Solomon. Complaint 3: 52% of U.S. workers say leaders do not make the time to meet with them Complaint 4: 51% of U.S. workers say leaders refuse to talk subordinates Complaint 7: 36% of U.S. MORE

The Australian Government 2.0 Taskforce has published a draft of its report , asking for comments before it’s submitted. The report takes “engagement&# as the desideratum of e-gov, and was produced in an engaged, public way. MORE

Valerie Irvine, Jillianne Code, and I spent time over the past 8 months preparing a special issue of JOLT on massive open online courses. The issue is now available. One of the goals of this special issue is to attempt to address this lack of peer reviewed literature. Thus, a second goal of this special issue is to highlight this research and provide an historical context for online and distance learning not currently evident in the mainstream media treatment of MOOCs MORE

Martin, I don't think these issues are fine-hair splitting. These are not easy issues. They are hard issues, and it is not always clear on what grounds they will be decided. In a strict sense, as Richard Hall said the other day, there are no public and private sectors - it's all a blend, so the issue is really in how to manage that blend. And these issues have eminently practical consequences. And this plays directly into the second issue. MORE

Tough talk, plain language, sound thinking. This is what I'm looking for in an opposition leader MORE

In my view, the issue has nothing to do with the form and content of the educational offering. Rather, the issue has to do with control. It is important to have an accurate representation of the issues, so people can genuinely understand what they are facing Responding to Doug Johnson , who created this list based on one posted by Miguel Guhlin. This is one of those lists that looks so good on the surface but is really nothing more than slogans carelessly applied. MORE

Shortly after the South Carolina murders, the BBC interviewed an NPR journalist covering the story. And the BBC guy is so perplexed as to why people were focusing on the confederate flag, rather than on guns. Because it was a gun, not a flag, that killed our people. . And the NPR journalist is trying to explain things in America. And of course the explanation makes no sense to anyone living somewhere else in the world. And really, it makes no sense here either MORE

I'm sure we can all relate to this MORE

Certainly in continuity care we are having real issues. Teen Angels - teens being trained in privacy issues - trained by me (and others) - they are experts - they were comparing the privacy policies of eHarmony and other dating sites - one said, on my Zanga page - and the discussion about profile pages ensued. Summary of panel discussion at the IFIPTMA Conference in Moncton. David Townsend New knowledge is best created in collaborative environments. MORE

Artificial Intelligence Data Science and Big Data Economic Issues Healthcare Systems Innovation Political Issues Services Innovation Smart Systems Society and Culture Technology and Strategy MORE

The top-ranked issue at the moment is a meta-issue: Revise the voting scheme on the site, to avoid gaming the system. The Broadband strategy initiative of the FCC has set up a site where anyone can pose a topic, discuss it, or vote it up or down. That’s probably a useful suggestion. But it’s good in any case to see the FCC using modern tools to provide open fora MORE

This doesn't rank with the other big issues that the NFL, presiding over the decline of American football, faces today. It's not a big issue, but it IS another issue for the NFL, trying to keep this last century sport our nation's top sport, with soccer (futbol) on its heels I was watching my team's first exhibition game of the season on TV, and there was something missing: cheerleaders. . The TV cameras simply ignored them, and for good reason. MORE

So, it's even more complicated of an issue I just saw that TechCrunch added a forum to their blog. This relates closely to the discussion going on around blogs, discussion forums, communities, etc.: Blogs and Community - launching a new paradigm for online community? eLearning Discussions - An Attempt at Better Discussions in the Blogosphere Move from Discussion Groups to World of Blogs? Top Ten Reasons To Blog and Top Ten Not to Blog I found it inside my blog reader! MORE

The real issue is intellectual property ownership and sharing rights. . The real issue behind SOPA, PIPA and DMCA is not online piracy or violating laws, but what those laws should be and fundamentally ownership of words, phrases, media, music, video, from the Bible right on up to the present. MORE

