The mobile gaming industry... 
This post has been percolating for awhile. I never wrote it because I felt I couldn’t do it justice. That the idea was too important to not express it clearly. Besides, who in their right mind would defend self promotion? 
Something often overlooked when collaborating is the team. We talk a lot about collaborative tools and strategies, but how good are they you’re part of an ineffective team? Via David Hain 
I loved Kevin Kelly’s book, and especially loved the message I heard from it. What I heard was that tech wants us to become more humane, not less. What I heard, was that tech wants us to get to know ourselves, each other, and the world around us, even better than we ever imagined, for good.
This, to me, is about communication. It’s about changing up the conversations we have. It’s about spreading and sharing good ideas. It’s about intimate coffee house conversations on local-global as well as a global-global scales. It’s about exposing tacit knowledge. It’s about exposing love. It’s about spaces where we all feel like we have nothing to prove, but instead, realize we have something of extreme value to offer: ourselves. 
As the head of social media here at Zemoga, and as a person who finds herself firmly ensconced in the burgeoning New York city tech scene, I spend a lot of time thinking about, talking about and explaining the ROI of digital marketing via social media. 
In my last blog post, He just up and did it, I speculated about the potential to use employee education as a means to overcome the resistance of ingrained habits and a fixed mindset that have conspired to prevent potential users of social business collaboration (SBC) tools from investing the time needed to master the new technologies, change the way that they do business and share their valuable content. 
ShortList Magazine here in the UK recently interviewed about social media and personal branding. If you have never seen the magazine, it's a commuter-optimised publication handed out for free every Thursday around Britain, currently with a circulation of half a million.The content is not very in-depth as the name suggests, just like many bloggers they like to write their articles up as lists. This way it's a quick read and most people can get through the magazine during their 45-minute commute to the office (well, if they live in London at least). Here is what I came up with and thought would be published - but as you can see from the image above, they edited and shortened the text slightly. 
Google is the backbone of Internet and we could not imagine going online without having to consult its search page for a couple of times each visit. 
Wikipedia is one of the most reputed encyclopedias online. It is pretty obvious that as a teacher you must have had recourse to its services while working on a research or a classroom project. 
We live in a quantitative, data-driven world. Design, product development, and marketing decisions are all based on careful analysis of data that have been gathered through sales, market surveys, clicks, eyeballs, and focus groups. Via Holly MacDonald 
When IT gets in the way of technology, Technology & IT.
A recent challenging experience with a collaborative workshop has inspired me to think in new ways about the impact that social business collaboration (SBC) technologies can have on productivity and the quality of work.
It was not that long ago that an effort by a small team to collaborate on a task from a distance was difficult and marginally productive. For example, attempts to use email to collaborate on an analysis of an urgent business problem suffered from a lack of timeliness and were limited in the ability to scale the number of participants effectively. Teleconferencing could be used to overcome the timeliness and scale problems but introduced new constraints on the ability to share all but the simplest content. In addition, these styles of collaboration were fairly impersonal and devoid of non-verbal communication. So, how does your organisation stack up? Can you see how moving toward this model could increase engagement, retention and performance, along with your competitive position for talent and customers? As you can imagine, it’s not a five minute job to create this kind of environment and neither do you have to strive for it all at once. The opportunity is to look at these elements, feel for which ones will move you in the right direction from where you are right now and then get on with it. As Einstein said “Awareness is 90% of the solution”. |
Technology is changing how we live and work and educators have been grappling with how to prepare students to work in a digital society for some time. Now, an ambitious international initiative led by the University of Melbourne is making a major contribution.
“Digital Citizenship” is one of those friendly phrases (albeit a perfectly innocent one) that we’ll be talking about in more detail in a few weeks when we get into the subject of rhetoric and language. But for now, think about “Digital... 
When the Kirkpatrick Model was developed in 1954, its successful implementation saw the four levels widely accepted as an industry standard approach to training evaluation strategy.
Via DPG plc 
There are many explanations for today’s uncertain economy. But Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University has advanced an analysis that’s starting to resonate. In a recent article, Stiglitz says that our problem is “rooted in the kinds of jobs we have, the kind we need, and the kind we're losing, and rooted as well in the kind of workers we want, and the kind we don't know what to do with.” To advance our economy, Stiglitz believes that wrenching, fundamental change is required – no less dramatic than the shifts experienced by an earlier generation during the Great Depressio There are many explanations for today’s uncertain economy. But Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz of Columbia University has advanced an analysis that’s starting to resonate. In a recent article, Stiglitz says that our problem is “rooted in the kinds of jobs we have, the kind we need, and the kind we're losing, and rooted as well in the kind of workers we want, and the kind we don't know what to do with.” To advance our economy, Stiglitz believes that wrenching, fundamental change is required – no less dramatic than the shifts experienced by an earlier generation during the Great Depressio 
Video games can be used to educate through repetition and feedback, but they can also have some less-than-positive side effects. Learn about how video games can improve the educational experience as well as hinder it. Via Dennis T OConnor 
"When it comes to history, science, and global affairs. Americans are notoriously uninformed. Too many of us shrug off our inability to" do math" or speak a second language. And in effect, we assume that these capacities are somehow dispensable, however they are not. Higher education in America is experiencing a similar misassumption......." this is the introduction of a great infographic entitled ' What we dont know' read to discover more amazing facts. 
In today’s busy workplace, managers often get so bogged down in the day-to-day toils that they lose their vision – if they ever had the chance to form one in the first place. 
She's been doing virtual classroom since 2001. She wrote the book: Virtual Training Basics. Two types of virtual training: webinar vs. classroom. One def of virtual training: “an online synchronous instructor led class with ... Via Colin Steed 
Wikispaces are among the most reliable resources of educational technology tools. I am personally a huge fan of these web tools and I have created three wikis all of which are geared towards the use of technology in education. There are also several reputed wikis created by other educatos that are really a must for every educator to know. I am actually working on a presentation that will feature the top educational wikis and will soon post it here. 
As more information moves online, traditional libraries are losing relevance, but librarians are becoming more important than ever. This is according to R. David Lankes, author of The Atlas of New Librarianship (MIT Press, 2011). Himself a librarian—he is the director of Syracuse University’s Library and Information Science Program and an associate professor in Syracuse’s School of Information Studies—Lankes sees librarians’ roles evolving into that of “facilitators of conversation” who interact with their communities to support each one’s informational and learning needs. Rick Docksai, staff editor for THE FUTURIST, spoke with Lankes about his book and his views on libraries’ future. Via Miguel Mimoso Correia, Dennis T OConnor 
"We've spent a fortune on collaborative technology, but no one is using it ... or if they are, it's for purely social, non-productive activities." Sound familiar? It's a lament I've heard many times from organizations over the past several years. Most leaders are sold on the tremendous potential new collaborative technologies present to change the way work gets done: increasing productivity, stimulating innovation, and enhancing employee engagement. But realizing the benefits is proving to be a frustrating challenge for many. |
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