Media Co-ops from Five Countries Initiate Partnership. Our Vision - Mobile and Development Intelligence. MDI educates and unites those who want to harness the power of mobile for good MDI is an Open Data portal for the developing world mobile industry. We believe that open access to high quality data will improve business decision making, increase total investment from both the commercial mobile industry and the development sector and accelerate economic, environmental and social impact from mobile solutions.
A challenge facing mobile industry stakeholders in the developing world is the lack of publicly available data and analysis to support their business decision making and to clarify the socio-economic impact of mobile. MDI will fill this information gap and will aggregate and host data from multiple sources such as the World Bank, UN, member operators and from vendors and development organisations. There are nearly five billion mobile connections in the developing world, increasing by 18 per second. The management of the social business. June 3, 2012 The division of labor reduced organizational effort and the cost of work in factory production.
The division of labor also increased the quality of work through specialization. This led managers to focus on the efficiency of activities that were separated from other activities. Organizational design was seen as the planning and execution of a collection of independent, but connected jobs forming the workflow system. Connections were based on top-down command-and-control and horizontal, sequential processes. In both cases the action of one part was meant to set off the action of another. In the cause-and-effect model of communication a thought arising within one individual is translated into words, which are then transmitted to another individual. Physical tasks could be broken up in a reductionist way. In this model of complex causality, communication takes the form of a gesture made by an individual that evokes a response from someone else. Like this: Like Loading... How IBM Builds Vibrant Social Communities. “I see IBM as a social business,” says Jeff Schick, IBM’s vice president of social software for IBM.
“We’ve broken down the barriers of reaching out to the people within the organization” — not to mention partners and clients as well. And the company is making it easier for its client companies to do the same thing. Jeff Schick, IBM’s vice president of social software. When companies use the tools that they sell to the outside world, the common expression is that it “eats its own dog food.” “I prefer the French version of the expression, ‘We drink our own champagne,’” says Jeff Schick, the vice president of social software for IBM, and the key player in bringing social networking both to the IBM global staff and to IBM’s corporate customers.
And why not? IBM’s products are more akin to a fine wine than to a canine commodity. Schick has been pivotal to IBM’s work in social technology for decades. How important are collaboration tools within IBM? The New Economy: Monetizing the Preservation of Natural Resources? In our current economic model we create profit and wealth by monetizing the exploitation of natural resources. We have all bought into it. The challenge we face is that we have operated and acted globally as if those resources are unlimited or entirely renewable. In fact these resources are scarce and quickly being depleted. Will we be able to create the environment to transition to an economy where we monetize the preservation of [scarce] natural resources? The Challenge : Monetizing the preservation of scarce natural resources Our 'current reality' is built on a profit paradigm centered on the accumulation of wealth with a leadership model that leverages that wealth to not just control but dominate at all costs including people and especially the source of what supports life, our planet and its resources.
Many of us look to the 1% to change, because they have accumulated the most in the paradigm that we all bought into. The Solution : Believe | Think | Act | Live. OverDrive introduces browser-based ebook reader. Collaboration platforms/ technologies. Media & Entertainment Reimagined by Collaborative Innovation. Established firms in the media & entertainment space struggle to prosper in the Digital Age.
New business models, enlivened by technology, erode traditional sources of profit. What possibilities for reimagining the business exist? In this article, I suggest one avenue to pursue: the benefits that come from learning how to convene a community on the critical question by embracing the practice of collaborative innovation; then applying the practice to help people work to their potential. The Author Green Lights a Film and Follows a Tornado We live in 2012. Last month a friend of a friend, who once slaved at the HBO company of Time Warner in the U.S., informed me that he planned to make a movie.
He offered various incentives for people to invest in his venture on Kickstarter (figure 1). This man raised the funds he needed. From what I can see, a lot of tyro producers seek funding for their shorts and movies on Kickstarter. Figure 1: the author as mini-mogul–the project home on Kickstarter. The Critical Path: The First Year by Horace Dediu. The Android Income Statement. CEO Social Mindset: 25 Tips for a Healthy Social Business Mindset. Attitude and mindset are often the key to success in life. With the right mindset you can learn new things, take on mountains, lead teams to success and accomplish more than you ever dreamed possible.
Becoming a social business is no easy task. It’s going to take smart thinking, dedication, teamwork, integration, getting real with the skeletons in the closet, and a “can do” attitude. The social ecosystem is still evolving. Acknowledging that change is the only real guarantee is a good first step. Could it possibly be your mindset that is holding you back from your own success?
Here are 25 tips to a healthy social business mindset for the social CEO or any business leader serious about social business. 25 Tips for a Healthy Social Business Mindset 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. Get a Grip on Social Media: This is the third in a series titled “How to Get a Grip on Social Media.”
The Only Guarantee in Social Business is Change. Lost in Google’s Translation. Last week Google Translate announced that it now has over 200 million monthly users. As Alexis Madrigal noted in the Atlantic, this means that Google is now translating as much in a day as a human being would in a year – an amount of text equivalent to a million books.