Here are the Big Issues ahead for society to debate and decide with regard to trains. Based on the book "The Railroad Problem" in 1939 we can anticipate these Big Issues: 1. As both passenger and freight rail traffic grows, this becomes a Big Issue. This is a Big Issue. Are Trains government owned? This is the Biggest Issue of all. I t's too early to decide these Big Issues. MORE

Holacracy — and what I think is its originating parent, holarchy — however will not solve your organizational disengagement issues. The core issues in today’s organization don’t require the eradication of bosses per holacracy or the creation of overlapping, self-governing circles. (ie. MORE

In issue after issue, - e.g., marriage equality , the confederate flag , immigration reform , - the business community has supported what we generally think of as the more socially progressive position. . MORE

What will it take to successfully shift IT delivery to these devices given the security worries, legacy IT landscape, BYOD, and other issues Tablets are likely to become the primary computing experience for workers over the next few years. MORE

A couple of comments came in on my post Important Notice to Blogger Blog Owners that made me realize I hadn't included a full description of what I ended up doing. As a reminder the problem is that Blogger had inserted: <meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,NOFOLLOW"$gt This tells the Google spider not to index this page. To get rid of it, you can remove: However, this also removes a few other lines from your file that includes your autodiscovery of RSS feeds. MORE

Made a dawn run to the nearby Peets for some dry cappuccinos, and was bathed in glow on my return by one of the most spectacular sunrises I have ever seen. It was post-peak when I got back (to the place where I’m staying in Gold River, California), but with some underexposure and white balance tweaking, I was able to get the shots in this set here. Alas, the shot above is not in that set. MORE

Moreover when CEOs get together among themselves to discuss issues of mutual importance, Alan Murray reports in his article, The End of Management in the Wall Street Journal, that what CEOs worry about most is disruptive innovation. MORE

This should be the start of an ongoing effort to put workforce issues at the center of the national conversation.”. A few weeks ago, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) released The Work Ahead - Machines, Skills, and U.S. MORE

The post The knotty issue of constraints appeared first on Cognitive Edge. I’ve been developing a theory of constraints both as a method for strategy mapping and as a way of better understanding domains and sub-domains in Cynefin. MORE

This is a critical issue that the government, business, and social sectors will need to keep strongly aware of in coming years. The post Critical issue: Will the fertility rate in the developed world continue to increase? MORE

Alec Couros recently posted that the second issue of in education (he has edited the last two online editions, but the journal itself has been around since 1993) is now available. Articles cover open education, professional development, scholarship, and new technologies. An article that I authored with Kathleen Matheos on Systemic Changes in Higher Education is also included MORE

It''s 3 21st Century issues wrapped into one. Issue #1. Space versus People Maybe the most interesting issue is whether WiFi funding should be allocated by the square footage of libraries, OR by how many users each library serves. Issue #2. Issue #3. MORE

In a fascinating story in The New York Times , the issue is almost identical to the issue in the U.S., Apparently gender bias against boys in school exists in China as well, and the government is highly aware of the problem, if not the solution. and just might turn out (we predict) to be identical. . Sun Yunxiao, a researcher at the China Youth and Children Research Center, is the author of a book on education entitled, “Save the Boys.” MORE

The whole issue took a face-to-face meeting to resolve between my friend, his boss, his boss's boss and the sales manager. If you have the choice, always resolve issues face-to-face, not by email. By David Gurteen Let me share a true story. A friend of mine was told by their manager never to resolve problems face-to-face but to do it by an exchange of emails and to copy him so that there was an audit trail. Then if anything went wrong, it was obvious who was to blame. MORE

A new issue of the sleek internet magazine Contemporary Psychotherapy has just appeared online and is well worth checking out if you're interested in the art of psychological treatment. The magazine is aimed at psychotherapists and deals with everything from the bricks-and-mortar issues of running a practice to relationship dynamics in couples and families. MORE

These are among the questions addressed in the March 1 issue of The Economist, which includes a comprehensive special report on autonomous vehicles with seven articles on the subject. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) may well be the quintessential symbol of our AI/robotics age. MORE