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Today you can still hear some managers, schooled in conventional thinking, claim the importance of “ownership” be it over people, projects or things in their employees and customers. How quaint. Today, with the penetration of the Internet and declining importance of hierarchical “superpowers”, access, one’s ability to collaborate, knowledge sharing and network connection is becoming…
Dan is an interesting guy with a strong web and social networking background. He is a social media scientist and has designed a number of linguistic tools to analyze online behavior. My Bio | Dan Zarrella. Related articles Science Of Twitter 2013 (slideshare.net) 5 Proven Social Media Call-to-Action Tips [Research] (heidicohen.com) Nieman Journalism Lab &…
This is a great way to assess places you might want to live by how friendly they are for walking about. Boston, DC, NYC and San Fran are all tops which is encouraging but a little surprising given the crazy drivers I have encountered. Still, this probably refers to the downtown areas which feature older…
Jan Chipchase is a Executive Creative Director of Global Insights at frog – a global design and innovation company. Prior to this role she worked for almost a decade as a strategist in Nokia’s Los Angeles design studio and Principal Scientist in the Nokia Research Center, Tokyo. She specializes in taking teams of concept/industrial designers, psychologists, usability experts, sociologists,…
Another top quality school bringing engineering, technology and science education online. Purdue Online Master of Engineering Program – Online Master in Engineering Programs. Related articles Purdue: New concrete may lengthen bridge lifespan (posttrib.suntimes.com) Purdue researchers win $14.5 million NSF grant to take nanoHUB.org to next level (nanotech-now.com) Can Engineers and Scientists…
Sebastian Junger – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Very interesting author who is trained as an anthropologist and has a theory that people’s lives are too complex and thus they crave the simplicity of natural disasters and tragic events such as war which creats bonds and a sense of grounding. Related articles Sebastian Junger launches medical…
Each year, 11% of consumer electronics are returned to stores, but only 5% of those are defective. The other 95% are returned because of poor design. Maya boot camps apply the techniques of usability and anthropology to change the odds. Inside MAYA Design’s Innovation Boot Camps | Fast Company. Related articles Apple acquires eighteen user interface…
Robochrist Industries is a robotic performance art troupe and direct offshoot of Survival Research Laboratories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robochrist_Industries Related articles A Robot With A Chainsaw! (i-programmer.info) Improv Comedy Resource Page – Costume SuperCenter (costumesupercenter.com) Lego robot teams battle it out in Sacramento (sacbee.com) New York Dance Troupe STOMP Gives Victoria A Preview (vicnews.com) First steps in appreciating performance art…
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