Block ads without a plugin - AdOut.org is a free online ad-blocker De onde vêm as boas ideias para a inovação? - Bolsa Da cólera ao GPS, da Web a Gutenberg, as ideias inovadoras não surgem num momento "eureka!" mas de um conjunto de factores que Steven Johnson, autor de Where Good Ideas come from, exemplificou no recente XX Congresso das Comunicações. Johnson detectou um conjunto de padrões na emergência de ideias inovadoras, sendo o principal que "a sorte favorece as mentes conectadas" e que a intuição para algo novo surge nas formas mais bizarras. Nos anos 40 do século XIX, Londres atravessou um período de perturbação por causa da cólera e do triunfo da teoria do miasma: uma nuvem venenosa infectava os cidadãos pelo ar. Perante o rumor, o médico John Snow fez um mapa com a localização das mortes, falou com habitantes dessas zonas e - com a ajuda de Henry Whitehead, padre que passava as noites a beber cerveja e a falar com as pessoas (um "conector" com "inteligência social", salienta Johnson) - cruzou o mapa com as fontes de água.
When Ideas Have Sex This is the first post in a new series, produced by Frog Design, drawn from their publication, Design Mind. The theme of the current issue -- from which this essay is drawn -- is "And Now the Good News." It presents ideas flowing from the most recent TED Global conference. As I write this, two artifacts of roughly the same size and shape sit on my desk: a cordless mouse and a hand axe from the Middle Stone Age. Both are designed to fit the human grip. The hand axe represents a technology that did not change for a million years; it evolved slower than the human skeleton. And yet, it is the mouse, not the hand axe, that is the key to understanding why human beings dominate the planet and why there has been such explosive prosperity and progress over the past 100,000 years. Cooperation turned us into specialists: I'll do this job, you do that one. The key human invention, therefore, was exchange? Homo erectus, the inventors of the hand axe, probably were like this.
Social Strategist Aren't Thinking Strategically! Today’s social strategies are not strategies. The evidence of this is reflected in a recent Altimeter Research report which indicates that the #1 objective for corporate social strategist in 2011 is “website integration.” Is web site integration a strategy? The difference between a strategy and a tactic is the difference between thinking and doing. Simply integrating “all things social into your web site” without thinking and defining the business and organizational strategy for using “all things social” is an accident looking for a place to happen. A Strategy Without Leadership Isn’t a Strategy While the demand for social media talent continues to rise there is a huge disconnect between the demand and the leaders behind the organizations hiring “social media gurus”. In an HBR article by Soumitra Dutta states: Take the world’s leading CEOs as a sample. Social media isn’t a secret but what seems to be a secret is why and how it is changing consumer behavior and workplace expectations.
5 cosas que (aún) puedes enseñar a tus alumnos escrito el 2 de diciembre de 2010 por Aprender a Pensar en Recursos … o cómo sacar el paraguas con la que está cayendo Nuestros niños nacen con el iPad, el SmartPhone o el NetBook en la mano, saben arrastrar, bajarse archivos y chatear a la velocidad del rayo, pero, ¿qué saben de todo lo demás? Un reciente estudio de la OCDE (Are the new millenium learners making the grade? -¿Aprueban los estudiantes del nuevo milenio?) demostraba hace poco que muchos de los jóvenes de los países que integran la OCDE no ha realizado nunca tareas TIC tan básicas como enviar un documento adjunto por correo electrónico o editar una wiki. Por eso, aunque te ganen a la Play y sean los que te ayuden en clase cuando algo no funciona, todavía hay muchas cosas que puedes enseñarles para que sean Ciudadanos Bien Educados del siglo XXI. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Por último, solo nos queda recordarte que un blog es la mejor manera de alfabetizar y alfabetizarse digitalmente… Más información:
15 Cool Ways To Boost Your Creativity Feeling burnt out or lacking creative ideas? This article is especially for all you writers, artists, business owners or anyone looking for some new ways to get their creativity flowing. Here are 15 ways to give your creativity a jump start: Write Your Ideas Down Get into the habit of writing your ideas down as soon as you get them. When they are written down you don’t have to worry about remembering them and this allows more room for new ideas to form in your mind. Relax Good ideas and creativity usually do not appear under stress. Take a walk on the beach, take a nap, go and play some sport or do whatever it is that relaxes you so that your brain can be more creative when you get back to work. Have No Expectations Similar to living with no stress, but specifically no stress from the outcome. When you create with love and passion and no expectation of the outcome, the chances are much greater that you will create something remarkable! You are enough and you are creative. Read Meditate Exercise
Steve Jobs's Legacy - And The Next Tech War In a few days Fast Company’s next magazine issue will begin arriving in newsstands and mailboxes. The issue has four different covers, and one of them features a picture of Steve Jobs. But this is not a commemorative obituary. Instead the magazine offers a forward-looking analysis of what’s next for Apple--and how it will be battling with America’s three other favorite tech companies: Amazon, Facebook, and Google. These four companies are increasingly crossing into each others’ spheres. Our four covers feature Steve Jobs, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google CEO Larry Page, and Amazon chief Jeff Bezos. Steve Jobs has had an outsize impact on our culture. Competitors like Facebook, Google, and Amazon have also learned from Jobs, as commentary across the business world has echoed since his passing.
