PodCamp Halifax 2009
PodCampHalifax2009 seems like a great mid-Winter activity. Time to get away from my computer screen and meet some folks. This year's event is the Aldernay Gate Public Library on 25 January, from 9 to 5.
This is an unconference, focused on social media (blogs, wikis, podcasts, video, etc). The goal is ... Make commenting easyBlogs have 3 primary characteristics that make them different from other media. 1) Blogs have a permanent resource identifier that does not change over time, 2) Blogs publish an RSS/Atom feed to notify services of updates, and (most importantly) 3) Blogs allow comments. What differentiates blogs from other published information ... Volume, Velocity, Virtualization & VariabilityThere are four V's that should be kept in focus as Enterprise 2.0 becomes more of a reality in 2009, according to Mike Gotta:
the volume of information is growing exponentially,
the velocity of business is increasing,
the virtualization of the workplace continues
the variability of roles an employee may be ... People, Events and Ideas"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt
I don't completely agree with this statement but it puts into perspective where our greatest effort should be. The discussion of ideas and finding ways to take action on those ideas is the great work that ... New year, new challengesI'm not sure what the next year will bring but I'm certain that it will be as full of changes as 2008. Change is accelerating. Blogging, which wasn't even in the dictionary when I started this one, is getting competitive:
With all of this new competition, the future could be very ... Innovation and LearningIn Innovating in the Great Disruption, Scott Anthony suggests three disciplines necessary to foster innovation in difficult economic times - placing a premium on progress; mastering paradox; and learning to love the low end. He also discusses the importance of learning;
Innovators will need to continue to find creative, cheap ways ... New organisational DNAI'm going to take some time off work and writing over the holidays, with perhaps a post if the mood strikes me. What really interests me at this time is how The Great Disruption may be opening up possibilities for change that did not exist even six months ago. I ... On-job support is criticalI don't usually get information about training and performance improvement in the Wall Street Journal but this article clearly spells out the benefits of linking training directly to the workplace. In Lessons Learned, Harry Martin describes two cases and provides several links for further reading. Basically, formal training is more ... Need for collaboration continues to growWe're starting to see some interest in our TogetherLearn initiative and one of the main drivers seems to be cost-reduction. I came across this future-looking ZDNet article via Bertrand Duperrin and it sums up the situation nicely:
However, for business-driven internal enterprise Web 2.0 collaboration projects, I see growth. Why? Because ... Blogs are not a “substitute”Print media are in dire trouble - but blogs are no substitute says Andrew Sullivan in the Times Online:
The terrifying problem is that a one-man blog cannot begin to do the necessary labour-intensive, skilled reporting that a good newspaper sponsors and pioneers. A world in which reporting becomes even more ...
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