Week of May 17, 2013

• EUEN SEMPLE | THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2013

  The Internet is an energy management system '"My friends, family and acquaintances are all on Facebook, where they add up to a bustling community I enjoy being part of. More than any particular feature that Mark Zuckerberg and company have cooked up, it’s the people in my life that make Facebook, well, Facebook. The conversations are less warm, personal and interesting. MORE >>

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• DAVID WEINBERGER | FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2013

  Lobby for FaceBook, Yahoo, NewsCorp and Elsevier opposes the White House Open Access order, among others 'Peter Suber points out that FaceBook, Yahoo, Elsevier and Yahoo have joined the NetChoice.org lobby that has issued a clarion call against open access that blurs the line between lies and gibberish. Peter blows the statements apart, leaving nothing but clean air and a whiff of ozone. But they have it all bollixed up. MORE >>

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• JANE HART | SATURDAY, MAY 11, 2013

  5 principles for a successful formal online social learning experience – and it’s not about the tools 'There has been a lot of talk about the use of social media tools in formal workplace learning; and I am regularly asked to review initiatives of this kind. In many instances, the use of social tools has simply been “bolted-on” or “shoe-horned” into existing training or e-learning practices, in which case it doesn’t tend to work very well at all.â?¦ MORE >>

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• DAN PONTEFRACT | MONDAY, MAY 13, 2013
  	It’s Time to Revolutionize Corporate Learning 'I spend a lot of time thinking, writing, speaking and working in my own personal and professional venn diagram of: leadership development; social collaborative tools; and. all things related to learning. One of those pillars — the learning space — is where I started my career. From Slideshare you can download the full.pdf file. MORE >>

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• IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER | WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2013
  	Traditional Data Analysis and Data Science 'I recently participated in an industry panel on Redefining BI & Analytics in the Cloud at a conference in New York.  In my opinion, data science should be viewed as a multidisciplinary evolution from business intelligence and analytics.  Simple, linear systems, such as those found in classical mechanics , are much easier for us to deal with.  MORE >>

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• LUIS SUAREZ | MONDAY, MAY 13, 2013

  Open Business – From Document-Centric to People-Centric Collaboration 'Lately, I have been thinking quite a bit around the topic of Social / Open Business Transformation. Something completely different to what we may have experienced so far in the last three to four years on living social   for the sake of social , which is perhaps what we pretty much keep seeing today all over the place. To quote: . How spot on! MORE >>

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• JANE HART | WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2013
  	Professional Development in Social Learning: 3 different skill areas 'I’m constantly asked by Learning & Development professionals where they can learn more about social learning. First of all I guess we need to be quite clear what we mean by the term “social learning:â?¦ Social learning MORE >>

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• HAROLD JARCHE | THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2013
  	Shifting work 'Note: this is a synthesis of several previous posts. The death of middle class jobs ( Associated Press ): As software becomes even more sophisticated, victims are expected to include those who juggle tasks, such as supervisors and managers — workers who thought they were protected by a college degree. Today it is less than 10%. MORE >>

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• LUIS SUAREZ | SUNDAY, MAY 12, 2013

  Industrialisation of Social Networking for the Enterprise 'Or, to put it in other words, automation of your social networking presence. Yes, it happens. Yes, it’s a topic that worries me, because we are then running the risk of commoditising our very own online presence(s). And what for? Is it worth it? Probably not. Where did we leave behind the social business transformation? Where did we go wrong? MORE >>

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• DAN PINK | THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2013

  The 6 essential lessons of a satisfying, productive career 'Just in time for graduation season, Johnny Bunko  is here to remind you of the 6 essential lessons of any satisfying, productive career: 1. There is no plan. Make decisions for fundamental, not instrumental, reasons. Think strengths, not weaknesses. What do you consistently do well? What gives you energy rather than drains it? Leave an imprint.  . MORE >>

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• "Most people" EUEN SEMPLE | MONDAY, MAY 13, 2013

• [meshcon] Ryan Carson of Treehouse DAVID WEINBERGER | WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2013

• The Modern Mantra: “Instrument, Analyze, Tune” ANDY MCAFEE | FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2013

• London Summer Picnic HAROLD JARCHE | TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2013

• 7 talks that will encourage you to talk to strangers TED | TUESDAY, MAY 14, 2013

• Starting Strategy CLARK QUINN | WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2013

• Our thoughts on using Google Glass so far, plus videos that show what it can do TED | FRIDAY, MAY 17, 2013

• 10 stunning images from Liu Bolin, the disappearing man TED | WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 2013

• Jamie Oliver gears up for Food Revolution Day on May 17 TED | THURSDAY, MAY 16, 2013

• Space oddity, indeed: 18 talks from astronauts, including Chris Hadfield TED | MONDAY, MAY 13, 2013

Week of May 10, 2013

• ELLEN WAGNER | WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013

  Living Under the Sword of Data, on #Lrnchat 'On May 9, 2013 I will have the pleasure of joining the crew at #Lrnchat for a session on the topic of learning analytics. You will find us on Twitter, Thursday, 8:30 pm ET/5:30 PT. Look for us at #lrnchat, Analytics Innovation social media Trends MORE >>

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• HAROLD JARCHE | SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2013
  	The new work 'All work today can be reduced to just four basic types of jobs, according to Lou Adler. His company identified four prototypical jobs after developing thousands of job descriptions over the years. Everything starts with an idea. This is the first of the four jobs – the Thinkers. Builders convert these ideas into reality. This the second job. MORE >>

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• JANE HART | TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2013
  	The Workplace Learning Revolution: free mini e-book '“A revolution is a fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time.” Wikipedia) I’ve had such a lot of interest in the new book I’m working on, The Workplace Learning Revolution , that I decided to create a free mini e-book version.â?¦ ¦ [.]. Social learning MORE >>

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• STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2013

  Assessment in MOOCs 'I was asked: " I was wondering how they might work with the Humanities, as I teach Seventeenth-Century Literature, Shakespeare and other related subjects, which require research papers and final examinations. Multiple-choice evaluation, as in science, is easily taken care of electronically, but not in humanities. How large is enough? MORE >>

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• LUIS SUAREZ | MONDAY, MAY 6, 2013

  Life Without eMail – 5th Year Progress Report – The Community, The Movement Did I give up on giving up on corporate email? Did I get tired of it and moved back to email? Was the experiment a total failure? Did I get tired of it and move on to something else? What happened? Well, nothing and a lot! The movement is still alive and kicking. People do. We are the ones who should, and need!, to break that chain. Well, wrong! . MORE >>

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• HAROLD JARCHE | TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2013
  	This is my work 'The ability to learn is the only lasting competitive advantage for any organization. Hyper-connected work environments require people with better sense-making, collaboration, and cooperation skills. Social learning plays a significant role in this. Democratic workplaces that foster trust can share knowledge better and faster. Collaborative Work. MORE >>

