Comments (0) When I first look at Pulse, I immediately think of Netvibes.
Pulse is buzzier than Netvibes was. Can it be mobile is a more suitable environment for such content arrangement?
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The blog craze started in 2004, MySpace came out in 2002. From then till now, Web 2.0 has penetrated deeply into our lives.
You may have heard the buzz: it’s all about communications, exchange information and expressing the ego.
Have you thought of utilizing all those things for learning?
Recently I’ve been very aggressive on the net to see how we can use the applications for learning, and here I am with my key findings:
Let’s imagine a very familiar study scenario: you’re assigned into a group to do a research on topic X.
Traditionally, the group would rely on emails, phone calls and IM to communicate and collaborate. Have you found these media difficult to classify your information?
Obviously, information searching starts with search engines.
I have some hints for this:
Watch a slide show on Google services:
Use Q&A service such as LinkedIn Answers to ask questions and receive information from professionals.
Watch a video explaining LinkedIn
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Normally you go out for information. Think about making information come to you?
Use RSS for this.
Watch a video explaining RSS
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For example, if I’m looking for “globalization”, I would take these steps
Then check with the feed reader everyday to see if relevant information comes in.
You can also use Yahoo! Pipes to aggregate the feeds. Click here to view videos on Yahoo! Pipes
Try exploring different sources of information you can use this trick.
If I encounter useful webpages, I would want to share it with my group mates.
Using email would bury the link under heaps of other information. Sharing through IM stands the risk of losing the message when the program lags.
So I would bookmark the site using del.icio.us and use the function “links for friend” to share the link.
Watch a video explaining del.icio.us
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WordPress supports multiple-author. I would want our group members to blog our research everyday on our blog. This is not superficial. It helps us
This is optional though. Some information might be very detailed and we want quick sharing methods. I would connect my mobile phone to Twitter and quickly update my thoughts on the way.
Watch a video explaining Twitter
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Schedule activities such as meetings, field trips with Google Calendar
Go to Youtube, not to entertain, but to learn from podcasters on the topic.
For example, this video is useful to understand Web 2.0
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Use Google Docs to compose the documents. This is very convenient in such that
Watch a video explaining Google Docs
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Wiki is great to understand new concepts and link the information to get the big picture.
Watch a video explaining Wiki
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Facebook is good to build relationship with your work mates.
Publish your research as presentations on slideshare or documents on scribd to share your knowledge engage in discussion on the topic.
There are just so much!
How’re you gonna navigate around them all?
Well, one solution is to use a homepage service like netvibes to put all these services together.
Too complicated? Well here are the reasons why I would do it this way
I know it would be much easier for you just to email. But how much time have you spent searching for information later on? I’d rather spend the time to get things organized first, then make it easier later to focus more on creating contents.
And I’m pretty sure of one thing: just next year, this entry will be outdated because many new services will come out. Semantic web, mobile apps are just a few to predict.
It’s not a fashionable fad or a time-killer, it’s a shift in the way we can be more effective. Do you want to miss the train trend?
But you know, all these will never happen if digital divide hasn’t been closed.
Technology proficiency and more importantly, community habit is a big gap. I want my team to do so, but other teams may not, so some of my team members may argue “why do we have to!”
With the internet connection speed in Vietnam, using Google Docs et al is insane.
Today, a world that is flat is till a romantic dream for me.
I’ve already tried out these services. Kindly see mine as example of how things may end up evolve: taitran.com/blog/resources
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The blog craze started in 2004, MySpace came out in 2002. From then till now, Web 2.0 has penetrated deeply into our lives.
You may have heard the buzz: it’s all about communications, exchange information and expressing the ego.
Have you thought of utilizing all those things for learning?
Recently I’ve been very aggressive on the net to see how we can use the applications for learning, and here I am with my key findings:
Let’s imagine a very familiar study scenario: you’re assigned into a group to do a research on topic X.
