Whether to provide a more vibrant and relevant educational experience or to save money on text books, it looks like online education is making some headway. Connecticut District Tosses Algebra Textbooks and Goes Online, that's what I read last week in the New York Times . Connecticut teachers were frustrated by rushing students "through their… Read More
Image by mindseyeimagery via Flickr The other day I got a LinkedIn group alert from Andrew Spong linking to an article in The Journal of Electronic Publishing entitled Open Access 2.0: Access to Scholarly Publications Moves to a New Phase, by Joseph J. Esposito. His "Nautilus Model of Scholarly Communications" was a brilliant way to… Read More
Image via CrunchBase A couple of months ago, someone to whom I'm connected on Facebook mentioned that I over ran their home page with Twitter updates the last time I was at a conference. I tend to take conference notes on Twitter. When I had Twitter feed Facebook updates, my status was being updated… Read More
I’ve wanted to learn Spanish most of my life, but I’ve never gotten passed a couple of classes in high school and college. I tried again a few years ago. Even after spending a few hundred dollars on Rosetta Stone, I stopped using it after a couple of weeks. That’s about to change thanks to… Read More
We hear it all the time. Without effective communication every interpersonal relationship, every goal, every strategy, every organization, is at risk. Misunderstandings, poor morale, and ineffective relationships rooted in poor communication are commonplace. Effective communication is hard. It can be uncomfortable. It can make people angry with you. But, it’s the only way to solve… Read More
Lately, the economy is all we hear about in the news. It seems as though there are constantly more layoffs, more programs being cut, and more industries asking for help from the government. When so many individuals, companies, and industries are worried about their survival, what happens to innovation? Is opportunity a side effect of… Read More
Image by maveric2003 via Flickr Not everyone in a company hears the same thing at the same time. Everyone hasn’t gone to the same meetings, had the same hallway conversations, seen the same PowerPoint decks, read the same emails, or had the same amount of time to digest the information. This impacts change initiatives, including… Read More
Image via Wikipedia Most of us have brainstormed with a group. Someone puts an idea out there, someone adds to it or adjusts it, and the group iterates through possibilities. Many ideas come to surface. Some are “good” (meaning that for our particular purpose they have potential application). Some aren’t. Until recently what we’ve called… Read More