Sustaining That Which is Not Sustainable
Following on from my earlier post today about Exponential Function, http://goo.gl/8V60B, my friend +erik de wild, who I met at +Scott Gould ‘s LikeMinds, sent me a link to a Vimeo video by Chris Martenson from the Post Carbon Institute, USA. The video was recorded from the Innotown Conference 15 months ago. To cut a long story short, +Chris Martenson does a fine job of enhancing, repackaging, developing upon, adding to, the work of Prof. Bartlett and captures the essence of exponential function. Continue Reading
New Post: Exponential Function, Exponential Function, Exponential Function
This is a post that will take up your time, in total maybe an hour or two. In case you are just way to busy to dedicate that amount of time – here is the bottom line: if population continues to grow (at any % rate), and consumption does not decline, resources will not exist to support us.
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function. ~ Prof. A. Bartlett
A 7% growth rate doubles the original number over a ten year period – fact < the exponential function in action… Continue Reading
Hierarchy, there must be a better way
In case you hadn’t noticed in past years there has been this radical shift centred around the value of information; who can access it and what importance this has on the how business, education and governments are managed. Continue Reading
Email Overload or Bad Filtering, Which is to Blame?
As someone who gets on average 100 emails a day, I know what it’s like to see an inbox grow out of control.
For almost two years now I’ve been working hard on refining the process of filtering my email so that it works for me and not against me. Of all the Google services available thier filtering, starring and lab add-ons are the ones I’m most thankful for.
At the end of a typical day my inbox is now empty with the important mail colour coded, starred and archived and any actionables transferred to Workflowy. Continue Reading
Goodbye Amplify
Well it finally arrived, my fair well email from +eric goldstein, CEO of Amplify. Here are a few reflections on the time I spent on this great platform dating back to late 2009.
I wandered into Amplify from experimenting with Ning. Engagement in Ning had been Ok, but I was missing depth of conversation, people didn’t seem to have time to hang around and so it came as welcome surprise to be greeted so warmly on arrival at Amplify. Continue Reading
Whale Sharks Don’t Live in Fish Tanks
Co-Existing: Bridging Cultural Differences
Before we begin you may want to pop the kettle on and make a fresh cuppa – this post is not short. An interesting thing occured this evening. A photographer by the name of Shirley Lo +1′d three of my posts on Google Plus.
Do you speak data?
Businesses need to make smarter decisions, quicker. The smart business of the future will correlate and compute a mix of demographics, psychographics, web analytics, social analytics and business intelligence to create predictive scenarios that can be delivered in real time at the point of need; this will enable those with access to make better informed decisions that more accurately impact performance in a positive way. This creates vital brand differentiation in the market place and sustains real competitive advantage. Continue Reading
Insights from #DevLearn 2011
After two days of monitoring the backchannel tweets at DevLearn 2011, here are my top 20 insights. The full collection of curated tweets can be found here. Scan the QR code in the footer for a mobile version of this content. Continue Reading
Webinar: QR Codes, mTagging and Learning
26 May 2011, 10:00 UK Time GMT+1
QR Codes, mobile tagging and learning
Paul Simbeck-Hampson, Internet Time Alliance
The Purpose of Education
I set out to discover the purpose of ‘education’ after hearing about the purposed campaign. After reviewing some quotes from influential scholars and some definitions on the web, a four-sided picture of education’s purpose came to mind. I began with the Wikipedia definition of education. Continue Reading
Educational Change Starts Locally
This post has been inspired by a week full of educational emotions. On Monday I tweeted out about my pain seeing my young daughter struggling to cope with the overwhelming amount of homework. I must add that the small school she attends has a fantastic reputation and they really do care and work hard with the children, but they of course have their targets and performance criteria and grade sheets etc etc… Continue Reading
A New Word for Learning?
Why do I need a new word for learning? Well, according to the experts in the learning consultancy branch, every time the word learning is used their clients dive under their desks and refuse to come out until they’ve gone… thanks LMS & the Snake Oil salesmen. So, the hunt is now on for a new word that is less scary. Continue Reading
Working Smarter in Berlin
After a pleasant six hour journey north to Berlin I was quite tired on arrival, and the last thing I needed was to be reminded that without a valid passport I’d be sleeping on the streets – ahh! Yes, I’d forgotten to bring my UK Passport. Hoping that a credit card, a driving license and insurance card would suffice as identity, was, unfortunately a waste of time, it wouldn’t. Continue Reading
Five Tips for Curating Vastness
The bundles feature in Curated.by is very similar to Storify. They have not yet implemented the other media feature such as Flickr, YouTube etc., but they are coming. Also heard, via this video, that Curated.by are working with DataSift technology. Continue Reading
Describe Amplify in less then 6 words.
I wrote a post recently ‘Amplify rising the charts‘ in relation to Jane Hart’s The Emerging List of Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010 - Today I revisited the site to see how Amplify was fairing in the list and was a little diappointed to see that it had dropped down to place number 64. While looking at the list I realised that the description “Conversartions around news etc‘ didn’t really do Amplify full justice. Continue Reading
Regaining Perspective in Our Cluttered Minds
Today’s posting follows on from yesterday’s thoughts on shallow thinking and the effect technology is having on our minds and brains. Continue Reading
When Social Gets Too Much
Hunky Dorey
You’re twenty eight years old, recently married, first child on the way, a successful community manager for a leading retailer, and part of your daily bread and butter is updating the feed on Facebook or Twitter. You’ll spend an hour a day looking through your well researched RSS feeds for one or two relevant articles to post, and perhaps another hour commenting on posts and enganging with your community. Your sorted, your cool, no worries there. Continue Reading
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