12 hours ago by csr

Parece que se acaba el año (yo sigo buscando desesperadamente mis meses de octubre y noviembre: si alguien los ha visto, que avise) y toca hacer las listas de costumbre de fin de año (también cerramos década, pero con eso no me voy a atrever). De la mía, poco que decir: Pocas cosas '2009'... Al fin ...

otro blog más - obm.corcoles.net · Rank: 58,492 · 94 references

2 days ago by rebeccamacd

I’ve never been a big one for crowds, but today I’m joining the ranks of those talking about Seth Godin’s latest endeavor, a free downloadable e-book called W hat Matters Now, a compilation of ideas and quotes from seventy “big thinkers” of our time. The contributors range from Elizabeth Perkins (au ...

Serial Reinvention - serialreinvention.com · 1 reference

2 days ago by George Bounacos

Geeks old enough to remember using MS-DOS will undoubtedly remember the feeling of automating their bootup programs using a batch file. Around the same time that Bill Gates muttering that 640K ought to be enough memory for anyone, those same geeks looked at each other and begin whittling down their ...

Big Thinking For Small ... - sbmteam.com/blog · 3 references

3 days ago by John Moravec

I like conceptual maps –tools for illustrating the relationships among ideas– and, Tero Heiskanen created an interesting one. It’s huge. Without any further commentary: Settlers of the shift is an open map of experts, organizations and ideas that are scattered around the globe. It’s for people whose ...

Education Futures - educationfutures.com · Rank: 25,026 · 87 references

4 days ago by innovationeye

While media budgets are squeezed still further as we trudge onward under the cloud of recession, trillionesque debt and the massive public spending cuts gathering on the horizon, the focus on social media ROI grows ever sharper, but less energy is expended looking at the benefits that focused online ...

Innovation Cloud - innovationeye.wordpress.com · Rank: 179,766 · 7 references

4 days ago

People are often dumb, so how can crowds be wise? James Surowiecki laid the groundwork in his book, "The Wisdom of Crowds." In this solo presentation, Derek Powazek will apply those ideas to the web, concentrating on how to design websites that empower people to work together to create something tru ...

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5 days ago by Dan

"We have limited foresight into the future. Most of us lack the ability-- and the desire-- to make sophisticated cost-benefit calculations.. And we often let emotion affect our judgement. Yet despite all these limitations, when our imperfect judgments are aggregated in the right way, our collective ...

Thinkmeter - Make a Decision - blog.thinkmeter.com · 1 reference

6 days ago by Hutch Carpenter

ComMetrics is a social media analytics company, a division of CyTRAP Labs GmbH. ComMetrics is well-known in the industry, including its FT ComMetrics Blog Index. The company published a useful piece, Crowd-wisdom fails businesses. The basic premise is that crowds do not innovate. It’s useful, becaus ...

I'm Not Actually a Geek - bhc3.wordpress.com · Rank: 3,986 · 589 references

6 days ago by Mr. Kotter

Forgive me if I’m not able to join in on the L’il Elitist© ennui party TR throws for himself in his latest post on the administration’s Open Government Initiative (OGI). To be clear, it’s not that I think the OGI represents some earth-shattering development in government-public communications. Put m ...

TheFourthBranch.com - thefourthbranch.com · 2 references

6 days ago by Urs E. Gattiker

In his book The Wisdom of Crowds (2004), James Surowiecki popularized the notion that, under the right conditions, canvassing the aggregate opinions of many people could be more efficient than relying on the expertise of a few. Jeff Howe applied this approach to decision-making using the buzzword ‘c ...

ComMetrics: sense and ... - commetrics.com · Rank: 34,360 · 25 references