Mai 6, 2013
Firmeninterne Netzwerke und Communities können eine “ideale Plattform für informelle Lernprozesse” sein. Wenn alles gut läuft. Aber davon sind die meisten Unternehmen noch ein gutes Stück entfernt. Hier können die etwas schmucklosen Aufzählungen, die der Beitrag bietet, möglicherweise helfen. Es geht dabei um
- erfolgsrelevante und kritische Aspekte für den Aufbau von Communities
- zentrale Erfolgsfaktoren bei der Akzeptanz von Technologien
- unterstützende...
Im Vorwort dieser umfassenden Stoffsammlung (268 Seiten!) heißt es sinngemäß, dass es heute nicht mehr um das “ob”, sondern vor allem um das “wie” geht, wenn Open Educational Resources (OER) auf der Agenda stehen. Der Reader wird gemeinsam vom Commonwealth of Learning und der Athabasca University in Kanada herausgegeben und ist in die...About half the community plans we review have the same goal; more customers.
It's tricky to get new customers via a community. Communities are great for reaching current audiences but often poor for reaching new audiences.
Why would someone that doesn't know you want to participate in a community about you?
If your goal is to reach a new audience, there are three things to consider:
1) The community can't be...
Mai 5, 2013
Mai 4, 2013
It’s been a busy day in the world of 3D printing. Below is a roundup of the latest developments, all announced in the last 24 hours or so. 3D printing is one of those trends that has been visible for a long time, is just beginning to have a real impact, and in the long run could transform many aspects of our lives.
Different issues are raised by each of these stories, showing the breadth of the impact of 3D printing. I have made brief comments under each story.
Anyone...
Mai 3, 2013
Bis zum 30. April 2013 lief die Bewerbungsphase des “MOOC Production Fellowship”, den der Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft und iversity ausgerufen haben. Hier noch einmal kurz zur Erinnerung, worum es geht:...
In a work context, I have always been fascinated by transparency. And, lately, even more about radical transparency. I have always believed that if we would have been, all along, a whole...A couple recent articles, one in the WSJ by Dennis Berman and one in the NYT by Eduardo Porter, have raised the question of why all the amazing technologies we have these days aren’t showing up more strongly in the productivity and GDP...
I recently gave the keynote at Bridge Point Forum on Future Directions in the Digital Age, the title riffing off the conference’s theme of The Rise of the Digital Age.
I opened by making the critical point that, while the digital world is rising around us at an extraordinary pace, humans are completely analogue. Nothing about humans is digital. While we can conceive of and enact digital processes and thoughts, these are created from fully analogue neural...


