Wired: Working Remotely, Robots in Place
Wired: Working Remotely, Robots in Place"Fears of severe acute respiratory syndrome and terrorism, combined with drastically reduced travel budgets, mean more companies are considering video conferencing as an alternative to face-to-face meetings. But Hewlett-Packard scientists say the most natural way to "meet" when people are not face to face is to use robots. The scientists, who work out of HP's research laboratory in Palo Alto, were recently on hand to prove it, showing off the prototype for a robot that could navigate through the halls of a building, lower itself down to eye level at a conference table and even mix and mingle with associates as if it were a person."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, May 27, 2003
BBC: Shada Webcast
BBC: Shada WebcastSix Episodes of Douglas Adams' SHADA.
Very nicely done.
Add tag Permalink | Monday, May 26, 2003
Event: Online Educa Berlin 2003
Event: Online Educa Berlin 2003"Among this year's themes are Learning in Enterprises, E-Learning Policies in Practice, New Roles for Teachers and Trainers and Future Technologies for Learning. The conference will be accompanied by an exhibition featuring many of the companies active in e-learning."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, May 26, 2003
CNET: Will Wi-Fi lower nurses’ blood pressure?
CNET: Will Wi-Fi lower nurses' blood pressure?"The devices could be a perfect fit for hospital nursing, a truly on-the-go profession. Besides using the phones to make or receive calls, nurses can use the high-speed connection to transfer records when within a 300-foot radius of a Wi-Fi access point. Wi-Fi technology lets people access a network wirelessly and share resources on that network."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, May 26, 2003
Darwin: The Measure of Success
Darwin: The Measure of Success"Many corporations substantiate their e-learning initiatives after the fact by eliminating related jobs or reducing travel expenditures for training. Although these are viable cost savings, they should not be the sole motivation for an e-learning initiative. E-learning must demonstrate that employees are learning more efficiently and retaining more of the curriculum compared to in-class training. The bottom line is: Is e-learning improving employee productivity?"
Add tag Permalink | Friday, May 23, 2003
Wired: Why Voice Over Wi-Fi Has Telcos Dialing 911
Wired: Why Voice Over Wi-Fi Has Telcos Dialing 911"When patients at Anne Arundel Medical Center need a dose of morphine or an extra helping of Jell-O, they don't just buzz a nurse - they call one directly over the hospital's Wi-Fi network. Old-style page buttons have been retooled to ring the wireless handsets of staff anywhere in the building..."
Check out this ZDNet video for a demonstration of such a device.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, May 23, 2003
Rashmi Sinha: Persona Development for Information-rich Domains
Rashmi Sinha: Persona Development for Information-rich Domains"Designing information architecture for complex websites requires understanding user information needs and mental models in that domain. Personas, or user archetypes, created for such domains should also reflect types of information needs, and usage of information set. We have created a statistical technique to identify important underlying groupings of information needs. In a preliminary study, we show how designers can use this information in conjunction with data from interviews and observations to generate and refine personas."
information architecture, personas Add tag Permalink | Thursday, May 22, 2003
IBM: Tackling
IBM: Tacklingknowledge management Add tag Permalink | Thursday, May 22, 2003
NY Times: Business Is Toying With a Web Tool
NY Times: Business Is Toying With a Web Tool"The creative anarchy of the wiki is the philosophical inverse of conventional corporate groupware software. Groupware's highly structured rules and processes do not always reflect the way people really work. Employees often ignore costly corporate-sanctioned software and revert to informal social networks
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, May 21, 2003
Darwin: Are You Ready for Social Software?
Darwin: Are You Ready for Social Software?"Traditional software approaches the relationship of people to groups from a top-down fashion. In the corporate setting, its hard to imagine a person existing without being specifically assigned membership to top-down groups: your team, your division, the budget committee and so on.
Over time, more sophisticated social software will exploit second and third order information from such affiliations
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, May 21, 2003
MIT: Social Network Fragments
MIT: Social Network Fragments"Social Network Fragments is interested in exploring the structure of an individual's social network, as conveyed through one
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, May 20, 2003
HBS Working Knowledge: Organizational Learning is No Accident
HBS Working Knowledge: Organizational Learning is No Accident"But learning doesn
organizational learning Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, May 20, 2003
WIRED: Blog Space
WIRED: Blog Space"Ever since the Web entered the popular consciousness, observers have noted that it puts information at your fingertips but tends to keep wisdom out of reach. In a space organized around connected minds, however, the search for wisdom becomes more promising."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, May 20, 2003
NY Times: Multimedia Section
NY Times: Multimedia SectionNY Times won the 'Best of Show' award at the recently held Malofiej International Infographic Awards. To know why, check out their multimedia section.
