Learn to Adapt

• The Future of Media >> TV Gets More Social - Perhaps we can move beyond the boob tube: "New technologies focusing on the convergence of TV and community continue to turn watching TV into a social activity."
• OLPC XO Laptop 2.0 Has Dual Touchscreens, Looks Amazing and Future-y - OK - Great. But how will this new design hold up in a developing nation environment? I wonder if OLPC has lost focus from its primary misson..
• Once shunned by academics, Wikipedia now a teaching tool (AFP) by AFP: Yahoo! Tech - The cultural tides are changing to embrace Web 2.0: "Wikipedia, the upstart Internet encyclopedia that most universities forbid students to use, has suddenly become a teaching tool for professors"
• Unplugging Conferences (Techlearning blog) - Steve Hargadon shares his twelve (OK - thirteen) "Ideas for enhancing or creating self-organized meetings". Unconfrences are (potentially) a great opportunity to recreate Web spontaneity and dynamic learning in a live setting.

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These are my links for May 12th:

• Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb - A glimpse into the explosion of crowdsourcing sources. This will have a huge impact in the way organizations staff, work, and produce. People must learn to hone the social network skills and work with ad-hoc teams.
• Digital Age Assessment: Part 2 > April 22, 2008 - From Harry Grover Tuttle (I'm not making that name up): "A look at how technology use in formative assessments improves feedback and reporting opportunities."

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These are my links for May 7th through May 8th:

• How Little Do Users Read? (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox) - From Jakob Nielsen: Why it is important to keep your text short and simple. From the article: “On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely.”
• Can You Become a Creature of New Habits? - New York Times - From the article: “…brain researchers have discovered that when we consciously develop new habits, we create parallel synaptic paths, and even entirely new brain cells, that can jump our trains of thought onto new, innovative tracks.”
• Recruiting 3.0: Web Advances Change the Landscape - Interesting workforce recruiting article from WSJ: “Advances in technology make the way jobs are found and filled online distinctly different from just a few years ago.”
• Human Resources 2.0 - HR World - Arrrrrrgggghhhh!! Enough with the “2.0″ monikers! I suppose the title is inevitable and Jennifer McAdams does a fast pass at Web 2.0 without discussing the obvious HR issues of privacy, transparency, and possible worker productivity drops.
• List of Open Innovation & Crowdsourcing Examples - Best practices - Open innovation and crowdsourcing - Great list of crowdsourcing and open innovation projects and resources.
• Techdirt: Ideas Are Everywhere… So Why Do We Limit Them? - Mike Masnick’s thoughts on the Gladwell article (below). He hits the nail on the head by defining: “Innovation isn’t idea generation. Innovation is taking an idea and making it do something useful.”
• Annals of Innovation: In the Air: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker - Very interesting New Yorker article from Malcom Gladwell on how “the history of science is full of ideas that several people had at the same time.” Has great implication for the theory of diversity being a primary driver of innovation.
• Wirearchy :: Retrospective on KM and the Impact of Web 2.0 - “…it’s always useful to look back every once in a while, if only to see how far and fast (or not) we’ve come since this Web thing started to penetrate more deeply and spread more widely into the workplace.”

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These are my links for April 8th through April 9th:

• Diversiteria: the blog - Great minds think alike! This company is also approaching diversity and inclusion from the perspective of collective intelligence. Like the Diversity 2.Open program I'm developing, the focus is on better performance not just representation.
• Traders bet Obama will win Democratic nomination - The wisdom of crowds in action. Prediction markets are being used more and more inside organizations as well to aid decision making. This type of collective intelligence has great impact on learning and thinking…

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These are my links for March 15th through March 17th:

• Digg, Wikipedia, and the Myth of Web 2.0 Democracy. - "At both Digg and Wikipedia, small groups of users have outsized authority." No one ever expected it to be truly democratic, but it does give pause as to who is deciding what learning we get - probably still better than the norm.
• Is User-Generated Content Out? | Newsweek Technology | Newsweek.com - "The individual user has been king on the Internet, but the pendulum seems to be swinging back toward edited information vetted by professionals." The trend continues. I still believe their is a huge "curator" role for editors to play.
• Where Every Ad Knows Your Name - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog - Loise Story of the New York Times asks an insightful question that reveals just how far we have come in "personalizing" the Web. It certainly raises privacy issues, but it also open the possibility of tailored content and delivery.

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