I've just started contributing to the Society of Scholarly Publishing blog, the Scholarly Kitchen. My first two posts are: Conferences of Infinite Dimension Since When Does Community Mean Everybody If you haven't visited, come by and take a look. We have some pretty interesting cooks in the kitchen!… Read More
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Having attended several conferences throughout the fall, I seemed to get hit with the same two product development points over and over: The product is the platform (and sometimes the process) The platform allows consumption, production, and sharing The platform caters to the idea, brilliantly covered by Clay Shirky, that people don’t just want to… Read More
Ammy Vogtlander, Managing Director of BlueInsights, participated in a panel discussion on copyright at the Global Information Industry Summit (GIIS). According to Ammy, networks of people with common interests (like LinkedIn), information sharing communities (like YouTube or SharePoint), and groups that organize information (like Connotea) are merging. That’s why she co-founded BlueInsights. As these groups… Read More
Creating an execution plan forces us to consider options and alternatives, weigh current information, and make decisions. Without perfect information, however, those decisions are an educated guess. Today, with fast moving markets, the information explosion, and people getting stretched thinner as “project resources”, priorities are in constant flux and plans that span beyond days are… Read More
A friend and I were talking today about the skills we’ve had to developed to work effectively in virtual teams. Remember when a conference call was a free for all and no one knew when to talk and when to be quiet? Remember when the only way you knew if someone on a call had… Read More
Highlights from three of the sessions I attended today at the Web 2.0 Expo: User-Generated Censorship Annalee Newitz, wrote an article in Wired, I Bought Votes on Digg, to illustrate how people can manipulate social networks. In today’s session, she contrasted the wisdom of crowds with their potential destructive nature. Annalee went through several sites… Read More
Last night I found out that Kent Anderson from the Massachusetts Medical Society, someone whose innovative and thought-provoking ideas I personally enjoy and find extremely helpful, is blogging at the Scholarly Kitchen for the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP). In his post today, Kent considers some interesting business models that could apply to the iPod… Read More