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• IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER | WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013
  	The New Center for Global Enterprise He has continued to pursue his interest on the subject over the past year by organizing the Center for Global Enterprise (CGE).  The CGE is a private, nonprofit research institution devoted to the study of the contemporary corporation, globalization, economic trends, and their impact on society.  As summarized in its  website :  . MORE >>

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• DOC SEARLS | SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2013

  Bringing “Personal Cloud” to Market 'In Cloud marketing strategy: Do consumers care if it’s called cloud? Madalyn Stone blogs an existential question for readers of  SearchCloudProvider. ” So, a few thoughts about that, which I’ll list and then unpack a bit: The term “cloud” is still new. As Madalyn says, it has only been around since ’06. MORE >>

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• ADAPTIVE PATH | MONDAY, MAY 6, 2013

  SF Public Design Jam: Make a Difference in 48 Hours 'We are excited to be hosting the first annual SF Public Design Jam on June 5th and 6th. The SF Public Design Jam is part of a 48-hour global initiative called GovJam 13 that aims to bring together people from government, non-profit organizations, designers, students, and local citizens to 'jam' on real solutions to public sector problems. MORE >>

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• HAROLD JARCHE | THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013
  	The new enclosure movement 'ENCLOSURE : In English social and economic history, enclosure or inclosure is the process which ends traditional rights such as mowing meadows for hay, or grazing livestock on common land formerly held in the open field system. Once enclosed, these uses of the land become restricted to the owner, and it ceases to be land for commons. Wikipedia. MORE >>

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• Assessing online assessments CLARK QUINN | THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013

• Why a good education benefits us all — even if you’re long past being a student TED | MONDAY, MAY 6, 2013

• #datanerds: Six Steps to Great Graphs and Charts BETH KANTER | FRIDAY, MAY 10, 2013

• CN1376 AcadMOOC STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013

• 7 tech tools now available in the classroom, for better or worse TED | MONDAY, MAY 6, 2013

• A Theme Park E-Learning Application STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013

• A video that will give you hope in the next generation TED | THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013

• Are you inside the circle or outside? DAN PINK | WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013

• Making Learning Stick JAY CROSS | MONDAY, MAY 6, 2013

• A new playlist from Sir Ken Robinson, the most-watched speaker on TED.com TED | SUNDAY, MAY 5, 2013

• 5 mnemonic devices for reading Chinese characters TED | TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2013

• The Workplace Learning Revolution: free mini e-book JANE HART'S PICK OF THE DAY | TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2013

• 7 talks for inspiring transformed curriculums TED | THURSDAY, MAY 9, 2013

• The story behind my new TED Talk: Giving teachers what they deserve TED | MONDAY, MAY 6, 2013

• Playlist: 6 education ideas from unlikely places TED | WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013

• The asocial side of social media: TED Book author Damon Brown on our “virtual shadows” TED | TUESDAY, MAY 7, 2013

• A virtual field trip to CERN, via Google Glass TED | MONDAY, MAY 6, 2013

• Meet five New York high school students with fascinating stories TED | WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013

Week of May 3, 2013

• HAROLD JARCHE | SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2013
  	Connected leadership 'How is leadership in a hyper-connected workplace different? It’s been an ongoing conversation here, as this comment by Stephen Downes , on leadership as an emergent property , provides a counterpoint to certain popular leadership literature, especially “ great man ” theories. Anyone can show leadership in these areas. Leadership MORE >>

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• DOC SEARLS | MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013

  Identity systems, failing to communicate 'There is  a great scene in Cool Hand Luke  where the prison warden (played by Strother Martin), says to Luke, (played by Paul Newman), that he doesn’t like it when Luke talks to him as an equal. So, to teach a lesson, the warden smacks Luke hard, sending him rolling down a hill. do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood. MORE >>

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• JANE HART | MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013

  Supporting continuous learning and performance improvement – a vital new area of work 'In my previous post I showed that an analysis of how Knowledge Workers like to learn at work suggests that L&D departments should consider working more closely with people managers to support the continuous development and performance improvement of their people – both in teams and individually.â?¦ ¦ [.]. Social learning MORE >>

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• ANDY MCAFEE | FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013

  Technology’s Real Benefits (Hint: They’re Not Economic) '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 growth statistics. This is both a really important question, and one that misses the point. Says “Dr. MORE >>

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• ADAPTIVE PATH | MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013
  	UX Week 2013 Speaker Preview '[UX Week 2012 attendees enjoying lunch outside on one of the workshop days]. We're still putting the finishing touches on the program for UX Week 2013, but here's a taste of what you'll see in San Francisco this August. Ze Frank is a prolific creator of online video series and collaborative art projects. Yes, a workshop on workshops. MORE >>

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• DOC SEARLS | WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013

  People will do more with Big Data than big companies can 'Consider the possibility that all the big companies talking about what they can do with Big Data is just the sound of the old mainframe business saying it can do it all — again — when individuals will end up doing more. That’s because each time inventions mothered the necessity of individuals doing more. Or a choice of them. See ya there. MORE >>

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• DONALD CLARK PLAN B | MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013

  MOOCs: more action in 1 year than last 1000 years 'What happened here? MOOC mania seemed to come from nowhere. Faster than Facebook and here to stay, in just a year MOOCs emerged from a unique mix of entrepreneurial spirit, a few leading US Universities, supported by not-for-profits and venture capital. It’s an ecosystem that can take an idea and support it through to a sustainable business. MORE >>

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• HAROLD JARCHE | WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013
  	The subject of education 'I mostly focus on workplace learning here, but I want to put together some of my previous thoughts on public education. My opinions are based on watching our two boys go through a public education system, now complete, plus a fair bit of reading, in addition to many conversations with educators over the years. Social and emotional intelligence. MORE >>

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• TED | WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013

  Sebastião Salgado: A gallery of spectacular photographs 'The vast tail of a Southern right whale, photographed near Argentina in 2004. Ask photojournalists to name a peer they admire, and Sebastião Salgado’s name is sure to crop up. Thankfully, he didn’t give up. To read more details about Salgado’s process, see this  rather lovely Q&A  with TED photographer Ryan Lash.) The 2005.). MORE >>

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• BETH KANTER | THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013
  	Making Data Visualizations: A Survival Guide And Other Resources 'As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. Here’s what I discovered. I like the chart advice: Avoid 3d-charts at all costs. MORE >>

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• Types of thinking CLARK QUINN | TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013

• 13 books on learning, people, organizations, corporate culture, and change JAY CROSS | TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013

• Physicists from CERN team up with TED-Ed to create five lessons that make particle physics child’s play TED | FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013

• Free webinar: Learning in the Connected Workplace JANE HART | FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013