iOS 4.2 available today, brings the iPad into the multitasking era Apple's iOS 4.2 Available Today for iPad, iPhone & iPod touch Major Software Update Brings Multitasking, Folders, Unified Inbox, Game Center, AirPlay & AirPrint to iPad CUPERTINO, California-November 22, 2010-Apple® today announced that iOS 4.2, the latest version of the world's most advanced mobile operating system, is available today for download for iPad™, iPhone® and iPod touch®. iOS 4.2 brings over 100 new features from iOS 4.0, 4.1 and 4.2 to iPad including Multitasking, Folders, Unified Inbox, Game Center, AirPlay® and AirPrint. "iOS 4.2 makes the iPad a completely new product, just in time for the holiday season," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "Once again, the iPad with iOS 4.2 will define the target that other tablets will aspire to, but very few, if any, will ever be able to hit." iPad users can now run their favorite apps and switch between them instantly, while preserving iPad's legendary battery life.
Herramientas docentes para la vuelta a las aulas A mediados de agosto, la siguiente web publicó un resultado de una encuesta que pasó a los docentes americanos para ver qué herramientas 2.0 tenían ganas de usar o ver en sus aulas ese año. Las herramientas podían ser del tipo hardware o programario, o cualquier variante que mezclara ambos tipos. Los resultados los publicó en el siguiente artículo. Ha sido curioso al ver los resultados, encontrarme con muchas similitudes con lo que nos esperaríamos los docentes españoles ver en nuestras aulas en este principio de curso, ya que los resultados (ordenados por preferencias) fueron los siguientes: Un iPAD o netbook, que nos brindará movilidad en el aula para una enseñanza 1×1. No son unos resultados sorprendentes, ya que parece ser que en todos los países, los docentes que conocen y usan las TIC en el aula, sean estas las herramientas que llevan siempre en su “maletin de trabajo 2.0″.
CRIATIVIDADE-COMPETITIVIDADE-VITALIDADE-URBANA-UMA-CULTURA-GOVERNANÇA-CIDADE-CRIATIVA Este projecto visa aumentar o conhecimento e construir linhas estratégicas de actuação sobre os quadros, as dinâmicas e os mecanismos de governança susceptíveis de promover e enraizar a vitalização urbana, a criatividade e a competitividade das cidades. Partindo da discussão acerca da “cidade criativa”, que tem marcado a análise académica e alguma actuação pública específica em espaço urbano nos últimos anos, este projecto ambiciona explorar e analisar criticamente as relações entre as diferentes escalas de actuação pública, as lógicas de internacionalização e as dinâmicas urbanas/metropolitanas. O projecto implica: a) o desenvolvimento de uma abordagem conceptual que permita analisar os mecanismos de governança no desenvolvimento urbano e entender as recentes dinâmicas de sucesso em áreas urbanas, particularmente as baseadas na criatividade; Informações e inscrições: dinamia@iscte.pt Programa 9.00 | Acolhimento dos participantes 9.30 | Abertura Luísa Lima Directora da ECSH do ISCTE-IUL Debate
8 Predictions for IT in 2015 From Gartner Gartner today announced eight predictions for IT in 2015. Last week, we looked at the broad trends Gartner and two other analyst firms expect to shape the future of IT. This latest announcement makes some more specific predictions about changes the firm's analysts expect to see by 2015 or earlier. For example, the firm predicts that 80% of enterprises will support tablets by 2013 and by 2014 90% of organizations will support enterprise applications on personal devices. The predictions are as follows: By 2015, a G20 nation's critical infrastructure will be disrupted and damaged by online sabotage. The second prediction, that revenue generated by IT will be a CIO compensation factor, is the most interesting to me. What do you think of these predictions?
Is Ranking Number One in Google Losing Its Significance? As you may have noticed, Google has been putting a great deal more emphasis on local these days than in years past. That includes everything from the introduction of Google Places and Place Pages to automatically showing more local results for certain searches, as well as various other solutions offered to businesses at the local level, such as product inventory or tag advertising. Google caters much more to location-based search and local business search than ever before, and that trend is likely to continue. Do you think classic organic search is losing importance? Share your thoughts. Local Rises to the Top WebProNews spoke with well-known SEO industry analyst Bruce Clay of Bruce Clay Inc. at PubCon about search trends and where the search industry is headed. So SEOs, webmasters and businesses really have to consider how the SEO game has changed in this way. Cracking the Local Code "It [local] has its own algorithm," says Clay. Google’s Motivation? Moving Forward
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Think outside the box Meaning Think creatively, unimpeded by orthodox or conventional constraints. Origin 'Think outside the box' originated in the USA in the late 1960s/early 1970s. Various authors from the world of management consultancy claim to have introduced the phrase. "We must step back and see if the solutions to our problems lie outside the box." The 'box', with its implication of rigidity and squareness, symbolises constrained and unimaginative thinking. "Real thinking. The encouragement to look for solutions from outside our usual thinking patterns was championed in the UK by Edward De Bono, the psychologist and inventor, who coined the term Lateral Thinking in 1967 and went on to develop it as a method of structured creativity. So, what's this box? "Draw a continuous line through the center of all the eggs so as to mark them off in the fewest number of strokes."