Month: March 2011

Learning 2.0: How digital networks are changing the rules

Learning 2.0: How digital networks are changing the rules

To date, educators and policymakers have been considering how to integrate new media into education, but with the speed of innovation and the rapid adoption of the newer generation, the population may be better served if they were reflecting on how to prepare people to live with new media in purposeful way. In other words, simply learning how you can use the Internet to learn about the Renaissance is not enough, we must learn to paint a Sistine Chapel of our own.

Business Week: The Most Important People in Your Network

Business Week: The Most Important People in Your Network

Employees that were rated as more innovative didn’t have bigger networks; rather, they had more bridging ties—ties that connected them to other employees who were themselves not connected.

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If we are circulating too much with people we have known forever or people who themselves are all spending time in the same meetings and interactions, then we are not getting the performance impact we can from social-media tools. Bigger is not better. The magic lies in the new ideas and perspectives that can come from connections into different networks.

Tsunami Inundation Map centered on Port Hueneme, California. The larger quadrangle maps for Ventura County and other coastal California counties and be found on at the state Department of Conservation site.

Source: State of California, 2009, Tsunami Inundation Map for Emergency Planning, Oxnard Quadrangle, Ventura County; produced by California Emergency Management Agency, California Geological Survey, and University of Southern California – Tsunami Research Center; dated February 15, 2009, mapped at 1:24,000 scale.

Business Week: The Most Important People in Your Network

From this Business Week article… (Source)

Employees that were rated as more innovative didn’t have bigger networks; rather, they had more bridging ties—ties that connected them to other employees who were themselves not connected.

If we are circulating too much with people we have known forever or people who themselves are all spending time in the same meetings and interactions, then we are not getting the performance impact we can from social-media tools. Bigger is not better. The magic lies in the new ideas and perspectives that can come from connections into different networks.

AIIM: Governance: Don’t Use it Loosely

AIIM: Governance: Don’t Use it Loosely

Sure, a committee of business leaders should be formed to vet ideas, opportunities, challenges, but ultimately a decision must be made. Groups of individual with competing interests have trouble making decisions. Thus, designating a single individual who ultimately can make the “final” decision is critical from our experience. Too many organizations soft-pedal this factor, which leads to drawn-out debates and inaction.

Iron Mountain: Obtaining an Information Advantage through Unified Records Management

Iron Mountain: Obtaining an Information Advantage through Unified Records Management

Records management is about organizing and classifying information for retrieval. This is part of the challenge with digital information because technology has made it possible for us to ignore indexing and classification since the digital format allows for sophisticated searching. Auto-classification is really an extension of this expectation, but has actually served as more of an excuse to allow for poor electronic records practices, hoping that auto-classification will one day be able to clean up the mess.