• Outlining vs. Formatting DOC SEARLS | SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2013

• Innovators, imitators and idiots HAROLD JARCHE | FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013

• Two ways of thinking about social media: digital tattoos and virtual shadows TED | THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013

• Why we stayed inside DAVID WEINBERGER | SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2013

• Great Debate: Does Location Matter? NINE SHIFT | TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013

• Designing Higher Learning CLARK QUINN | MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013

• New Book, Great Data NINE SHIFT | MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013

• 6 reasons to watch TEDxCERN this Friday TED | WEDNESDAY, MAY 1, 2013

• To the Athens of Latin America DAVE SNOWDEN | THURSDAY, MAY 2, 2013

• Walking meetings? 5 surprising thinkers who swore by them TED | MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013

• The teachers who inspired us, and even changed the trajectories of our lives TED | FRIDAY, MAY 3, 2013

• As we celebrate 20 years of the World Wide Web, lessons from Tim Berners-Lee TED | TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013

• Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations – Reflections & Notes BETH KANTER | MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013

• TED and TED-Ed win 11 Webbys TED | TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2013

April, 2013

• ADAPTIVE PATH | THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
  	Exploratorium: Mapping the Experience of Experiments 'We're huge fans of our soon to be San Francisco waterfront neighbors, the Exploratorium. So when we had the opportunity to help them map out their visitor experience, we jumped, ran, and flew at it. You might call the Exploratorium a science museum, but you'd be wrong. They don't quite have exhibits, as much as they have experiments. MORE >>

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• DAVID WEINBERGER | TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013

  [berkman] Anil Dash on “The Web We Lost” Anil Dash is giving a Berkman lunchtime talk, titled “The Web We Lost.” ” He begins by pointing out that the title of his talk implies a commonality that at least once was. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. MORE >>

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• DOC SEARLS | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013
  	TV 3.0 'We’re not watching any less TV. In fact, we’re watching more of it, on more different kinds of screens. Does this mean that TV absorbs the Net, or vice versa? Or neither? That’s what I’m exploring here. The Antenna Age. The only thing called “cable” was a flat or a round wire running from the roof to the TV set. MORE >>

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• JANE HART | THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013
  	5 characteristics of how Knowledge Workers like to learn at work 'From the results of the Learning in the Workplace survey and my analysis of how smart workers use social media to work and learn today, 5 key characteristics of how Knowledge Workers like to learn at work have emerged.â?¦ ¦ [.]. Collaboration Social learning MORE >>

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• EUEN SEMPLE | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013

  Love at The Commission This wonderful article, reproduced with her permission, by Maria Podlasek-Ziegler at The European Commission totally nails why social matters in organisations. Love’ at the Commission By Maria (DG EAC). was rather sceptical when somebody told me about using Facebook, Twitter and so on. knew already this was an ‘internal Facebook’ for organisations. MORE >>

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• JAY CROSS | THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
  	Learning Styles, ha, ha, ha, ha 'I wrote this post in Thursday, December 08, 2005, but I’m reposting it here because some people still have not got the message. This is an exception. This marvelously tongue-in-cheek report looks at 800 studies of learning styles and concludes that there are better uses for educational funding. And how about this? verbalisers versus imagers. MORE >>

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• HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013
  	Notes on social learning in business We just finished a month-long workshop at the Social Learning Centre which involved over 50 participants from many countries. This was my last in a series that Jane Hart and I have done over the past year. Jane is conducting an April workshop on enterprise community management and sign-up ends this week. People want to join communities of practice. MORE >>

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• DAVID WEINBERGER | TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013

  Elsevier acquires Mendeley + all the data about what you read, share, and highlight 'I liked the Mendeley guys. Their product is terrific — read your scientific articles, annotate them, be guided by the reading behaviors of millions of other people. also appreciated Mendeley’s internal conflict about the urge to openness and the need to run a business. They were making reasonable decisions, I thought. MORE >>

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• DOC SEARLS | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013

  How the Web is being body-snatched Yesterday, when  Anil Dash  ( @AnilDash ) spoke about The Web We Lost at Harvard , I took notes in my little outliner , in a browser. They follow. The top outline level is slide titles, or main points. The next level down are points made under the level above. Or, at least that’s how I outlined them. Corrections invited. So read those. MORE >>

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• DAVE SNOWDEN | THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013
  	Context, is well contextual 'It's been the best part of twenty years now since I moved out of operational and strategic management roles and was granted the freedom to play with ideas following IBM's take over of DataSciences. The resulting stress and focus on short term measurement had a negative impact on intrinsic motivation, customer service, innovation and so on. MORE >>

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• Organisational anarchist or corporate jester? EUEN SEMPLE | MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013

• Informal Learning – the other 80% JAY CROSS | TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013

• Connected leadership HAROLD JARCHE | SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2013

• [misc][2b2k] Making Twitter better for disasters DAVID WEINBERGER | TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013

• Faculty Behave Just Like Their Students NINE SHIFT | SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2013

• Reflections on Storytelling IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013

• The Big Data Landscape ELLEN WAGNER | THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013

• 50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10 JAY CROSS | SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2013

• The Connected Workplace HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013

• The perils of projection EUEN SEMPLE | MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013

• Identity systems, failing to communicate DOC SEARLS | MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013

• [eim][misc] Too big to categorize DAVID WEINBERGER | THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013

• Social Business Adoption – The Laggards, The Critics and The Skeptics LUIS SUAREZ | TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013

• Supporting continuous learning and performance improvement – a vital new area of work JANE HART | MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013

• Loose hierarchies for knowledge management HAROLD JARCHE | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013

• The Evolution of Online Learning IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013

• Everything You Thought You Knew About MOOCs Could Be Wrong STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013

• Getting Stronger through Stress: Making Black Swans Work for You JOHN HAGEL | MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013

• Extending Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling to Experience Design ADAPTIVE PATH | TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013

• 50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10 (5) JAY CROSS | SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2013

• We need more sandboxes HAROLD JARCHE | THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013

• 67% find company training/e-learning of little or no value – according to the Learning in the Workplace 2013 survey results. JANE HART | MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013

• McLuhan - Understanding Media - Summary of Chapters 11-14 STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2013

• A Contrarian View on Resilience JOHN HAGEL | MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013

• on Service Design ADAPTIVE PATH | THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013

• 9 ways that sound affects our health, wellbeing and productivity TED | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013

• Activate your knowledge HAROLD JARCHE | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013

• What is the role of the Learning Professional? JANE HART | TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013

• Sach’s Winning the Story Wars CLARK QUINN | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013

• Social networks and engineering serendipity in the workplace ROSS DAWSON | FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2013

• Three Trends Driving Healthcare Experiences ADAPTIVE PATH | MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013

