http://learn2adapt.com/blog Occasional prattle on life and learning in the 21st century Fri, 13 Aug 2010 03:43:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://learn2adapt.com/blog/2010/03/12/l2a-links-for-march-12th/ http://learn2adapt.com/blog/2010/03/12/l2a-links-for-march-12th/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:05:06 +0000 Jeff Kelly http://learn2adapt.com/blog/?p=274

• Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish | Video on TED.com – A great video from Dan Barber gives food for thought (ouch – bad pun) about sustainability and how we should give more thought to where we get what we eat.
• Cheat Sheet For Social Media | Online Media Gazette – An interesting "cheat sheet" from Dre McLellan on how companies can leverage the various social media sites. Needs some review and validation…

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• Learning = getting the job done – Jay Cross provides a potpourri of ideas from DevLearn 09
• Let’s Move Away From Social Media and Get Down to Business – ReadWriteEnterprise – Alex Williams has a good post (with a very funny video) about how social media has become status quo and the real business advantage coming from social computing. Good piece that looks beyond the hype and gets down to brass tacks (or at least Enterprise 2.0).

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• Disney’s Going Digital: Buy Once, Watch Anywhere – The slow boat of convergence is picking up speed.
• U.S. Navy CIO: Social Media Should Be Part of Military IT Standard – U.S. Navy CIO Rob Carey wrote that social media is a resource for the American military that should be used to build trust and collaborate, both within and outside the organization.
• How the Internet is Changing the Way We Will Watch TV: Scientific American – The slow boat of convergence continues to chug along…
• Gartner: Loosen up on Social Networks, Security | Deep Tech – CNET News – The reality of enabling social networks marches on. From the article: "…corporate computing departments shouldn't block social networking and security shouldn't completely lock down communications with the outside world. And even if information technology authorities wanted to shut down such activity, they couldn't. "

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• STUDY: Social Media Is for Narcissists – I should really post this to Facebook to drive more traffic to my blog… ;o)
• Multitasking Muddles Brains, Even When the Computer Is Off | Wired Science | Wired.com – A-ha! I told you so! OK – so maybe I've never told you, per se. But friends will tell you that "multitasking kills" has been a mantra of mine for years. Go back to single-threading and not only will your performance improve, but so will your mental well-being.

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• Mashable’s Twitter Guide Book Now Available for Download – And for those who are considering taking up the Tweet…
• Why Teens Don’t Tweet – Interesting analysis by Ben Parr on why it might be that teens do not use Twitter.

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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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• Report: Social Networks Growing while Other Social Media Sites Stagnate and Decline – RWW's sumamry of the interesting report from Universal McCann showing that the holistic social networking sites (Facebook, Orkut) are starting to absorb activity from the niche social media sites (Blogger, Flickr).
• In the Future, the Cost of Education will be Zero – Josh Catone pulls together a number of great references to argue that: "The marginal cost of education is being driven toward zero due to social media and innovative approaches to online learning like OpenCourseWare, Flat World Knowledge, and the University of the People. That’s because the nature of information is such that it can be created once at cost and distributed and consumed over and over again for free."

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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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• FREE — Teaching Resources and Lesson Plans from the Federal Government – A nice collection of educational resources available for free from the Federal Government. It will be interesting to see how this and other resources (such as data.gov) continue to grow as the Feds try to become more open and transparent.
• Facebook Users Are Getting Older. Much Older. – Watching nech tech go mainstream. Remember whaen e-mail and AOL did the same thing? From the article: "If the iStrategyLabs numbers are correct, Facebook, simply put, is not a young site anymore. Most of the users (20,3 million, or 28.2% overall) on the site belong to the 35 – 54 age group. Compare that to the age group that was once Facebook’s bread and butter – the 18 – 24 group – which is now in third place with 18 million (25.1%) users, behind the 25 – 34 year old group, which makes for 25.2% of Facebook’s user base with 18.1 million users. The number of users aged 55 and over has grown from negligible 950,000 to 5.9 million in mere six months."

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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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