Identity Crisis: Vendors at the Intersection of Content, Technology and People. : John Blossom of Shore, who blogged the SIIA Info Summit brilliantly for us, writes about the conference: “The outlook was mixed at best and complicated by the domineering presence of technology changes that continue to make many content companies… [PaidContent.org]
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How to Sell Online Content…
How to Sell Online Content to the Dramatically Changing $46.5 Billion US Corporate Market. : For one, read my site…another, listen to analysts: somehow, I have more faith in B2B analysts from companies such as Outsell and Shore, than the lame B2C analysts which have been named here before…… [PaidContent.org]
Content-aware search [1].
Content-aware search. At InfoWorld’s 2002 CTO Forum, Google co-founder Sergey Brin threw cold water on the idea of instrumenting content for intelligent search. “I’d rather make progress by having computers understand what humans write,” he said, “than by forcing humans to write in ways that computers can understand.” Brin’s pragmatic stance sharply opposes the idealistic view of the Web’s inventor,…
Technology and Worker Efficiency [1]….
Technology and Worker Efficiency. Researchers seem confident that technology has made American workers more efficient. Now some think they even know why. By Steve Lohr. [New York Times: Technology]
Idea Recording from Charles Cave
Great list of of ideas on how to use journals, software, note cards to capture the various ideas floating around in your mind.
4 keys to building a…
4 keys to building a culture of innovation. Stephen Shapiro’s excellent book, 24/7 Innovation, contains a list of four keys to building a culture of innovation, which is one of the best, most concise explanations I’ve seen anywhere. [Innovation Weblog]
New URL for Charles Cave’s…
New URL for Charles Cave’s creativity Website. Charles Cave’s Creativity Web site, one of the most comprehensive guides to creativity anywhere online, recently moved to a new URL. [Innovation Weblog]
CPS: Creative Problem Solving Technique
Creative Thinking TechniquesThe Creative Problem Solving Process Links originated from the Innovation Tools website; a great site with pointers to brainstorming, creativity, mind-mapping and other innovation techniques. They also have an RSS feed. Pointer from Jim McGee
Business and Innovation [1].
Business and Innovation. Dave Pollard writes that businesses are once again starting at look at innovation as a way to grow, and discusses a survey by the Boston Consulting Group: In what I think is the most useful section of the article, several innovation ‘traps’ are outlined: The Denominator Trap — believing an innovation can capture 100% of an existing…
Russell Ackoff resources on systems…
Russell Ackoff resources on systems thinking. Like Jerry Michalski I’ve long been a fan of Ackoff’s. Here are two posts of Jerry’s from October that provide access to some of Ackoff’s insight and wisdom about how to think about complex design problems. All of these items are worth your time. Idealized redesign I’ve mentioned elsewhere that I’m a big…