I was taken to task in today's Internet Evolution blog posting about the future of paid content (Paid Content: Fresh Efforts, More Questions,) and told that all this scenario stuff probably didn't serve me well as analyst. Quite to the contrary. I think the best analysts are those that admit what they don't know and actively wrestle with the range of possible outcomes. Picking … [Read more...] about Connecting to Uncertainty
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Curation Not The Future of The Net, Unless You pay
I was just referred to Tom Foremski’s Silicon Valley Watcher post on Curation and the Human Web… which argues that curating the content of the web will be a big topic in 2011. I don’t think so, at least not as it is characterized in the post. Curation is like knowledge management. If there is no business model, there is no incentive for people to curate content. Small start-ups … [Read more...] about Curation Not The Future of The Net, Unless You pay
Management by Design Workshop at KMWorld
I want to thank the people who attended my KMWorld 2010 pre-conference workshop that used the principles of design from my new book, Management by Design, to think about learning environments. The presentation part of the workshop wasn't that good. I have to rethink how to conceptualize the methodology before just jumping into it. The methodology reads much better than it … [Read more...] about Management by Design Workshop at KMWorld
Why An Improving Economy Alone Won’t Fuel An Employment Recovery
On Thursday, October 19, 1967 The New York Times published the following, from an Interview with Herman Kahn, who was predicting that tourism would be the biggest industry in the United States. By the year 2000, people will work no more than four days a week and less than eight hours a day. With legal holidays and long vacations, this could result in an annual working … [Read more...] about Why An Improving Economy Alone Won’t Fuel An Employment Recovery
It’s Time for an Education Revolution
I spoke to at a local education conference today in the Seattle area. As I was discussing the uncertainties in the future of education, I realized that these angst ridden deliberations on the future of education are very timely in an unintuitive way, and that may be the key to innovation. America has the opportunity to seize the future of learning as the emerging markets … [Read more...] about It’s Time for an Education Revolution