CGI.br Our Role in Shaping the Future | Foresight Culture I am hoping you’ll take a moment to complete a quick SURVEY. It’s focused on how what people do shapes the future. In late July my colleague Jennifer Jarratt and I will offer a conference session at the WorldFuture 2012 Conference called “Our Role in Shaping the Future“. We will explore the critical role of human agency: what you, and I, and anyone does to shape society, in shaping mankind’s future. This is perhaps the seminal question for anyone engaged in foresight. We have to wonder: Does what we do matter? Our session is on Saturday, July 27, 2012, at the conference in Toronto. Futures work depends on identifying patterns of change, understanding data and systems, determining forces, and drivers shaping an organization or a society. The SURVEY is our chance to gather your insights on how what people do matters to shaping the future. Tagged as: change, foresight, future, futures, human agency, leadership, survey, WFS, World Future Society
Mindful Infotention: Dashboards, Radars, Filters | City Brights: Howard Rheingold Infotention is a word I came up with to describe the psycho-social-techno skill/tools we all need to find our way online today, a mind-machine combination of brain-powered attention skills with computer-powered information filters. The inside and outside of infotention work best together: Honing the mental ability to deploy the form of attention appropriate for each moment is an essential internal skill for people who want to find, direct, and manage streams of relevant information by using online media knowledgeably.Knowing how to put together intelligence dashboards, news radars, and information filters from online tools like persistent search and RSS is the external technical component of information literacy. Knowing what to pay attention to is a cognitive skill that steers and focuses the technical knowledge of how to find information worth your attention. The overall system I’m seeking to understand is one of mindful infotention. Infotention Filters
11 Free Resources About Creativity Want some ideas about creativity? I found some files and ebooks that might be of value to you. Note: these are all PDF files. How Pixar Fosters Collective Creativity. (updated because the old article crashed.) Creativity – Its Place in Education. EyeWire Creativity Cards. The Nature of Creativity. From Creative Economy to Creative Society. The Impact of Culture on Creativity. Harnessing Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace. Creativity and Personality. Creativity Management – the New Challenge for BPM. Creativity and Innovation in Europe. Having Fun at Work. The other creative thing, I should mention, is that this took me about 20 minutes of searching and then proofing the articles to ensure that they’re what I was searching for, and compiling them into a useful list for people interested in learning more about creativity. What’s your take? ChrisBrogan.com runs on the Genesis Framework The Genesis Framework empowers you to quickly and easily build incredible websites with WordPress.
CSCW 2016 February 27, 2016: The registration desk will be open on Friday at 5:15 pm and remain open until 6:30 pm. Advance registration ends February 5, 2016! January 28, 2016:The conference hotel reduced rate rooms are now sold out. See the list of overflow hotels for alternatives. January 8, 2016:Early bird registration deadline extended to January 15, 2016. December 3, 2015: Lasting Impact Award announced! December 2, 2015: The Telepresence Application deadline has been extended to Dec 18. November 11, 2015: You can now submit position papers to the 16 workshops at CSCW: Accepted workshops November 10, 2015: Conference registration is now open! November 5, 2015: The full schedule of papers is now available. October 17, 2015: Reminder: Demos, Panels, Posters, and Doctoral Colloquium submissions are all due November 6th, 2015. October 17, 2015: We are pleased to announce our closing keynote speaker will be Mike Krieger from Instagram! October 17, 2015: Announcing the CSCW 2016 telepresence initiative.
New Legacies One of my favorite posts from my time here at Open the Future has to be Legacy Futures , from late 2008. The concept of a legacy future is simple: it's a persistent but outdated vision of the future that distorts present-day futures thinking . As I suggest in the original piece, the "jet pack" is the canonical legacy future -- just about every futurist you'll ever meet could tell you about being asked when we'll get our personal jet packs. Nine times out of ten, the person doing the asking thinks that they're being clever. Some of the other legacy futures I brought up in the 2008 essay include Second Life, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, and population projections that don't account for technological (especially healthcare) changes. I'm less-inclined to include the third one at this point, though -- one important characteristic of a legacy future is that it can conjure up a vision of tomorrow with a simple, usually two-word, phrase.
