Social, Agile and Transformation
JUNE 30, 2008
'Social, Agile, and Transformation. I cover topics for Technologists from CIOs to Developers - agile development, agile portfolio management, leadership, business intelligence, big data, startups, social networking, SaaS, content management, media, enterprise 2.0 and business transformation. Monday, June 30, 2008. Why Stories Work where Requirements Documents Fail.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 18, 2008
The Top 100 Web 2.0 Applications list is now officially launched - the full list is below, after appearing this morning in a feature section in BRW magazine on Web 2.0. A few quick comments: * See the scope and criteria for the list. * No doubt many will disagree with what has or hasn't been included in the list. That's inevitable in drawing boundaries around defining Web 2.0 applications.
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Victus pro Scientia Opus -- Food for the Knowledge
JUNE 23, 2008
Every company needs to be able to generate a constant stream of innovations if they expect to generate above average profits. The trick is creating an organizational structure that generates that constant stream of innovation. Google’s got their 20% of each engineers’ time. LinkedIn has taken a different approach. They have created a Light Engineering Development team.
Leveraging Organizational Knowledge
JUNE 23, 2008
â€[.] an organization is nothing more than the collective capacity of its people to create value†(Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., former CEO of IBM) Consider the following five simple scenarios based on real situations I have witnessed during my time in the Richemont Group. I must stress that I expect these to be relevant today to a majority of retail Organizations, and not only in the luxury sector: 1.
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I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JUNE 27, 2008
I’ve had a strong interest in video games on a personal level for many years (see this page for some of my thoughts). More recently, I’ve become interested on a professional level in the potential for games to be used to support learning and other ’serious’ purposes - hence the name “ Serious Games “ I see the techniques and technologies of video games playing an increasing role in helping to close the work literacy gap.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 20, 2008
I set up my rossdawson Twitter account this morning. I know I'm very late to the party, but will now be exploring this space. I've followed Twitter and its peers from the beginning as well as I can as a non-participant. My attitude has always been that my primary online presence is my blog - everything flows out from that. I don't have enough time to write anything near as much as I'd like on my blog, so I felt that starting to Twitter would take away from the little time I have to devote to blo
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Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 19, 2008
Download Chapter 5 of Living Networks on Emerging Technologies. Every chapter of Living Networks is being released on this blog as a free download, together with commentary and updated perspectives since its original publication in 2002. For the full Table of Contents and free chapter downloads see the Living Networks website or the Book Launch/ Preface to the Anniversary Edition.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 30, 2008
What do you do when a wiki pilot succeeds? This is a question I'm hearing more and more. Usually the conversation goes something like this: "We launched a wiki pilot. It went great. Everyone in our group uses the wiki. We can't live without it. We'd love to see the rest of the company follow our lead. But.they're not." In theory this shouldn't be happening.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 27, 2008
About Ross Dawson. Keynote Speaking/Strategy. Future Exploration Network. AHT Group. Books and Reports. Recent Media Appearances. « Keynote: building the networked professional firm | Main | Mobile social networking, meaning virtual networks bringing people physically together, will inevitably be a pervasive application » The information processing view of humanity.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 24, 2008
We have just launched the Future of Media Predictions Markets , run in conjunction with the Future of Media Summit 2008. These will tap the collective wisdom of participants at the Summit in the US and Australia, as well as other media leaders globally. Anyone can participate in the prediction markets. The predictions will be used during the Summit itself to help generate more pointed discussions and specific views, and to garner international attention and coverage for the Summit.
Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage
Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 24, 2008
The UK Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development has recently launched a discussion paper titled Web 2.0 and human resources , designed to help HR professionals to understand what Web 2.0 is and to contribute to organization's activities in the space. The paper is built around the key elements of my Web 2.0 Framework , which they nicely attribute me for, though also brings in a number of new elements, and wraps up with three case studies, including Pfizer's Pfizerpedia, UK government depa
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 23, 2008
Below is the sidebar I wrote in for BRW 's Web 2.0 feature, accompanying our Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list. The reason I was most pleased about getting the list into a mainstream business magazine is that it is a significant step in getting the broader business community to understand the value and transformative power of Web 2.0 (or whatever you want to call the participatory web).
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 23, 2008
Techcrunch has just published a very interesting analysis of valuations of social networks. Here is its methodology: Our model takes Comscore data for available countries and regions. We've graphed each of 26 well known social networks with the data we have been able to collect. We've then calculated the average advertising spend (estimated by PriceWaterhouseCoopers in a recent report ) for each person online in each of those countries.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 23, 2008
An article in Forbes titled What Privacy Policy? quotes data from a study by the Ponemon Institute , summarized below. What it shows is distinctly fairly different attitudes and perception from privacy and security executives at large organizations, compared to those of marketing executives. At the Future of Media Summit 2008 held in mid-July in Silicon Valley and Sydney we'll be looking at the future of privacy and targeted advertising.
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Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 22, 2008
Erica Smith of Graphic Designer has done some great map mashups of US newspaper layoffs so far in 2008 (4,490+) and in the last seven months of 2007 (2,185+), as below. While you can pick out trends from the maps such as a big rise in layoffs in the North-East, this is more about underlining the trends in newspaper jobs. One of the key topics at the Future of Media Summit 2008 on July 14/15 will be the future of journalism.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 18, 2008
[UPDATE:] Complete list now up. The Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications will be launched tomorrow morning. I've seen the BRW issue, and the 8 page feature titled The New Web Revolution looks great, including a couple of articles by technology editor Foad Fadaghi, and a few breakouts on the value of Web 2.0, challenges for Web 2.0 in Australia, and the venture capital perspective, as well as the list.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 17, 2008
One of the most important developments underlying the transformation of media is the emergence of advertising networks, that sell advertising and place it across a wide variety of online media properties. Back in the Future of Media Report 2006 , describing the role of ad aggregation in supporting the growth of the long tail, I wrote: ". now anyone can publish online and get advertising revenue without having to sell [the advertising].
