Technology is transforming how everybody builds solutions and faster access to the latest technology gives you an unfair advantage. I work in Silicon Valley and we benefit from that unfair advantage. This is because the technology being invented here is not incremental but disruptive.
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You will notice the inclusion of Guardtime signatures. By signing all objects with Guardtime signatures it means we no longer have to trust the cloud provider – another game changer! A technology that scales so well it has been included in rysylog.
Thomas Malone, director of the MIT Center for Collective Intelligence, is one of the leading thinkers in the realm of anticipating how new technologies will transform the way work is done and leaders lead. His 2004 book, The Future of Work: How the New Order of Business Will Shape Your Organization, Your Management Style, and Your Life,helped thousands of executives and would-be executives see their organizations, and themselves, in startling new ways. As a result, many organizations are becoming more collaborative and democratic. Now, Malone is exploring how social business, data analytics and cognitive computing will transform organizations once again. Here, he talks about the revolution that is coming.
IBM: In your book The Future of Work, you talked about society being on the verge of a new world of work, a key element of which is decentralization of the organization. Since then, the social networking phenomenon has emerged and is sweeping not just popular culture but business organizations as well. How has this explosion of social networking affected your thinking?
Malone: Social networking is a good example of the kind of thing I was talking about in my book when I talked about how the cost of communication was decreasing. At the time I wrote the book, people were looking at e-mail and the Web. But since the book was written, there are these new ways of communicating electronically–Twitter, Facebook, et cetera. I think those are all excellent examples of the same underlying phenomena.
As information technology reduces the cost of communication, it becomes much easier for lots more people to know lots more things and in many cases they’re able to be well enough informed to make more decisions for themselves instead of just following orders from somebody above them in a hierarchy.
Interview with Author, Visual Artist, and SynchroMystic Alan Abbadessa-Green. Alan is the founder and chief editor of Sync Book Press and Sync Book Radio. Both of which are outlets dedicated to exploring the mysteries of Synchronicity and its more spiritually oriented counterpart SynchroMysticism. Information on Alan's work and other Sync Book Press projects can be found at http://thesyncbook.com. Please refer to my blog @ http://jmag0904.wordpress.com/ for an outline of this Interview. Thank You for taking an interest!
Thanks to you, last week’s report on the collaborative economy was readily received, and has been viewed over 26k times, the media picked up on it, and bloggers alike. As we digest what it means, it’s important to recognize this is the next phase in the internet, and the next phase of social business. An interesting finding is that the second era (social) and the third era (collaborative economy), use the same technologies (social technologies) but instead of sharing media and ideas –people are sharing goods and services. This is all part of a continuum and we need to see our careers progress as the market moves forward with us.
[Social technology enabled the sharing of media and ideas called social business –the same tools enable sharing of goods and services called the collaborative economy]
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Internet Phases: Past, Present, and Future
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Brand Experience Era
Customer Experience Era
Collaborative Economy Era
Driving technology
CMS and HTML
Social Technologies
Social Technologies
Years
1995: Internet had 14% american adoption
2005: Business blogging disrupted corporations
2013: AirBnb, TaskRabbit, Lyft, gain mainstream attention
“In chapters 1 and 2 we present a concise synopsis of the various forms of value creation. Subsequently we describe and delve deeper into the technological and societal shifts, as viewed both from a business context and by individuals in their socio-cultural context (chapters 3 and 4). Following that, we examine new forms of value creation (chapter 5) and new income models (chapter 6). In chapter 7 we deal with the design principles of meaningful experiences, while chapter 8 deals more comprehensively than before with the five phases of intangible value creation. We have also elected to probe more deeply into the experience economy in the health sector (chapter 9), the financial services sector (chapter 10) and the creative city (chapter 11). We concentrate particularly on the transformation that these sectors are undergoing. In these particular areas there is sufficient urgency and potential to facilitate the creation of intangible value and meaningful experiences.
Monica Anderson is CEO of Syntience Inc. and originator of a theory for learning called “Artificial Intuition” that may allow us to create computer based systems that can understand the meaning of language in the form of text. Here she discusses the ongoing paradigm shift – the “Holistic Shift” – which started in the life sciences and is spreading to the remaining disciplines. Model Free Methods (also known as Holistic Methods) are an increasingly common approach used on “the remaining hard problems”, including problems in the domain of “AI” – Problems that require intelligence. She illustrates this using a Model Free approach to the NetFlix Challenge. Her website provides some background information.
If you are interested in taking curation onboard in your learning or teaching program, here is a collection of the best web curation tools and services specifically designed for the education world. Whether you need to pull together a collection of relevant books and reading resources for your next class, or want to push your students to collaborate on creating relevant information collections on specific topics, here are over the best tools that can be used for this task. *Curation Tools for Education and Learning* P.S.: Please, feel free to suggest new and additional relevant tools that should be added to this collection in the comments at the original post, “Curation Tools.”
Academicpub – Personalize and customize books and documents with this patented publishing and compilation platform.
Adobe Acrobat – Collect and organize different types of documents, presentations and video into a professional portfolio
Adobe Acrobat Professional XI – Collect and organize different types of documents, presentations and video into a professional portfolio.
Avoca – The Avoca Learning platform is a web service which facilitates the finding, collection and organizing of vetted learning resources from dozens of the leading educational sites. The platform already offers over 20,000 resources from over 35 leading education sites. In the near future new educational resources in the fields of of Language Arts/Reading, and History/Social Studies will be added.
Bindworx– revolutionary new service, potentially allowing anyone to assemble a truly personalized new book by mixing and matching other published works, is 100% the way it is being described. On paper, Bindworx offers you the opportunity to buy content from existing published books and eBooks, by specifically picking out a page, a chapter or an entire section and pulling it together into your own custom (e)book.
Curatr – Curatr builds online courses from any digital content, which we refer to as learning objects. Learning objects can be anything that works on the web – from a video to an interactive diagram, a PDF to a webpage.
Edcanvas – EdCanvas is a web service which allows you to search, find, clip and collect any kind of content, from text to video clips and to organize it into visual boards for educational and learning purposes. Differently than Pinterest, EdCanvas is specifically targeted at the education world and at schools and teachers, and it makes possible not just to collect “images” from web pages, but to collect and organize whichever content elements you want, including full web pages.
Educlipper – EduClipper is a new educational curation platform allowing both teachers and students to clip just about any type of content from the web and to organize it into topic-specific clipboards. Clipboards can be made “private” or public depending on your needs and both their individual content items as well as any full clipboard can be easily shared on all major social networks.
Learnist – Learnist is a new pinboard where users can organize their learning materials. It resembles Pinterest except that Learnist is just for sharing learning resources.
Libguides – Offers a perfect environment to create/curate collections of relevant resources on a specific learning topic. The link points to a good curated example page authored by Joyce Valenza and Deb Kachel focuses on showcasing an extended curated selection of content references, video clips, PDFs, tools lists on the topic of digital content curation in education. Lots of useful resources and references, and some good examples of curation at work in different educatonal projects.
Livebinders – Allows you to create folders containing collections of relevant resources and links on a specific topic.
McGraw-Hill Create – Allows you to curate customized textbooks on any topic by selecting and picking individual chapters, pages or excerpts from already published books.
Mentormob – Allows you to create annotated playlists of websites on a specific topic/theme
