Gerry McGovern: Building successful brands on the Web
Gerry McGovern: Building successful brands on the Web"A web brand
Add tag Permalink | Monday, February 17, 2003
Yahoo! Finance: NIIT Acquires CognitiveArts
Yahoo! Finance: NIIT Acquires CognitiveArts"Continuing its growth in the e-Learning market, global training and technology leader NIIT announced today that it has acquired CognitiveArts, a leader in designing experience-driven e-Learning and knowledge solutions for large corporations."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, February 14, 2003
Guardian Interactives: US War Plans
Guardian Interactives: US War PlansTake a look at this infographic to see the US plans to attack Iraq... "Medical Action for Global Security has estimated that 48,000 - 260,000 people might die as a result of war with Iraq, most of them civilians."
interactives Add tag Permalink | Friday, February 14, 2003
New Architect: Are You Cultured?
New Architect: Are You Cultured?When a company decides to globalize its site, the Web team often learns the taboo colors and appropriate dress codes of a given culture, translates the text, and launches. But cultural differences run deeper than visual appearance or language; they reflect strong values. Rarely do globalized sites incorporate the nuances of a culture's
- social hierarchy
- individualism
- gender roles
- time-orientation, or
- truth-seeking attributes.
Add tag Permalink | Friday, February 14, 2003
Cool Learning: Firefighter protective clothing tour
Cool Learning: Firefighter protective clothing tourNice use of Flash in this tour from the City of Davis California Fire Department.
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 13, 2003
Learning Circuits: The Hype on Hyperstories
Learning Circuits: The Hype on Hyperstories"The power of hyperstories becomes evident when, at certain intervals, learners can choose to change perspective and watch the same events unfold from another character
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 13, 2003
User Interface 7 West: 5 Things To Know About Users
User Interface 7 West: 5 Things To Know About Users"The user's intentions, context, knowledge, skills, and experience are the essential things that every designer needs to know. Without this, the team is going to design something that seems useful, but they'll never know if it actually helps the user... Unfortunately, these five things are beyond what normal market research can tell us. Market research can tell us age groups, income levels, geographic regions, even purchase behavior. But it can't tell us the key things we need to know."
interface Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 13, 2003
HR Gateway: CIPD: E-learning ‘shows potential not performance’
HR Gateway: CIPD: E-learning 'shows potential not performance'"Organisations thinking of implementing e-learning for a quick fix, cost-cutting exercise should think again, claims new research released today, as it may deliver training budget savings but does not progress learning in an organisation."
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, February 12, 2003
Marketing Profs: 8 Steps to Creating an Infectious Business
Marketing Profs: 8 Steps to Creating an Infectious BusinessComment: Co-relate this article with the process of analyzing performance problems and writing instructions...
"To make it easy for customers to describe what you do, they must easily understand the "idea" of your company. If people quickly grasp the idea and benefits of your business, it
instructional design Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, February 12, 2003
Boxes and Arrows: What’s Your Idea of a Mental Model?
Boxes and Arrows: What's Your Idea of a Mental Model?All mental models have a few key characteristics:
- Mental models include what a person thinks is true, not necessarily what is actually true.
- Mental models are similar in structure to the thing or concept they represent.
- Mental models allow a person to predict the results of his actions.
- Mental models are simpler than the thing or concept they represent. They include only enough information to allow accurate predictions.
But how are mental models constructed?...
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, February 12, 2003
MIS: Learning with a capital E
MIS: Learning with a capital EAdd tag Permalink | Tuesday, February 11, 2003
Emerald Fulltext: Journals of the Week
Emerald: Journals of the WeekFull text access to the following journals:
- Journal of Management Development
- New Library World
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, February 11, 2003
BBC: Computers take over the classroom
BBC: Computers take over the classroom"Most of the use of computers is traditional word-processing and spreadsheets and browsing the web... We're using a new technology in more or less the old ways and unless we can change that I don't expect any big differences in the educational system, certainly not in test scores."
Add tag Permalink | Tuesday, February 11, 2003
Boston Globe:A Nation of Voyeurs
Boston Globe: A Nation of Voyeurs"Because we know Google will be able to meet whatever our informational need may be at whatever moment we need it, it has, in many ways, made us all a little lighter. "Rather than having to carry the factual baggage around in your head, you have this electronic prosthesis... You can get it anytime, and the doors don't lock."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, February 10, 2003
Educause: Disruption in Education
Educause: Disruption in Education"In this chapter, we highlight the key insights of our research in disruptive innovation...Understanding the disruptive education theory will help leaders in the education industry better understand questions such as, Where is online learning most likely to succeed..."
