Saturday, April 2, 2011

TEDxSanDiego - Simon Sinek - Restoring the Human in Humanity

Google - snapshot view of edgility blog


Google is always giving you something to try.  The above image is this blog (edgility) in their new snapshot view.  If you like this here is a link to try their other new views and to use these tools on other blogs.

Thursday, March 31, 2011

Social media is on the rise at work. A tipping point?


Here is a link to a MIT technology review article that sheds some light on a trend that I continue to see in my work as well.  Social media is finally taking hold (reaching the tipping point) in the workplace.  I am seeing this at the university as more-and-more graduate students are coming to me interested in studying Web 2.0 tools in their places of work. 

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

This is your brain on Google.


I have been thinking about this for some time.  How does Google impact us?  Do the algorithms keep us sharp and expand our thinking. Or does it narrow what we do and make us less functional? Is our increasing reliance on Google rotting our brains and turning us in to lazy halfwits?  Here is a link to...