Traditionally, the group would rely on emails, phone calls and IM to communicate and collaborate. Have you found these media difficult to classify your information?
Obviously, information searching starts with search engines.
I have some hints for this:
Use Q&A service such as LinkedIn Answers to ask questions and receive information from professionals.
You go out for information. Think about making information come to you?
Use RSS for this.
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/AwtmOPdrEL8"][/gv]
For example, if I’m looking for “globalization”, I would do this steps
Then check with the feed reader everyday to see if relevant information comes in.
You can also use Yahoo! Pipes to aggregate the feeds. Click here to view videos on Yahoo! Pipes
Try exploring different sources of information you can use this trick.
If I encounter useful webpages, I would want to share it with my group mates.
Using email would bury the link under heaps of other information. Sharing through IM stands the risk of losing the message when the program lags.
So I would bookmark the site using del.icio.us and use the function “links for friend” to share the link.
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/r9s5hc3MJZo"][/gv]
WordPress supports multiple-author. I would want our group members to blog our research everyday on our blog. This is not superficial. It helps us
This is optional though. Some information might be very detailed and we want quick sharing methods. I would connect my mobile phone to Twitter and quickly update my thoughts on the way.
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/ctXq1mKL7tk"][/gv]
Schedule activities such as meetings, field trips with Google Calendar
Go to Youtube, not to entertain, but to learn from podcasters on the topic.
For example, this this video
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/5nN-U0sDZNc"][/gv]
Use Google Docs to compose the documents. This is very convenient in such that
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/eRqUE6IHTEA"][/gv]
Wiki is great to understand new concepts and link the information to get the big picture.
[gv data="http://www.youtube.com/v/hczDZXPfYn8"][/gv]
Facebook is good to build relationship with your work mates.
Publish your research as presentations on slideshare or documents on scribd to share your knowledge engage in discussion on the topic.
There are just so much!
How’re you gonna navigate around them all?
Well, one solution is to use a homepage service like netvibes to put all these services together.
Too complicated? Well here are the reasons why I would do it this way
I know it would be much easier for you just to email. But how much time have you spent searching for information later on? I’d rather spend the time to get things organized first, then make it easier later to focus more on creating contents.
And I’m pretty sure of one thing: just next year, this entry will be outdated because many new services will come out. Semantic web, mobile apps are just a few to predict.
It’s not a fashionable fad or a time-killer, it’s a shift in the way we can be more effective. Do you want to miss the train trend?
But you know, all these will never happen if digital divide hasn’t been closed.
Technology proficiency and more importantly, community habit is a big gap. I want my team to do so, but other teams may not, so some of my team members may argue “why do we have to!”
With the internet connection speed in Vietnam, using Google Docs et al is insane.
Today, a world that is flat is till a romantic dream for me.
I’ve already tried out these services. Kindly see mine as example of how things may end up evolve: taitran.com/blog/resources
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Six Thinking Hats is an important and powerful technique used to look at decisions from a number of important perspectives. This forces you to move outside your habitual thinking style, and helps you to get a more rounded view of a situation. This tool was created by Edward de Bono.
Many successful people think from a very rational, positive viewpoint. This is part of the reason that they are successful. Often, though, they may fail to look at a problem from an emotional, intuitive, creative or negative viewpoint. This can mean that they underestimate public resistance to plans, fail to make creative leaps, and do not make essential contingency plans.
Similarly, pessimists may be excessively defensive. Emotional people may fail to look at decisions calmly and rationally.
If you look at a problem with the Six Thinking Hats technique, then you will solve it using
all approaches. Your decisions and plans will mix ambition, skill in execution, public
sensitivity, creativity and good contingency planning.
You can use Six Thinking Hats in meetings or on your own. In meetings, it has the benefit
of blocking the confrontations that happen when people with different thinking styles
discuss the same problem.
