Someday I will find a way to attend a TED conference. In the meantime, I hugely appreciate that they are making videos of the conference available to mere mortals. Hans Rosling returns for an encore to his 2006 performance (which I blogged about last year about this time) to offer new insights to be gleaned from statistics about health, [...]
Another excellent and quick tutorial from Lee LeFever. Video: Wikis in Plain English We made this video because wiki web sites are easy to use, but hard to describe. We hope to turn you on to a better way to plan a camping trip, or create the next Wikipedia. Length: 3 minutes 52 seconds. If [...]
Courtesy of David Weinberger, here is an excellent presentation on information architecture. It is also a good lesson in effective communication/presentation techniques. What is information architecture? The slide show. The always enjoyable Andrew Hinton has an insightful, witty, surprising set of slides ‘n’ text that tries to explain not only what Information Architecture is, but [...]
There’s in interesting essay in the most recent issue of Smithsonian Magazine on the importance of understanding whether you are working on a puzzle or a mystery written by Gregory Treverton, who is the Director of RAND’s Center for Global Risk and Security. There’s a reason millions of people try to solve crossword puzzles each [...]
I’m very flattered to be included on this list. More importantly, there are quite a few other blogs talking about mindmapping that I wasn’t aware of that I will now be checking out. Mindjet Recommends Mind Mapping Blogs and Resources Hi Everyone, We asked the Mindjet Blog reading community to share with us their own mind mapping / MindManager [...]
“Melancholy Elephants” provides powerful insight into the relation between an intellectual commons, the creation of news works of art, and the potential unintended consequences of perpetual copyright. It turns out that I’ve pointed to this story in the early days of this blog. It’s well worth reading again. Spider Robinson’s Hugo-winning “Melancholy Elephants” online Cory [...]
I won’t be traveling to NYC for the Enterprise 2.0 RAVE after all. They’ve decided to go virtual instead. The Enterprise 2.0 RAVE goes virtual!Date May 8, 2007 The Enterprise 2.0 RAVE, which was originally planned as a physical event to take place in NYC has gone virtual and will now consist of a series [...]
Francois has put together an online survey to generate some data on what organizations are currently doing about Enterprise 2.0. What is the state of the market for Enterprise 2.0 Tools? Are you in the process of deploying Enterprise 2.0 Tools or thinking of doing it? Who in your organization is involved? What do you [...]
One of the basic advantages of Enterprise 2.0 technologies is that work gets divvied up among your social network and you can often take advantage of situations such as this, where Bill Ives has already summarized information that I also wanted to pass along. I’m looking forward to linking up with Bill and a great [...]
I just placed my order for Dave Weinberger’s newest book Everything is Miscellaneous. You know it will be worth it. Of course, there is also an excellent blog to accompany the book. Book launch at the Berkman on Monday The Berkman Center is holding a launch party for Everything Is Miscellaneous on April 30. I’ll [...]