Google Translate is far from perfect – its garbled prose, creative grammar and bizarre word substitutions have been dubbed “Dada Processing” – but it is one of the few Google products one can unequivocally say does more good than harm. Because of Google Translate, millions of people access ideas that would have once remained impenetrable. The default dismissal of foreign media is gone. Since its inception in 2006, Google has added 65 languages from every region in the world, with two notable exceptions: Central Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Translation has the potential to shift the politics of perception. It is increasingly common for news agencies to cover a country by reprinting claims made online.
Welcome. 3M Cloud Library Lends Not Only E-Books, But Also E-Reader Hardware | Gadget Lab. 3M hops into the e-book lending and hardware market with Cloud Library. Photo: 3M Scotch Tape manufacturer and Post-It inventor 3M is jumping into the world of e-book lending. The 3M Cloud Library went beta Wednesday at select libraries, allowing patrons to borrow e-books via digital kiosks in the library or online. It’s not an entirely new concept. A system called OverDrive already facilitates e-book lending at many public libraries. But what sets 3M’s offering apart is that libraries can purchase 3M-branded e-readers, and lend the hardware to patrons who don’t have e-readers of their own. Patrons would check out the readers like they would a book or any other piece of hardware the library may lend. 3M says it has 40 publishers backing Cloud Library, and that more than 100,000 titles are ready to go.
E-book circulation continues to grow. Just as e-book purchases have dramatically affected dead-tree book sales, digital lending is changing the stock-and-trade of public libraries.
The Library of Utopia. In his 1938 book World Brain, H.G. Wells imagined a time—not very distant, he believed—when every person on the planet would have easy access to “all that is thought or known.” The 1930s were a decade of rapid advances in microphotography, and Wells assumed that microfilm would be the technology to make the corpus of human knowledge universally available. “The time is close at hand,” he wrote, “when any student, in any part of the world, will be able to sit with his projector in his own study at his or her convenience to examine any book, any document, in an exact replica.” Wells’s optimism was misplaced. The Second World War put idealistic ventures on hold, and after peace was restored, technical constraints made his plan unworkable. Though microfilm would remain an important medium for storing and preserving documents, it proved too unwieldy, too fragile, and too expensive to serve as the basis for a broad system of knowledge transmission. But Wells’s idea is still alive.
The U.S. Transitioning from Print to a Digital Learning Ecosystem by Richard Culatta. <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic.
<div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> These are my notes from Richard Culatta‘s luncheon keynote address at the April 19, 2012, Oklahoma Digital Learning Summit in Oklahoma City. MY THOUGHTS AND COMMENTS ARE IN ALL CAPS. Mr. My work focuses on learning analytics - served as education policy advisor - chief technology officer at CIA University - extended training opportunities to CIA officers worldwide - was a learning technologies advisor at BYU, also worked with Rose Education Foundation - @rec54. Blog | Dashter. Inside Archetwypes In our latest release of Dashter we introduced a new feature called Archetwypes. Jeff turner wrote a post on his blog featuring a great “what is it?” Summary of what we’ve built.
Here, I [Dave] want to share with you more about why we built... Updated Dashter features DM’s, “Archetwypes” Woo hoo! Curate On the Fly with Favorites Jeff Turner demonstrates why curation can (and should) happen at any time in the post-creation process. 5 Disturbing Trends in Social Tech. Reimagining business with a social mindset – Deloitte Tech Trends 2012. Even today, business leaders may dismiss the potential of social business, either relegating it to the realm of Internet marketing or ignoring the buzz as a passing fad.
But that’s changing as boomers evolve into digital natives, millennials permeate the workforce and social media becomes a part of daily life. The doors are now open for social business. Leading enterprises today are applying social technologies like collaboration, communication and content management to social networks – the connected web of people and assets that impact on a given business goal or outcome – amplified by social media from blogs to social networking sites to content communities. Yet it’s more than tools and technology. Businesses are being fundamentally changed as leaders rethink their core processes and capabilities with a social mindset to find new ways to create more value, faster. Forays into social business typically start with an organization’s external-facing concerns. Why Social Business Can Lead to Reinventing the Company Model.
10 crazy town ideas for extreme organisational democracy | Tom Nixon. Here are 10 ideas that take the principles of organisational democracy to the extreme. In the context of mainstream business today they seem far-fetched but there are organisations in the world who are pushing the boundaries of democracy every year. If you think that these ideas are just too radical for your business, imagine how you will attract and retain the very best employees if you have a competitor who is bold enough to do these things. Will you be able to stand out and remain relevant when someone in your market is doing this? Welcome to the world of extreme organisational democracy. 1 Purpose and Vision The radically democratic company has a vision and mission that transcends itself and its people. 2 Transparency Radical transparency can build an incredible level of trust both within an organisation and with the outside world. 3 Dialogue & Listening 4 Fairness & Dignity Decisions that impact fairness happen every day in businesses, from allocating work to setting pay. 7 Choice.