Each “Thinking Hat” is a different style of thinking. These are explained below:
With this thinking hat you focus on the data available. Look at the information you
have, and see what you can learn from it. Look for gaps in your knowledge, and
either try to fill them or take account of them.
This is where you analyse past trends, and try to extrapolate from historical data.
“Wearing” the red hat, you look at problems using intuition, gut reaction, and
emotion. Also try to think how other people will react emotionally. Try to understand
the responses of people who do not fully know your reasoning.
Using black hat thinking, look at all the bad points of the decision. Look at it
cautiously and defensively. Try to see why it might not work. This is important
because it highlights the weak points in a plan. It allows you to eliminate them, alter
them, or prepare contingency plans to counter them. Black Hat thinking helps to
make your plans tougher and more resilient. It can also help you to spot fatal flaws
and risks before you embark on a course of action. Black Hat thinking is one of the real benefits of this technique, as successful people get so used to thinking positively that often they cannot see problems in advance. This leaves them underprepared or difficulties.
The yellow hat helps you to think positively. It is the optimistic viewpoint that helps
you to see all the benefits of the decision and the value in it. Yellow Hat thinking
helps you to keep going when everything looks gloomy and difficult.
The Green Hat stands for creativity. This is where you can develop creative
solutions to a problem. It is a freewheeling way of thinking, in which there is little
criticism of ideas. A whole range of creativity tools (see Module 1) can help you
here.
The Blue Hat stands for process control. This is the hat worn by people chairing
meetings. When running into difficulties because ideas are running dry, they may
direct activity into Green Hat thinking. When contingency plans are needed, they will
ask for Black Hat thinking, etc.
A variant of this technique is to look at problems from the point of view of different professionals (e.g. doctors, architects, sales directors, etc.) or different customers.
The directors of a property company are looking at whether they should construct a new
office building. The economy is doing well, and the amount of vacant office space is
reducing sharply. As part of their decision, they decide to use the 6 Thinking Hats
technique during a planning meeting.
Six Thinking Hats is a good technique for looking at the effects of a decision from a
number of different points of view.
It allows necessary emotion and skepticism to be brought into what would otherwise be
purely rational decisions. It opens up the opportunity for creativity within decision-making. The technique also helps, for example, persistently pessimistic people to be positive and
creative.
Plans developed using the 6 Thinking Hats technique will be sounder and more resilient
than would otherwise be the case. It may also help you to avoid public relations mistakes,
and spot good reasons not to follow a course of action before you have committed to it.
I hereby model a message delivery as an article. If a conversation/talk/speech were an article, how differently would people communicate?
Let’s take a random article as an example.
The communication from this style only conveys the headings of the article. The communicator possibly either doesn’t want to spend more time explaining in details or expects the audience to understand upon hearing the titles.
Lambrusco
Some of you may have heard me preach of lambrusco, the foaming, almost purple sparkling wine from the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy.
No, not the semi-sweet fizzy stuff that was so popular in the 1970s, but the real, dry, earthy lambrusco, from producers like Medici Ermete, Vini, Vittorio Graziano and Villa di Carlo. Served icy cold, it’s wonderful with just about any simple dish, be it fried chicken or pizza or burgers.
But you say you want a real wine (as if lambrusco weren’t real enough)? You say you want an American wine because it is, after all, practically the Fourth of July?
This style is exactly like a wiki page. The communicator mentions keywords of the article, with or without priority order. Each of the keyword then links to a whole concept from other sources.
For example, when the speaker mentions “organizational behavior”, s/he could point to a book on the topic and recommend her/his audience to read the book.
The communicator randomly picks paragraphs from the article and give full details of the paragraphs without or with limited conclusion.
Next time: full details of another random paragraph.
Throw the conclusion on first, then explain if questioned.
Section by section, paragraph by paragraph, word by word till the end.
What is your style?
What other styles do you add to this list?
What style do you choose for which situation?
The sample article is taken from The New York Times’ Reds on Ice? It’s Not Heresy
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