http://learn2adapt.com/blog Occasional prattle on life and learning in the 21st century Mon, 07 May 2012 21:03:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://learn2adapt.com/blog/2011/02/23/l2a-links-for-february-23rd/ http://learn2adapt.com/blog/2011/02/23/l2a-links-for-february-23rd/#comments Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:39:42 +0000 Jeff Kelly http://learn2adapt.com/blog/?p=285

• MIT OpenCourseWare Turns 10: What’s Next for Open Education? – An early paragon of Learning 2.0 turns 10.  It is really amazing what is available to anyone with Internet access and a passion for learning. 
• Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner: Podcasts – A treasure trove of "on the commute" learning for entrepreneurs and OD professionals alike.

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• Technology Review: Market Watch: Convergence Is King – On in a series of articles Tech Review has on "The Future of Media". Convergence marches on. A great summary quote from the article: "The key technical characteristic of what works is the ability to facilitate consumers' desire to read, watch, or listen to any content they want, anywhere, anytime."
• Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python – An educational diversion for the budding computer programmers in your family!

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• Twenty-two power laws of the emerging social economy | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Dion has pulled together a nice reference list of 22 "laws" that attempt to define how various facets of networks, social media and Web 2.0 are (or will) impact the economy.
• 10 Sites to Learn Something New in 10 Minutes a Day – Instructables has long been one of my favorite sites, but it just scratches the surface. Josh Catone puts together a great list of 10 sites you can use to learn new things quickly.

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• 14 Reasons Why Enterprise 2.0 Projects Fail | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Dion with another exhaustive list of things to be wary of when trying to bring social tools into the enterprise.
• More Than a New Web Site: What Gov2.0 Is (and Isn’t) – Gadi Ben-Yehuda kicks off a thoughtful conversation on Gov 2.0 – or as he suggests "G21" (21st Century Government).

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• 5 Unmissable TED Talks On The Future Of Technology And The Web | – If you like your tech learning in video form, Stephan Antonas has selected 5 videos from the wonderful world of TED on the future of Web technology.
• 10 low-cost, high-value Web 2.0 strategies | 10 Things | TechRepublic.com – Polly Schneider Traylor pulls together a very nice summary list of quick and inexpensive ways to leverage the power of 2.0

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• Wikinomics» Blog Archive » Three Focal Points of Open Government – Kevin Morris provides a great summary of the Open Government & Innovations Conference. Includes links to the keynotes from Aneesh Chopra (US CTO), Vivek Kundra (US CIO) and others.
• Assessing the Enterprise 2.0 marketplace in 2009: Robust and crowded | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Dion provides a detailed summary of the Enterprise 2.0 marketplace.

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• Does social media really correlate with the bottom line? Color me skeptical – Larry Dignan at ZDNet does a good analysis of the recent report by the Altimeter Group & Wetpaint. My take: while having a sound social strategy does not in and of itself promise success, in today's market every successful business must have a sound social strategy.
• Seeking Semantics in Government « Shepherd’s Pi – Lewis Shepherd quickly disembowels yet another fluff article on the move to 2.0 (or 3.0?) technologies. He's spot on that the intelligence community is one of the leaders in the government pack on this.

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• Michael Geist – Harvard Study Finds Weaker Copyright Protection Has Benefited Society – Interesting study. But we're not in this for the benefit of society are we? I thought it was about greed. ;o)
• Enterprises and Social Media: 5 Must-Haves – Ravit Lichtenberg provides a tidy list summarizing what organizations must do to get their social media game on.
• More Talk, Less Chalk: Lexically Sparse Slides Improve Recall of Taught Material – New study reinforcing what we have been telling folks for years in our presentation skills course: "… use of presentation software, whereby information is simultaneously delivered verbally and visually, risks overloading students' working memory and impairing learning."

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• AOL: People Like It Now More Than Ever – ReadWriteWeb – The once and future king?
• YouTube EDU – Free College Lectures – YouTube has just released a new sub-site called YouTube EDU, aggregating thousands of free lectures from over a hundred universities across the country, including MIT, Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and many more.

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• Gary Hamel on Managing Generation Y – the Facebook Generation – Gary Hamel’s Management 2.0 – WSJ – Gary provides a great summary of how organizations and leaders will have to function differently once the "Facebook generation" is in power. I especially like #11: Intrinsic rewards matter most. Extrinsic rewards (read bonu$e$) are having a success backlash and may actually undermine performance and job satisfaction. Traditional organization structure and function is in for some radical changes.
• Government Agencies Make Friends With New Media | Epicenter from Wired.com – A very important legal hurdle has been crossed to free Federal agencies to start leveraging the power of social media. This will be a wonderful boon in fed's ability to share learning and information.
• Crowdsourcing Examples – Anjali Ramachandran, a strategist at London based digital agency Many by Many, has compiled a very useful list of 135 real-world examples of businesses leveraging crowd contributions online.

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