This has been lurking in my “to read/view” pile for months. The title from the original Boing Boing post sums it up quite nicely. It shows what is possible. Our challenge is to make it more common. The best 15 minutes I’ve spent in a long time. Enormously moving speech on the way the Internet [...]
Tagged internet, religionI’m taking some time this Labor Day to attack a host of backlogs, including things in my RSS stream that are worth sharing. Here’s a link to an infographic created and shared by Online Schools. Created by: Online Schools
Tagged infographicI’ve been a fan of Hans Rosling since I saw his first TED video several years ago. Here’s a four-minute clip from a one hour documentary,The Joy of Stats , he did last year for the BBC. Hans Rosling helps visualize economic development over the last 200 years You can now find the entire [...]
Tagged analytics, BI, statistics, visualizationI’ve been thinking a lot about hard problems that need multiple people collaborating to solve. There’s no shortage of them to choose from. This TED video from Jane McGonigal makes a persuasive case that I need to invest some more time looking at the world of online gaming for insight. Watch the video and see [...]
Tagged games, Learning, observable workBruce Schneier is one of those disciplined, articulate, thinkers you should be paying attention to if you want to navigate sensibly in today’s digital world. Here’s a brief example from a recent EastWest Institute Cybersecurity Summit. I’d also recommend his blog, Schneier on Security.
Tagged Schneier, SecurityI have so been on this call. Thank you Jessica for sharing it. Thanks to Richard Dale, Dave Grady "from the annual Citizens Bank Employee Talent Show." Have you been on this call? "The conference call" Jessica Lipnack Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:00:48 GMT
When my wife and Boing Boing both point to the same thing, it’s likely that it’s particularly worth a look. This is clever and insightful.
Like everyone else who’s awake, my long-time friend and colleague Keri Pearlson and I have been trying to make sense out of the uptake of new "social" technologies into organizations. We are noodling on the hypothesis that the CIO represents the best choice if an organization wants to develop a social technology strategy that is [...]
Tagged Enterprise 2.0, Social mediaWhat this graphic and the underlying data analysis show more than anything else is how little evidence and rational analysis have to do with most decisions by most people. We can lament that all we want. If you’re running a lottery, you make money off this predictable irrationality. On the other hand, if you’re committed [...]
Tagged decision makingJust before Thanksgiving I was at the KM World 2009 conference in San Jose listening to a keynote presentation by Charlene Li. Like many others, I was tweeting during her presentation and posted the following: At just about the same time, on the right coast, danah boyd of Microsoft was delivering a keynote at the [...]
Tagged backchannel, Social media, Twitter
