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Learn to Adapt Links for November 21st through November 25th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on November 25, 2008

Get Rid of the Performance Review! – WSJ.com – Samuel Culbert posts an argument against the common practice of performance reviews. This echos a sentiment that I have long held. Reviews really only serve bureaucracy and passive-aggressive accountability. High performers don't need them and low performers should be dealt with immediately through a PIP (instead of passing the confrontational buck to the end of the year). Let's improve performance by managing it instead of reviewing it!
The Future of Online Learning: Ten Years On – Stephen Downes provides a vast overview of the state of education (it covers more than just online) by revisiting his essay of ten years ago.

Tags: bookmark, business, education, l2a, Learning, learning2.0, management, performance, productivity, technology, trends, Web2.0

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Learn to Adapt Links for November 7th through November 8th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on November 8, 2008

Why Traditional Recession Tactics Are Doomed To Fail This Time – Umair Haque – Umair Haque presents a three faceted proposal for how businesses must act differently to weather this recession and succeed in the 21st century. Summary: It's time for business to move from mercenary capitalism to sustainable socialism.
How to Survive and Thrive in Business Today with Web 2.0 – Part 1 [Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog] – Dion provides another robust graphic on Web 2.0 business implications. Good food for thought and discussion.

Tags: bookmark, business, community, economics, enterprise2.0, hinchcliffe, l2a, Web2.0

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Learn to Adapt Links for October 26th through October 27th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on October 27, 2008

What Tim O’Reilly gets wrong about the cloud – Nicholas Carr’s wise response to Tim O’Reilly’s post (see link below) about cloud computing and Web 2.0. A great post that quickly summarizes many of the forces (besides Web 2.0) that businesses can harness to be successful on the Web.
Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing – O’Reilly Radar – A great post from Tim O’Reilly that considers the future (and future profitability) of cloud computing. The big take away: just as value moved from hardware to software, the value now will move from software to leveraging the social network capabilities of the cloud as platform. This is what we’ve longed recognized as “Web 2.0” – networked products that explicitly leverage network effects.

Tags: analysis, bookmark, business, cloudcomputing, l2a, tim_o'reilly, Web2.0

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Learn to Adapt Links for October 1st

Posted by Jeff Kelly on October 1, 2008

Getting Web 2.0 right: The hard stuff vs. the harder stuff – Josh Ross shares yet another example of how technology is often the easiest part of the the Enterprise 2.0 Three Legged Stool. It is the other two legs (processes and culture) that require additional attention in order for the implementation to succeed.
GigaOM White Paper: The Facts & Fiction of Bandwidth Caps – GigaOM – Om Malik rails against bandwidth caps from Internet providers. This trend is the beginning to the shift of bandwidth as commodity. Soon this will be like all utilities and we will pay per use (just like kilowatt hours or gallons of water). The difference should be choice. I can’t choose my water or electricity provider, but I do have choice for my Internet provider. And the competition should help keep per MB pricing low.

Tags: bandwidth, bookmark, broadband, business, enterprise2.0, Internet, l2a, trends, Web2.0

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Learn to Adapt Links for September 6th through September 7th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on September 7, 2008

Businesses Can’t Hide From 2.0: A Look At 2.0’s Impact Across Industries – Sarah Perez provides a nice summary of examples of how "Web 2.0" platforms are impacting business.
A Tale of Two Tunnels: Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 – Thomas Vander Wal in spins a tiny little analogy in Social Computing Magazine to discuss the current state of the those two titan buzzwords "Web 2.0" and "Enterprise 2.0".

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Learn to Adapt Links for August 5th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on August 5, 2008

OUseful Info: Education 2.0 Business Models – Though it does not directly address "Education 2.0" business models, this page provides a nice summary of different resources on the monetization aspect of Web 2.0.
Taking social networks abroad – Why MySpace and Facebook are failing in Japan – Great post on the importance of "society" in social networking from Serkan Toto at TechCrunch
Enterprise cloud computing gathers steam | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Dion weighs in on the current state of cloud computing. A great summary article on the topic!
Six Degrees of Wikipedia – An interesting page put together by Stephen Dolan does an analysis relationships between articles in of Wikipedia. Try out the "find shortest path" section – interesting. Google recently announced that there are actually an average of 6.6 degrees of separation between the billions of pages they index on the Web. It is indeed a small world (wide web).

