by Wayne Kurtzman | Oct 15, 2010 | education, Feature, Innovation, Social Media
It was 40 years ago that “Cracklin’ Rosie” got on board for Neil Diamond and Diana Ross learned there “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.” It’s also when futurist Alvin Toffler introduced us to the concepts of information overload, prosumerism and a warning that a...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Sep 25, 2010 | Analytics, education, Feature, Marketing, Photo, Social Media, Web 2.0
PodCamp Boston 5 – the fifth year of the Chris Penn and Chris Brogan idea in collaborative learning. As the PodCamp Boston site says: “PodCamp is an unconference where newbies and advanced content makers alike come to learn more about and share their...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Aug 30, 2010 | Feature, Innovation, Marketing, Social Media, Web 2.0
Seth Priebatsch, the CEO and Chief Ninja of the mobile geolocation game company SCVNGR, (pronounced scavenger), wants to build a game layer on top of the world. Listening to him speak at the recent TEDxBoston conference makes you realize that the game layer is...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Aug 20, 2010 | education, Feature, Social Media
If old movies taught us anything, it is when the legend becomes fact, print the legend. What happens in today’s instant news environment when perception becomes fact? Thanks to Jeff Cutler who covered the Gulf oil spill for several weeks, I hear his story the way it...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Aug 20, 2010 | education, Feature, Innovation, Knowledge Management
My heart sank a little bit when I read on Google’s official blog that Google Wave will be put out to digital pasture at the end of the year. It sank not because “I ‘heart’ Google,” but rather because an outstanding collaboration platform will go away. The problems...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Jul 5, 2010 | Content, education, Feature, Knowledge Management
Since my knowledge management work with several companies, the value of storytelling for business has never escaped me. It is a way of passing lessons down from one generation of workers to the next. In business, that could mean every five to seven years before the...