19 kick-butt tools for ELearning
Editor’s note: Useful list of tools for anyone designing and creating content online.
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Mozilla’s Web Literacy Standard, a framework for learning online, to launch in beta on June 26
Editor’s note: Mozilla plans to launch the beta version of its Web Literacy Standard, a new online framework drawn up to help people read, write and participate on the Web, on June 26.
Shadow IT is growing because everything is IT
Editor’s note. Step aside BYOD, we should be talking bring your own mind (BYOM) says Stowe Boyd. As he says in the article, ‘So BYOD should really be considered a shift of the boundary where the company’s control over the way we work — which equates to the way we think — is receding.’
Overcoming bias: reward or punish?
Editor’s note: Thanks to @kevwyke for sharing this provocative piece on rewards and punishments. Lots to think about here and make sure you read the comments and explore the links shared by commenters.
Building a better Pinterest through data
Editor’s note: How a data scientist is helping Pinterest provide a better service for users. If you design anything for the web then this is worth a read.
When do apps become rituals?
Editor’s note: Insights into to-do lists, tasks, habits and rituals from Omer Perchick CEO of productivity app Any.DO.
5 sexy steps to informal learning, content curation and knowledge hustling
Editor’s note: Thanks to @mikecollins007 for sharing. So, do you see yourself as a knowledge hustler. Do you know what one is? All is revealed . . .
The third wave of virtual work
Editor’s note: Lynda Gratton shares insights on the third wave of virtual work and explains how employers can capitalize on the changes taking place. This is a webinar recording.
A huge effort and huge savings
Editor’s note: Civil servants have changed the way they work to save £10 billion for the taxpayer, according to the head of the Civil Service. Interesting to see how civil servants are being trained in new skills such as commercial awareness and project management skills.
Obama’s ‘Ethnography Project’ Key to His 2012 Victory
Editor’s note: Ken Walsh writes about his new book that looks at how deep ethnographic research of voters helped Obama to a second term of president of the US.
Designing for real world mobile use
Editor’s note: In a study looking at over a thousand people using mobile devices in the street, Steven Hoober found that about 75% of people’s interactions with a smartphone were managed with a single thumb. Do you design for that kind of interaction?
Changing workforce expectations: Innovation and sustainability
Editor’s note: Stacey Harris delves into the issues of innovation and sustainability and how organisations can reimagine the way they operate in order to become more innovative. Warning: links to article that says worker productivity is up – my other curated link today says the opposite.
What happened to the internet productivity miracle?
Editor’s note: Analysis of the impact of technology on productivity. This quote sums up the piece: ‘At a time when digital technology has been exalted to a position of almost religious authority, productivity growth has fallen—not just in the United States but in other advanced nations, too.’
Top 100 psychology blogs to follow in 2013
Editor’s note: A wide-ranging list but some nuggets in here. It’s an infographic so links aren’t clickable.
How Microsoft is using Yammer inside the company
Editor’s note: Insights into how a tech company with its own collaboration tool – Sharepoint – is using its new collaboration tool – Yammer. To quote: ‘Those teams that are more focused on the conversations lean toward Yammer groups. Increasingly, we are providing options of embedding Yammer feeds into SharePoint sites for people that want a mixture of the two.’