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innovation Add tag Permalink | Monday, February 10, 2003
Business2.0: The Garage That Saved Whirlpool’s Soul
Business2.0: The Garage That Saved Whirlpool's Soul"First, Starr and others set up an intranet site where any of Whirlpool's 25,000 U.S. employees could post ideas for new products. The team tracked an idea as either "gearing up," "in limbo," or "shelved." If it had legs, the employee who suggested it would pair up with a "sponsor" like Starr, then pitch the "I-Board" -- a kind of internal venture capital outfit -- for R&D funding."
Add tag Permalink | Monday, February 10, 2003
KM World: A KM Oversight Structure
KM World: A KM Oversight Structure"Using effective management systems, skills and competencies of staff can be tracked. Performance reviews can be made easier with clear processes. Effective training can be provided, benefits managed and company information can be shared to improve morale and knowledge. Best practices can also be shared to improve individual performances. But we assert that an appropriate infrastructure design is where managers and executives can come together to share (process) information and convert it into knowledge that can enable the organization
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Friday, February 07, 2003
KM World: KM and Anonymity
KM World: KM and Anonymity"KM, as I think we all agree at this point, comes in two basic flavors. The first is noun-based. It wants to find and make accessible all the certified, authenticated, reliable knowledge in an organization. The second is verb-based. It wants to make an organization smarter by enabling the sorts of activities and processes by which knowledge nouns emerge... But identity and anonymity play different roles in them. In a noun-based system, many chains of authentication ultimately end with a known person...But anonymity is crucial in verb-based KM systems."
knowledge management Add tag Permalink | Friday, February 07, 2003
NY Times: Sony Again Turns to Design to Lift Electronics
NY Times: Sony Again Turns to Design to Lift ElectronicsFor years, the Sony Corporation has found a way to use design to keep its consumer electronics business, which accounts for 70 percent of its sales, robust and to hold its market share, even against cheaper rivals... But despite Sony's careful efforts to nurture and protect this advantage, its consumer electronics business is under attack... To meet those growing challenges to its hold on the high end of the electronics market, Sony is turning once again to its design center... To do that, Sony executives are convinced that the company must continue to emphasize styling.
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Add tag Permalink | Friday, February 07, 2003
CNET: Test.com puts Web patent up for sale
CNET: Test.com puts Web patent up for sale"A small Cleveland-based software company has won the right to a wide-ranging patent that covers online testing, in a move that could have broad ramifications for Internet testing businesses. But unlike many companies that land such broad patents, Test.com is considering unloading it."
Add tag Permalink | Friday, February 07, 2003
Fastrak: Open access - your flexible friend
Fastrak: Open access - your flexible friend"You would think that, if anyone was likely to benefit from the explosion of online opportunities, it was the sector of the population that has to live with the greatest constraints
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 06, 2003
DM Review: Deploying the Next-Generation Enterprise Portal
DM Review: Deploying the Next-Generation Enterprise Portal"The successfully deployed enterprise portal will be the single entry point for collaboration, information dissemination and communication, application functionality and interactive capabilities within and without the corporate entity
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 06, 2003
MSNBC: The Theory and Practice of the Internet
MSNBC: The Theory and Practice of the InternetThree books ask: Is there a comprehensive theory of the Web? And if so, does it do us any good? The books in question:
- Linked: The New Science of Networks by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
- SmartMobs by Howard Rheingold
- Small Pieces Loosely Joined by David Weinberger
Add tag Permalink | Thursday, February 06, 2003
Syllabus: Putting a Faculty Face on Distance Education Programs
Syllabus: Putting a Faculty Face on Distance Education Programs"Good distance learning programs can range from well-designed and well-written text to streaming video and accompanying media of various types. But media alone does not offer guidance and personal engagement. A blended or hybrid approach, using faculty facilitators or mentors, adds a human touch to distance learning. These faculty are not necessarily content experts, but facilitators or mentors who have a degree in the appropriate academic discipline. They participate with a physical presence, or in certain circumstances, a virtual presence."
Add tag Permalink | Wednesday, February 05, 2003
Knowledge@Wharton: Why Some Companies Retrain Workers, and Others Lay Them Off
Knowledge@Wharton: Why Some Companies Retrain Workers, and Others Lay Them Off"Because it is an asset that exists between individuals rather than within each individual, social capital may suggest why it could make sense to reinvest in and retain individuals even if their job-specific skills are obsolete: The relationships they maintain with others may create value that extends beyond their ability to perform their current job."
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