• What motivates us at work? 7 fascinating studies that give insights TED | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013

• The risky quadrant HAROLD JARCHE | TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013

• Podcast about the DPLA’s status and its relation to public libraries DAVID WEINBERGER | MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013

• International Perspective: The MOOC and Campus-Based Learning STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013

• Beyond GDP - Measuring Value in a Service-oriented, Information-based, Digital Economy IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013

• UX Week 2013 Speaker Preview ADAPTIVE PATH | MONDAY, APRIL 29, 2013

• From TEDGlobal speakers: 11 websites and links you didn’t know you needed in your life TED | TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013

• stop talking about jobs HAROLD JARCHE | THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013

• Bill and TED’s Excellent Initiative? A great suggestion from Stephen Colbert TED | TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013

Week of April 26, 2013

• DOC SEARLS | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013
  	TV 3.0 'We’re not watching any less TV. In fact, we’re watching more of it, on more different kinds of screens. Does this mean that TV absorbs the Net, or vice versa? Or neither? That’s what I’m exploring here. The Antenna Age. The only thing called “cable” was a flat or a round wire running from the roof to the TV set. MORE >>

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• JANE HART | THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013
  	5 characteristics of how Knowledge Workers like to learn at work 'From the results of the Learning in the Workplace survey and my analysis of how smart workers use social media to work and learn today, 5 key characteristics of how Knowledge Workers like to learn at work have emerged.â?¦ ¦ [.]. Collaboration Social learning MORE >>

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• DAVE SNOWDEN | THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013
  	Context, is well contextual 'It's been the best part of twenty years now since I moved out of operational and strategic management roles and was granted the freedom to play with ideas following IBM's take over of DataSciences. The resulting stress and focus on short term measurement had a negative impact on intrinsic motivation, customer service, innovation and so on. MORE >>

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• ELLEN WAGNER | THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013
  	The Big Data Landscape 'If you post the term "Big Data" in your Google search window today, more than 2 billion google search results will appear. If you perform a similar search on Bing, you will see that more than 1,790,000 Big Data links. PAR Framework Research Trends WCET MORE >>

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• DAVID WEINBERGER | THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013

  [eim][misc] Too big to categorize 'Amanda Filipacchi has a great post at the New York Times about the problem with classifying American female novelists as American female novelists. That’s been going on at Wikipedia, with the result that the category American novelist was becoming filled predominantly with male novelists. Amanda makes both points. It’s just a mess. MORE >>

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• LUIS SUAREZ | TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013

  Social Business Adoption – The Laggards, The Critics and The Skeptics 'A couple of years back, Giovanni Rodriguez  put together a guest blog post over a ReadWriteWeb  on the topic of Enterprise 2.0 Adoption: Does It Have To Be So Hard? and it’s rather interesting to see how almost three years later the challenge seems to be there still, alive and kicking: Social / Open Business Adoption is hard. And so forth. MORE >>

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• IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013
  	The Evolution of Online Learning 'Where will good jobs come from in our emerging digital economy?  This is a really important question   given the dramatic changes taking place in the economy, mostly driven by the continuing advances in technology and the forces of globalization.  Unfortunately, we don’t have very good answers. Let me say a few words about them. He took several. MORE >>

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• JANE HART | MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013

  67% find company training/e-learning of little or no value – according to the Learning in the Workplace 2013 survey results. 'The Learning in the Workplace Survey has now been taken by over 600 people, and although it is still open if you want to cast your vote, I am going to release some interim findings here today as the pattern of results has been pretty stable for some time now.â?¦ ¦ [.]. Strategy MORE >>

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• ADAPTIVE PATH | THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013

  on Service Design 'While in Berlin for our (awesome) workshop series, UX Intensive I accepted an invitation to speak at a local meet up with only the promise that I would speak “about service design.” ” The resulting talk, on Service Design, is a mixed tape of sorts. on Service Design from Patrick Quattlebaum. So stay tuned. MORE >>

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• TED | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013

  9 ways that sound affects our health, wellbeing and productivity 'Julian Treasure takes the stage at TEDGlobal 2009, sharing the shocking fact that — when you can hear others talking in an open office — productivity dips by 66%. Julian Treasure cares very deeply for your ears. That’s why he’s given TED talks like “ The 4 ways sound affects us ” and “ Why architects need to use their ears.” MORE >>

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• ten years HAROLD JARCHE | SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013

• Three Trends Driving Healthcare Experiences ADAPTIVE PATH | MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013

• 25 life hacks you didn’t know you needed, but do. Probably. TED | FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013

• MOOCs: a breath of fresh air, albeit the same air DONALD CLARK PLAN B | SUNDAY, APRIL 21, 2013

• NEW NSF REPORT: New Technology-based Models for Postsecondary Learning ELLEN WAGNER | MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013

• Texting as a “miraculous thing”: 6 ways our generation is redefining communication TED | MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013

• MOOCs: Who’s using MOOCs? 10 different target audiences DONALD CLARK PLAN B | THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013

• Cooperation in the networked workplace HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013

• TweetDeck RIP CLARK QUINN | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013

• Last night at TED headquarters: a salon on life hacks TED | THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013

• Communication DAVE SNOWDEN | THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 2013

• Advancing Social Media Measurement for Philanthropic Outcomes #sm_re BETH KANTER | TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013

• Turning New York City INSIDE OUT: Volunteering at JR’s photo truck TED | FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013

• Now That’s A Spreadsheet! BETH KANTER | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 2013

• Robinsons’ Performance Consulting CLARK QUINN | MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013

• Innovation. Maybe. JAY CROSS | SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 2013

• Citizen Engineers DAVE SNOWDEN | FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2013

• 12 talks to watch this Earth Day TED | MONDAY, APRIL 22, 2013

• Get ready for TED Talks Education, airing May 7 at 10pm TED | TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013

• A gallery of JR mania: The artist takes Manhattan TED | TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 2013

Week of April 19, 2013

• DAVID WEINBERGER | TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013

  [misc][2b2k] Making Twitter better for disasters 'I had both CNN and Twitter on yesterday all afternoon, looking for news about the Boston Marathon bombings. have not done a rigorous analysis (nor will I, nor have I ever), but it felt to me that Twitter put forward more and more varied claims about the situation, and reacted faster to misstatements. Second, let us mute based on hashtag or by user. MORE >>

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• JAY CROSS | TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013
  	Informal Learning – the other 80% 'Years ago a start-up commissioned me to write a white paper that would help put them on the map. wrote the paper that follows. It’s probably the most popular thing I’ve ever written. The start-up stiffed me but the paper morphed into the Informal Learning book. think it’s held up rather well. Informal Learning – the other 80%. MORE >>

