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Apparently This Matters: L.A.'s streetlights. The Sixth Street bridge over the Los Angeles River looks a bit different with old, left, and new streetlights.

Apparently This Matters: L.A.'s streetlights

Hoover Street Ocean Front Walk in Venice Bixel and Colton streets La Mirada Avenue Streetlights: Team Yellow or Team White? Google Rolls Out Two-Factor Authentication For Everyone. You Should Use It. A Guide to Managing Knowledge, (h/t @sradick!) <keeper. In a new book, Cultivating Communities of Practice: A Guide to Managing Knowledge, the authors offer a practical guide to making knowledge work inside an organization.

A Guide to Managing Knowledge,  (h/t @sradick!) <keeper

In this excerpt, the authors detail seven design principles for cultivating communities, everything from "design for evolution" to "combine familiarly and excitement. " by Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, and William M. Snyder Seven principles for cultivating communities of practice In Silicon Valley, a community of circuit designers meets for a lively debate about the merits of two different designs developed by one of the participants.

Huddling together over the circuit diagrams, they analyze possible faults, discuss issues of efficiency, propose alternatives, tease out each other's assumptions, and make the case for their view. © gillesvidal - photographe.