New additions to the blogroll – Claire Chaundy and Michael Feldstein
Joe Ely writes about Lean Manufacturing Systems. One of the core tenets of Lean is to gather frequent feedback about the difference between what you planned to do and what you actually did, reflect on the difference and do something about it. The key thing is doing something about it. Today he tells a story about the importance of knowing what is wanted before you can take action. This reminded me strongly of the concept of well-formed outcomes – one of the foundation stones of NLP.
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2004-12-12 Practical wisdom: Denham Grey comments on “Practical Wisdom” by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap Keywords: KM The XMLHttpRequest Object: Goodbye iFrames! Keywords: Development, Webmaster, XML Microformats: Keywords: XML Salad bar hacking: How much salad can YOU fit in? Keywords: World Inside the DVD Procedural Specifications: Edward Felten on some of the ludicrous extremes in the DVD-CCA license designed to limit what can be done with the technology.
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2004-12-10 Paste and Go: This Firefox extension lets you paste a URL from the clipboard into the address bar and load it as a single step, either via the adress bar’s context menu or by pressing Ctrl-Shift-V. Similarly, you can “Paste and Search” via the search bar’s context menu Keywords: Firefox The Long Tail: Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts.
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2004-12-9 Mozilla Preferences: Keywords: Firefox Excel: How to Run a Macro When Cell Changes: Keywords: Office_Tools/Excel XP Prefetch feature: Keywords: Windows
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2004-12-8 Semantic blogging and decentralized knowledge management: Keywords: KM Apple to marry IBM? No, and no, and no: Keywords: Business Bar Graphs: Keywords: Mathematics
Shared bookmarks for del.icio.us user Synesthesia on 2004-12-7 Fitting power laws to blogging: Keywords: Mathematics Citizens’ Media Money Chase: Tim Oren on the business model for participative media Keywords: Business/Media Blogs: Rolling In It…: Tom Watson thinks the money in citizen’s media isn’t in the content but in the supporting services and infrastructure. Keywords: Blogging, Business/Media Storytelling in business: Keywords: Storytelling Grounded Proofs: Keywords: Mathematics Steve Denning – Learn Storytelling:
A colleague found an interesting document from IBM’s consulting practice – Media and entertainment 2010, [PDF]. They identify the power of open media standards, the importance of companies offering different ways for consumers to interact with content and the need to “manage attention”. BUT they still assume a role for the “trusted media brand” as intermediary bundling up the various bits of content from producers and marketing it to the consumer (albeit a wired-in consumer with lots of choice and the ability to interact with both the content and the intermediary).
Ton sums it up well. As soon as I get got a response from Ecademy support telling me how to remove my profile it will be was gone.
Although I first skimmed this paper back in May I’ve finally got around to reading it properly and writing some summary notes. At an emotional level I feel pleased that a behaviour that I find natural (i.e. to dip into different work groups or areas of study and share ideas between them) and feel to be one of the more useful of my talents is shown to have measurable benefits. If anything it prompts the networker’s perennial question – “which groups haven’t I tapped into yet?