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2011 has been a significant year in terms of historical uprisings, financial stability, nature’s rebuke and the loss of visionaries. However the silver lining to the gloom is the perseverance of our belief that the best is yet to come. As a tribute to the great visionaries of 2011, who dared to think different and follow their inner guidance, Yanko Design presents the Best of 2011, Top 50 Designs that were most read and appreciated by our readers from the world over. 
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For the better part of three decades multidisciplinary artist Guy Laramee has worked as a stage writer, director, composer, a fabricator of musical instruments, a singer, sculptor, painter and writer. Among his sculptural works are two incredible series of carved book landscapes and structures entitled Biblios and The Great Wall, where the dense pages of old books are excavated to reveal serene mountains, plateaus, and ancient structures.
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With tongue planted firmly in cheek, the folks from cabletv.com, who typically spend their time selling Comcast service, deliver this wonderful illustration of the difference between correlation and causation. Via maxOz
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Victoria's Secret Angels Adriana Lima, Candice Swanepoel, Doutzen Kroes, Erin Heatherton, Lily Aldridge and Lindsay Ellingson make spirits bright with this a...
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The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences will honor Steve Jobs with a Grammy award, naming him a Trustees Award honoree on Wednesday. . Via Barb Jemmott
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We take a look at some truly inspiring images that use the raw energy that B&W photography can instill. Via Spyros Thalassinos
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![Curating Information & Making Sense of Data Is a Key Skill for the Future [Research] | Design, Science and Technology | Scoop.it](https://img.scoop.it/KrkxRVnH-00QDsqHCUKTTTl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVvK0kTmF0xjctABnaLJIm9)
Robin Good: The Institute for the Future and the University of Phoenix have teamed up to produce, this past spring, an interesting report entitled Future Work Skills 2020.
By looking at the set of emerging skills that this research identifies as vital for future workers, I can't avoid but recognize the very skillset needed by any professional curator or newsmaster.
It should only come as a limited surprise to realize that in an information economy, the most valuable skills are those that can harness that primary resource, "information", in new, and immediately useful ways.
And being the nature of information like water, which can adapt and flow depending on context, the task of the curator is one of seeing beyond the water, to the unique rare fish swimming through it.
The curator's key talent being the one of recognizing that depending on who you are fishing for, the kind of fish you and other curators could see within the same water pool, may be very different.
Here the skills that information-fishermen of the future will need the most:
1) Sense-making: ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance of what is being expressed
2) Social intelligence: ability to connect to others in a deep and direct way, to sense and stimulate reactions and desired interactions
3) Novel and adaptive thinking: proficiency at thinking and coming up with solutions and responses beyond that which is rote or rule-based
4) Cross-cultural competency: ability to operate in different cultural settings
5) Computational thinking: ability to translate vast amounts of data into abstract concepts and to understand data-based reasoning
6) New media literacy: ability to critically assess and develop content that uses new media forms, and to leverage these media for persuasive communication
7) Transdisciplinarity: literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplines
8) Design mindset: ability to represent and develop tasks and work processes for desired outcomes
9) Cognitive load management: ability to discriminate and filter information for importance, and to understand how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniques
10) Virtual collaboration: ability to work productively, drive engagement, and demonstrate presence as a member of a virtual team
Critical to understand the future ahead. 9/10
Curated by Robin Good
Executive Summary of the Report: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapolloresearchinstitute.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Ffuture-work-skills-executive-summary.pdf
Download a PDF copy of Future Work Skills 2020: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapolloresearchinstitute.com%2Fsites%2Fdefault%2Ffiles%2Ffuture-skills-2020-research-report.pdf Via Robin Good, janlgordon
Beth Kanter's comment,
December 20, 2011 7:34 PM
Thanks for sharing this from Robin's stream. These skills sets could form the basis of a self-assessment for would-be curators, although they're more conceptual - than practical/tactical. Thanks for sharing and must go rescoop it with a credit you and Robin of course
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December 20, 2011 7:56 PM
Beth Kanter
Agreed. It's also one of the articles I told you about....good info to build on:-)
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After creating content -- whether it's a blog post, an ebook, a webinar, or a video -- it's important to promote that content through social media channels.
