It’s no secret that the world is becoming a smaller place. Innovations in travel, technology and communication are all helping to bring people from different parts of the globe together. All of this is giving us a clearer picture that we struggle and celebrate the same things as well as showing that we all needRead… Read more »
Some books deserve a closer read. One of these is The $100 Startup by Chris Guillebeau. It’s a book about turning your passion into a successful small business. The entrepreneurial ideas presented in the book are for more than just cubicle dreamers – there’s a wealth of practical advice on low-cost marketing that would beRead… Read more »
Gadi Ben-Yehuda Who’s Online and What Are They Doing? The Next Web reports on an IAB Europe study finding that 427 million Europeans are now online, and 37% uses more than one device. Meanwhile, The HowTo.Gov blog writes about how all internet users spend thier time online: 22% on social networking, 21% on searches, andRead… Read more »
I have never been on a Segwaybut they look like a fun way to get around. On vacations to various islands it seems that one of the things you can always do is rent a Segway to go exploring around town. While they look like fun, Segway’s have been a failure as a commercial product.Read… Read more »
from howto.gov’s blog: Building a Better Digital Government The new Digital Government Strategy released by the White House aims to drive fundamental change in how we manage digital information and services to better serve the American people. There’s been a robust discussion online about the Strategy and what it means for government–which is itself aRead… Read more »
Nandita Pinisetti (Chicago, IL) – Microsoft’s public sector developer evangelism group launched a U.S.-focused mobile app development campaign called MOBILE AMERICA in May, 2012. The concept is to bring patriotic citizens together with technological developers in order to create new and innovative software for civic good and fundamentally change how government interacts with its constituents.Read… Read more »
Google have announced a new model of their Chromebook – the web only laptop that runs their Chrome operating system, which essentially consists of a browser and not much else. As well as the laptop, there’s now a desktop machine too – which is rather reminiscent of the Mac Mini. Both look like nice bitsRead… Read more »
The irrepressible Dr. Mohamed Moustafa Mahmoud (a.k.a. “3M” to his many friends and business contacts) weaves a bracing mix of past and future and business insight into every ten-minute presentation. As I sat listening to 3M welcome a group of CEO’s from the likes of Siemens, the Ulker-Turkey conglomerate and Jordan’s Hikmah Pharma group toRead… Read more »
I find this stuff so you don’t have to: The learning organization: an often-described, but seldom-observed phenomenon | Harold Jarche – “What should a true learning organisation look like?” Connecting and engaging inside your organisation – “Social networks are inherently bottom up and user powered. In IBM, BlueIQ worked because it had buy-in from theRead… Read more »
A few weeks ago I shared Valve’s employee handbook, positioning as the defacto office culture that all other office cultures are competing with. Last week I wrote why I believe that organizational learning plans are crutch. What I failed to do was explicitly connect the two in some meaningful way. Consider what follows my attemptRead… Read more »