Friday’s Finds

I learned a lot on Twitter this past week:

Resilience focuses less on preventing failure than on enabling rapid recovery following failure. Cognitive Edge

The corporate war for talent will become the war to attract the influential & trustworthy. Trends in the Living Networks

Why NPR.org Scrapped The Fees And Made Transcripts Free. via @folkstone

Slate: Why corporate IT should unchain our office computers. via @nickcharney

Enterprise 2.0: Skip the Pilot Project “Scale is the oxygen that feeds collaboration.” via @CarlosDiaz

A Grameen group for education? via @DavidGurteen

The 10 Bona Fide Best Sites for Sharpening Your Critical Thinking Skills. via @zaidlearn

“What happens when GoogleMaps not only shows the house, the landscaping, the car, but also color codes the house by heat loss?” @valdiskrebs

How social networks affect billable hours. via @edwsonoma

and last, in the humour department, via @lukec Home sewing is killing fashion! (my wife is a fabric artist and a very good seamstress):

Once again, from the Twitter files this past week:

Work:

“And what I found out is that talent is much overrated. It is motivation and help that makes the difference. They [HR] talk about ´talent´ as if it is a thing that actually exists, apart from effort, motivation and experience.” @MireilleJansma

Dan Pink at TED: “there’s a mismatch between what science knows and what business does”

50 years of applying job evaluation methodologies has created organizational structures that are rigid, non-responsive & slow to change. via @jonhusband

Web:

Open Atrium is an OS (Drupal+) team portal starter package Open Atrium via @jaycross

“Wikipedia’s greatest gift to humanity: proof that there are more pedants than vandals” – via @sebpaquet and found in @lemire’s blog comments. Related: Wikipedia is simply undergoing the process of becoming the system it exists within. via @gsiemens

Twollow.com is locally built Twitter app, and Steve (@comforteagle) clarifies some things about a news report to which Carman Pirie (@pirie) adds more comments

Flashback to 1998: Work the Web video via @elsua and a description of the merger of marketing & KM in law firms – true for any knowledge-intensive org

Learning:

If complex systems researchers don’t get serious about the scientific method, their field is going to fizzle out – Networks are Killing Science via @lemire

I said that we should Kill the Curriculum and @busynessgirl responded, “how about we just hack it?” Which of course I agree with.

Life:

Cars Cause Most Bike-Car Crashes via @folkstone

Saying Yes to donating snipped hair for Oil Spill Hair Mats to rescue oceans. via @yesmagazine @PureAveda

Soaking up carbon with artificial trees & algae-based photobioreactors. via @pathways

From the twitter files this past week:

Many US films don’t even bother to register in Canada and they complain about copyright infringement? via @michaelgeist

The Search Engine Optimization scam via @jonhusband

The corporation is so clueless … that sometimes [change] really does depend on a single individual

Our collective challenge: how to empower workers for self-organization

“I declare social media sufficiently mainstream” says @jclarey

“nature imbued us with an unquenchable drive to discover, to explore”  via @jonhusband

Meta-analysis of 99 studies: showed that students online performed better (9 percentiles) than in face to face classroom situations via @pwmartin

The real reason why you, the individual, should blog via @jocenado

@jayrosen_nyu If ever you run into trouble understanding what “social media” is… just substitute “connecting across, rather than up.” via @jonhusband

This week I made the leap back to Identi.ca, so who knows how many more Friday’s finds on Twitter I’ll be posting. From the past week [dead links and unsafe sites removed]:

An open letter from an actual Starbucks front-line employee (good read for all leaders) via @AmandaFenton

When it comes to social media, military is anything but uniform – Hint same thing inside government of Canada via @nickcharney

The real reason why you, the individual, should blog via @jocenado @FrancoisGuite @williamu @marcottea

Microblogging has become too important for one company to rule the field via @johnt @RobinGood

Lego hops off the Cluetrain onto the tracks in front of it

Consciousness Capitalism! The private appropriation of human consciousness as a “nonmaterial asset” via @jonhusband

Like prisons & mental hospitals, classrooms captured & constricted bodies in order to render them as docile subjects via @gwoodill

The Canadian Government’s War on Science via @david_a_eaves

Doc Searls: Every student that takes a class has to create or improve a Wikipedia page to the topic of the class

This week saw Twitter crash due to a distributed denial of service attack that also affected Facebook to some extent, but now (via @MiNutrition) you can find out if twitter is down at any given time. In spite of the outage, there were still several finds:

Working longer has become No. 1 retirement-planning strategy for the future (HR Executive Online) [seems that the “problem” of retiring Baby Boomers has been solved by the financial crisis] via @pkassner @DrDavidBallard

I was looking for information on insects and @z_rose sent me this link “for all your bug-related queries” What’s that bug?

Classic piece of official [US] air force anti-troll PR strategy [could even be considered humourous] via @drewmack

A Look At What Young People Are/Are Not Willing To Pay For Online via @MarioAsselin @tomkrieglstein

The Industrial Age is crumbling so quickly that new infrastructure for society has to be planned & built soon via @nineshift

Once again, from the Twitter files this past week:

Research debunking claim of digital natives vs immigrants  via @JoanVinallCox @rdelorenzo @rmazar

BitTorrent counters fear, uncertainty and doubt from Canadian Internet Service Providers Michael Geist

via @skap5 “Learning happens when a child is interested. Otherwise, it’s like throwing marshmallows at his head and calling it eating.” (B. Lamping)

“we just cannot understand why a normal person would want to go to school” Club Orlov

via @dbast Knowledge Management has an outlook on information supported by dysfunctional technology whereas social computing has no specific outlook and is supported by functional technology

via @jonhusband managers should start really trying to understand the new social dynamics & methods of constructing pertinent knowledge

Aggregated Wisdom is the Winner The FASTForward Blog Requirements: a  culture of collaboration & a great set of collaboration tools

The 4Cs Social Media Framework Beth’s Blog (Gaurav Mishra)

Legal considerations on mental health in the workplace Mental Health @Work slides for use

via @psychcentral The Brain’s Interpreter | Channel N

The final word:

If it’s not a hell yes, it’s a hell no. Work Life Balance via @judymartin8

From my Twitter files this week:

via @cammybean: The Agile Elearning Design Manual

via @CarlosDiaz Reduce your cost with business 2.0 Blue Kiwi video

via @bduperrin You can’t govern what you don’t understand

via @Dave_Ferguson Meet Jessica (good demo for people new to social tools) Slideshare

via @rossdawson Where do you want to play? Where the economy used to be or where the economy is going?

Bonus: two humourous links:

via @jalam1001 The Hierarchy: How it is? cartoon

via @joelkelly @Bboudreau @paulwesson This wonderful and funny video “Canadian, Please“

Once again, not much blogging but a bit more activity on Twitter. It seems I can blast off 140 characters a lot easier than a complete blog post.

via @robpatrob Rob asks 10 questions for all of those who feel ok with the current food system
Agriculture – Our Delusion – My Questions Please help by answering

via @nprnews – Fight Against Antibiotic Fed Farm Animals All Uphill

via @paullowe Paul interviews jessica dimmock of VII network on intimacy with your photography subject

The importance of deliberate practice Anecdote Blog

via @kanter @peterscampbell – Why SharePoint Scares Me

When Culture Eats Enterprise 2.0 Strategy for Breakfast: Slideshare

How not to train (free registration required) by @charlesjennings

Workplace depression: Your co-worker needs your help (for my MH@W Blog)

If you’re really busy, you can use Twitter for busy people via @MiNutrition

Comments Dead, Twitter Holds Smoking Gun Read/Write Web – my blog stats confirm this