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 16, 2008
Last Thursday's Media Report on ABC Radio National features an extended interview with me on the state of Australian Web 2.0 and major online media (there is both a podcast and transcript available from the link). Some of the points we covered: Major online media players. * The well-publicized challenges of NineMSN (the Australian 50/50 jiont venture between Microsoft and PBL Media) are partly company-specific, and partly a reflection of the difficulties of the incumbent position. * Australia's
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Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 12, 2008
The Future of Media Summit 2008 is now open for registration in both Sydney and Silicon Valley. After the great success of the Future of Media Summit 2006 and Future of Media Summit 2007 , the third annual event is quickly rolling up! See Future of Media Summit 2008 website for full details. Note that there is an early bird offer for the Sydney Summit until June 16, then full price applies.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 10, 2008
[UPDATE:] The complete Top 100 list is now up. The compilation of the Top 100 Australian Web 2.0 Applications list has now been completed. It will be made public on 19 June, when it will be the cover story on BRW magazine , accompanied by feature stories on some of the leading applications. It will be released the same morning on the Future Exploration Network website and this blog.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 8, 2008
Jay Cross , who has been on the leading edge of learning for well over a decade, will be running one-day workshops on Making Informal Learning Work in Melbourne on 17 June and Sydney on 19 June. Jay has been a leading light of elearning since the outset, was CEO of eLearning Forum for five years, and has more recently been driving the informal learning movement, recently publishing a book titled Informal Learning: Rediscovering the Natural Pathways That Inspire Innovation and Performance , in wh
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 6, 2008
I just got an email from Tom Stewart saying he is leaving Harvard Business Review - this was announced today with the press release below. He has been editor-in-chief for six years, during which time he maintained a strong consistency in HBR's established editorial approach, but also injected his own highly innovative perspectives. I find HBR an essential read, not least through the pronounced focus on forward-thinking perspectives.
Speaker: Nicholas Zeisler, CX Strategist & Fractional CXO
The first step in a successful Customer Experience endeavor (or for that matter, any business proposition) is to find out what’s wrong. If you can’t identify it, you can’t fix it! 💡 That’s where the Voice of the Customer (VoC) comes in. Today, far too many brands do VoC simply because that’s what they think they’re supposed to do; that’s what all their competitors do.
Trends in the Living Networks
JUNE 2, 2008
Two months ago Wikio launched a ranking mechanism for the top blogs in the world, appearing to use a more sophisticated algorithm than the incumbent leading blog search engine Technorati. In the latest monthly reclassification by Wikio, Trends in the Living Networks has been ranked #27 of all business blogs. In part the high ranking is due to the fact that there are relatively few blogs about business, with technology and politics the dominant subjects.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JUNE 25, 2008
I’ve been catching up on the posts over at Work Literacy (that’s a lot of catching up!), along with discovering new (to me) blogs in the field of learning. This in turn has had me revisiting old posts and ideas of my own. Joan Vinall-Cox’s post Old Skills and New Know-How , a response to Michele Martin’s post Knowledge Workers as Craft Workers (which, as it turns out, is based on a comment I left to another of Michele’s posts), discusses the importance of understand
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JUNE 30, 2008
Tony Karrer’s comments to a recent post of mine that discussed the application of a craft work model to knowledge work got me thinking a bit more about the subject. I’ve also been thinking some about the one of the goals of the Work Literacy project, specifically to “help build a foundation of knowledge of methods for knowledge work&# (as Tony wrote in comments to Michele’s post Knowledge Workers as Craft Workers ).
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JUNE 30, 2008
[link]. I have a friend who is updating a well-known business writing textbook. She wants to add an assignment where students have to using podcasting or videocasting, and wants my help in figuring out how to set it up. I see an inroad into college and university communications courses - provided, of course, that the teachers use the assignment. The board of a volunteer organization I work with has set up a wiki and begun using it to plan, record and communicate.
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I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JUNE 29, 2008
On the recommendation of a friend, I recently read Management of the Absurd by Richard Farson. The book is a wealth of ideas and views on management that you don’t often come across. An example of a management challenge that Farson discusses is the management of creativity: Real creativity, the kind that is responsible for breakthrough changes in our society, always violates the rules.
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JUNE 28, 2008
Teachers 2.0 » Using Google Docs to record, improve, and increase feedback. tags: feedback , googledocs , writing , feedbackonwriting. Australian Flexible Learning Framework - News. Upskilling of existing workers and RPL (recognition of prior learning): About 13% of the funded projects are discovering ways of capturing evidence of existing skills in the workplace and putting this information into a long-term usable and online accessible form, such as an e-portfolio. tags: WorkLiteracy , elearni
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JUNE 26, 2008
Here’s another piece from the archives, this one from April 2004. I’ve pulled this one out as part of a response to a discussion between Bill Brantley and Harold Jarche on the question of the work literacy gap and its impact on, and the role of, the organization. = = == ==. Employee-employer relations in a knowledge based economy. I’ve long believed that the prevelance of knowledge work in organizations today will (eventually) fundamentally shift the employee - employer relationshi
I'm not lost, I'm wondering
JUNE 27, 2008
No Straight Lines. … a knowledge worker’s waste blog … Skip to content. Home Video Games: Future of education or harmful addiction? A conversation on the nature of knowledge work. Anyone working in the realm of knowledge management has no doubt considered the nature of knowledge work on at least one occasion. I know I have. A few weeks ago there was an interesting exchange of ideas among Shawn Callahan , Matt Hodgson , Stephen Collins , and Dave Snowden (and many others, I̵
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