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• HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013
  	The Connected Workplace 'Today’s digitally connected workplace demands a completely new set of skills. Our increasing interconnectedness is illuminating the complexity of our work environments. More connections create more possibilities, as well as more potential problems. However, complex work is difficult to copy and creative work constantly changes. MORE >>

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• IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013
  	Reflections on Storytelling 'Storytelling has played a central role in human communications since times immemorial.  Storytelling predates writing.  Oral narratives were used by many ancient cultures as a way of passing along their traditions, beliefs and learning from generation to generation.  In short, you are creating and telling a story about your brand.  It worked.  MORE >>

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• JANE HART | TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013
  	What is the role of the Learning Professional? 'What is the primary role of the learning professional in an organisation today? Is it to organise and manage what people learn? by designing, creating and delivering content (training/instruction/courses/resources) then tracking that people use it, and measuring success in terms of learning activity metricsâ?¦ ¦ (e.g. [.]. Learning MORE >>

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• STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | SUNDAY, APRIL 14, 2013

  McLuhan - Understanding Media - Summary of Chapters 11-14 Numbers, he writes, grip us and keep us in their thrall. The driver toward unlimited growth, the pleasure of being among the masses - these both illustrate an anti-intellectualism that has long been subject to the suspicions of the rational among us. Indeed, the modern properties of numbers are not derived from primitive society at all. MORE >>

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• HAROLD JARCHE | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013
  	Activate your knowledge 'PKM is much more than processing information. It’s about ideas, conversations and especially relationships. Most of all, PKM is a framework to actually do knowledge work. It is a framework that helps move from an awareness of knowledge to activation of its use in the context of getting work done. Passion at Work, page 11]. MORE >>

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• CLARK QUINN | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013

  Sach’s Winning the Story Wars 'On a recommendation, I’ve been reading Jonah Sach’s Winning the Story Wars. While it’s ostensibly about marketing/advertising, which interests me not, I was intrigued by the possibilities to understand stories from a different perspective. I was surprised to find that it offered much more. But I suggest there’s more. MORE >>

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• ADAPTIVE PATH | THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013
  	Translating Amazon’s Letter to Shareholders 'If you haven't stumbled across Jeff Bezo's recent letter to shareholders , it's worth a read. Just a few excerpts: "One advantage—perhaps a somewhat subtle one—of a customer-driven focus is that it aids a certain type of proactivity. When we’re at our best, we don’t wait for external pressures. MORE >>

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• DAVE SNOWDEN | TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013
  	and so to SCRUM/KANBAN 'Yesterday I updated the Complexity domain model, but left the coherence diagonal for today. promised to do this in the context of Agile, Scrum, KANBAN and the like and will do so, although the points are more generally applicable. also want to make an important qualification before moving forward. Otherwise you are not scanning widely enough. MORE >>

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• The risky quadrant HAROLD JARCHE | TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013

• [misc] StackLife goes live – visually browse millions of books DAVID WEINBERGER | THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013

• The Great Rebranding STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | SATURDAY, APRIL 13, 2013

• Complex domain: April 2013 DAVE SNOWDEN | TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013

• 10 great talks about talking TED | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013

• Kids Getting Smarter NINE SHIFT | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013

• The GovLab STEVEN BERLIN JOHNSON | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013

• when engineers run the world? DAVE SNOWDEN | MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013

• MOOCs: taxonomy of 8 types of MOOC DONALD CLARK PLAN B | TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013

• State of Society April 2013 NINE SHIFT | THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013

• Nailed! How managers develop proficiency JAY CROSS | THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013

• Is your focus prevention or promotion? 5 questions for Halvorson & Higgins DAN PINK | THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013

• The Next Generational War NINE SHIFT | MONDAY, APRIL 15, 2013

• A visual look at 7 things that make us feel good about work TED | FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 2013

• Unlocking Data for Philanthropy: Notes from Global Philanthropy Forum Session BETH KANTER | THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013

• How Do We Balance Measuring Outcomes with Measuring to Learn and Improve? (#SM_RE) BETH KANTER | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013

• TIME Magazine reveals the 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2013 TED | THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 2013

• Thomas Insel’s insights on mental health: a tale of two TED playlists TED | TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013

• A playlist as we “look for the helpers” TED | TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2013

Week of April 12, 2013

• ADAPTIVE PATH | THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
  	Exploratorium: Mapping the Experience of Experiments 'We're huge fans of our soon to be San Francisco waterfront neighbors, the Exploratorium. So when we had the opportunity to help them map out their visitor experience, we jumped, ran, and flew at it. You might call the Exploratorium a science museum, but you'd be wrong. They don't quite have exhibits, as much as they have experiments. MORE >>

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• DAVID WEINBERGER | TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013

  Elsevier acquires Mendeley + all the data about what you read, share, and highlight 'I liked the Mendeley guys. Their product is terrific — read your scientific articles, annotate them, be guided by the reading behaviors of millions of other people. also appreciated Mendeley’s internal conflict about the urge to openness and the need to run a business. They were making reasonable decisions, I thought. MORE >>

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• JAY CROSS | THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
  	Learning Styles, ha, ha, ha, ha 'I wrote this post in Thursday, December 08, 2005, but I’m reposting it here because some people still have not got the message. This is an exception. This marvelously tongue-in-cheek report looks at 800 studies of learning styles and concludes that there are better uses for educational funding. And how about this? verbalisers versus imagers. MORE >>

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• EUEN SEMPLE | MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013

  Organisational anarchist or corporate jester? 'Phillipe Borrowmans just posted a great post about the possibilities of truly social business which he titled "We need more Corporate Anarchists". But today I see more and more "social business" projects that tend to have "better control" as an objective. Why not use social media to truly open up an organization ? MORE >>

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• NINE SHIFT | SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2013
  	Faculty Behave Just Like Their Students 'We teach faculty. And they behave just like their students. Especially when it comes to gender. While trying to convince their male students to act like girls in the classroom, male faculty behave just like male students.  And female faculty behave just like their female students. Males do 30% less school work than females, for instance.  MORE >>

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• HAROLD JARCHE | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013

  Loose hierarchies for knowledge management 'Knowledge-sharing practices are highly contextual. have seen this with clients in multiple locations, across national borders. This makes sense when you consider that knowledge sharing is deeply personal as well as social, so it reflects the larger culture and the particular workplace. In our distributed economic world, this is workplace reality. MORE >>

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• JAY CROSS | SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2013
  	50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10 'Things should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. implementing 70-20-10 is not simple. Sharing 50 suggestions on putting 70-20-10 to work has consumed five posts spread over two months. Today the series is complete. Here’s what you’ll find: Post 1     Post 2     Post 3     Post 4     Post 5. Effective managers make stretch. MORE >>

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• EUEN SEMPLE | MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013

