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Maybe This Company Can Predict How Google Me Will Fare
Interesting investment by Google Ventures in a company called Recorded Future , a wonderful play on verb tenses and words. The company is a "temporal and predictive analysis engine." That just sounds cool. Google is co-investing with the CIA's investment arm. That's interesting, no
John Battelle's Searchblog - Thursday, July 29, 2010
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The Pivotal Point: Not Giving Up Too Soon
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. 8212; Thomas Edison. There comes a point when being a business owner gets really hard (and I mean really hard). The hard part now becomes not giving up too soon. The Real Work. Then you finish the work. Cue sound of crickets.) Now what?
Web Worker Daily - Thursday, July 29, 2010
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Getting perspective: Hand-held business computers are over 20 years old
Last week I interviewed my old friend Tom Stewart , formerly editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review, and currently Chief Marketing and Knowledge Officer of Booz and Co, for a piece in CPA Australia's magazine InTheBlack. I'll share the article, on the role of financial executives in business strategy, on this blog later in the year. Feld said.
Trends in the Living Networks - Thursday, July 29, 2010
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  • Boingo – How to make it safe corporately to use Social Media well
    Perhaps the most powerful barrier for large organizations using social media well is the fear that if they give up control something bad will happen – someone will say or do something that brings discredit to the brand. Yesterday I commented on Kotex who have transcended this fear. So how can they: Be personal. Be immediate. Be edgy. Trust.
    The FASTForward Blog - Thursday, July 29, 2010
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  • My Fast Forward Posts for July 2010
    Here is the monthly listing of my Fast Forward blog posts. find it helps me with an archive and hopefully is also useful to you. There is a separate category for these summaries in my right side column on this blog. There will be more in August. Enhancing Product Development with Enterprise 2.0. Adoptions. Twittering Less, Kissing More.
    Portals and KM - Thursday, July 29, 2010
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  • Book Review: The Power of Positive Deviance
    I have just finished The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems by Richard Pascale, Jerry Sternin and Monique Sternin) a book I have been waiting for some time to come out. am very glad to say the wait has been well worth it.
    Anecdote - Thursday, July 29, 2010
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  • On principle, practice, experimentation, and theory
    On twitter today a brief conversation ensued about best practices versus best principles.  I’ve gone off on this before ( I think Dilbert sums it up nicely), and my tweet today captures my belief: “please, *not* best practices; abstract best principles and recontextualize!&#. However, I want to go further. On principle (heh).
    Learnlets - Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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  • Ricoh’s quanp send: Share Large Files
    quanp is an online file storage service that’s backed by Japanese copier giant Ricoh. It’s currently in beta, and is interesting because it allows for a very generous 10GB of free file storage and has an innovate 3D visual search interface. You can elect to send files to up to 20 recipients simultaneously.
    Web Worker Daily - Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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  • Building Brand YOU
    Susanne Markgren, digital services librarian at SUNY, Purchase, has an excellent slide deck on using social media to build your personal / professional brand. Creating an Online Portfolio: improve your skills of self promotion ". If you market yourself or your business online, check this presentation out.
    Librarian of Fortune - Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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  • Embedding research/inquiry graduate capabilities in the curriculum
    There is interesting material on the La Trobe University (Australia) website. link] Photo by Sheila Webber: Glasgow Botanic Gardens, July 2010.
    Information Literacy Weblog - Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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