And when you do promote that content in social media, you cross your fingers that it generates a ton of shares, tweets, and interaction. For the sake of Twitter, if you follow a few simple best practices, more people are likely to retweet and spread the distribution of your content, giving it a much broader reach and a better opportunity to get found by a new audience of prospective customers beyond your direct followers. Marketers should know how to retweet the right way, but it's also critical for them to learn how to get others to retweet their content, too.
11 Tips for Getting People to Retweet Your Content... Via Martin Gysler
Tom George's comment,
December 20, 2011 3:12 PM
Hey Martin,
Hey the new post was great and I was happy to share it. Thanks. I have some new updates on the site you might like.
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Finding and following your passion takes hard work, and it isn’t for the faint-hearted. You need courage to go for it, despite all the fear, overwhelm, and uncertainty.
While this path may not be the easiest, or the most comfortable, I do it because it is the only path that I can see myself taking. It makes me happy, fulfilled, and satisfied.
In this article, I’ve compiled some of the questions I ask coaching clients, friends, and anyone who needs help finding and following their passion. It’s like a mini-coaching session. You can use these questions for anything, so they aren’t just for finding and following your passion.
Before you read on, grab a pen and a blank sheet of paper and write down the answers to each question, because it will help you eliminate some of the overwhelm, uncertainty, and fear... Via Martin Gysler
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The best way to learn anything is to teach it to someone else . Isn't that what you've always been told? It's true ... Via David Miller
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With so many Twitter tools out there, it's hard to know which ones to trust with your Twitter account management. So why not take a look at what the social media and industry experts are using! Via ABroaderView
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"Google Earth was one of the very first pieces of software that I began to create educational resources with. As I put it in one of my first ever blog posts 5 years ago: ”This app won me over straight away.” The engaging environment really struck a chord with me and I remember fondly my first forays into using it to support learning. It has developed so much over the years...." Via Anne Whaits, Smaragda Papadopoulou, Gust MEES
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Design Thinking is a mindset. Design Thinking is the confidence that everyone can be part of creating a more desirable future, and a process to take action when faced with a difficult challenge. That kind of optimism is well needed in education. Via Gust MEES, Jenny Pesina
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Here at WDL we love to show our readers inspiration from different media, especially inspiration involving typography. Via Spyros Thalassinos
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A huge collection of 45 awesome retro posters by Fro Design Co, from Mario to Inception, from The Dark Knight Rises to the Walking Dead.
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Don't judge a book by its cover is one of the earliest adages we learn as children. Looking at these covers, however, is enough to make us change our minds. Via Spyros Thalassinos
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Back when I had a car, I used to use a similar product called Rain-X on the windshields. What was a pain was that you had to reapply the stuff every few weeks or even days depending on how much it rained. Durability is one of the NeverWet team's goals, and to that end they've achieved success with a trial using a piece of metal submerged in seawater for a year.
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Dishes ! Well Dishes, Spoons, forks, everything you can use in the kitchen can be here, transformed into animals, flowers, or people. Via Rug360°
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As 2011 draws to a close, Google is taking a look back at how businesses altered their investments in online advertising. Given the size of its business — Google is the leader in both the U.S. search and mobile advertising markets, and somewhere between first and third in display — Google’s online advertising figures stand as a decent benchmark for trends in the industry. Via maxOz
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Apple has released a new commercial outlining how Santa uses Siri to help make his Christmas rounds. Via Barb Jemmott
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In this never before published 1970 essay by Robin Boyd, the champion of the international modern movement in Australia, he suggests that Australian architecture and planning would be improved simply by looking around, not by seeking answers from overseas experts. Boyd died in 1971.
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