Insights

Trust

I was at the KM Australia conference last week and one side-show was a list of ‘trust behaviours’ which delegates were asked to rank.  This all resulted in a blog posting by Shawn Callahan which you can read here. Shawn came up with eight trust making behaviours and they were ranked in the order included
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Strengths Based Leadership

Jeff Whalan is the former CEO of Centrelink. Two things he said about his role there really struck a chord: “I’ve got a strong view that the role of a CEO is to serve those who work with you,  to enable them to be the best they can.” “Late in my career I’ve realised the importance
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Time for some Campaignin

The Spiridellis brothers have released a spoof video on the internet mocking the current election campaign in the US with a bit of bite behind the satire.  Well worth an investment of 3 minutes of your time.  Check it out via the BBC here.  Or YouTube with the extra promotional bit about Jibjab, below.  Alan
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Silverlight

Has anyone seen Microsoft’s new rich media app Silverlight in action?  If you want to see what it can do, go to the Yosemite Extreme Panoramic Imaging Project.  You have to install Silverlight as a browser plug-in but that is very straight forward.  The project home page presents you with a map of Yosimite and
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Here is The New Strip, Much Like the Old Strip

In case some people have missed this very important announcement from West Ham United Football Club I will retransmit it here.  The Club has announced the new home strip for the 08/09 season.  It goes on sale next Wednesday 30th July, and you had better be quick if you want one, as there is bound to
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Education in a Digital World

The Commonwealth of Learning (COL) has recently released a massive tomb (over 500 pages of text) called Education in a Digital World.  You can read about it here.  It has five parts: Part 1: The Impact of Instructional TechnologiesPart 2: Preparing Online CoursesPart 3: Implementing TechnologyPart 4: E-learning in ActionPart 5: Engagement and Communication And
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Cross Training the Brain

My continuing saga about personal trainers for the brain got a little boost in the current edition of BOSS magazine.  An article supports the idea of keeping the brain mentally tuned and fit.  It cites Elkhonon Goldberg a professor of neurology at New York University who invites particpants to his Mind Gym for an hour
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Net Neutrality

If you don’t think that this is an important issue to be aware of and be prepared to fight to maintain, then look at this YouTube clip.  Ultimately it is  about who controls the internet and who provides the content. It is worth ten minutes of your time. Thanks Treena Hales for drawing this to
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Photosynth

Ever wondered what it would be lilke if you could take all the images in Flickr, or maybe all the images on the web and link them semantically. For example if you had a photo of, say, Notre Dame in Paris and you wanted to see a dynamic representation of the Cathedral using yours and
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Change

‘Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.’ Richard Hooker (1554-1600)
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