  The perils of projection 'It is interesting thinking back to the Thatcher era and how polarised we became. You can see it happening now online with the news of her death. You can see the same thing watching the current conservative government demonising people. Whether it is immigrants, skivers, it is always "them". We fall into the same trap in organisations. MORE >>

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• JOHN HAGEL | MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013

  Getting Stronger through Stress: Making Black Swans Work for You 'Unanticipated events, especially extreme unanticipated events, can harm us or even destroy us. But they can also help us to grow and make us stronger. If they do the former, we tend to fear them and avoid them wherever possible. If they do the latter, our orientation shifts and we tend to welcome them. Focusing on Black Swans. As he observes, “. MORE >>

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• HAROLD JARCHE | THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
  	We need more sandboxes 'Earlier this week I wrote that practices like personal knowledge management (PKM), and its potential for enhanced serendipity can give us the underlying structure to become better hackers and more creative. Behaviour change comes through small, but consistent, changes in practice. Play, explore and converse. PKM can be your cognitive sandbox. MORE >>

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• Extending Pixar’s Rules of Storytelling to Experience Design ADAPTIVE PATH | TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013

• 50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10 (5) JAY CROSS | SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2013

• What motivates us at work? 7 fascinating studies that give insights TED | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013

• Data Science - the Emergence of a New Discipline IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013

• Games & Meaningful Interactivity CLARK QUINN | MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013

• Why I For One Welcome Our New Robot Underlings ANDY MCAFEE | TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013

• From TEDGlobal speakers: 11 websites and links you didn’t know you needed in your life TED | TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013

• the FLAT ARMY cheat sheet DAN PONTEFRACT | MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013

• ABC: Keep it Simple Training JANE HART | TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013

• The New York Times Gets it All Wrong NINE SHIFT | TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013

• 9 documentaries that you need to see this year TED | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013

• Me and the Complexity MOOC JAY CROSS | MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013

• 10 amazing comments from renegade gardener Ron Finley TED | FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 2013

• Decline of the Tea Party NINE SHIFT | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10, 2013

• Increasing our responsibility CLARK QUINN | TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013

• How Nonprofit Leaders Make Time for Social Media and Other Secrets to Adoption BETH KANTER | TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013

• TED-Ed and CERN unveil “The beginning of the universe” TED | TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013

• 50 suggestions for implementing 70-20-10 (4) JAY CROSS | SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 2013

• Why givers (often) succeed: 5 questions for Adam Grant DAN PINK | TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013

• Really? This is what we do now? Gmail in your glasses? MARK OEHLERT | SUNDAY, APRIL 7, 2013

• 5 powerful talks about the quest for equality in the United States TED | MONDAY, APRIL 8, 2013

• Bill and TED’s Excellent Initiative? A great suggestion from Stephen Colbert TED | TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2013

Week of April 5, 2013

• DAVID WEINBERGER | TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013

  [berkman] Anil Dash on “The Web We Lost” Anil Dash is giving a Berkman lunchtime talk, titled “The Web We Lost.” ” He begins by pointing out that the title of his talk implies a commonality that at least once was. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. MORE >>

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• EUEN SEMPLE | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013

  Love at The Commission This wonderful article, reproduced with her permission, by Maria Podlasek-Ziegler at The European Commission totally nails why social matters in organisations. Love’ at the Commission By Maria (DG EAC). was rather sceptical when somebody told me about using Facebook, Twitter and so on. knew already this was an ‘internal Facebook’ for organisations. MORE >>

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• DOC SEARLS | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013

  How the Web is being body-snatched Yesterday, when  Anil Dash  ( @AnilDash ) spoke about The Web We Lost at Harvard , I took notes in my little outliner , in a browser. They follow. The top outline level is slide titles, or main points. The next level down are points made under the level above. Or, at least that’s how I outlined them. Corrections invited. So read those. MORE >>

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• HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013
  	Notes on social learning in business We just finished a month-long workshop at the Social Learning Centre which involved over 50 participants from many countries. This was my last in a series that Jane Hart and I have done over the past year. Jane is conducting an April workshop on enterprise community management and sign-up ends this week. People want to join communities of practice. MORE >>

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• STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013

  Everything You Thought You Knew About MOOCs Could Be Wrong Summary of a presentation by Phil Hill and Michael Feldstein. Phil – there’s so much hype or madness around MOOCs, and there’s a lot of discussion from people who were not previously involved in online education. They sometimes act like online education was invented in the last two years. They are a content distribution from a central perspective. MORE >>

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• JOHN HAGEL | MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013

  A Contrarian View on Resilience In a world of growing uncertainty and mounting performance pressure, it’s understandable that resilience has become a very hot topic. Everyone is talking about it and writing about it. We all seem to want to develop more resilience. How can I say that? But the more I heard, the more distressed I became. What does resilience mean? Aiming higher. MORE >>

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• ROSS DAWSON | FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2013

  Social networks and engineering serendipity in the workplace 'The New York Times has an interesting article titled Engineering Serendipity which looks at the some of the ways companies are trying to create felicitous and unexpected connections between their staff. After introducing what Yahoo! The University of Chicago sociologist Ronald S. Burt calls these organizational gaps “structural holes.” MORE >>

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• DAVID WEINBERGER | MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013

  Podcast about the DPLA’s status and its relation to public libraries The latest podcast in the Digital Campus series focuses solely on the current state of the Digital Public Library of America. The discussion includes Dan Cohen who has just accepted the position of Executive Director of the DPLA, which is just wonderful news. — but he is also — and there’s no other way of putting this — nice. MORE >>

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• HAROLD JARCHE | THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013
  	stop talking about jobs 'Andy McAfee reports in HBR that United Technologies is laying off workers, even though its stock is at an all time high and sales have increased by 35%. simply want to point out that if this example is part of any larger trend, then we cannot rely on economic growth to fix our current problems of unemployment or underemployment. Technology Work MORE >>

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• STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013

  International Perspective: The MOOC and Campus-Based Learning 'Summary of a presentation by Phillip D. Long, University of Queensland Role of the University: - Drew Faust, Harvard: it’s not really about what’s happening term by term or even graduatiomn, but it’s about the experience with us that shapes their life long learning and which transfers a culture one generation to the next. little history. MORE >>

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• Beyond GDP - Measuring Value in a Service-oriented, Information-based, Digital Economy IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013

• Better the devil you know EUEN SEMPLE | TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013

• Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets From A Nonprofit Data Nerd BETH KANTER | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013

• MOOCs for Credit: Current State of the Art STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013

• Productivity tools for the networked workplace HAROLD JARCHE | TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013

• How Nonprofit CEOs Use Social Media (Enthusiastically) for Personal and Organizational Leadership BETH KANTER | THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013

• Who is Funding the Canadian Taxpayer's Federation? STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2013

