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Knowledge Innovation

The iPad and Granddad.

August 3, 2010
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I’ve written a few posts on the user implications of the iPad and changes to behavior that I’ve observed. You can find these here. Imagine my delight to find the BMWMOA International Rally had WiFi everywhere! It was excellent, consistent and delivered at high speed. Despite there being 6109 attendees there wasn’t the pressure on [...]

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The New Conversation – Exponential Flows

July 30, 2010

This post is the result of a collaborative conversation. Jon Husband and I were catching up on Skype discussing where KM / HR /  enterprise learning / web2.o themes are going. I captured some of our thoughts in rough notes and  then tried to grow them. I passed back my draft to Jon who edited [...]

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From ‘Thought Leadership’ to ‘Upstreaming Conversations’

May 19, 2010

The phrase ‘thought leadership’ has some appeal to me. So today, I was reading an insightful post by Jim McGee, which led to some reflections and a gut reaction on why ‘thought leadership’ is finished as a marketing, management or PR label. [image to the left, from here]. Jim McGee writes that Thought Leadership risks becoming an empty [...]

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iPad Usablity – User Testing

May 10, 2010

No real surprises in this first “report” on iPad usability. Still it is well worth the read. I’ve found and made many of the same observations. They have a 93 page report you can download at the end. There’s some good technical jargon and it certainly supports my general contention that the “publishing” media apps [...]

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From Owning to Flowing – “the language of flows”

January 27, 2010

This is an incredibly important set of points re joining the flow. The quotes below represent JF’s thinking (and I’ve already bookmarked his previous post in Delicious). If you are thinking about “flow” you cannot miss reading the FAQ on FlowPlace. We operate exactly the same with knowledge. We accumulate knowledge in our inner basement. [...]

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Value-based Service Systems – How much is you?

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A nice facilitation example of the role we play in value co-creation and the way Irene Ng puts the question to her students.  How much is “YOU” in the last experience you had? So I go on the white board and on the right hand side I ask them to give me the outcome of [...]

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It’s Real-Time Open Delivery – Serious Business

January 20, 2010

Jon Husband pointed me to “The Moment Social Media Became Serious Business” in HBR. Part of sharing with him my previous post on why #socialbusiness is nothing new. The article and the reading of it provided more clarity for me. Here’s the deal. #SOCIALBUSINESS  is dead in the water because it is not the problem [...]

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Learning Faster not Social Business or a Big Shift

January 20, 2010

Learning Faster not Social Business or a Big Shift Business is a social construct that is changing. Stowe points to an article by Tom Friedman today. Sometimes we really should think about consultant speak. I’m know I can be guilty of it too. Still using words and reinventing phrases to put a new lens or [...]

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Blogging Lifestreams 2012 and My Personal Cloud

January 2, 2010

Yesterday I was tweaking my blog and generally updating myself with plug-ins and what others are doing with them. When I started blogging back in 2002 I was already thinking about lifestreams. Over the years I’ve blogged about and tried out Linkblogs (before bookmarking / del.icio.us) to both track content I see, help share it, [...]

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Smoke Signals – Is it time to burn our telephone numbers?

November 6, 2009

Just for fun… The Chinese, Greeks, Romans and American Indians all used “smoke” to communicate complex messages. Todayʼs smoke signals may just be Twitter or another micro- blogging service. What implications does this have for mobile communications and escalating the conversation? For sender and receiver? How are our signaling patterns changing? A new type of [...]

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Jajah @call @stuarthenshall service misses the Phweet spot IMHO

September 16, 2009

Daniel Terdiman of Cnet  reports that Jajah will enable Twitter to talk. There’s a few hints in their announcement. There’s also material differences in what the experience is likely to deliver vs Phweet which was launched 15 months ago and remains in PublicAlpha as we never believed in giving free calls away to grow the [...]

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When Real-Time Location Based Data Makes a Difference – Saves Lives

August 27, 2009

I’m curious. Are you ready to contribute your mobile to the common good? Would you participate in surveys on an ongoing basis? If we made it easy? Would you join a panel? I’ve been thinking more down this path after my visit to the Amazon. In the Amazon river basin, Dengue fever kills. Each year, [...]

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.@stoweboyd see my comment on your Infrastructure post.

August 21, 2009

I left a comment on/Message: Project Retweet: When Ultrastructure Becomes Infrastructure a few minutes ago and the more I think about RT’s the more passionate I become. It’s time Twitter developers took a more empowering user role in Twitter innovation Twitter continues to screw around with defining 140 characters and how we can or cannot [...]

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How a Nokia Mobile Data Gathering Tool Helps to Save Lives in Manaus Brazil

July 29, 2009

The topline story from my Brazilian visit can be told with two maps that show the impact Dengue had in 2008 vs the current year 2009.  Simply, the map is all red in 2008. One year later, the incidence of Dengue per 100k of population has declined dramatically. This is a significant change and one [...]

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GoogleWave – read TimO’Reilly and “What would it be like if…???”

June 1, 2009

Tim O’Reilly’s Google Wave summary is as good as any I’ve seen. I loved his description below for it was exactly how I felt when I saw the demo. Since then I’ve seen more cautionary posts and comments. Yet this demo was as good for me as seeing David Gelertner’s post many many years (2001) [...]

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