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Desert Island Pond Sculpture
Floating in a half-barrel is a desert terrarium. The terrarium has several cacti as well as a small bone, snake skin, and a lava rock for additional effect. I have several goldfish in the barrel and water lilies. This is … Continue reading
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Folders Vs Metadata – Document organization
Moving from the familiar desktop metaphor, with it’s storing files in folders, to metadata can be difficult, if not traumatizing for those used to the more spacial way of putting things in context. To help introduce and explain, I came … Continue reading
Technology Adoption and Crossing the Chasm
Projects fail, promising technologies are put in place but never adopted, IT rolls out another application that only a few business people use. Where’s the disconnect? How might things be improved upon? Here’s 10 well considered ideas from an expert.
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Opportunities for Transformative Tech
IT tools are often introduced into an organization with little to no use by its members. I’ve been doing research as to why and recently read Connie Gersick’s work on the idea of change manifested through Punctuated Equilibrium Paradigm*. I … Continue reading
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On “The 2011 State of Community Management Report”
If you took a room full of online community management experts and had them write down their most valuable tips on 3×5 cards you could get something like “The 2011 State of Community Management Report“. Each finely tuned sentence only … Continue reading
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