• When being interested feels dangerous EUEN SEMPLE | MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013

• Aligning coherency CLARK QUINN | TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013

• Making sense of complexity and innovation HAROLD JARCHE | FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2013

• Designing and Implementing MOOCs that Maximize Student Learning STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013

• Why blogging still matters EUEN SEMPLE | SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013

• Hire the ‘loud’? CLARK QUINN | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013

• Free Jay webinar with prizes JAY CROSS | MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013

• MOOC Provider Panel: Coursera, Academic Partnerships, Instructure, edX STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013

• The passing of time EUEN SEMPLE | SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013

• How we can make elections about the people, not just funders: An excerpt of Lawrence Lessig’s new TED Book, “Lesterland” TED | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013

• End of text based online courses NINE SHIFT | TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013

• I traveled the length of the Keystone XL Pipeline: A Q&A with TED Book author Steven Mufson TED | FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2013

• Advice to OcTEL STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2013

• Education not Big Government for Gen Y NINE SHIFT | SUNDAY, MARCH 31, 2013

• Using an Open Source Platform to Meet Online Learning Goals STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 3, 2013

• Introducing the TEDGlobal 2013 speaker lineup TED | TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013

• Three reasons to watch TEDxChange tomorrow TED | TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013

• Angela Patton holds second father-daughter dance in prison, sets sights on a documentary TED | MONDAY, APRIL 1, 2013

• 9 transportation devices that could make your commute far more fun TED | TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013

• A Practical Guide to the Top 100 Tools for Learning JANE HART'S PICK OF THE DAY | TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 2013

• See self-assembly and 4D printing in action TED | THURSDAY, APRIL 4, 2013

March, 2013

• GEORGE SIEMENS | SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 2013

  Group work advice for MOOC providers The most valuable aspect of MOOCs is that the large number of learners enables the formation of sub-networks based on interested, geography, language, or some other attribute that draws individuals together. With 20 students in a class, limited options exist for forming sub-networks. When you have 5,000 students, new configurations are possible. MORE >>

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• HAROLD JARCHE | SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2013
  	From hierarchies to wirearchies Work in the network era needs to be both  cooperative and collaborative , meaning that organizations have to support both types of activities. This may not be an easy transition for companies based almost uniquely on command and control leadership. The model makes it relatively easy to see where your organization stands and where it should go. MORE >>

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• JANE HART | SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2013
  	ABC: 10 reasons NOT to create a course and 10 other options My colleague, Clark Quinn, recently wrote a blog post, Yes, you do have to change, in which he explained how he felt that “ the elearning industry, and the broader learning industry, is severely underperforming the potential”. ¦ [.]. Social learningMORE >>

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• CLARK QUINN | MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2013

  Yes, you do have to change Of late, I’ve seen a disturbing trend. Not only are the purveyors of existing solutions preaching caution and steadiness, but it even seems like some of the  ’names’ of the field are talking in ways that make it easy to think that the industry is largely doing ok. We  know what leads to effective learning outcomes. So lead the way. MORE >>

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• DONALD CLARK PLAN B | SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2013
  	BYOD: 7 reasons to leave them to their own devices BYOD isn’t a recommendation, it’s a realty. Everyone’s bought one and everyone uses one and everyone carries it around with them. When we organise a meeting or conference, we don’t send people an email telling them what device to bring, neither do we buy or lease a whole load of computers and hand them out. They bring their own. Exactly! MORE >>

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• ELLEN WAGNER | FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 2013

  The Reason THIS EDUdotcom May Not Be As Different From Last Time As You Think If there was ever any doubt that we are in the midst of a new dot.com boom for education, that doubt was removed at this week's SXSWEDU. The event brought entrepreneurs and educators to Austin, Texas for four days of. Business Diffusion of Innovation eLearning Innovation Internet Technology TrendsMORE >>

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• THE SMART WORK COMPANY | TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013

  It's Deja Vu All Over Again 'I came away from the Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Paris last week energised by conversations with old and new friends. also came away more convinced than ever that there are insights on making the transition to new ways of working that are largely overlooked. And as I listened, I wondered why any of this should be a surprise to anyone. Enterprise 2.0. MORE >>

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• HAROLD JARCHE | SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 2013
  	We need to learn how to connect From danah boyd’s presentation at ASTD TechKnowledge 2013 , on the future of work: But if you want to prepare people not just for the next job, but for the one after that, you need to help them think through the relationships they have and what they learn from the people around them. Neither does any company. Neither does any government. MORE >>

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• JANE HART | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2013

  Instructional design: from “packaging” to “scaffolding” For me, this is the key way for workplace learning professionals to move the learning industry into the future. It usually refers to the process of extracting knowledge from Subject Matter Experts, and presenting this content in a logical order for individuals to study. This may help the learner immediately, but it hinders the learning process. MORE >>

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• EUEN SEMPLE | THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2013
  	2.0 on the outside but 1.0 on the inside When I came up with the caption on the slide in the photo above I was thinking about organisations but it occurred to me tonight that it applies at least as much to us as individuals. This is what I was getting at in the chapters "We all need to grow up", "The ultimate in democracy" and "Evolution on steroids" in my book. MORE >>

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• Sugata Mitra: Slum chic? 7 reasons for doubt DONALD CLARK PLAN B | MONDAY, MARCH 4, 2013

• Surf’s down. For now. DOC SEARLS | FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 2013

• Why Should We Care About Rising Inequality? ANDY MCAFEE | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2013

• The knowledge sharing paradox HAROLD JARCHE | SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2013

• Supporting self-managed team learning in the organisation JANE HART | MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2013

• BCS Conference DAVE SNOWDEN | SUNDAY, MARCH 17, 2013

• Evaluating a MOOC STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2013

• Facebook’s shark-jump advertising moves DOC SEARLS | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 2013

• People, Organization, Technology? MARTIJN LINSSEN | TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2013

• No cookie cutters for complexity HAROLD JARCHE | THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013

• Where does managed learning stop and self-managed learning begin? JANE HART | FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013

• Payment Technologies: Past, Present and Future IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2013

• Sustainability and MOOCs in Historical Perspective STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013

• Human Sensor Networks… the ultimate executive coach DAVE SNOWDEN | TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 2013

• [annotation][2b2k] Philip Desenne DAVID WEINBERGER | THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013

• Keep democracy in education HAROLD JARCHE | SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 2013

• Enterprise Community Management: “joining up” learning and working JANE HART | MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2013

• The 7 characteristics of powerful visions for effective leadership ROSS DAWSON | TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013

• Apple, please give up on Maps DOC SEARLS | FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013

• Coursera needs to start acting like a platform GEORGE SIEMENS | THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013

• [2b2k] Events are not the facts DAVID WEINBERGER | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2013

