Hinchcliffe | Learn to Adapt

Nov 08

Learn to Adapt Links for November 7th through November 8th

by Jeff Kelly

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.

Nov 06

by Jeff Kelly

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."

Sep 04

by Jeff Kelly

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."

Aug 22

by Jeff Kelly

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?"

Aug 05

by Jeff Kelly

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).