Note: Free registration required.
Add tag Permalink | Monday, May 19, 2003
Business 2.0: Unplug That Projector!
Business 2.0: Unplug That Projector!"Just as using a word processor doesn't make someone a better writer, structuring presentations with PowerPoint won't improve the quality of an individual's ideas. If you need to present information to others and you want your presentations to matter, heed what Tufte has to say."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, May 19, 2003
KM Magazine: KM and the social network
KM Magazine: KM and the social networkSocial Network Analysis provides a view into the network of relationships that gives knowledge managers leverage to:
- Improve the flow of knowledge and information;
- Acknowledge the thought leaders and key information brokers (and bottlenecks);
- Target opportunities where increased knowledge flow will have the most impact on your bottom line.
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Friday, May 16, 2003
Fast Company: What Did You Do During the 2000s?
Fast Company: What Did You Do During the 2000s?"While you've been wishing for the inspiration to start something great, thousands of entrepreneurs have used the prevailing sense of uncertainty to start truly remarkable companies. Lucrative Web businesses, successful tool catalogs, fast-growing PR firms -- all have started on a shoestring, and all have been profitable ahead of schedule."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, May 16, 2003
CareerJournal: Where have all the CLOs and CKOs gone?
CareerJournal: Where have all the CLOs and CKOs gone?"CKOs are like a vitamin pill. They make you feel good, but in a bear market the only thing that really sells is painkillers." More than 25% of Fortune 500 companies had CKOs during the height of the knowledge-management craze, according to some studies... fewer than 20% of top companies have a CKO or CLO today."
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, May 15, 2003
eLearn Magazine: Instructional Design for Flow in Online Learning
eLearn Magazine: Instructional Design for Flow in Online LearningIn enumerating ways that instructional design can stimulate flow, this tutorial will address how designers of online courses can help students to:
- Focus their attention on a course
- Solve problems
- Develop skills and
- Enjoy intellectual stimulation
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Thursday, May 15, 2003
Ubiquity: From Thinkers to Clickers: The World Wide Web and the Transformation of the Essence of Bei
Ubiquity: From Thinkers to Clickers: The World Wide Web and the Transformation of the Essence of Being Human"On the Web, it is an entirely different story, one where clicking dominates thinking. When someone reads a report and has a question related to what was just read, the answer is usually just a click away. The instantaneous nature of the Web makes it less conducive as a tool to facilitate thinking. Why should a person take the time to think when he or she can click his or her way to an instantaneous answer to a question that might otherwise have necessitated some thinking on the part of the person to get an answer."
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, May 15, 2003
BrainPOP: SARS
BrainPOP: SARSReal nice overview of the disease. Check it out.
visualization, interactives Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, May 14, 2003
CETIS: No one standard will suit all
CETIS: No one standard will suit alleLearning Results Conference, Sestri Levante, Italy: "Yet the overriding message of day one was remarkably clear: there is no one standard to rule them all, nor will there ever be. However seductive the vision of universal interoperability may be, each and every community has its own needs and wants that need to be addressed."
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, May 14, 2003
WIRED: Six Degrees of Interconnection
WIRED: Six Degrees of Interconnection"Now that we're starting to understand network space, the implications of it are vast. Whether we're considering contagious diseases, cultural fads, or trends in the stock market, we need to start thinking in terms of networks. Sometimes they help us, and sometimes they hurt us - being connected can be good or bad. But either way, networks are always there. And when not just you but anyone can be connected to anyone else on earth in just six steps, what goes around comes around - faster than you think."
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, May 14, 2003
INC.: Taming the Savage Genius
INC.: Taming the Savage Genius"Managers may talk about teamwork and collaboration. But most... will admit that the contribution of a single, exceptional individual often makes all the difference. That's especially the case in a knowledge-based economy, where a company's fortunes rise and fall with its collective brainpower."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, May 13, 2003
INC.: Blogging for Dollars
INC.: Blogging for Dollars"blogging is perfect for small businesses -- a cheap and easy way to communicate directly with customers, partners, and clients, craft a strong, outspoken online personality, and escape the doldrums of static homepages."