Yearly Archives: 2012

What is the Role of the ‘Open Source’ Movement in Society Today?

We are in the process of transitioning from the Industrial Age of the past century into the Information Age of the 21st century. Many acknowledge this but don’t really grasp what it means. We are moving from the ‘closed’ protective systems that worked well in the Industrial Age to the new, more effective ‘open’ systemsRead… Read more »

Education 2012

Happy New Year! The purpose of education has changed. It’s past time to change the methods and results. For Socrates, a scroll could be read twenty times before crumbling. Read it each time to twenty students and you have squared the impact of the technology. Efficient. It was really expensive to read alone in theRead… Read more »

12 Hopes for 2012: Enhanced Adoption of Digital Technologies

As the Digital Era progresses, technological capabilities continue to outstrip our willingness and ability to address the opportunities and challenges they present. In this post I offer 12 hopes for 2012 that are rooted in the psychological challenges we face and are built on our willingness – both individually and collectively – to tackle themRead… Read more »

Government success with social media

By Jennifer Kaplan, GovDelivery This blog post is a response to a recent article in the Minneapolis/St. Paul Star Tribune on social media in government. It was a great article, but I felt compelled to respond! ************ I work for a company that does digital communication management (email/text/rss/social media) exclusively for the public sector. It’sRead… Read more »

Through Jan 10, GoodReads is giving away 5 pre-pub. copies of “Collaborate or Perish!”, my new book with NYPD/LAPD’s Bill Bratton (Random House/Crown)

Be the first to write a review! Head to GoodReads, signup for the Jan. 10 giveaway. On Jan 17, the book hits the bookstores, filled with terrific stories – VISA, Wells Fargo, Nokia…educators, warriors, and cops. “It’s a brilliant guide,” said Prof. Rene Mauborgne, co-author of Blue Ocean Strategy, “replete with sound practical insight intoRead… Read more »

Nuvo Quo

Change. It’s unsettling and exciting. It’s evolutionary and inevitable. It’s widely initiated and frequently resisted. Alvin Toffler, in his 1970 book Future Shock, says we can only take so much change before we hit overload and shut down mentally to additional change – like a sponge reaching its saturation point. The pace of change hasRead… Read more »