November 2nd, 2011 by admin
I had a guest speaker in class today who spoke about what he saw as the three key opportunities in IT today. He framed them as:
- Mobile: the client side is moving to multi-platform, with mobile computing taking off.
- Cloud computing: we are moving the server side to the cloud, and it is becoming commoditized. He advised the students they should learn to function in this environment.
- Content Pull: this one might be worded in several ways, and it is an aspect of social computing/social media. In short, he argued that we the content provider used to push content on the user; now the user pulls the content she wants. The power in the relationship has switched! (I note this is a variation on an e-Commerce lecture I used to give a decade ago.)
None of this likely is new to you (except maybe his particular thinking about content pull).
My epiphany from this talk was this:
Continue reading ‘History will write that Web3.0 begins in year 2008.’
September 29th, 2011 by admin
Facebook is changing the way we shop, and in doing so is changing the way we think about privacy.
Make no mistake about it, when Facebook rolls out its recently announced changes to the masses in early October there is going to be big pushback. Very big pushback. It will include horror anecdotes about how people are posting to Facebook Internet surfing behaviors they thought were private. There will be a few well publicized public embarrassments, perhaps even a celebrity or two will be brought down.
That won’t stop Facebook.
Continue reading ‘Facebook Cashes In’
September 9th, 2011 by admin
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September 9th, 2011 by admin
This post has inspired me to create a margin category of best resources for collaboration tools. I stumbled into Group Project Team Community & Enterprise Collaboration Platforms a week or two back. It is a very nice—and large—summary of what is out there. It is part of CENTRE FOR LEARNING & PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES out of the UK, which seems to have very interesting collaboration and social media resources.
Since I am building a collection of collaboration resources, I welcome your contributions of catalog and summary sites in the comments to this post.
September 9th, 2011 by admin
This post has inspired me to create a margin category of best resources for collaboration tools. I stumbled into Group Project Team Community & Enterprise Collaboration Platforms a week or two back. It is a very nice—and large—summary of what is out there. It is part of CENTRE FOR LEARNING & PERFORMANCE TECHNOLOGIES out of the UK, which seems to have very interesting collaboration and social media resources.
Since I am building a collection of collaboration resources, I welcome your contributions of catalog and summary sites in the comments to this post.
September 2nd, 2011 by admin
Website magazine has an article out listing DropBox alternatives. I am a huge fan of Dropbox, and encourage you all to sign up referencing me (danny@cdm.depaul.edu) so I get extra storage space kickback. But if you are looking elsewhere, they say to consider:
- Box.Net. It is well known and established (suggesting that it isn’t going anyplace). And it offers 5GB free storage (while Dropbox only offers 2GB.)
- SugarSync. They also offer 5GB of free storage, mobile syncing, and separation of photos from files. And they have a built in text editor.
- SpiderOak. Similar to the others, but their differential advantage is a stronger security protocol with two-factor authentication.
My favorite feature of Dropbox is the way the windows client sets itself up as a folder within My Documents (you have control over file location and can even make it your primary My Documents folder if you like). This makes it dead simple to use. The fact that it replicates a local copy on all your computers means you always have synched file access, even when you don’t have connectivity. Note that the iPad app does not synch all files—you configure how many you want to synch on it.
What are you using, and how do you rate it?
August 6th, 2011 by Danny
We are initiating iTeach Social Media, a social and informational network for instructors of college level Social Issues of IT and Social Media (web2.0, etc.) courses. If you are teaching such courses and are interested in networking with others to stay current, get classroom ideas, and share both methods and materials, please join at www.iteach-socialmedia.com. Continue reading ‘iTeach Social Media is a social network for college instructors interested in…’
August 6th, 2011 by Danny
Attached is a PDF of my AMCIS 2011 Detroit panel presentation on using social media tools in the classroom. If you were at the presentation, or if you simply have interest in the topic, please feel free to discuss as comments to this post.
July 12th, 2011 by admin
Or so Kevin Hoffman calls his blog post that I just stumbled across.
It contains some very good advice for running more effective initial team meetings. The questions he says to ask don’t relate well to a student project team meeting; rather they work for an organizational-based meeting with an appointed leader or facilitator.
Continue reading ‘Kick-Ass Kickoff Meetings’
June 10th, 2011 by Danny
At the DePaul Facilitation Symposium today someone, I think Sami, asked the question: what web2.0 tools are out there that we would recommend to support virtual teams that have to report back milepost achievements.
I suggested Wiggio and Huddle.net. I also suggested to simply create a template and have them report out in a wiki such as PBWorks. Others recommended project management tools such as BaseCamp (basecamphq.com). What else is out there that you can recommend, and why would you recommend it?