Jeff's Bookmarks | Learn to Adapt

Oct 08

Learn to Adapt Links for October 6th through October 8th

by Jeff Kelly

750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy - A very thoughtful and informative piece from Julian Sanchez that tries to get to the real cost of IP piracy. The cost to "the U.S. economy" seems to be considerably overstated. He also discusses the potential boon that piracy plays in the economy through its role in innovation.
Analyst: Half of ’social media campaigns’ will flop | The Social - CNET News - Adam Sarner, an analyst with market research firm Gartner, has projected that over 75 percent of Fortune 1000 companies with Web sites will have undertaken some kind of online social-networking initiative for marketing or customer relations purposes. But, he added in an interview with CNET News, 50 percent of those campaigns will be classified as failures.

Oct 01

by Jeff Kelly

Getting Web 2.0 right: The hard stuff vs. the harder stuff - Josh Ross shares yet another example of how technology is often the easiest part of the the Enterprise 2.0 Three Legged Stool. It is the other two legs (processes and culture) that require additional attention in order for the implementation to succeed.
GigaOM White Paper: The Facts & Fiction of Bandwidth Caps - GigaOM - Om Malik rails against bandwidth caps from Internet providers. This trend is the beginning to the shift of bandwidth as commodity. Soon this will be like all utilities and we will pay per use (just like kilowatt hours or gallons of water). The difference should be choice. I can’t choose my water or electricity provider, but I do have choice for my Internet provider. And the competition should help keep per MB pricing low.

Sep 30

by Jeff Kelly

Learning 2.0 Strategy : eLearning Technology - Tony Karrer's treatise on Learning 2.0. I plan to go back and review it in detail later, but it seems sound save for Aspect #2 "Avoid the Culture Question". His "stick you head in the sand concept misses the numerous opportunities to use proven organization development techniques to drive culture change.
How Web 2.0 has changed the face of education - The title says it all - nice summary article on how social networking is creating new learning strategy opportunities.
Why Dell.com (was) More Enterprise 2.0 Than Dell IdeaStorm - O’Reilly Radar - A thoughtful post from Tim O'Reilly ponders companies that are using Web 2.0 ideas/strategies for their supply chain. It takes a new and interesting perspective on the usual "employee collaboration" focus of Enterprise 2.0

Sep 23

by Jeff Kelly

Should Knowledge Workers Have Enterprise 2.0 Ratings? - Andrew McAfee's latest post posits the performance management standards that an organization might employ to measure/motivate employee use of Enterprise 2.0 (aka Knowledge Management 1.53) tools for collaboration. This is incredibly important as the greatest challenge to the success of E2.0 deployments is fostering the cultural change. By measuring/rewarding participation the organization demonstrates the importance of E2.0 collaboration.
Examples of eLearning 2.0 : eLearning Technology - Tony Karrer pull together a nice list of tactical examples of how different organizations are using Web 2.0 social technologies in their learning and business practices.

Sep 21

by Jeff Kelly

Ping - Technology Doesn’t Dumb Us Down. It Frees Our Minds. - NYTimes.com - Damon Darlin's thoughtful response to the Atlantic Monthly article "Is Google Making Us Stupid?"
Stanford School of Engineering - The Stanford Engineering Everywhere program offers full courses in the school's engineering program online. They include classes in computer science and artificial intelligence. The courses include lecture videos, reading lists, handouts, quizzes, tests, and a social network.