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The veteran technology commentator argues that a better understanding of how we connect our attention and intentions online can help individuals and society.
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This chart provides the three stages of Personalized Learning Environments describing Stage One (Teacher-centered), Stage Two (Teacher and Learners as co-designers) and Stage Three (Learner-centered).
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Numbers provide guidance and direction. They help us figure out if we’re doing our jobs correctly and how we can continue to improve. Data is constantly in demand especially from managers and executives. Providing a steady stream of numbers helps executives prioritize objectives and filters down to determine design, copy and feature decisions. This real-time stream helps us not only monitor performance but to act in-flight as opposed to the end of a particular effort or campaign. But the numbers can also be misleading. Via Angela Natividad 
“We found that what modern people are doing with online social networks is what we've always done—not just before Facebook, but before agriculture,” said study co-author James Fowler, professor of political science and medical genetics at the University of California, San Diego, who, with Christakis, has authored a number of seminal studies of human social networks. 
This weekend I'm focusing on information, filtering and meaning overload and useful ways to manage and utilize it. Having said that, there's so much good information, insights and tips in this post, I have to digest it slowly.
Beth Kanter has written a great post on this subject, sharing the way she's dealing with it and the 44 people who commented on it have some great things to add to the discussion.
Intro:
This morning I learned a new word for information overload - content fried from a colleague at the Packard Foundation. It resonated.
I identify with this, here's what really caught my attention:
"The biggest difficulty I experience is the shifting from this forward flowing process of consuming, curating, and sense-making of content to learn versus to get something done".
****The latter requires a different type of attention and whole new set of information coping skills
Howard Rheingold calls this process managing your attention or “Infotention” and it is what he has been teaching in his courses.
I’ve been trying to curate content that offers ideas, tips, and resources to get past that ugly feeling of “content fried.” He curated the above mindmap.
Manage Your Attention, Not Just Your Time:
Don’t just create a to do list, lay it out on daily and weekly schedule, breaking down key tasks of the project to chunks.
****But consider the level of concentration and focus that each type of task or chunk requires – and schedule accordingly.
My question to you is:
What are your challenges? What ways are you drowning or prospering in this area? I'd love to hear from you.
Curated by Jan Gordon covering "Content Curation, Social Business and Beyond"
Read full article here: [http://bit.ly/z84mSv] Via janlgordon, michel verstrepen 
"The answer lies in priorities. Set them."
By understanding the structure of talent networks within companies, managers can foster more effective collaboration. 
A great (short) guide to how you can make a start in developing your skills in social media and social media influence
Social media doesn’t change the basics of running an organization or its functions. It simply provides a new (and often more efficient) way to deliver on objectives that are as old as mass demonstrations pitting the haves against the have-nots.
4 incredible social media metrics help crystallize effectiveness of your SM efforts: Conversation, Amplification, Applause & Economic Value. Via Sarah Baughman 
Coupa Cafe, where tech entrepreneurs and investors work and meet, is an early tester of new startups in Silicon Valley.
Read full article here: [http://onforb.es/vaDi9A] Via axelletess, janlgordon 
The fact is we live in a real-time world where data analytics and data overload are becoming more pervasive by the minute.
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Network infrastructure as a topic lacks the sex appeal of slick mobile devices, cool social and location apps, streaming music or viral videos.
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Information aggregation in Networked Learning: The Human Factor and Serendipity
Abstract: The Web is changing and emergent technologies on the Web provide new options for learners to aggregate and engage with information. Learners can take control over their information steam and be proactive in the search for valuable information. The abundance of information makes that choices need to be made about what is valuable and what not, while the low level of teacher presence on open online networks increases the self-directed nature of this task for learners. Learning technologists started the research, design and development of personal learning environments (PLEs) that include predictive technologies to aid learners with the management of their learning in an open networked environment. Designers and developers are working on information recommender systems, using learning analytics and visualization techniques, to present learners with information relevant to their learning. Questions are being raised, however, about the usefulness of these systems for the advancement of learning. The low level of teacher presence on open networked learning networks will influence the level of reflection and critical engagement with information by learners, and is seen as a challenge to depth of learning. It is argued that to counter balance this, critical factors in information gathering would be the level of serendipity and human mediation.
http://www.networkedlearningconference.org.uk/abstracts/pdf/kop.pdf Via Paulo Simões 
Robin Good: Critical thinking is a key strategic skill needed by any serious professional curator. "Critical thinking provides the keys for our own intellectual independence..." and it helps to move away from "rashy conclusions, mystification and...
Thinking about the sheer volume of information — stories, images, videos, data — available from The New York Times can evoke a simultaneous glee and terror. It is simply impossible for readers to see them all.
The task for beta620, the Times experimental projects group, launched Deep Dive that uses the Times’ massive cache of metadata from stories to go, as the name suggests, deeper into a news event by pulling together related articles. So Deep Dive would provides readers a collection of stories relating to a topic, based on whatever person, place, event or topic of their choosing.
What’s interesting about Deep Dive? At least three things: 1) Deep Dive relies on the extensive tagging system the Times uses for all its stories and makes the Times Topics pages possible. As part of the editing flow tags are applied to stories by editors or producers, with suggestions provided by an internal algorithm. Deep Dive looks for connections among topics.
2) Deep Dive’ unique interfact, where the related articles flow into the same frame as the main story when selected. You need never leave the page; jumping backwards or forwards in articles all happens in the same space. That’s a departure from the pageview-driven way most news sites are designed. But Deep Dive’s UI matches its underlying thesis: that individual articles are really pieces of a larger story, told in pieces over time and across bylines and datelines.
3) More interesting, Deep Dive will also allows users to save their “dives,” which would be constantly updated with new articles. What Deep Dives promises is an alert more directly based around a specific developing story.
But beyond those elements, the real promise of Deep Dive, though, is that it continues to show the Times’ flexibility in providing different ways for different kinds of readers to access its content...
read full article http://j.mp/x2SoPf visit also http://beta620.nytimes.com/projects/deep-dive/ Via Giuseppe Mauriello 
A great new post from the Facebook Data Team titled Rethinking Information Diversity in Networks. Read the full text here....
Investors, users and, more importantly, advertisers are on a constant hunt for The Next Big Thing. With LinkedIn trading publicly and Facebook’s IPO around the corner, it’s no surprise cool hunters are hungry for another big social play. 
What does a real network look like? If we know then we can see if the networks we seek to design and grow are real. Here is how Valdis Krebs sees them and he is for me the Gold Standard. Via Rob Paterson 
Curation serves a vital function in these days of information overload.
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You might think that people’s tendency to be friends with others who are like them -- “birds of a feather, flock together” -- limits their exposure to ideas and information.
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