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/2009/11/13/l2a-links-for-november-13th/ http://learn2adapt.com/blog/2009/11/13/l2a-links-for-november-13th/#comments Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:05:15 +0000 Jeff Kelly http://learn2adapt.com/blog/2009/11/13/l2a-links-for-november-13th/

• The Rise of Enterprise 2.0 – Expert Voices – Condensed interview with Andrew McAfee. From the article: "Collaborative technologies have the potential to change the way business is done, says MIT professor Andrew McAfee—but they bring a new set of challenges for CIOs."
• Enterprise 2.0: What do we know today about moving our organizations into the 21st century? | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Dion has an update on the current state and direction of Enterprise 2.0 adoption

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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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• A New Vision for Teaching Science: Scientific American – A very interesting article about strategies for addressing the horrid state of scientific and mathematical education of Americans. From the article: "The most effective teaching expands both the knowledge and the skills needed to engage with science authentically—that is, in a manner akin to how scientists work. To practice science in the classroom calls for problem- and project-based lessons, as well as considerable social interaction."
• Government 2.0: A tale of "risk, control, and trust" | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Dion does a nice roundup of recent events and challenges in the "Gov 2.0" space.

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• The Rise Of Social Distribution Networks – John Borthwick puts together a robust summary of the rise of social distribution. Includes great analysis of Facebook and Twitter distribution models.
• Ten Aspects of Web 2.0 Strategy That Every CTO and CIO Should Know [Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog] – Dion's refresher on what to remember when you implement "2.0" solutions. Much of it has to do with culture – that ought to upset Venk Rao!

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• Disruptive Knowledge Management: Social Media is Sneaking Through the Backdoor – Jeff Widman with a simple, but provocative statement on the future of KM: "… putting up walls in consumer apps rather than removing them in enterprise apps – may be the major source of KM innovation in the next few years."
• List of “White Label” Social Networking Platforms, Community Platforms – Jeremiah Owyang has put together a great list of community platforms if you are shopping for a solution for your organization
• The emerging case for open business methods | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Dion Hinchcliffe posts a good summary of the challenges and opportunities of moving businesses from the traditional closed/internal model to a new open/crowdsourced model.

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• Why Traditional Recession Tactics Are Doomed To Fail This Time – Umair Haque – Umair Haque presents a three faceted proposal for how businesses must act differently to weather this recession and succeed in the 21st century. Summary: It's time for business to move from mercenary capitalism to sustainable socialism.
• How to Survive and Thrive in Business Today with Web 2.0 – Part 1 [Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog] – Dion provides another robust graphic on Web 2.0 business implications. Good food for thought and discussion.

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• Eduslide.com – Eduslide offers either a public learning content management system (LCMS) to create, upload and control access to e-learning content, or a download of the open source version.
• Open APIs reach new high water mark as the Web evolves | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Dion reviews the power of open API's: "Late last week an important milestone for the Internet was quietly reached as the number of available open Web APIs crossed the 1,000 mark, according to the popular API tracking service, Programmable Web."

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• 130 Social Media Marketing Examples From Major Brands – Peter Kim from SocialComputingMagazine.compulls together a really nice list of "Examples of companies using and being used by social media marketing…" Using social tools to build your brand is becoming increasingly important for every company. The Web is the "world's largest water cooler conversation" – ignore it at your brand's peril.
• Ten leading platforms for creating online communities – Dion puts together a list of top platforms for building online communities. From the article: "It’s beginning to be understood that communities aren’t just for socializing but for getting things done."

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• Web 2.0 Continues As Most Used New Internet Term [Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog] – Dion Hinchcliffe's latest musing on the state of "Web 2.0"
• Free Will vs. the Programmed Brain: Scientific American – More thoughts on the existence of free will: "If our actions are determined by prior events, then do we have a choice about anything—or any responsibility for what we do?"

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• OUseful Info: Education 2.0 Business Models – Though it does not directly address "Education 2.0" business models, this page provides a nice summary of different resources on the monetization aspect of Web 2.0.
• Taking social networks abroad – Why MySpace and Facebook are failing in Japan – Great post on the importance of "society" in social networking from Serkan Toto at TechCrunch
• Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Dion weighs in on the current state of cloud computing. A great summary article on the topic!
• Six Degrees of Wikipedia – An interesting page put together by Stephen Dolan does an analysis relationships between articles in of Wikipedia. Try out the "find shortest path" section – interesting. Google recently announced that there are actually an average of 6.6 degrees of separation between the billions of pages they index on the Web. It is indeed a small world (wide web).

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