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.
Curator Skills
• Sense-making: the ability to determine significance
• Social intelligence: the ability to connect with others in a deep way
• Adaptive thinking: the ability to come up with novel solutions
• Cross-cultural competency: the ability to operate in new contexts
• Computational thinking: ability to think abstractly and make data-driven decisions
• New media literacy: the ability to assess new media critically and use itappropriately
• Transdisciplinarity: ability to understand concepts across a range of disciplines
• Design mindset: the ability to understand how the physical environment impactsthinking and make conscious choices in using it
• Cognitive load management: the ability to filter information
• Virtual collaboration: the ability to be a productive part of a virtual team
Robin Good is one of the leading voices on content curation, and he got there by curating content. A bit meta? Sure. But he can show his secrets to you. Discover how to become the new Google by learning how to find, organize and publish the very best content and resources in your specific niche / industry. You will learn what it takes to increase authority, visibility and trust by curating the best content being published in your industry sector as well as what specific steps and skills you need to take and refine to obtain immediately serious results.In this live online course with Robin Good, you will see exactly the tools and the methods for finding and organizing your ideal content sources, where to discover new ones daily, and how to edit, enrich and contextualize other people content for your web site without looking like a content-stealer.
If you want to learn how to become the “go-to person” in your specific niche or industry sector, by curating the best content available out there, I am offering, in partnership with the Next Web Academy, an online master class in “Content Curation” on Monday July 8th at 7pm GMT / 2pm ET / 11am PT. Register Here.
In this 2-hour online live session you will see exactly the tools and the methods for finding and organizing your ideal content sources, where to discover new ones daily, and the specific steps you should follow to properly edit, enrich and contextualize relevant content resources for your audience.
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.
There are writers and futurists who are swimming upstream against a tide of people screaming about the sky falling. Ramez Naam is one of the them, offering practical tools and illuminating the power of imagination and initiative.
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The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet, Ramez describes a future full of prosperity and new ideas.This is, of course, generally what has happened before. Even though the future never turns out exactly like we futurists or anyone else imagines it, our progress along the arrow of time has almost always been positive. We live longer and better lives, we live in less repressive societies, and we have more opportunities.We still have problems. Maybe our most serious challenges so far. Ramez offers up solutions and plans that appear to be possible. He tells stories about our past to illuminate how we have prevailed before, and could do so again.One of the things I particularly liked about The Infinite Resource is that Ramez’s positions about the most functional roles for governments and businesses are very closely aligned to mine. He makes a strong case for government regulation where it’s needed, but of the type that encourages innovation rather the stifling prescriptive regulation style that has never worked as well. He provides examples of how good regulation has worked to make the market stronger and to encourage new businesses and business practices. He also strongly supports the power of a functional free market. I’d call this book a celebration of practical capitalism with a progressive agenda meant to help us protect the Earth.Note that some of the things Ramez talks about are not popular with environmentalists, but I encourage readers to keep an open mind and do independent research. There were a few ideas here where I had to do the same thing.The Infinite Resource left me – an optimist – feeling even more positive about the future.Some other ways to learn about this book:Blog entry about the race to save the planet on Ramez’s site. Video of Ramez talking at Ingnite Chicago.
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!
OpenTopic is a news curation service which allows you to aggregate, monitor and filter any number of sources and to publish and share your selected ones to you selected outlets: from your WordPress site, to your social media channels and to your email newsletter engine. Within OpenTopic you can create one or more “Topic” dashboards. These are essentially display pages that aggregate incoming fresh content from the sources you specify. You can jump from one Topic dashboard to the next at the click of your mouse. To curate stories you simpy select the ones that are relevant to your audience and you are provided with an editing module to modify and personalize the story content. At this point you can also select on which one of your outlets (Channels) that story will be published and you can customize the story differently for each one of them. There is even an option that allows you to set-up some form of automated curation, by giving you the option to set up a set of simple rules, which when match, will trigger the publishing of a news story. OpenTopic allows you to hook up to an extended number of possible Channels, making it easy for you to post from one location to your web site, RSS feed, social media and newsletter. Last but not least, OpenTopic integrates a full analytics service, capable of reporting and showcasing the performance of your curation work across stories and distribution channels. My comment: Excellent tool for social media and community managers, as well as web marketing specialists in need to support effectively the finding of relevant news on a topic and the easy publishing to different channels from a centralized platform. Easy to use.