Tags: algorithms, bookmark, business, cloudcomputing, datamining, facebook, hinchcliffe, l2a, monetization, saas, socialnetworking, statistics, Web2.0, wikipedia

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Learn to Adapt Links for July 26th through July 28th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on July 28, 2008

Predict The Future On WashingtonPost.com – Jason Kincaid's brief post highlight how Predictify's adoption by newspaper's is a reminder that “old media” is willing to embrace the interactivity afforded by the web.
How to Keep Up with the Semantic Space « Shepherd’s Pi – Lewis Shepherd's great post pulling together a host of current thoughts and resources about the Semantic Web. It includes some resources from Henry Story's "My Semantic Web Blogroll"
Twelve best practices for online customer communities | Enterprise Web 2.0 | ZDNet.com – Dion weighs in on the "the advent of the Web-based customer community, where groups of like-minded individuals focus around a brand or a set of product and services come together and interact online"
50 Steps to Establishing a Consistent Social Media Practice | chrisbrogan.com – Nice post from Chris Brogan summarizing steps to put a social media strategy into practice for your company.
Literacy Debate – Online, R U Really Reading? – Series – NYTimes.com – Interesting article on how the Internet is changing reading styles and, therefore(?) learning styles.

Tags: bookmark, business, casestudies, enterprise2.0, future, l2a, Learning, learning2.0, literacy, media, newspapers, Predictionmarket, reading, semanticweb, socialmedia, socialnetworking, strategy, Web2.0

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Learn to Adapt Links for July 6th through July 7th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on July 7, 2008

Google, Zen Master of the Market – News Analysis – NYTimes.com – “The source of Google’s competitive advantage is learning by doing,” said Hal R. Varian, Google’s chief economist. One of the hallmarks of Learning 2.0 will be easy, inexpensive experimentation – learning through mistakes.
What good is collective intelligence if it doesn’t make us smarter? – O’Reilly Radar – Tim O'Reilly conference ad (with quote from John Battelle) discusses how it is time to move beyond the consumer-centric euphoria of social computing (Web 2.0) and start using the new found power to improve society.
The Future of Instruction: Teacher as ‘Co-Learner’ : June 2008 : THE Journal – Now you're talking. Forget the sage on the stage, and even beyond the curious curator, change is so fast that effective teachers will adopt the role of wise co-learner.

Tags: bookmark, business, collaboration, collectiveintelligence, conference, economics, education, energy, google, l2a, learning2.0, online, renewable, resources, Society, technology, Web2.0

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Learn to Adapt Links for June 30th through July 2nd

Posted by Jeff Kelly on July 2, 2008

Poking Holes In The Long Tail Theory – An updated view of the Long Tail. No big news here – it has always been an "leverage the tail in addition to the head" not a "leverage the tail instead of the head" proposition.
Dawn of the Un-book — Internet Time Blog – Jay Cross takes a look at the decline of book readership and proposes the "un-book" to consumerize authors work. Includes interesting statistics about book reading in the US

Tags: bookmark, books, business, l2a, learning2.0, longtail, monetization, publishing, Society, statistics, trends, Web2.0

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Learn to Adapt Links for June 30th

Posted by Jeff Kelly on June 30, 2008

The Google Way of Science — Kevin Kelly — The Technium – Kevin Kelly with a less bombastic post that continues on Chris Anderson’s theme that the petrabyte age of information is changing the scientific method in that we can move from models to actually data to test hypothesis.
No, Mr Kelly, I’m afraid the internet is not as clever as a single (human) brain | Technology | guardian.co.uk – A blistering response to Kevin Kelly’s “Infoporn” post at Wired. See the link below to read the Kelly post.
Infoporn: Tap Into the 12-Million-Teraflop Handheld Megacomputer – An absurd postulate from Kevin Kelly claiming that the Web has already become more powerful than the human brain. Interesting concept (and colorful pictures!) but hardly accurate. He never mentions “mind”…
The Science of Diversity and the Art of Inclusion | Learn to Adapt – The circular bookmark of my post on the discussion about diversity and inclusion I had with Scott E. Page, the author of “The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies”

Tags: bookmark, brain, business, computer, datamining, Diversity, google, innovation, Internet, knowledge, l2a, leadership, Learning, learning2.0, mind, science, scientificmethod, Web2.0

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