http://www.spreadingscience.com Science 2.0 and beyond Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:32:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en VIDEO: Great Demo on Leadership and Tipping Points[Via Global Guerrillas] Make sure you turn on the audio for the commentary. [More] Here we can see the S-shaped curve of change adoption happen in real time. The X-axis is time and the yellow curve is the cumulative ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2010/03/14/watching-a-community-adopt-change/ by Arenamontanus On self determination [Via Seth's Blog] I posted this eight years ago (!) but a reader asked for an encore. ...are we stuck in High School? I had two brushes with higher education this week. The first was at a speech I gave in New York. There were several Harvard Business School students ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2010/03/13/doers-mediators-and-disruptors/ So, I'm driving to the nearby Barnes and Noble to use their Wifi and get some work done. Plus I get a discount on their coffee. I get a voicemail on my iPhone from my Mom saying she hopes I'm not in downtown Seattle, that it looks like a real ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2010/03/12/getting-news-in-the-mobile-connected-world/ Apple’s “history of lousy first reviews”[Via Edible Apple] From the original Mac to the iMac to the iPod and even the iPhone, early reviews of revolutionary products tend to evoke a lot of negative reactions. The Week takes us back in time and examines what reviewers have historically thought ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2010/03/10/disruptive-technology-seldom-is-accurately-described-during-its-disruptive-period/ by Arenamontanus How John Chambers Learned to Collaborate at Cisco [Via HarvardBusiness.org] In 2001, as the dot.com boom turned to bust, CEO John Chambers of Cisco saw a massive $460 billion of Cisco's overall stock market value evaporate before his eyes. Game over? Not really. At that moment, Chambers started a reinvention ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2010/03/10/creating-collaboration/ by notsogoodphotographyWhy every team needs a deviant. [Via Creativity Central] Most of us in the creativity brainstorming world are professional deviants. We don't typically use the term deviant, preferring the less harsh term gadfly. Or in a politically correct world, idea catalyst. But deviant is good enough ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2010/03/09/disruption-rather-than-deviancy/ by BruceTurner Edward Tufte Presidential Appointment [Via Daring Fireball] President Obama has appointed Edward Tufte to the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel, “whose job is to track and explain $787 billion in recovery stimulus funds”. Outstanding. [More] This is pretty cool. Tufte is one of my favorite people, not only for ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2010/03/08/the-difference-between-the-creative-and-the-commonplace/ Four Ways of Looking at Twitter [Via HarvardBusiness.org] Data visualization is cool. It's also becoming ever more useful, as the vibrant online community of data visualizers (programmers, designers, artists, and statisticians — sometimes all in one person) grows and the tools to execute their visions improve. Jeff Clark is part of this ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2010/02/22/getting-at-data/ by blprnt_van Reaching Agreement On The Public Domain For Science [Via Common Knowledge] Photo outside the Panton Arms pub in Cambridge, UK, licensed to the public under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike by jwyg (Jonathan Gray). Today marked the public announcement of a set of principles on how to treat data, ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2010/02/20/an-interesting-juxtaposition/ by aslakr [2b2k] Clay Shirky, info overload, and when filters increase the size of what’s filtered [Via Joho the Blog] Clay Shirky’s masterful talk at the Web 2.0 Expo in NYC last September — “It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure” — makes crucial points and makes them beautifully. [Clay ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2010/02/01/filters-lead-us-to-wisdom/ by Parksy1964 A Better Way to Manage Knowledge: [Via HarvardBusiness.org] We give a lot of talks and presentations about the ways and places companies and their employees learn the fastest. We call these learning environments creation spaces — places where individuals and teams interact and collaborate within a broader learning ecology so ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2010/01/21/why-knowledge-management-failed/ [Crossposted at A Man with a PhD] by Mrs Logic The Scale Every Business Needs Now: [Via HarvardBusiness.org] Beancounter 1: "Our new widgets business — we think it's amazing". Beancounter 2: "We've ridden the learning curve, the product mix is optimized, the supply chain's streamlined, the market's tightly segmented." Beancounter 3: "But we've got a ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2010/01/20/the-years-first-great-read/ by etcname I Should Have Majored In Psychology: [Via Chuck's Blog] Way back when, I thought it useful to do two courses of study. I wanted that CS (computer science) degree, but the whole topic, while fascinating, seemed so self-contained. At the time, I thought adding coursework in economics was the right ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2010/01/20/a-great-primer-on-the-diffusion-of-innovation/ How Heartfelt Marketing Delivers: [Via chrisbrogan.com] Dave Delaney and his company, Griffin, put on quite a great little project with CESBound. They took an old VW bus, after hours, and restored it, and then drove it from Nashville all the way to Las Vegas for CES. Along the way, they made media, ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2010/01/18/things-that-change-and-those-that-do-not/ Transformation, not technology: [Via Jon Stahl's Journal] It occurred to me yesterday that the real challenge we[1] face is not the question of “how do we apply technology tools to organizations?” but more “how do we help organizations & people transform themselves so that they are more able to harness the power ... http://www.spreadingscience.com/2010/01/15/the-key-question/