• Perpetual Beta is the new reality HAROLD JARCHE | FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 2013

• Aaron Dignan #LSCon Keynote Mindmap CLARK QUINN | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 2013

• The Arbejdsglaede of Employee Engagement LUIS SUAREZ | THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013

• Remembering Mom DOC SEARLS | FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013

• Cutting through a weave destroys it DAVE SNOWDEN | MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2013

• What The New Yorker doesn’t say about Aaron DAVID WEINBERGER | SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 2013

• Only open systems are effective for knowledge sharing HAROLD JARCHE | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2013

• Barrier to scale? CLARK QUINN | MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2013

• The 10 most popular TED-Ed lessons so far TED | THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013

• Toward opt-in advertising DOC SEARLS | SUNDAY, MARCH 3, 2013

• [2b2k] The increasing opacity of facts DAVID WEINBERGER | SUNDAY, MARCH 10, 2013

• The right tool for the right job HAROLD JARCHE | TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 2013

• Signs of hope? CLARK QUINN | THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 2013

• Google Glass: 7 amazing uses in learning DONALD CLARK PLAN B | THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013

• What the internet looked like in 1982: A closer look at Danny Hillis’ vintage directory of users TED | MONDAY, MARCH 18, 2013

• The Sharing Experiment and The Kid Inside You LUIS SUAREZ | MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2013

• [misc] The Wars on Terrorism, Al Qaeda, Cancer, and Dessert DAVID WEINBERGER | SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2013

• Work is already a game HAROLD JARCHE | MONDAY, MARCH 11, 2013

• Timelapse of a disappearance: Talking with artist Liu Bolin TED | SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 2013

Week of March 29, 2013

• JANE HART | SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2013
  	ABC: 10 reasons NOT to create a course and 10 other options My colleague, Clark Quinn, recently wrote a blog post, Yes, you do have to change, in which he explained how he felt that “ the elearning industry, and the broader learning industry, is severely underperforming the potential”. ¦ [.]. Social learningMORE >>

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• HAROLD JARCHE | SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2013
  	The knowledge sharing paradox An effective suite of enterprise social tools can help organizations share knowledge, collaborate, and cooperate – connecting the work being done with the identification of new opportunities and ideas. It takes a networked organization, staffed by people with networked mindsets, to thrive in a networked economy. complexity PKM WorkMORE >>

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• THE SMART WORK COMPANY | TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013

  It's Deja Vu All Over Again 'I came away from the Enterprise 2.0 Summit in Paris last week energised by conversations with old and new friends. also came away more convinced than ever that there are insights on making the transition to new ways of working that are largely overlooked. And as I listened, I wondered why any of this should be a surprise to anyone. Enterprise 2.0. MORE >>

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• DAVID WEINBERGER | THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013

  [annotation][2b2k] Philip Desenne I’m at a workshop on annotation at Harvard. Philip Desenne is giving one of the keynotes. NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words. MORE >>

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• DAVE SNOWDEN | MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2013
  	Cutting through a weave destroys it Last Thursday night saw a Rugby dinner sponsored by KPMG and the British Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. It's a good Curry do with conversation (on our table at least) based on some knowledge of the sport. admit the humour of a second rate Northern Comedian and the rank sexism of one former player grated at times. Mind you IBM were as bad. MORE >>

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• HAROLD JARCHE | THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013
  	No cookie cutters for complexity Five years ago I noted that big consultancies were jumping on the Web 2.0 bandwagon but more nimble  upstarts (like me) could now significantly engage in a conversation with our markets using our own tools, like blogs, with which we have developed a certain advanced level of expertise. For example, what exactly is “Advanced” Web 2.0 technology ? MORE >>

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• LUIS SUAREZ | MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2013
  	The Sharing Experiment and The Kid Inside You If you would remember, a few months back, I put together this blog post on “ Why Do I Share My Knowledge? “, where I reflected on the main reasons as to why I’m so keen myself on sharing my knowledge across out there openly and in a more or less transparent manner. guess that’s what Open Business  is all about. Whether Whoah! MORE >>

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• DAVID WEINBERGER | FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2013
  	[2b2k] Back when not every question had an answer Let me remind you young whippersnappers what looking for knowledge was like before the Internet (or “hiphop” as I believe you call it). Cast your mind back to 1982, when your Mommy and Daddy weren’t even gleams in each other’s eyes. had just bought my first computer, a KayPro II. ComputerCloset. What a bother! “Simple!” MORE >>

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• ROSS DAWSON | MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2013

  How drones could build real-world networks to transform delivery of food, medicine, mail, and more The rise of drones (unmanned aerial vehicles) has been at the forefront of the news over the last months, with issues emerging that range from the remote use of military force to domestic privacy. However there are many very positive applications of drones. The video below shows the Matternet Vision. There are also developed world applications. MORE >>

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• HAROLD JARCHE | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2013

  Only open systems are effective for knowledge sharing Seth Godin makes a very good point about trusting the select few to curate information, whether they be leaders, managers, certified professionals, researchers, or any other group of experts. We have no idea in advance who the great contributors are going to be. Seth Godin explains it with this graphic. The good news is that they do not have to. MORE >>

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• Reflections on Experience CLARK QUINN | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2013

• The pleasure of minor illness DAVID WEINBERGER | SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 2013

• Meet David Peterson, who developed Dothraki for Game of Thrones TED | FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2013

• Tips and Tools for Integrating Social Media Into Your Nonprofit Event Marketing Plan BETH KANTER | THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013

• 10 Free Copies of Flat Army … Participate to Win DAN PONTEFRACT | MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2013

• Tablets: 7 researched ways they can inhibit learning DONALD CLARK PLAN B | SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2013

• Op-Ed: The still-tolerated gender bias in science TED | FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2013

• Why there's push back on Telework NINE SHIFT | TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013

• Future Work STEPHEN DOWNES: HALF AN HOUR | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2013

• My Year of TED: How 54 talks changed a life TED | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2013

• Coates discovers supporting evidence on STEM solution NINE SHIFT | SUNDAY, MARCH 24, 2013

• Two Free E-Books for Nonprofits on Fundraising, Marketing, and Content Strategies BETH KANTER | FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 2013

• George Takei on “Star Trek,” musicals and Japanese American internment TED | THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013

• Gen Y Top Priority: Change Education NINE SHIFT | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2013

• Happy 4th Birthday, TEDx! TED | TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013

• Further readings in game theory: How it applies to marriage, kidney donation chains and government gridlock TED | THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013

• Attention Nonprofit #datanerds: 3 Research Studies and 3 Cool (FREE) Data Tools BETH KANTER | WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 2013

• Can you recap 30 years of architecture? Submit a proposal to speak at TED2014 TED | THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013

• The courage to believe change is possible: A Q&A with Melinda Gates TED | TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013