How to Adopt a Social Media Lifestyle While most small business owners are starting to realize that social media is a necessary part of any marketing strategy, as a social media coach, the question I get most often is how to add social media to a day that is already way too full. For those of us working as solopreneurs or small business owners, it may, at times, feel like we are working virtually around the clock so when are we really supposed to tweet, post or blog? I’ll admit creating a social media plan that will stick is like starting an exercise program. You just have to take that leap and do it. You need to look at it, not as a series of social media tasks that need to be done during the day, but more of a lifestyle change that you need to incorporate into your entire way of thinking. 5 tips to make the social media lifestyle change Coffee and Twitter: For most of us, a morning cup of coffee is sacred. Connect: Authored by: Ali Goldfield See complete profile
List of social software This is a list of notable social software: selected examples of social software products and services that facilitate a variety of forms of social human contact. Blogs[edit] Clipping[edit] Instant messaging[edit] Internet forums[edit] Comparison of Internet forum software Internet Relay Chat (IRC)[edit] Internet Relay Chat[2][3] eLearning[edit] Massively multiplayer online games[edit] Media sharing[edit] Media cataloging[edit] Online dating[edit] Web directories[edit] Social bookmarking[edit] Web widgets[edit] Websites[edit] Enterprise software[edit] Social cataloging[edit] Social citations[edit] Social evolutionary computation[edit] Social login[edit] Loginradius Social networks[edit] Social search[edit] Social customer support software[edit] Virtual worlds[edit] Wikis[edit] References[edit]
The Importance of Moving Beyond Negative Visions of the Future | Studentreporter When I walked into pavilion 1 at the Riocentro on my first day at Rio+20, I passed a large white exhibitions space which was labelled ” The Future We Want.” I glanced at the big blue word clouds and five large TV screens – “What future do we actually want?,” I asked myself. Hallway entrance area Riocentro; Source: Student Reporter. The cynic in me felt there was no need to answer that question because even if we could agree that the future must be a more sustainable, prosperous one for all, politicians from all over the world, partially with completely different backgrounds, capabilities and ideals, representing conflicting needs and interests, won’t be able to agree upon a shared, long-term vision for the future anyway. Little did I know that just hours later I would be revisiting some of these questions about the “The Future We Want” in a conversation with the exhibition’s co-creators, Jonathan Arnold and Bill Becker.
The Power of Crowd and Place: A Conversation with Jeff Kirchick from SCVNGR Jeff Kirchick is the Universities and Schools Specialist for SCVNGR, a gaming platform about doing challenges at places. I first met Jeff at the CASE Social Media Conference in San Francisco where he was organizing a “trek” for the conference. It was the most fun I’d had participating in extra-curricular activities at a conference. What is SCVNGR? SCVNGR is a mobile game about going places, doing challenges, earning points, and unlocking rewards. SCVNGR exists in two major ways: as a casual game, and as a themed experience. You could also take part in a SCVNGR trek – some type of themed experience that guides you to a set of places where you have to complete specific challenges as part of the game. What makes SCVNGR different from other geo-location applications like Foursquare or Facebook Places? That being said, SCVNGR’s core unit is the challenge, not the check-in. How do you see SCVNGR impacting businesses? What are some of the cool things a business can do with SCVNGR?
What Is Web 2.0 by Tim O'Reilly 09/30/2005 Oct. 2009: Tim O'Reilly and John Battelle answer the question of "What's next for Web 2.0?" in Web Squared: Web 2.0 Five Years On. The bursting of the dot-com bubble in the fall of 2001 marked a turning point for the web. The concept of "Web 2.0" began with a conference brainstorming session between O'Reilly and MediaLive International. In the year and a half since, the term "Web 2.0" has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google. This article is an attempt to clarify just what we mean by Web 2.0. In our initial brainstorming, we formulated our sense of Web 2.0 by example: The list went on and on. 1. Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core. Figure 1 shows a "meme map" of Web 2.0 that was developed at a brainstorming session during FOO Camp, a conference at O'Reilly Media. Netscape vs. At bottom, Google requires a competency that Netscape never needed: database management.
The Future According to Schmidt: "Augmented Humanity," Integrated Into Google In the future we will be Google, and Google will be us--the online giant will make us better humans. That's according to soon-to-be ex-CEO Eric Schmidt speaking today at DLD 11 conference in Germany. Schmidt announced this week that he's departing his role as Google's CEO, and then it emerged he was winning a $100 million golden parachute as a thank-you for his time in charge of one of the world's most important tech companies. Perhaps that's why he felt he could reveal some of his forecasts for the future at Google. After some preamble about his time at Google, Schmidt got to the good stuff: The future is mobile, he thinks, driven by the "device of our time," the smartphone--and the tablet. Then Schmidt got brave: Unconnected devices today are "no longer interesting," he thinks. So far so good, but then came the most fascinating bit of the whole speech. That's Augmented humanity. But augmented humanity implies inserting tech deliberately in the way of normal life, to better it.
Dangers of social groupthink: A case study in Enterprise 2.0, Social CRM and Social Business For sure, there’s a lot of Goodness in social media—in our personal lives and business. But also a lot of issues to be worked out. That’s why two years ago I established a Social Business category on CustomerThink, and last year launched SocialBusinessOne, a community dedicated to the topic. One of the downsides of social media is that it can accelerate getting locked into a point of view. This is counter intuitive, because you might expect that social media would make it easier to get multiple points of view. It can, but it depends on the group dynamics and the willingness of each of us as individuals to consider alternate ideas. Image Credit: philipcarter These days it’s all too easy to find and join a group that supports a certain mindset. Groupthink means members of a group try to avoid conflict and reach consensus without critical analysis. This is fine if your group is cheering for a sports team or maybe a political party. Trends in social thinking Dr. Source: Social Radar